General and world history Books

A richly illustrated look at the intersection of art and science in Renaissance EuropeArt played a pivotal role in the development of natural history during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. European colonial expansion enabled naturalists to study...

Looking two hundred years in the past, an enlightening study of the neglected liberal tradition in Russian political thought with resonance for today.On December 14, 1825, a group of young Russian army officers led three thousand troops to Senate Square...

A fascinating collection of questions and answers about courtship, marriage, love, and sex from a seventeenth-century periodicalThe Athenian Mercury a one-page, two-sided periodical published in 1690s London included the world's first personal advice...

From one of today's most innovative ancient historians, a provocative new vision of why ancient history matters and why it needs to be told in a radically different, global wayIt's easy to think that ancient history is, well, ancient history obsolete,...

Nobel Prize-winner Peter Doherty's enthusiasm and curiosity about the world around him informs this atmospheric collection of stories on illumination, hot air and burning in all their guises. Written with great style and richly intimate with personal...

The globe-trotting tales of five women who fought for the right to enjoy the wild places of the earth.For millennia the 'wild' was a place heroic men went on epic quests. Women were prevented from joining them, either through physical control or powerful...

In the mid-eighteenth century, most of the Mediterranean coastline and its hinterlands were controlled by the Ottoman Empire, a vast Islamic power regarded by Christian Europe with awe and fear. By the end of the First World War, however, this great...

The 1400-year-old schism between Sunnis and Shi'is is currently reflected in the destructive struggle for hegemony between Saudi Arabia and Iran - with no apparent end in sight. But how did this conflict begin, and why is it now the focus of so much...

This book is a study of statelessness in the period of the Second World War. It breaks new ground by focusing not on Europe, but on the Asian and Pacific theatres of the conflict. This perspective enables us to go beyond Hannah Arendt's classic account...

Brutal treatments explores the role medical doctors played in the colonial counterinsurgency campaigns in British Kenya (1952-1960) and French Algeria (1954-1962) in the final years of empire.It not only examines how these medical professionals became...

An engaging history of motherhood, demography, and infertility in twentieth-century France, this book explores fraught political and cultural meanings attached to the notion of an 'ideal' family size. When statistics revealed a sustained drop in France's...

Reexamines the ideology and political program of Britain's interwar fascist and extreme right-wing groups, highlighting their contradictions and moral failings as they sought to restore national power through disengagement and isolation.This book is a...

Ce livre classique a été initialement publié il y a plusieurs décennies sous le titre ""My Southern HomeOr, the South and Its People"". Il a maintenant été traduit par Writat en langue française pour ses lecteurs francophones. Chez Writat, nous sommes...