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History of the Modern World. As the new title reflects, Palmer's A History of Europe in the Modern World maintains its well-established historical ...

The Origins of the First World War. James Joll's study is not simply another narrative, retracing the powder trail that was finally ignited at Sara...

History of the Modern World. "History of the Modern World" is a careful, well-written narrative of major events from the late Middle Ages to the po...

A short introduction to the history of the United Kingdom. The intention with this short history book is to provide undergraduates with a brief int...

The Oxford Illustrated History of Prehistoric Europe. Edited by Barry Cunliffe, one of the world's leading archaeologists, this book provides a com...

Medieval Scandinavia: from conversion to Reformation, circa 800-1500. The study of Scandinavia has been, and still is, deeply influenced by the int...

The Culture of Food. This book is about the history of food in Europe and the part it has played in the evolution of the European cultures over two...

Britain and Ireland: A Concise History. From highly experienced teacher Jurgen Kramer, Britain and Ireland is a handbook on the history of the Brit...

Just And Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument With Historical Illustrations. From the Athenian attack on Melos to the My Lai Massacre, from the wars in th...

States, Nations and Nationalism: From the Middle Ages to the Present. The first general history of the evolution of European states and nations fro...

The Legacy of Greece: A New Appraisal. This book is about much more than 'the glory that was Greece'. In this fresh appraisal, replacing the origin...

Mediaeval Europe, 400-1500. This book traces across the millennium of the Middle Ages the gradual crystallisation of a new and distinctive European...

American History: A Very Short Introduction. This brief history of America will span the earliest migrations to the present, reflecting Paul S. Boy...

The Roots of Evil: The Origins of Genocide and Other Group Violence. How can human beings kill or brutalise multitudes of other human beings? Focus...

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail Or Survive. From the author of Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail...

The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History. World-historical questions such as these, the subjects of major works by Jared Diamond, David La...

The Mind of the Middle Ages, A.D. 200-1500: An Historical Survey. "This is the third edition of a near standard survey of the intellectual life of ...

European intellectual history since 1789. For courses in European Intellectual History. An exploration of the major issues in thought -- from the F...

A history of immigration: the case of Norway 900-2000. Who came throughout the ages, from Irish thralls to Somali refugees? How did the various typ...

Japan To 1600: A Social and Economic History. Japan to 1600 traces Japanese historical development from the first evidence of human habitation in t...

Russia, 1855-1991: From Tsars to Commissars. A highly accessible, visual and rigorous series for AS and A2. Perfect for main A Level courses, combi...

Al-Shabaab in Somalia: The History and Ideology of a Militant Islamist Group,…. Since early 2007 a new breed of combatants has appeared on the stre...

Viking Age Iceland. Medieval Iceland was unique amongst Western Europe, with no foreign policy, no defence forces, no king, no lords, no peasants ...

The Oxford illustrated history of the vikings. Were the Vikings, as contemporary description had it, a 'valiant, wrathful, foreign, purely pagan pe...

Nazi Germany. Nazi GermanyHitler's 'thousand-year Reich' lasted barely longer than twelve brief and inglorious years, and yet had...

The Mirror of Herodotus: The Representation of the Other in the Writing of Hi…. Herodotus' great work is not only an account of the momentous histo...

European Architecture, 1750-1890. This comprehensive examination of eighteenth and nineteenth-century architecture explores its extreme diversity w...

Globalization in World History. In this revised edition of Globalization in World History, Peter Stearns explores the roots of contemporary globali...

Heritage Studies: Methods and Approaches. This is the first volume specifically dedicated to the consolidation and clarification of Heritage Studie...

The Fall of the Roman Empire. In AD 378 the Roman Empire had been the unrivalled superpower of Europe for well over four hundred years. And yet, Au...

The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People. Like its corresponding full-size version, THE ENDURING VISION, CONCISE, International Editio...

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict …. WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE ...

The Price of Freedom: a history of East Central Europe from the Middle Ages t…. The Price of Freedom surveys and explains the fascinating and intri...

Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends. This historical survey of Central Europe covers a region that encompasses contemporary Germany, Poland...