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Palmerston

British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston has enjoyed a rakish reputation as a womanizer, a careless aristocrat and the apostle of big-stick diplomacy. His lengthy life linked the American Revolution and...

Struggle for Empire

Struggle for Empire explores the contest for kingdoms and power among Charlemagne's descendants that shaped the formation of Europe. It examines this pivotal era through the reign of Charlemagne's gra...

Thinking Medieval

This book is aimed at students coming to the study of western European medieval history for the first time, and also graduate students on interdisciplinary medieval studies programmes. It examines the...

Enlightenment

The movement called the Enlightenment swept through 18th-century Europe, forever changing the political, religious, and educational landscape. Margaret Jacob has assembled selections by important figu...

Rural Affairs

Texas Riverman, the Life and Times of Captain Andrew Smyth

This is a life-and-times biography of Captain Andrew Smyth, whose life spanned the history of Texas river transportation and commerce from the 1830s to the 1770s.

Struggle for Empire

Struggle for Empire explores the contest for kingdoms and power among Charlemagne's descendants that shaped the formation of Europe. It examines this pivotal era through the reign of Charlemagne's gra...

Through Parisian Eyes

Melinda Camber Porter has interviewed the most prominent Parisian cultural figures of the '70s and '80s. The dominant trends in French artistic and political thought emerge vividly from an array of po...

The Pianist from Syria

An astonishing but true account of a pianist's escape from war-torn Syria to Germany offers a deeply personal perspective on the most devastating refugee crisis of this century.Aeham Ahmad was born a...

Living Anarchism

''Magnificent.''—Paul Preston, author of The Spanish HolocaustBrick maker by trade, revolutionary anarchist and historian by default; this is a study of the life of José Peirats (1908–1989) and the la...

The Tragedy of Erskine Childers

In The Riddle of the Sands , a gripping spy story set amongst the shoals and mists of the North Sea coast in the years before the First World War, Erskine Childers fathered the modern genre of spy ad...

Arthur Miller

'A consistently enthralling work.' Spectator 'Absorption in a male ethos and unease about feminine dominion, whether amatory or domestic, give Miller's plays their special colour, force and intensity....