William Makepeace Thackeray 
John Leech’s Pictures of Life and Character 

Published to coincide with the centennial of the end of the First World War, this informative book is an essential guide to the memorials of the war on the Western Front, describing their history and …

The 1990s was a period that saw the last vestiges of old company liveries and fleet names and also saw the slow (at first) dawning of the era of the low-floor bus.In this fascinating look at the bus …

In many ways, Roman attitudes to animals were similar to our own; they kept animals as household pets, they farmed animals for meat and hunted and fished. However, animals also played a far more …

Death has been a source of grief and uncertainty for humanity throughout history, but it has also been the inspiration for a plethora of fascinating traditions. The covering of mirrors to prevent the …

Following Stalin”s death in 1953, association football clubs, as well as the informal supporter groups and communities which developed around them, were an important way for the diverse citizens of …

Michael Khodarkovsky”s innovative exploration of Russia”s 20th century, through 100 carefully selected vignettes that span the century, offers a fascinating prism through which to view Russian …

This book analyzes the ways in which organizations and individuals in India grappled with and contested definitions of democracy and unity in the decades directly preceding and following independent …

This book explores the scope of Moscow”s ‘new thinking’ in its Third World context—highlighted by the USSR”s surprising withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1988. It reviews the foreign policy …

This is an account of the dramatic events leading to the reunification of Germany. The author looks into the complex intertwining of popular action, national politics and international moves that cul …

Rethinking the American Environmental Movement post-1945 turns a fresh interpretive lens on the past, drawing on a wide range of new histories of environmental activism to analyze the actions of thos …