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12 Years a Slave (Movie Tie-In)

The official movie tie-in edition to the winner of the 2014 Academy Award for Best Picture, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender...

16th century in Switzerland - 16th-century Swiss people, Huldrych Zwingli, Theodore Beza, Johann Stumpf, Heinrich Bullinger, Josias Simmler, Oswald Myconius, Reformation in Switzerland, Conrad Grebel, Johannes Oecolampadius, Thomas Erastus, Felix Manz

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 51. Chapters: 16th-century Swiss people, Huldrych Zwingli, Theodore Beza, Johann Stumpf, Heinrich Bullinger, Jo...

A Critique of Mau: Mute Compulsion and Other Essays - Seven More Argumentative Essays

The two first essays in A Critique of Mau: Mute Compulsion and Other Essays are critiques of Mau and Meiksins Wood for misreading Marx on...

A Cultural History of Medicine in the Age of Enlightenment

The Enlightenment, as concept and time period, was haunted by ambiguities about the relationships between mind and body, humans and the n...

A Cultural History of Medicine in the Renaissance

Since the 'cultural turn' of the 1980s the history of Renaissance medicine has been radically transformed, with older narratives stood on...

African Narratives of Slavery and Abolition - Testimonies from the 19th-Century

Agents of Empire - Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits, and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World

The story of a Venetian-Albanian family in the late sixteenth century forms the basis of a sweeping account of the interaction between Ea...

Ain't I a Woman?

A collection of Sojourner Truth's iconic words, including her famous speech at the 1851 Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio A former...

An Unavoidable Evil - Siege Warfare in the Age of Napoleon

Sieges were the exception, rather than the norm, of the Napoleonic Wars. This simple truth may seem unremarkable to the modern reader, ye...

Bismarck's War - The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe

'Superb on the human consequences of war, ravishing in its evocations of wartime life' The Times 'Compassionate and thought-provoking his...

Black Skin, White Masks

Fanon's pivotal work on race and racism, available here as a "Penguin Modern Classic". Fanon was a major influence on civil rights, anti-...

Black Spartacus - The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture

The definitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero Toussaint Louverture The Haitian Revolu...

Broken Threads - My Family From Empire to Independence

'Unforgettable' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'Spell-binding' PETER FRANKOPAN 'Fascinating' WILLIAM DALRYMPLE

Broken Threads - My Family From Empire to Independence

An extraordinary history of Mishal Husain's four grandparents, whose lives were shaped by the tumultuous politics and prejudices of empir...

Confronting Napoleon: Levin Von Bennigsen's Memoir of the Campaign in Poland, 1806-1807 - Volume II - The Friedland Campaign

Volume 2 of General Levin von Bennigsen's memoirs offer unique insights into the epic confrontation between the French and Russians in Po...

Conquerors - How Portugal Forged the First Global Impire

An epic tale of navigation, trade, technology, money, religion, diplomacy, espionage and shipwrecks, charting how Portugal set about expl...

Elizabethan Society: High and Low Life, 1558-1603 - High and Low Life, 1558-1603

A vivid account of Elizabethan society through the lives of representative men and women, from landowners, financiers and soldiers to pro...

Elizabeth of York - The First Tudor Queen

Prominent historian and novelist Alison Weir reveals the true story Elizabeth of York, a key figure in the Wars of the Roses and the Tudo...

Empireland - How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain

EMPIREWORLD IS AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW WINNER OF THE 2022 BRITISH BOOK AWARD FOR NARRATIVE NONFICTION ***THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE CHANNE...

English Mps - Legislators and Servants of Their Constituents, 1750-1800

What was the role of elected legislators? Was it to represent the opinions of constituents or to vote according to their informed opinion...

Frederick the Great - King of Prussia

Tim Blanning is the author of a number of major works on eighteenth century Europe, including The Pursuit of Glory : Europe 1648-1815, Th...

Frederick the Great

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY KATE WILLIAMSFrederick II of Prussia attempted to escape his authoritarian father as a boy, but went on to become...

French Armies of the Thirty Years' War 1618-48

French Armies of the Thirty Years' War presents the development of the French army, one of the first standing armies in Europe, from 1617...

From the Siegerland to Germanna - Trupbach's Virginia Emigrants 1712-1734

Authors and book also see publishers' website at http://www.frankfurt-academic-press.de/buecher/

George III - The Life and Reign of Britain's Most Misunderstood Monarch

The Times Book of the Year *Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, 2022* *Winner of the General Society of Colo...

Globalgeschichte / Global History 1 · 2023

Die Geschichtswissenschaft diskutiert seit Jahren intensiv über die Genese, Formen und Folgen weltweiter Verflechtungen und Austauschproz...

Greater than the Sum of Our Parts - Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine

An inspiring and intersectional re-imagining of the path to liberation in Palestine

Henrietta Maria - Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen

***A Best Book of 2022, The Times*** ***Book of the Year, Spectator*** A myth-busting biography of Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I, wh...

Henry VIII and the men who made him - The secret history behind the Tudor throne

Henry VIII is well known for his tumultuous relationships with women, and he is often defined by his many marriages. But what do we see i...

Holding the Political Center in Illinois - Conservatism and Union on the Brink of the Civil War

The importance of political moderation in preserving the Union Holding the Political Center in Illinois charts the political trajectory o...

