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The Fall of the House of Habsburg
Edward Crankshaw
The downfall of the Habsburg monarchy was more than just the end of a great and powerful dynasty. It meant the
Domesday Book and Beyond
Three Essays in the Early History of England
F W Maitland
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce an
The Fall of the Russian Monarchy
Bernard Pares
The dramatic tale of the Russian Revolution unfolds from the perspective of its most famous the Romanovs. Witne
What is History
The Goerge Macauly Trevelyan Lectures Delivered in The University of Cambridge January-March 1961
E H Carr
In answering the question, what is history?, E. H. Carrs acclaimed and influential bestseller shows that the fa
The Aztecs
A History
Nigel Davies
The Aztecs are one of the most fascinating and exotic of the ancient civilisations, and they have captured the
The Napoleonic Wars
1803 – 1815
David Gates
There is a mass of literature on Napoleon and his times, yet there are but a handful of scholarly works that se
The Grand Slave Emporium
Cape Coast Castle and the British Slave Trade
William St Clair
For nearly one hundred and fifty years before abolition in 1807, Cape Coast Castle was, in the words of one of
The Modern History of Japan
W G Beasley
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civi
Nicholas I
And Official Nationality in Russia 1825 -1855
Nicholas Riasanovsky
Nicholas I and Official Nationality in Russia, 1825 – 1855 developed from a much more modest interest in Uvarov
The Historian’s Craft
Marc Bloch
In this classic work, distinguished French economic historian, Marc Bloch, discusses the techniques of historic
Feudal Society
Marc Bloch
Marc Bloch said that his goal in writing Feudal Society was to go beyond the technical study a medievalist woul
Europe Since Hitler
Walter Laqueur
Professor Laqueur sets the scene for his masterly survey of the history of our times – the first of its kind. H
The Varieties of History
From Voltaire to the Present
Fritz Stern
This book contains not only an excellent selection of passages which characterize the ideas and the work of lea
On Nationalism
Eric Hobsbawm
An insightful and enlightening collection of Eric Hobsbawms writing on the subject of nationalism.
A History of Modern Japan
Richard Storry
The rise, fall and renaissance of Japan, within the space of less than a hundred years, is one the most curious
An Introduction to Contemporary History
Geoffrey Barraclough
Professor Barraclough isolates in this Pelican some of the main themes of contemporary history. His purpose is
The Collapse of Complex Societies
New Studies in Archaeology
Joseph A Tainter
Any explanation of political collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the
The Eighteenth Century 1714 – 1815
John Beresford Owen
The Eighteenth century was on of intense transition and achievement. After the wearying turbulence of the seven
Paris in the Terror
June 1793 – July 1794
Stanley Loomis
Named one of the books of the century by the University of California, Berkeley, Paris in the Terror tells the
The Fatal Friendship
Marie Antoinette, Count Fersen and the flight to Varennes
Stanley Loomis
The hallmark of his writing, in this as in his previous book on Paris during the Terror, is fairness. He never
The Origin of Empire
Rome from the Republic to Hadrian
David Potter
Beginning with the Roman armys first foray beyond its borders and concluding with the death of Hadrian in 138 C
History of the Conquest of Peru
William H Prescott
Originally published in 1847, History of the Conquest of Peru, a companion volume to William H. Prescotts maste
History of the Conquest of Mexico
William H Prescott
It is a magnificent epic, said William H. Prescott after the publication of History of the Conquest of Mexico i
The Waning of the Middle Ages
Johan Huizinga
This classic study of art, life, and thought in France and the Netherlands during the fourteenth and fifteenth
Rome and Italy
Livy
Books VI-X of Livys monumental work trace Romes fortunes from its near collapse after defeat by the Gauls in 38
The Long Weekend
The Living Story of the Twenties and Thirties
Robert Graves
First published in 1940, this survey of the inter-war period not only includes surface aspects of the era – fro
The Sicilian Vespers
The Rising which brought about the overthrow of the universal papal monarchy
Steven Runciman
On 30 March 1282, as the bells of Palermo were ringing for Vespers, the Sicilian townsfolk, crying Death to the
From the Gracchi to Nero
A History of Rome from 133BC to AD68
H H Scullard
Scullards clear and comprehensive narrative covers the period from 133 BC to 69 AD, exploring the decline and f
History Of Rome
Michael Grant
From a small Iron Age settlement on the banks of the Tiber, Rome grew to become the centre of an Empire that do
A History of the Modern World
From 1917 to the 1980s
Paul Johnson
Originally published in 1983 and named one of the Best Books of the Year by the New York Times, this bestsellin
Law and Revolution
The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition
Harold J Berman
The roots of modern Western legal institutions and concepts go back nine centuries to the Papal Revolution, whe
Europe: Hierarchy And Revolt 1320-1450
George Arthur Holmes
This book provides a classic introduction to a key period in the history of Europe – the transition from mediev
The History of Germany Since 1789
Golo Mann
The History of Germany Since 1789, which was revised and expanded for the English edition, is history in the ro
Empire
How Britain Made the Modern World
Niall Ferguson
Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prair
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
28 Selected Chapters
Edward Gibbon
Gibbons The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788, is the undisp
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
Barrington Moore
Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World New Foreword by Edward Friedman and James C. Scott”A landmar
The Decline of Imperial Russia
1855-1914
Hugh Seton-Watson
This book, originally published in 1952, describes and explains the stage of the decline of the Russian Empire
Everyday Life in Early Imperial China
During the Han Period 202 BC – AD 220
Michael Loewe
In this lively and accessible account, with illustrations on nearly every page, Michael Loewe gives us a vivid
An Anatomy of Terror
A History of Terrorism
Andrew Sinclair
A disturbing and original history of the political use of terror from antiquity to the present day.
