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Conventional assumptions hold that U.S. government research and development efforts produced the satellite communications industry. David J. Whalen has looked deeply into the history of the industry a

The Second Edition of A History of the Later Roman Empire features extensive revisions and updates to the highly-acclaimed, sweeping historical survey of the Roman Empire from the accession of Dioclet

Christoph Rothmann’s Discourse on the Comet of 1585 offers the first edition of the Latin treatise after it was published in 1619. It is accompanied by an English translation and a full introduction a

Series list:Ancient Egypt: David O'Connor, NYU (2005)Ancient Near East: Marc Van De Mieroop, Columbia (2003)Persian Empire: Christopher Tuplin, Liverpool (2005)Archaic Greek World: Jonathan Hall, U of

By far the most influential work on the history of the body, across a wide range of academic disciplines, remains that of Thomas Laqueur. This book puts on trial the one-sex/two-sex model of Laqueur's

Wounds were a potent signifier reaching across all aspects of life in Europe in the middle ages, and their representation, perception and treatment is the focus of this volume. Following a survey of t

Religious Discourse in Modern Japan explores the transportation of the Western concept of “religion” in in the modern era; the emergence of discourse on Shinto, philosophy, and Buddhism; and the evolu

In this book, Lino Camprubi argues that science and technology were at the verycenter of the building of Franco's Spain. Previous histories of early Francoist science andtechnology have described scie

Art historians examine the complex relationship between artists, their work, and customers in the early modern Netherlands. Their topics include exporting art across the globe: the Antwerp art market

This book provides the non-Italian scholar with an extensive picture of the development of Italian economics, from the Sixteenth century to the present. The thread of the narrative is the dialectics b

Published 1827-38, this laudatory two-volume biography illuminates Jenner's professional and personal life as well as the science of vaccination.

Published in 1874, an enlightening yet disturbing insight into the treatment of the mentally ill in the late nineteenth century.

This 1920 account records Flora Murray's efforts during the First World War to operate the first military hospitals staffed by women.

The collection of ideas, values, and beliefs known as the Enlightenment fundamentally altered the ways in which the family was understood. During this period, 1650–1800, traditional family roles were

Three decades of research into retailing in England from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries has established a seemingly clear narrative: fixed shops were widespread from an early date; 'modern' m

Lazare Carnot was the unique example in the history of science of someone who inadvertently owed the scientific recognition he eventually achieved to earlier political prominence. He and his son Sadi

Anglo-German Scholarly Networks explores a wide range of scholarly and scientific connections between Britain and Germany from the late eighteenth century to the interwar years.

It has long been suggested that poverty was responsible for a criminal underclass emerging in Britain during the nineteenth century. Until quite recently, historians did little to challenge this perce

A richly illustrated account of the natural world of Australia, published in 1897, by a prominent British marine biologist.

Ascending to power after the Anglo-Irish Treaty and a violent revolution against the United Kingdom, the political party Cumann na nGaedheal governed during the first ten years of the Irish Free State

Published in 1769, this immensely popular guide to healthy living and the home treatment of common ailments illuminates eighteenth-century concerns.

This encyclopaedic work, a pioneering text in pharmacology, is reissued here in its revised and expanded fourth edition (1854-7).

The Economist as Public Intellectual examines the power of individual economists to intervene in public affairs and argues that economists’ public interventions have had profound consequences for both

This book presents a unique approach for studying mechanisms and machines with drawings that were depicted unclearly in ancient Chinese books.The historical, cultural and technical backgrounds of the

This major work of academic reference provides the first comprehensive survey of political thought in Europe, North America and Asia in the century following the French Revolution. Written by a distinguished team of international scholars, this Cambridge History is the latest in a sequence of volumes firmly established as the principal reference source for the history of political thought. In a series of scholarly but accessible essays, every major theme in nineteenth-century political thought is covered, including political economy, religion, democratic radicalism, nationalism, socialism and feminism. The volume also includes studies of major figures, including Hegel, Mill, Bentham and Marx, and biographical notes on every significant thinker in the period. Of interest to students and scholars of politics and history at all levels, this volume explores seismic changes in the languages and expectations of politics accompanying political revolution, industrialisation and imperial expans

Religions and Trade carves new pathways into the world of religious dynamics. In this array of essays a number of international scholars investigate the ways in which eastern and western religions wer

Humanity’s first reusable spacecraft and the most complex machine ever built, NASA’s Space Shuttle debuted with great promise and as a dependable source of wonder and national pride. But with the Chal

British missionary William Ellis (1794-1872) preserved vivid, invaluable accounts of indigenous Polynesian life in this two-volume work, published in 1829.

This book traces the history of the concept of work from its earliest stages and shows that its further formalization leads to equilibrium principle and to the principle of virtual works, and so point

The Ottoman Empire (1299-1923) existed at the crossroads of the East and the West. Neither the history of Western Asia, nor that of Eastern Europe, can be fully understood without knowledge of the his

Emil du Bois-Reymond is the most important forgotten intellectual of the nineteenthcentury. In his own time (1818--1896) du Bois-Reymond grew famous in his native Germany and beyondfor his groundbreak

The volume make a stylistic comparison of the underdrawing revealed in infrared reflectograms of early Netherlandish paintings with the paintings themselves when that is possible. Black and white phot

Written half in Dutch and half in English, this peer-reviewed journal contains seventeen articles on the history of art and culture in the Netherlands. Extensive pictures and examples are included alo

First published in 1826, this work combines an account of George Anson Byron's 1824-5 voyage with a history of Hawaii.