Neil Murphy 
Tudor Occupation of Boulogne 
Conquest, Colonisation and Imperial Monarchy, 1544-1550

Soviet foreign policy in the Stalin era is commonly assumed to have been a direct product of either Marxist ideology or the leader”s whims. Both assumptions, however, oversimplify the complex and …

The Mongol invasions in the first half of the thirteenth century led to profound and shattering changes to the historical trajectory of Islamic West Asia. As this new volume in The Idea of Iran …

Navies in Modern World History traces the role of navies in world history from the early nineteenth century, through both World Wars, to the dawn of the twenty-first century and beyond. In a series …

Pioneers of Australian Armour tells the story of the only Australian mechanised units of the Great War. The 1st Australian Armoured Car Section, later the 1st Australian Light Car Patrol, and the …

A detailed account of the rich history and resilience of the Bakwena ba Mogopa, one of the most important traditional communities in South Africa. This seminal and lucid work depicts the scope of soc …

Reporting new and never-before-published information about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, this investigation dives straight into the deep end, and seeks to prove the CIA”s involvement in one …

In late 1945 local Japanese turned their energies toward creating new behaviors and institutions that would give young people better skills to combat repression at home and coercion abroad. They …

The First Mapping of America tells the story of the General Survey. At the heart of the story lie the remarkable maps and the men who made them – the commanding and highly professional Samuel …

Iran is a country which, despite its extensive coverage in the media, is often regarded as ”mysterious”, ”exotic” and ”other-worldly”. This attitude often stems from a focus on the rhetoric of …

Drawing from a wide range of Uzbek and Russian sources, James Critchlow analyzes significant developments leading up to Uzbekistan”s declaration of sovereignty and examines the outlook for the …