Hunting the Falcon - Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Shook Europe

A groundbreaking examination of how the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn sent shockwaves across a continent and changed England for...

Inglorious Empire - What the British Did to India

From the internationally acclaimed author comes his bestselling account of India's experience of British colonialism.

In the Thickest of the Fray - Mississippians at Gettysburg in Their Own Words

The Magnolia State sent eleven infantry regiments and one artillery battery to Gettysburg. The individual memories were published in news...

Ireland, Slavery and the Caribbean - Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean draws together a diverse group of contributors to explore the many and varied ways in which Ireland an...

Italy's Honour and Liberty - A Wargamers Companion to the Great Italian Wars, 1494-1559

The book begins with a brief historical overview of the Italian Wars before moving on to look at the different troop types in the conflic...

Jane Boleyn - Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford

For centuries, little beyond rumor and scandal has been associated with "the infamous Lady Rochford" and sister-in-law of the doomed Anne...

Johnsonville - Union Supply Operations on the Tennessee River and the Battle of Johnsonville, November 4-5, 1864

Johnsonville unearths a wealth of new material that sheds light on the creation and strategic role of the Union supply depot, the use of ...

Killing Napoleon - The Plot to Blow up Bonaparte

New paperback edition - An amazing story that is still largely unknown in the English-speaking world - the plot to blow up Napoleon, an e...

King of the World - The Life of Louis XIV

Winner of the Franco-British Society Book Prize 2019 'The ultimate biography of the Sun King' Simon Sebag Montefiore Louis XIV dominated ...

Koh-i-Noor - The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond

'Riveting. This highly readable and entertaining book ... finally sets the record straight on the history of the Koh-i-Noor' Tarquin Hall...

Legacies of War - Enduring Memories, Persistent Patterns

With a lens trained on how civilians and soldiers remember the experience of armed conflict, Legacies of War challenges narrow conception...

Life of Mendel

First published in 1932. The widespread influence of Gregor Johann Mendel¿s work who, little known in his lifetime, was one of the pionee...

Military Rebellion in Argentina - Between Coups and Consolidation

Argentina's recently established democracy endured the trauma of four major military uprisings between 1987 and 1990, continuing even aft...

Napoleon - The Man Behind the Myth

`Napoleon is an out-and-out masterpiece and a joy to read¿ Sir Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad A landmark new biography that presents...

Napoleon the Great

Andrew Roberts is a biographer and historian of international renown whose books include Salisbury: Victorian Titan (winner, the Wolfson ...

Nature's Mutiny - How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present

Hailed as an "arresting" (Lawrence Klepp, New Criterion) account, Nature's Mutiny chronicles the great climate crisis of the seventeenth ...

North Carolina's Confederate Hospitals - Volume II, 1864-1865

This book is the second volume of an organizational examination of North Carolina's Confederate hospitals and why they existed. This cont...

One Fine Day - A Journey Through English Time

A time-travelling, genealogical adventure, bringing pre-industrial, rural, eighteenth-century England vividly to life on the page. One da...

Out of His Mind - Masculinity and Mental Illness in Victorian Britain

Out of his mind is a study of the consequences of a diagnosis of insanity for men, their families, their friends, and the culture at larg...

Patient Voices in Britain, 1840-1948

Patient voices in Britain repositions the patient at the centre of healthcare histories. By prioritising the patient's perspective in the...

Patriot vs Loyalist - American Revolution 1775-83

Following the American Declaration of Independence, communities from Boston to Savannah were forced to make a choice: to strike out for a...

Peter the Great's Disastrous Defeat: The Swedish Victory at Narva, 1700

The Battle of Narva, in which Charles XII of Sweden defeated Peter the Great of Russia, occurred during the Great Northern War. Peter the...

Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

'A characteristically radical re-reading of history that places the social and political experiments of pirates at the heart of the Europ...

Possessed By the Devil - The Real History of the Islandmagee Witches and Ireland's Only Mass Witchcraft Trial

An updated and expanded edition examining Ireland's onyl mass witchcraft trial and the effect it had on Islandmagee's residents years aft...

Queen Victoria - Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow

Bestselling author and historian Lucy Worsley tracks a new course through Queen Victoria's life, examining how she transformed from danci...

Race and Africa - Cultural and Historical Legacies

Beginning with the premise that race is a global phenomenon configured in the political context of European empire, this book presents st...

Robert E. Lee's Reluctant Warrior - The Life of Cavalry Commander and Railroad Businessman, Brigadier General Williams Carter Wickham

Williams Carter Wickham fought bravely for the south as a Confederate cavalry officer, finishing the war as a brigadier general. He also ...

Settlers at the End of Empire - Race and the Politics of Migration in South Africa, Rhodesia and the United Kingdom

This ground-breaking study integrates the history of both emigration from and immigration to the United Kingdom. Drawing attention to the...

Shakespeares Welt - So lebten, liebten und litten die Menschen im 16. Jahrhundert | Das Geschenk für alle Mittelalter-Fans

Die Vergangenheit ist eine Reise wert! Die Zeit von Shakespeare und Königin Elizabeth I. gilt als »goldenes Zeitalter«. Aber wie war es e...

Slumming - Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London

"Arresting. Koven's scholarship is excellent, and this book will appeal across a wide range of disciplines."--James Epstein, Vanderbilt U...