History & Archaeology Books

"Beautifullyalive."-Wall Street Journal Winner of the 2022 Distinguished Book Award from The Society of Colonial WarsA tour through the original thirteen colonies in search of historical sites and their stories in America's founding. Obscure, well-known,...

Over the last three decades the historian Gabriel Kolko has redefined the way we look at modern warfare and its social and political effects. Century of War gives us a masterly synthesis of the effects of war on civilian populations and the political...

A "deeply moving book" (Studs Terkel) and the first ever oral history to document the experience of ordinary Japanese people during World War II"Hereafter no one will be able to think, write, or teach about the Pacific War without reference to [the...

Republican passions demonstrates the crucial role of family and friendship networks in the creation of the French Third Republic. Based on the family archives of Lon Laurent-Pichat, journalist, Deputy and Life Senator, this study paints a rich picture of...

This book uses amputation and prostheses to tell a new story about medicine and embodied knowledge-making in early modern Europe. It draws on the writings of craft surgeons and learned physicians to follow the heated debates that arose from changing...

Socialist Republic is a timely account of 1980s left-wing politics in South Yorkshire. It explores how Sheffield City Council set out to renew the British Left. Through careful analysis of the Council's agenda and how it interacted with trade unions,...

The mystery of how an ordinary Minnesota girl came to be, briefly, one of the most wanted domestic terrorists in the United StatesBehind every act of domestic terrorism there is someone's child, an average American whose life took a radical turn for...

The long and pernicious relationship between fast food restaurants and the African American communityToday, fast food is disproportionately located in Black neighborhoods and marketed to Black Americans through targeted advertising. But throughout much...

Winner of Outstanding Book Award of Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human RightsAn award-winning and canonical history of radical feminism, whose activist heat and intellectual audacity powered second-wave feminism-30th anniversary edition A...

Empires rise and fall; they do not last. In the eyes of many, the US exerts the strongest destabilizing influence on world events, and thus presents the greatest threat to world peace. World power #1 hasn't acquired this top position by chance. Since...

From its pioneer settlers and those who came later, this history of Paradise, Cache County Utah, shares stories that resonate as true today as they did for the people who lived through them. This volume was compiled after years of studious research on...

Natural resources, powerful politicians and the resilience of Burnet's population changed the course of this tiny ranching town's history in the middle of the Great Depression. When a private company's plans for an electricity-producing dam across the...

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St Columba is one of the most important figures in the early history of the British Isles. A native of Donegal and a nobleman of royal ancestry, his outstanding religious career spanned both sides of the Irish Sea. On the Scottish island of Iona he...

The only comprehensive history of Iceland available in English.The only comprehensive history of Iceland available in English.Unique among European societies, Iceland was founded late, in the Viking Age, and has copious written and archaeological sources...

A stunning visual journey through Cambodian culture, history, art, struggle, and modernization.Cambodia has two parallel histories. One is the constant stream of adventurers and diplomats, kings and rebels, archaeologists and artists drawn to the...

Clarity. Health. Peace of mind. These are the goals of The Way of Tea.In this book, readers will learn more about all aspects of tea-from the practical to the spiritual-and how they can implement the accompanying ancient traditions into their modern life...

Sicily was the jewel of the Mediterranean, and Sicilians were the first civilized people of the Western World-here is their rich and diverse history in crisp prose and lively illustration. This concise history relates how Sicily rose to become the first...

The hidden life of the greatest surviving work of Inca artThe most celebrated Andean artwork in the world is a five-hundred-year-old Inca tunic made famous through theories about the meanings of its intricate designs, including attempts to read them as a...

An innovative argument that vindicates our normative commitment to basic equality, synthesising philosophy, history, and psychology.What makes human beings one another's equals? That we are 'basic equals' has become a bedrock assumption...

A new biography of Carl Linnaeus, offering a vivid portrait of Linnaeus's life and work.Carl Linnaeus (17071778), known as the father of modern biological taxonomy, formalised and popularised the system of binomial nomenclature used to classify plants...

A look at the painting traditions of northwestern India in the eighteenth century, and what they reveal about the political and artistic changes of the eraIn the long eighteenth century, artists from Udaipur, a city of lakes in northwestern India,...

A unique look at how classical notions of ascent and flight preoccupied early modern British writers and artistsBetween the late sixteenth century and early nineteenth century, the British imagination - poetic, political, intellectual, spiritual and...

A multifaceted exploration of the interplay between civic and military life in ancient RomeThe ancient Romans famously distinguished between civic life in Rome and military matters outside the city-a division marked by the pomerium, an abstract religious...

