Western Civilization
Authors: Marvin Perry, Margaret C. Jacob, James R. Jacob, Myrna Chase and Theodore H. Von Laue
Edition: Ninth
Publisher: Cengage
Price: £42.99
Pages: 976
ISBN: 9780547147017
Western Civilization covers the Western intellectual tradition and the significance of its ideas within a political history chronology. The book, fully updated throughout, has an enhanced focus on religion and philosophy, comparative timelines and full-colour maps with physical geography essays.
Voyages in World History, International Edition
Authors: Valerie Hansen and Kenneth Curtis
Edition: First
Publisher: Cengage
Price: £32.99
Pages: 1056
ISBN: 9781439083109
Each chapter of this new text centres on a story, whether it is a traveller’s account or the constant movement of people, goods, and ideas locally, regionally, and around the globe. The travellers include rulers, explorers, poets, merchants, soldiers, missionaries and scholars, and their narratives provide a framework for each chapter.
A History of Latin America, International Edition
Authors: Benjamin Keen and Keith Haynes
Edition: Eighth
Publisher: Cengage
Price: £32.99
Pages: 656
ISBN: 9780538744355
Keen and Haynes discuss political and diplomatic theory, class structure and economic organisation, culture and religion, and the environment. The integrating framework is the dependency theory, the most popular interpretation of Latin American history, which stresses the economic relationship of Latin American nations to wealthier nations, particularly the United States.
British Political Thought, 1500-1660: The Politics of the Post-Reformation
Author: Glenn Burgess
Edition: First
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Price: £60.00 and £29.99
Pages: 448
ISBN: 9780333574119 and 4102
Focusing on the interaction of religion and politics, this is a chronological survey of the political thought of post-Reformation Britain that examines the work of a wide range of thinkers.
France since 1870: Culture, Society and the Making of the Republic
Author: Charles Sowerwine
Edition: Second
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Price: £55.00 and £19.99
Pages: 576
ISBN: 9780230573390 and 3383
This new edition has been brought up to the present with new final chapters, and revised to take into account the latest research. It includes maps and more coverage of key topics such as racial strife, colonial difficulties, the Vichy regime, and the nature of the French extreme right.
The Evolution of the British Welfare State
Author: Derek Fraser
Edition: Fourth
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Price: £55.00 and £18.99
Pages: 464
ISBN: 9780230224667 and 4650
Updated to cover the Blair and Brown years, and revised to take into account the latest research, Fraser’s text offers a history of British social policy from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. The book features an extensive bibliography with over one hundred new entries for the fourth edition.
The Russian Revolution, 1900-19
Author: Robert Service
Edition: Fourth
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Price: £15.50
Pages: 152
ISBN: 9780230220409
Service’s analysis examines state and society under the Romanovs from 1900, the February and October Revolutions of 1917, the final years of the Romanov dynasty and the start of the Soviet order, comparisons with political, social and economic trends elsewhere in the world and the extent to which the later development of the USSR was conditioned by the October Revolution.
The European World 1500-1800: An Introduction to Early Modern History
Editor: Beat Kümin
Edition: First
Publisher: Routledge
Price: £19.99
Pages: 400
ISBN: 9780415432535
Structured in four parts dealing with socio-economic, religious, cultural and political issues, Kümin adopts a broad geographical perspective. Western and Central Europe receive particular attention, but the wider global context is also explored. Thematic priorities include social structures, Reformation change, expanding cultural horizons and the emergence of the modern state.
Greece in the Making 1200-479BC
Author: Robin Osborne
Edition: Second
Publisher: Routledge
Price: £22.99
Pages: 400
ISBN: 9780415469920
This account of Greek history from the end of the Bronze Age to the Classical Period acknowledges that, barring a small number of archaic poems and inscriptions, the majority of our literary evidence for archaic Greece reported only what later writers wanted to tell, and so was subject to systematic selection and distortion.
From Caledonia to Pictland
Author: James E. Fraser
Edition: First
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Price: £70.00 and £19.99
Pages: 448
ISBN: 9780748612321 and 2314
Fraser charts the complex and shadowy processes that saw the Picts, Northumbrians, North Britons and Gaels of early Scottish history become established in the country, and discusses the achievements of their foremost political figures, and their ongoing links with the world around them.
