James Baldwin 
American Book of Golden Deeds 

First Published in 1984 Province and Politics in Late Imperial China presents analysis of one of the regional governments of China, the administration of the Szechwan governor-general from its apogee …

First Published in 1971 The History of the Mongol Conquests presents a general history of the Mongols of the thirteenth century. By using primary and secondary sources, J. J. Saunders fills up a majo …

First published in 1979, The Miners: A History of the National Union of Mineworkers 1939-46 describes the events and factors that led to the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1946. The World Wa …

First published in 1953, The Miners: Years of Struggle is the official history of the British miners, which draws on original sources, moving into the stormy period when the economic bargaining of th …

Historians of sexuality have often assumed that medieval people were less interested in sex than we are. But people in the Middle Ages wrote a great deal about sex: in confessors” manuals, in …

The articles in this volume are concerned with the literary responses of the Syriac communities in the Middle East to the drastic political changes of the 7th and 8th centuries, in particular the …

From the 90 or so articles he has published in the last two decades Professor Lloyd has chosen fifteen of the most important and influential to be reprinted in this collection. They tackle a wide …

A 2023 POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR (WATERSTONES) | ”GROUND-BREAKING” Bernardine Evaristo | ” UNIVERSAL AND TIMELY ” Elif Shafak | ” IMPORTANT” Sathnam Sanghera | ” A GENEROUS OFFERING ” Nana D …

An element common to all the articles collected here is the attempt to make parallel use of sources from different cultures – Biblical and Talmudic Hebrew, Greek and Latin, Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic – …