The trishaw was introduced to Singapore after the surrender of the British in 1942. After the end of the war, the trishaw continued to be a popular...

The aim of the present conference volume is to study the interrelationship of literary and material approaches to historical investigation of gende...

Spawning an empire ranging from Persia to China, Genghis Khan united a nomadic warrior culture that had lived with their agrarian neighbors through...

George Washington speaks for himself on behalf of liberty and the emerging American republic in this book, the only one-volume compilation in print...

Rendered in an idiom drawn from present-day nature guides, gardening handbooks, how-to manuals, and scientific treatises--and in a style influenced...

Rendered in an idiom drawn from present-day nature guides, gardening handbooks, how-to manuals, and scientific treatises--and in a style influenced...

This stirring new version of the great Babylonian epic includes material from the recently discovered "monkey tablet" as well as an Introduction, t...

This stirring new version of the great Babylonian epic includes material from the recently discovered "monkey tablet" as well as an Introduction, t...

My brother officers. Are they human? Thus reads the first journal entry of twenty-three-year-old John Verney, graduate of Eton and Oxford, lover of...

When Josephine Knowles left for the Klondike gold fields with her husband in 1898, she didn’t know she would be facing a constant battle with cold,...

This book is an attempt at an objective history about the Reformation. It presents the facts, but does not pursue any theory, or forward any cause....

"A classic. It provides an invaluable aid to anyone seeking to understand Plato and Aristotle in their historical context. Dover uses a variety of ...

A reprint, with corrections, of the University of California and Basil Blackwell editions of 1974.

Greek Religion: A Sourcebook provides an introduction to the fundamentals of ancient Greek religious beliefs and rituals through a rich collection ...

Growth of the American Revolution covers the period from the repeal of the Stamp Act in 1766 to the outbreak of hostilities at Lexington and Concor...

Growth of the American Revolution covers the period from the repeal of the Stamp Act in 1766 to the outbreak of hostilities at Lexington and Concor...

Merchants and bankers managed much of nineteenth-century Iran's economy and finances. The ulama -- clerical leaders -- who considered themselves re...

After receiving a bundle of worn letters written by her late grandfather George Black Jack Vowel during the First World War, journalist J...

The long and complex history of reception and interpretation of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament through the ages, described in the HBOT Project, i...

Preface; The Sagas of Heimskringla -- Abbreviations and Conventions; Introduction, Snorri and Heimskringla Through the Centuries; Authorship; Snorr...

This is the first part of a new translation in three volumes of Heimskringla, the collection of sagas covering the history of Norway from its legen...

This is the third part in the three-volume translation of Heimskringla

George Case is a writer on ideas and popular culture, and an acknowledged authority on the band Led Zeppelin. He is the author of Jimmy Page: Magus...

Two aspects of the Egyptian civilisation characterise the work of Erik Iversen: Its original art and literature, and its reception in Europe from c...

The fragmentary medieval chronicle, Historia Norwegie, is the oldest piece of historical writing from Norway, and probably our first specimen of No...

This study includes a revised model of the historical geography of Anatolia in the Old Assyrian Colony Period (c. 1969-1715 BC) that is based on to...

This volume includes a wealth of helpful footnotes; more than a dozen maps and illustrations; a chronology of the Archaic Age; a glossary of main c...

Throughout his reign Christian IV (1588-1648) distinguished himself as a remarkable patron of the arts and sciences. One of the projects to which h...