History : World - General

This book presents an edition of seventeen ad status model sermons for the preaching of the crusades from the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. The ......

The Ideological Origins of the British Empire presents the first comprehensive history of British conceptions of empire for more than half a century. David A......

Centred on a study of the early archives of the Venerabile Collegio Inglese in Rome, the predecessor of the English College of today, this book is more than ......

This volume investigates the ways in which people in western Europe between the fall of Rome and the twelfth century used the past: to legitimate the present......

Though best-known today for his Old English homilies, the Anglo-Saxon scholar ?lfric also composed a Latin 'letter' to his fellow monks at Eynsham (Oxfordshi......

This study of the social, geographical, and disciplinary composition of the scholarly community at the University of Paris in the early fourteenth century is......

This is a broad and ambitious study of the entire history of humanity which takes as its point of departure Marx's theory of social evolution. However, Profe......

The history of the early 'Abbasid Caliphate has long been studied as a factual or interpretive synthesis of various accounts preserved in the medieval Islami......

Why and under what circumstances did the religion of Islam emerge in a remote part of Arabia at the beginning of the seventh century? Traditional scholarship......

The rule of the Angevins in Brittany is characterised usually as opening an isolated 'Celtic' society to a wider world and imposing new and alien institution......

Pre-modern Arabic biography has served as a major source for the history of Islamic civilization. In the first book-length study to explore the origins and d......

The publication of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography in September 2004 was an event of great literary and scholarly importance. In his Leslie Step......

Every year tens of thousands of Australians make their pilgrimages to Gallipoli, France and other killing fields of the Great War. It is a journey steeped in......

Our experiences of dying have been shaped by ancient ideas about death and social responsibility at the end of life. From Stone Age ideas about dying as othe......

Relations between Inner Asian nomads and Chinese are a continuous theme throughout Chinese history. By investigating the formation of nomadic cultures, by an......

Xiaoqun Xu makes a compelling and original contribution to the study of China's modernization with this book on the rise of professional associations in Repu......

What was life really like in England in the later Middle Ages? This comprehensive introduction explores the full breadth of English life and society in the p......

This is a radically revised version of The African Middle Ages 1400-1800, and the companion volume to the authors' well-known Africa since 1800. It follows t......

Rudolph Peters' book is about crimes and their punishments as laid down in Islamic law. In recent years some of the more fundamentalist regimes, such as thos......

This book revolutionises our understanding of race. Building upon the insight that races are products of culture rather than biology, Colin Kidd demonstrates......