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World Music: A Very Short Introduction. 'World music' emerged as an invention of the West from encounters with other cultures. This book draws read...

From the French Revolution to the present. The second volume of the highly successful PENGUIN ATLAS OF WORLD HISTORY covers events from the French ...

The New Spaniards. A fully revised, expanded and updated edition of this masterly portrayal of contemporary Spain. The restoration of democracy in ...

Understanding Contemporary Latin America. An indispensable introduction to the complexities of contemporary Latin America. Forfattere: Utgave: ...

The Return of Martin Guerre. The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost won his case, when a man with a wooden leg swaggered into the French cour...

The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction. The massive disorder and economic ruin following the Second World War inevitably predetermined the scope a...

Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World. Offers an understanding of Vermeer's paintings and of the era they portray...

Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. Europe in 1945 was prostrate. Much of the continent was devastated by war, mass slaughter, bombing and cha...

Why Bother With History?: Ancient, Modern, and Postmodern Motivations. .Why Bother With History? argues for an increasingly important role for a re...

What is Cultural History?. What is Cultural History? has established itself as an essential guide to what cultural historians do and how they do it...

A Global History of Modern Historiography. A Global History of Modern HistoriographySo far histories of historiography have conce...

Central Europe Since 1945. Central Europe - here, Poland, the German Democratic Republic, Czechoslovakia and Hungary - is at the centre of internat...

Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction. This innovative and lively book is quite unlike any other introduction to postcolonialism. Robert Young...

The Industrial Revolution: milestones in business history. The confluence of developments in technology, labor and management practice, and market ...

South Africa: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid. Apartheid was an oppressive and brutal system of racial discrimination that captured and appalled wor...

A History of Modern Africa: A New Agenda for Architecture. Updated and revised to emphasise long-term perspectives on current issues facing the con...

Classical Athens and the Delphic Oracle: Divination and Democracy. The Delphic Oracle was where, according to Greek tradition, Apollo would speak t...

The Cold War. A brilliantly arresting historical work, John Lewis Gaddis's The Cold War takes us as never before to the time when the world stood o...

An Introduction to the Ancient World. Integrating the results of scholarly work from the past decade, the authors of An Introduction to the Ancient...

A Social History of the Media: From Gutenberg to the Internet. Written by two leading social and cultural historians, the first two editions of A S...

Living With Reform: China Since 1989. China is huge. China is growing more powerful. Yet China remains a great mystery to most people in the West. ...

British Civilization: An Introduction. The eighth edition of this highly-praised textbook has been substantially updated and revised to provide stu...

Family, Friends and Followers: Political and Social Bonds in Early Medieval E…. Political life in the middle ages was influenced heavily by the bon...

An A-Z of Modern America. An A-Z of Modern America is a comprehensive cultural dictionary which defines contemporary America through its history a...

Africa Since 1940: The Past of the Present. Frederick Cooper’s latest book on the history of decolonization and independence in Africa initiates a ...

A Brief History of Modern Psychology. In A Brief History of Modern Psychology, Ludy Benjamin, leading historian in the field, discusses the history...

The Cold War and the Middle East. The Cold War has been researched in minute detail and written about at great length but it remains one of the mos...

Reinventing India: Liberalization, Hindu Nationalism and Popular Democracy. When India was invented as a "modern" country in the years after Indepe...

A History of Pakistan and Its Origins. Beskrivelse mangler. Se gjerne forlagets (Anthem Press) hjemmeside, der det kan finnes mer informasjon. Fo...

Feminism: A Very Short Introduction. How much have women's lives really changed? In the West women still come up against the 'glass ceiling' at wor...

A History of Asia, Global Edition. A History of Asia is the only text to cover the area known as "monsoon Asia" - India, China, Korea, Japan, and S...

British Cultural Identities. British Cultural Identities assesses the degree to which being British impinges on the identity of the many people who...

The Penguin History of the United States of America. This new edition of Brogan's superb one-volume history - from early British colonisation to th...

The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia. Half a century after their deaths, the dictatorships of Stalin and Hitler still cast a long an...

The Spanish Civil War [electronic resource]: a very short introduction. This Very Short Introduction offers a powerfully-written explanation of the...

The Romans: An Introduction. The Romans: An Introduction, 3rd edition engages students in the study of ancient Rome by exploring specific historica...