I imprint: 1291 books
Tibetan Democracy
Governance, Leadership and Conflict in Exile
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
How do you govern 130,000 people from exile? Tibet – and the struggles of diaspora Tibetans – are elements of an ongoing and highly debated issue. The Dalai Lama's democratisation process during his time in India from 1959–2011, and the subsequent election of Lobsang Sangay as prime minister-in-exile,...
Jan Hus
Religious Reform and Social Revolution in Bohemia
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
A century before Martin Luther and the Reformation, Jan Hus confronted the official Church and helped to change the face of medieval Europe. A key figure in the history of Europe and Christianity and a catalyst for religious reform and social revolution, Jan Hus was poised between tradition and innovation....
Hugh Trevor-Roper
The Historian
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
Hugh Trevor-Roper was one of the most gifted historians of the twentieth century. His scholarly interests ranged widely – from the Puritan Revolution to the Scottish Enlightenment. Yet he was also fascinated by the events of his own lifetime and wrote widely on issues of espionage and intelligence,...
Political Journalism in Transition
Western Europe in a Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
The 21st century has already seen dramatic changes affecting both journalism and politics. The rise of a range of new digital and networked communication technologies combined with the stagnation and decline of many traditional mass media has had a profound impact on political journalism. The arrival...
by Denis Judd
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston has enjoyed a rakish reputation as womaniser, careless aristocrat and the apostle of gun-boat diplomacy. His lengthy life linked the American War of Independence with the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the colourful Regency period with the era of Queen Victoria,...
Yemen
Revolution, Civil War and Unification
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Yemen, tucked into the southwestern corner of the Arabian Peninsula, has often escaped regional and international attention. And yet its history illuminates some of the most important issues at play in the modern Middle East: from Cold War rivalries to the growth of Islamic extremism in the 1990s,...
The Ages of Faith
Popular Religion in Late Medieval England and Western Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2008
Christianity in the later Middle Ages was flourishing, popular and vibrant and the institutional church was generally popular - in stark contrast to the picture of corruption and decline painted by the later Reformers which persists even today.
Norman Tanner, the pre-eminent historian of the...
Albert
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2011
Albert: Prince Consort to Queen Victoria, social and cultural visionary in his own right, was born in the saxon duchy of Saxe-Coburg-saalfeld but defined the culture and direction of nineteenth-century Britain - a Great Power at the zenith of its influence - more than any other British royal or politician....
The Black Eunuchs of the Ottoman Empire
Networks of Power in the Court of the Sultan
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
At the height of the Ottoman Empire, black eunuchs - rare, castrated slaves imported from Africa - became a key part of court politics. Unlike white eunuchs, who were only permitted outside the palace, black eunuchs had access to the harem - the Sultan's inner court. The Chief Black Eunuch, appointed...
by David Grummitt
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
The Wars of the Roses (c. 1455-1487) are renowned as an infamously savage and tangled slice of English history. A bloody thirty-year struggle between the dynastic houses of Lancaster and York, they embraced localised vendetta (such as the bitter northern feud between the Percies and Nevilles) as well...
The University of Oxford
A New History
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
A generation or so ago, the Inklings - C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and Charles Williams - met regularly in an Oxford pub to encourage one another in the writing of fictions set in fantasy worlds... Philip Pullman's Gyptians live on an Oxford canal and it is from Oxford that his characters gain entry...
Cyprus
A Modern History
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
In the troubled island of Cyprus, the national interests and rivalries of Greece and Turkey still collide, the population remains divided between the Greek and Turkish communities and the country is still a cat's paw of outside powers - especially the USA and the now resurgent Russia - as it has been...
Zambia
The First 50 Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
On 24 October 1964, the Republic of Zambia was formed, replacing the territory which had formerly been known as Northern Rhodesia. Fifty years on, Andrew Sardanis provides a sympathetic but critical insider's account of Zambia, from independence to the present. He paints a stark picture of Northern...
Jainism
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Jainism evokes images of monks wearing face-masks to protect insects and mico-organisms from being inhaled. Or of Jains sweeping the ground in front of them to ensure that living creatures are not inadvertently crushed: a practice of non-violence so radical as to defy easy comprehension. Yet for all...