History & Archaeology Books

In Atomic Blackmail? Simon Bennett examines the very real possibility of the 'weaponisation' of nuclear facilities during the Russia-Ukraine War.The War is being fought in proximity to nuclear facilities and working nuclear power stations, including the...

Learning about our ancestors' occupations helps to give us an understanding of their daily lives. This book covers dozens of historic trades - accounting for around 90% of the Victorian population, in fact - giving succinct details about the trade, how...

Israel has seized the opportunity of Hamas's operation on 7 October 2023 to devastate Gaza, reducing it to rubble, massacring a huge number  of its inhabitants and forcing the rest to flee. Another Nakba is underway 75 years after the creation...

In a bittersweet blend of science and yarn, Carter Niemeyer takes us back to 1996 on a heart-pounding, eye-witness adventure to add ten more wolves - the Sawtooth pups - to Yellowstone's newly reintroduced wolf packs. So much could go wrong. So much did...

Editorial cartoonist Paul Jamiol's sixth book of political cartoons focuses on the changes affecting America today and the dark blossoming of lies, hate, and divisiveness. The impact of a foreign thug on one of the candidates, the effectiveness on the...

The Sea People were a menace to eastern Mediterranean society and contributed to the destruction of the Late Bronze Age. But what do we really know about them?It is difficult to know the Sea People intimately because the records on them aren't very...

Fourth in the Tales of the Old Wild West series by prolific western author Doyle Trent.In the tradition of the John Wayne classic western films and legendary television series of Gunsmoke and Bonanza.The Wild West. If the elements, rattlers, coyotes, and...

Sixth in the Tales of the Old Wild West series by prolific western author Doyle Trent.In the tradition of the John Wayne classic western films and legendary television series of Gunsmoke and Bonanza.The Wild West. If the elements, rattlers, coyotes, and...

Fifth in the Tales of the Old Wild West series by prolific western author Doyle Trent.In the tradition of the John Wayne classic western films and legendary television series of Gunsmoke and Bonanza.The Wild West. If the elements, rattlers, coyotes, and...

Eighth in the Tales of the Old Wild West series by prolific western author Doyle Trent.In the tradition of the John Wayne classic western films and legendary television series of Gunsmoke and Bonanza.The Wild West. If the elements, rattlers, coyotes, and...

Seventh in the Tales of the Old Wild West series by prolific western author Doyle Trent.In the tradition of the John Wayne classic western films and legendary television series of Gunsmoke and Bonanza.The Wild West. If the elements, rattlers, coyotes,...

This is the story of the oldest warship afloat in the world, the venerable frigate USS Constitution, the cornerstone of the nascent American navy created by act of Congress in 1794. To set the stage for the dominance of this remarkable vessel, military...

A guidebook that stands apart from all others, this book presents the history of St. Augustine, America's oldest city, by historical period, introducing readers to specific sites that represent each period.

This book demonstrates the continuities of five centuries of European-led slavery and colonialism in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas, examining calls for reparations in all three regions for what many now regard to have constituted crimes against...

Studio Electrophonique tells the story of the Sheffield home studio that helped launch the careers of some of the biggest names in British pop: The Human League, Heaven 17, Pulp, ABC and more.

Investigating the functioning of travel in political culture by using early modern small states as a case study, this book examines the complex relationship between Jacobitism, educational travel, and small state diplomacy.

How much of what we know about the history of the Old West is true? In this new book, author Michael Rutter looks at the legend and lore behind such notorious figures as Billy the Kid and Calamity Jane and the stories of famous gun fights and battles,...

This book uses changes in the material world to investigate the impact of the Amazonian rubber boom on global history and local communities. It contextualizes Sir Henry Wickham's extraction of 70,000 rubber seeds from Santarém in 1876, and the subsequent...

Year 1966 analyzes the breakthrough moment in the culture of the Polish People's Republic when revolutionary social and cultural changes slowed down in the mid-1960s, leading to a turn towards the idea of a nation as a field of ideological dispute...

This book studies the social consequences of bureaucratic and scientific change during the transition to modern states and societies in the Age of Enlightenment, as it explores how the Habsburg Empire deployed new ways and means to integrate existing...

During much of the twelfth century the Crusaders dominated the military scene in the Levant. The unification of Egypt and Syria by Saladin gradually changed the balance of power, which slowly begun to tilt in favour of the Muslims. This book examines the...

It is 1277, the fifth year of the reign of Edward I. A priest lies dead, murdered on the steps of his altar. Children go missing on the streets of medieval St Albans. Lady Jeanne de Lascy, a young noble, is abducted from the Lazar House on Watling Street...

This textbook brings together a collection of the most important primary sources in the study of Palestinian nationalism, from the late nineteenth century through to the present day.

The Routledge Companion to John Wesley provides an overview of the work and ideas of one of the principal founders of Methodism, John Wesley (1703-1791).

Using a topical approach and presenting the English translation and the Latin text of excerpts from The Chronicles of Saint Benedict of Cassino, this volume examines how the Cassinese historians narrated that tragic period and at the same time mentioned...

This book examines the role of (post)colonial ports in creating and shaping the ecotonal, cultural, historical, material, environmental, socio-political and economic contexts in formerly colonized regions, spanning the Caribbean, Africa, North America,...

This classic is now reissued as an authorized Second Edition with more historic photos, full-color images, diagrams, and reflections from the author in a "Forty Years Later" section. Since first published by Seattle's Center for Wooden Boats in 1991,...

Tâm Tình Phố Núi là câu chuyện về ba thế hệ trong gia đình tác giảĐào Thị Quỳnh. Nhìn từ nhiều góc độ, câu chuyện của gia đình thiếunữ tên Quỳnh là một tấm gương phản ảnh những gì đã xảy ra chomột đất nước và một dân tộc mang tên Việt Nam, với tất cả...

By his own admission, SS Kommandant Rudolf Höss was history's greatest mass murderer, having personally supervised the extermination of approximately two million people, mostly Jews, at the death camp in Auschwitz, Poland. Death Dealer is the first...