Historie

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...

Globalhistorisk atlas. Med hele verden som geografisk ramme formidler denne boken menneskenes historie de siste 50.000 årene, med utgangspunkt i sy...

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...

Presidentene : fra George Washington til Barack Obama. Historien om de amerikanske presidentene, fra George Washington til George W. Bush, er en sp...

Latin-Amerikas historie. Latin-Amerika har ikke opplevd verken noe egentlig sammenbrudd, slik Afrika har, eller noe ordentlig gjennombrudd, slik no...

Året 1814. Kom sjlvstendet i 1814 av ei langvarig indre utvikling, eller skuldast det utanrikspolitiske forhold? I denne boka nstar Stle Dyrvik opp...

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...

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...