Edgar Taylor 
Master Wace 
His Chronicle of the Norman Conquest From the Roman De Rou

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 …

The rise of populism, cynicism, fanaticism and fundamentalism challenges us to reconsider the problem of ressentiment. Characterized by Nietzsche as the self-poisoning of the will through …

SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018 A Financial Times Book of the Year and an Amazon Top 100 Book of the Year India’s explosive rise has driven inequality …

After the huge advances made in the early months of the Pacific war, it was in remote New Guinea where the advance of Imperial Japanese Naval Air Force (IJNAF) A6M Zero-sen fighters was first halted …

From the acclaimed author of Britain”s War Machine and The Shock of the Old, a bold reassessment of Britain”s twentieth century. Itis usual to see the United Kingdom as an island of continuity in a …

Central Americans are the third largest and fastest growing Latino population in the United States. And yet, despite their demographic presence, there has been little scholarship focused on this …

More complex and imposing than any other vehicle in the British emergency services, the fire engine has a long and interesting history. The earliest water pumps had been developed by the eighteenth …