How virility and Jewishness became hallmarks of postwar New York's combative intellectual sceneIn the years following World War II, the New York intellectuals became some of the most renowned critics and writers in the country. Although mostly male and...

In this gripping sequel to his bestselling 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the story of what happened after the Bronze Age collapsed why some civilisations endured, why some gave way to new ones, and why some disappeared forever.At the end of the acclaimed...

A newly expanded edition of the defining book on one of French Romanticism's most influential and elusive paintersEugene Delacroix (1798-1863) was a solitary genius who produced stormy Romantic works like The Death of Sardanapalus as well as more...

After the turbulent years of the Napoleonic Wars and the Congress of Vienna's attempt to guarantee peace and stability across Europe, a new revolutionary movement emerged in the southern peripheries of the continent. In this groundbreaking study,...

An examination of coined money and its significance to rulers, aristocrats and peasants in early medieval Europe.Between the end of the Roman Empire in the fifth century and the economic transformations of the twelfth, coined money in western Europe was...

Originally published in 1957, this classic work has guided generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. Throughout history, the notion of two bodies has permitted the post mortem continuity of monarch and monarchy,...

The first English-language biography of the de facto ruler of the late Ottoman Empire and architect of the Armenian GenocideTalaat Pasha (1874-1921) led the triumvirate that ruled the late Ottoman Empire during World War I and is arguably the father of...

During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate," a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived together. Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, however, so many whites fled the city for the suburbs...

Glasgow: The Autobiography tells the story of the fabled, former Second City of the British Empire from its origins as a bucolic village on the rivers Kelvin and Clyde, through the tumult of the Industrial Revolution to the third millennium.Including...

A&W Root Beer. Foster's Freeze. IHOP. Der Wienerschnitzel. See's Candy. Jack in the Box. You name the American food icon, and chances are its roots are in California. Food historian and chef George Geary tells the remarkable stories of the early...

A panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Muammad to the birth of the modern era.This book describes and explains the major events, personalities, conflicts, and convergences that have shaped the history of the Muslim world. The...

Live at the Safari Club: A People's History of HarDCore is the uncensored oral history of a notorious underground punk venue in the nation's capital, told by the bands, fans, zinesters, promoters, graffiti artists, scenesters, senators' kids and...

Imagine the world before Google or Facebook, when books were the only source of recorded fact. Originally published in 1956, The Guinness Book of Superlatives is the very first book in a series that would one day become one of the most well-known and...

A novel attempt to make sense of our preoccupation with copies of all kinds-from counterfeits to instant replay, from parrots to photocopies.The Culture of the Copy is a novel attempt to make sense of the Western fascination with replicas, duplicates,...

Late Medieval Christianity's encounter with miraculous materials viewed in the context of changing conceptions of matter itself.In the period between 1150 and 1550, an increasing number of Christians in western Europe made pilgrimage to places where...

A Selection of the Scientific American, History, and BOMC2 Book Clubs "An in-depth look at the anatomy and history of feet reveals their often overlooked importance in human evolution, medicine and art." -Science News "Stylish, informative, entertaining,...

"This is the epic story of the struggle to build a mass socialist movement in ragtime America. Kipnis was a brilliant historian, and this is his enduring gift to activists." -Mike Davis A new edition of the out-of-print classic.

'No freeman is to be taken or imprisoned, or dispossessed ... except through the lawful judgment of his peers or through the law of the land.''To no one shall we sell, to no one shall we deny or delay right or justice.'Magna Carta (or 'Great Charter' of...

In 1963, a human skull was discovered in a pub in south-east England. The handwritten note found inside revealed it to be that of Alum Bheg, an Indian soldier in British service who had been blown from a cannon for his role in the 1857 Uprising, his head...

This book illuminates the glittering history of fireworks, from their mysterious beginnings to the dazzling big-budget displays of today. It describes how they enthralled the world's royal courts and became a sensation across the British Empire. There...

This book takes the reader on an immersive journey through medieval manuscript production in the Latin Christian world. Each chapter opens with a lively vignette by a medieval narrator including a parchment maker, scribe, and illuminator introducing...

This beautifully illustrated book takes us on a tour through the rich world of mangoes, which inspire fervent devotion across the world. In South Asia, mangoes boast a history steeped in Hindu and Buddhist mythology, even earning a mention in the Kama...

This book takes us on a sweeping journey through the ebbs and flows of Pakistan's history, from the ancient Indus Valley Civilisation to contemporary times. The book uncovers influences from Turkey, Persia, Arabia and Britain that have shaped...

Medieval falconry was not just about hunting; the practice also signified sovereignty, power, and diplomacy. In The Art of Medieval Falconry, Yannis Hadjinicolaou describes the visual culture that sprang up around these practices, tracking how imagery,...