Jerusalem
The Biography
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of emp
Alfred The Great
Assers Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources
Asser
This comprehensive collection includes Assers Life of Alfred, extracts from The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and Alfr
A Study Of History
Volumes I-VI
Arnold Joseph Toynbee
Arnold Toynbees A Study of History has been acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements of modern scholars
A Study Of History
Volumes VII-X
Arnold Joseph Toynbee
Acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements of modern scholarship, Arnold Toynbees A Study of History is a
Plagues and Peoples
William H McNeill
Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a ra
Roman Society
Donald Dudley
Within this narrative, which runs from ninth century B.C. to the fourth century A.D. and briefly beyond, Profes
The Great Invasion
How the Romans Conquered Britain
Leonard Cottrell
Gives the background of Britain before the Roman invasion of 43 AD & goes on to describe the Roman forces, the
Children of the Ashes
The People of Hiroshima
Robert Jungk
This sombre report on Hiroshima since 1945 is the outcome of nearly three years of investigation by Robert Jung
The Later Middle Ages
1272-1485
Goerge Arthur Holmes
Professor Holmes also examines the politics of these years–the relations of the kings of England with neighbor
The Last Emperor
Edward Behr
The Last Emperor is a 1987 biopic about the life of Puyi, the last Emperor of China.
Three Who Made a Revolution
A Biograpical History
Bertram D Wolfe
The lives of three men who made the Russian Revolution possible–Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin–are the focus of t
A Short History of the World
H G Wells
Spanning the origins of the Earth to the outcome of the First World War, this is a brilliantly compelling accou
The Conquest of New Spain
Bernal Diaz
Vivid and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history:
Hungry Ghosts
Chinas Secret Famine
Jasper Becker
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Chinese people suffered what may have been the worst famine in history.
A History of the Crusades
1 The First Crusade
Steven Runciman
Sir Steven Runcimans three volume A History of the Crusades, one of the great classics of English historical wr
A History of the Crusades
2 The Kingdom of Jerusalem
Steven Runciman
Sir Steven Runcimans three volume A History of the Crusades, one of the great classics of English historical wr
A History of the Crusades
3 The Kingdom of Acre
Steven Runciman
Sir Steven Runcimans three volume A History of the Crusades, one of the great classics of English historical wr
The Arabs: A History
Eugene Rogan
To American observers, the Arab world often seems little more than a distant battleground characterized by reli
The Penguin Book of The American West
David Lavender
The Americans who went West carved out the Worlds greatest living folk-legend – the epic of the frontier. This
The Penguin History of Modern Russia
From Tsarism to the Twenty-First Century
Robert Service
Russias recent past has encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror and two world wars, and the country is s
Chronicles of the Crusades
Geoffrey of Villehardouin
Originally composed in Old French, the two chronicles brought together here offer some of the most vivid and re
A History of the Roman Republic
Cyril Edward Robinson
Cyril Robinsons history reviews the transformation of the Roman state from a minor kingdom in a remote part of
The Civilisation of Charlemagne
Jacques Boussard
Charlemagne was the eldest son of Pepin the Short and Bertrada of Laon. He was born before their canonical marr
Plutarchs Lives
Plutarch
Plutarchs Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a social history of the ancient world
ancient, biography, epistemology, ethics, hellenic, platonist, roman
Before Columbus
Links between the Old World and Ancient America
Cyrus H Gordon
Discusses evidence of American landfall by Minoans and Jews in ancient & classical times, and also looks at ref
The End of The Spanish Inquisition
Spanish Inquisition #3
Jean Plaidy
The final volume of Jean Plaidys trilogy on the Spanish Inquisition traces the tyrannous reign of Philip II, th
The Legacy of Egypt
Stephen Ranulph Glanville
This is a collection of essays by leading Egyptologists on life in ancient Egypt. It demonstrates the propositi
The Yamato Dynasty
The Secret History of Japans Imperial Family
Peggy Seagrave
In The Yamato Dynasty, Sterling Seagrave, who divulged the secrets of Mao Tse-tung and the ruthlessness of Chia
A History of Greece
Cyril Edward Robinson
