Thomas E. Ricks 
Gamble 

This book explores the development and application of the law of treason in England across more than a thousand years, placing this legal history within a broader historical context. Describing man …

Angolan Political Thought introduces anticolonial thinkers whose writings on colonialism and liberation have been instrumental in the formation of Angolan identity. It focuses on the political nature …

‘Compelling.’ The Guardian ‘An insightful and inspiring history.’ BBC History Magazine ‘A tantalising revelatory book.’ The House ‘Brisk and illuminating.’ Times Literary Supplement ‘A …

The third edition of Ancient Cities surveys the cities of the Ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek, Etruscan, and Roman worlds from the perspectives of archaeology and architectural history, bring …

By combining chronological coverage, analytical breadth, and interdisciplinary approaches, these two volumes—Histories of Solitude and Histories of Perplexity—study the histories of Colombia over the …

This book explores sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Jesuit contributions to the rhetorical tradition established by Isocrates, Aristotle, Cicero and Quintilian. It analyses the writings of those Je …

Fully illustrated, this book assesses the US Marines and Japanese troops fighting in three bloody battles of World War II in the Pacific. In June 1944, the United States military launched an offe …

This book bridges the gap between historical research on Japan and the field of childhood history by writing children and childhood into the general historical record of the Meiji period. To explor …

The Architects of Toxic Politics in America: Venom and Vitriol explains the history of poison politics in America by profiling some of the key political “attack dogs” who have shaped the modern lands …

This illustrated study pits Germany”s Pz Kpfw III against the Soviet Union”s T-34 in the wake of Hitler”s 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union. This book evaluates the Pz Kpfw III and T-34 medi …