The US-led war in Iraq from 2003 to 2011 was one of the most controversial wars in recent history. The invasion of Iraq was justified by claims that the regime of Saddam Hussein had links with terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda and possessed weapons of mass destruction that might be used in an attack on another count...

'Magisterial - an outstanding book that shines a bright light one of the most important, interesting and under-studied cities in European history. A masterpiece.' Peter Frankopan 'A wonderful new history of the Mediterranean from the fifth to eighth centuries through a lens focussed on Ravenna, gracefully and clearl...

We know that millions of soldiers were scarred by their experiences in the First World War trenches, but what happened after they returned home? Suzie Grogan reveals the First World War's disturbing legacy for soldiers and their families. How did a nation of broken men, and 'spare' women cope? In 1922 the British Pa...

"This impressive . . . study charts the history of [post WWII] humanitarian relief . . . demonstrating how the institutions of the family became politicized." ( Library Journal) During the Second World War, an unprecedented number of families were torn apart. As the Nazi empire crumbled, millions roamed the continen...

This book examines how the Taliban were able to regain power in Afghanistan in 2021, some 20 years after the US intervention. The volume presents an analysis of the factors that contributed to the Taliban’s ability to seize power following the withdrawal of the international coalition in August 2021, marking the end...

Respectability on the Line offers a social and cultural history of railway labor in Britain and colonial India from the 1840s through World War I. The book treats the railway industry as a microcosm through which to study the history of capitalism in the liberal imperial era. Using company records, Mattie Armstrong-...

An "impressively comprehensive" study of the Nazi military and its culpability in war crimes by "one of the foremost historians of World War II" (Stephen G. Fritz, author of Ostkrieg). Since the end of World War II, Germans have struggled with the legacy of the Wehrmachtーthe unified armed forces mobilized by Adolf ...

Was Aleister Crowley a British spy? A documented investigation into occultism, espionage, and twentieth-century intelligence. Secret Agent 666 by historian Richard B. Spence examines the long-debated claim that occultist Aleister Crowley operated as an intelligence asset during the first half of the twentieth centur...

Durante los últimos años, los estudios de alteridad se han aproximado a la creación de la imagen literaria de los moriscos. ¿Cómo eran los conversos del islam? ¿Qué características físicas tenían? Gran parte de estas publicaciones utilizaron las obras de arte como una mera ilustración de sus teorías sin atender a la...

Jenseits des Autoritarismus: Die Wurzeln rechter Gewalt im Osten. Woher kommt die rechte Gewalt im Osten? Seit den 1990er-Jahren heißt es immer wieder: Das ist eine Folge verinnerlichter autoritärer DDR-Strukturen. Stefan Wellgraf hingegen rückt aufmüpfige DDR-Jugendliche in den Mittelpunkt, die wegen ihrer antiauto...

史景遷史學研究起始之作，開啟西方漢學新面向。 細膩書寫康熙寵臣曹寅的家族興衰， 反映清朝政治、財經、社會等多元面向， 立體再現康熙盛世的浮世織錦。 曹寅作為康熙皇帝的家奴，以歸順旗人的漢人身分，遊走滿漢二元社會，署理攸關稅收的兩淮鹽政與御用供給的江寧織造，聲勢日隆，其一生仕途和家族起落與康熙密切相關。史景遷企圖透過曹寅...

As the first book-length examination of the role of German print culture in mediating Europe's knowledge of the newly discovered people of Africa, South Asia, and the Americas, this work highlights a unique and early incident of visual accuracy and an unprecedented investment in the practice of ethnography.

In discussions of economics, governance, and society in the Nordic countries, “the welfare state” is a well-worn analytical concept. However, there has been much less scholarly energy devoted to historicizing this idea beyond its postwar emergence. In this volume, specialists from Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, a...

本書在南宋至明代中期的長時段內，以徽州為代表區域，深入研究了理學在地方社會的傳播、士商群體的形成以及宗族組織的出現，三者之間相生相成的歷史。本書認為，明代徽州宗族社會的出現，根植於12–15世紀宋明時代的歷史進程之中，深受王朝政治和地緣環境的影響，是理學價值觀深入傳播之下，士紳和商人等主導人群共同塑造的結果。 本書採用了...

Magna Carta is often presented as dusty history, a scroll locked behind glass and spoken of only in classrooms. Politicians call it a symbol, judges dismiss it as repealed, and schools mention it in passing before moving on. But the truth is different. Magna Carta is not a relic. It is a living covenant, a written w...

The former Prime Minister and Nobel Prize–winning author chronicles Britain's World War II experience from the aftermath of WWI to July 1945. World War II was the most pivotal event of the twentieth century. It was Great Britain's darkest and finest hour in which the nation's people showed great resilience and resou...