Contents of Volume I: A HISTORY OF GREECE is the thrilling story of the rise to power and influence of the grea
The Birth of the Modern
World Society 1815-1830
Paul Johnson
This extraordinary chronicle of fifteen years that laid the foundations of the modern world is the history of p
My Country and My People
Lin Yutang
In this atmosphere of change, the present intellectual youth of China has grown up. Where the fathers imbibed t
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000
Paul Kennedy
A work of almost Toynbeean sweep… When a scholar as careful and learned as Mr. Kennedy is prompted by contemp
The Idea of History
R G Collingwood
The Idea of History is the best-known work of the great Oxford philosopher, historian, and archaeologist R.G. C
History of the Byzantine State
Goerge Ostrogorsky
With clarity and logic, George Ostrogorsky succinctly traces the intricate thousand-year course of the Byzantin
Return to Dragon Mountain
Memories of a Late Ming Man
Jonathan D Spence
Zhang Dai is recognized as one of the finest historians and essayists of Chinas Ming dynasty. When he was born
Nations and Nationalism
Ernest Gellner
This thoughtful and penetrating book, addressed to political scientists, sociologists, historians, and anthropo
Later Medieval Europe
From St Louis to Luther
Daniel Waley
From the divine right of kings to the political philosophies of writers such as Machiavelli, the medieval city-
Europe Since Napoleon
David Thomson
A history of Europe since Napoleon, covering all of the main topics of that period.
The World of Rome
Michael Grant
A brilliant survey of the conquests and culture of the Romans from 133 BC to AD 217–an era of unparalleled pow
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Michael Grant
This fall of the Roman Empire has always been regarded as one of the most significant transformations in the wh
The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991
Modern History #4
Eric Hobsbawm
Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914-1950, the Golden Age, 1950-1973, and the Landslide, 1973
The Age of Capital, 1848-1875
Modern History #2
Eric Hobsbawm
In the wake of the French Revolution & the Industrial Revolution, Europe underwent another revolution–this tim
The Age of Revolution, 1789-1848
Modern History #1
Eric Hobsbawm
This magisterial volume follows the death of ancient traditions, the triumph of new classes, and the emergence
The New Century
In conversation with Antonio Polito
Eric Hobsbawm
Looking back over the last decade, Hobsbawm finds the distinction between internal and international conflicts
The World Turned Upside Down
Radical Ideas During the English Revolution
Christopher Hill
Within the English revolution of the mid-17th century which resulted in the triumph of the protestant ethic–th
The Century of Revolution 1603-1714
Christopher Hill
There is an immense range of books about the English Civil War, but one historian stands head and shoulders abo
Chronicles
Jean Froissart
The Chronicles of Froissart (1337-1410) are one of the greatest contemporary records of fourteenth-century Engl
Makers of Rome
Plutarch
These nine biographies illuminate the careers, personalities and military campaigns of some of Romes greatest s
ancient, emperor, epistemology, ethics, hellenic, platonist, roman, rome
The Rise and Fall of Athens
Nine Greek Lives
Plutarch
The nine Lives translated here and arranged in chronological order follow the history of Athens from the legend
ancient, epistemology, ethics, greece, greek, hellenic, platonist, roman
The Cash Nexus
Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000
Niall Ferguson
Conventional wisdom has long claimed that economic change is the prime mover of political change, whether in th
Lords of the Sea
The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy & the Birth of Democracy
John R Hale
The Athenian Navy was one of the finest fighting forces in the history of the world. It engineered a civilizati
Defenders of the Faith
Charles V, Suleyman the Magnificent, and the Battle for Europe
James Reston
In his Warriors of God and Dogs of God, James Reston, limned two epochal conflicts between Islam and Christendo
A Shortened History of England
Goerge Macaulay Trevelyan
Tells the story of the nation from the remote days of the Celt and the Iberian, through the raids of the Viking
Thirteen Years at the Russian Court
A Personal Record of the Last Years and Death of Czar Nicholas II and his Family
Pierre Gilliard
A description of the authors time as a teacher to the children of Tsar Nicholas II.
The French Revolution
Thomas Carlyle
The book that established Thomas Carlyles reputation when first published in 1837, this spectacular historical