Roman Europe 1000 BC - AD 400
Editor: Edward Bispham
Edition: First
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Price: £18.99
Pages: 392
ISBN: 9780199266012
This volume traces the rise of Rome and the extension of Roman power across Europe, from the viewpoints of both conquerors and conquered, and also Rome’s barbarian heirs. Bispham reconstructs as far as possible the indigenous experience of contact with Rome, showing how Roman domination impacted upon the already complex world of Iron Age Europe.
European Cities and Towns 400-2000
Author: Peter Clark
Edition: First
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Price: £19.99
Pages: 432
ISBN: 9780198700548
Clark’s study of European cities and towns from the fall of the Roman Empire to the present day takes a view of the continent that embraces northern and eastern Europe as well as the city systems of the Mediterranean and western Europe. He addresses debates ranging from the nature of urban survival in the post-Roman era to the position of the European city in a globalising world.
A New History of India
Author: Stanley Wolpert
Edition: Eighth
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Price: £.99
Pages: 588
ISBN: 9780195337563
Wolpert’s text has been in print for over quarter of a century. In this eighth edition, he discusses modern India’s rapidly growing population, industry, and economy, and also considers the prospects for India’s future.
Crime, Law and Society in the Later Middle Ages
Editors: Anthony Musson with Edward Powell
Edition: First
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Price: £60.00 and £17.99
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9780719038020 and 8013
Drawing on archival material and contemporary literary texts, Musson and Powell guide readers towards an understanding of prevailing notions of law and justice and expectations of the law and legal institutions. Vignettes covering both heinous and petty crimes display the nature and extent of medieval criminality and examples of the judicial machinery at work.
The End of the European Era: 1890 to the Present
Authors: Felix Gilbert and David Clay Large
Edition: Sixth
Publisher: WW Norton
Price: £13.99
Pages: 666
ISBN: 9780393930405
This sixth edition has been thoroughly revised with up-to-date scholarship. Its coverage of southern and eastern Europe has been expanded, as has its coverage of social history, in particular women’s history. It charts the theme of globalisation, starting with the 1890s and moving through to post-9/11 Europe. This new edition also examines how 21st-century Europe has addressed issues such as immigration and migration, economic globalisation, environmental degradation and terrorism.
A Short History of the Middle Ages
Author: Barbara H. Rosenwein
Edition: Third
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Price: £22.99
Pages: 370
ISBN: 9781442601048
This edition includes a new feature – “Seeing the Middle Ages” – as well as more than 60 plates, over two thirds of which are in colour, seven figures, genealogies, and appendices of rulers. The supporting website reproduces the maps, genealogies, lists of popes and emperors, and glossary, and it offers study questions for each chapter.
Germany, 1871-1945: A Concise History
Author: Raffael Scheck
Edition: First
Publisher: Berg
Price: £60.00
Pages: 264
ISBN: 9781845208172
Scheck presents a pragmatic interpretation of German history, from unification to the end of the Nazi regime. This approach acknowledges the strong trend in German society towards modernisation and democratisation, particularly before 1914, while also highlighting the factors that propelled Germany toward the First World War.
War in the 19th Century
Author: Jeremy Black
Edition: First
Publisher: Polity
Price: £16.99
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9780745644493
Alongside an examination of state-to-state warfare and the move toward “total war”, Black’s emphasis on different military goals gives due weight to trans-oceanic conflict at the expense of non-Europeans. Irregular, internal and asymmetric war are all considered, ranging from local insurgencies to imperial expeditions, and offer a deliberate shift from Western-centricity.
The Norman Conquest: A New Introduction
Author: Richard Huscroft
Edition: First
Publisher: Pearson Education
Price: £18.99
Pages: 392
ISBN: 9781405811552
Huscroft studies the British and French perspectives on the Norman Conquest to offer an introduction to the events that propelled the two nations into the Middle Ages and altered the course of history.
The Second World War in Europe
Author: S. P. Mackenzie
Edition: Second
Publisher: Pearson Education
Price: £14.99
Pages: 184
ISBN: 9781405846998
Mackenzie covers the major military campaigns, the economic and social aspects of the war, and wartime diplomacy. Following an opening chapter on the origins of the war, there are two main chronological chapters and two thematic ones looking at issues such as barbarism and the Holocaust, and strategic bombing and the U-Boat war.