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Antoon de Baets

A Human Rights View of the Past

The idea of human rights has been much criticized from a historical perspective but curiously enough its theoretical and practical contributions to the study of time, memory, and history have never been s…

Hadi Baghaei-Abchooyeh

Beyond Orientalism

This volume examines the enduring legacy of Sir William Jones, a seminal figure in the intellectual exchange between East and West during the Enlightenment.

Christopher D. Bahl

Mobile Manuscripts

"In this essential new work, Christopher D. Bahl departs from the established historiography on trade, shipping and pilgrimage to argue for the emergence of Arabic learning as a crucial form of trans…

Hermann Bahr,

Antisemitism

Originally published in 1894, Antisemitism features a series of interviews with prominent figures across Europe, revealing attitudes towards anti-Jewish hatred during a pivotal moment in its pre-Nazi deve…

Vasileios Balaskas

Revivals of Classical Drama in Greece and Spain (1860s-1970s)

Vasileios Balaskas examines how Classical drama was revived at ancient European venues during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing on Spain and Greece. These revivals turned ancient theatres i…

Anthony Bale

A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages

Europeans of the Middle Ages were the first to use travel guides to orient their wanderings, as they moved through a world punctuated with miraculous wonders and beguiling encounters. In this vivid and al…

Thomas J Barfield

Shadow Empires

An original study of empire creation and its consequences, from ancient through early modern timesThe world's first great empires established by the ancient Persians, Chinese, and Romans are well known, b…

Monika Barget,

Uprisings in Eighteenth-Century Britain

This study examines how the British Empire of the 18th century contained revolution by integrating opposition agents as new spaces of power opened up. Monika Barget convincingly argues that this process o…

Hannah Barker, Carys Brown, Kate Gibson, Jeremy Gregory

Faith in the Town

Faith in the Town explores the ways in which religious faith affected the lives of men, women, and children in the increasingly urban and industrialised context of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century…

Brian Johnson Barker,

The Complete Guide to Flags of the World, 4th Edition

The Complete Guide to Flags of the World, 4th Edition includes the history of flags, the color flags in over 220 countries and territories, flags of international organizations, large-scale and detailed l…

Robert Barnes

The South Africa Disputes Before Apartheid

In examining the early United Nations disputes over South African racial and expansionist policies between 1946 and 1952, this book explores how South Africa had become out of step with the post-war inter…

Christopher D Barningham

Forged by Dirt & Whiskey

When Kevin, a young Navy Seabee, deploys to Afghanistan in 2010, he believes he's ready for the challenge. But nothing can prepare him for the quiet weight of war-not the kind fought with bullets and bomb…

Kristi Barnwell

The Formation of the Uae

"In January 1968, Harold Wilson, the British Prime Minister, announced that the British government would withdraw from the Persian Gulf by the end of 1971. For rulers of the Arab emirates of the Pers…

Eleanor Barraclough

Embers of the Hands

Eleanor Barraclough

Embers of the Hands

In imagining a Viking, a certain image springs to mind: a barbaric warrior, leaping ashore from a longboat, and ready to terrorize the hapless local population of a northern European town. Yet while such …

John Barratt

'A Rabble of Gentility': The Royalist Northern Horse, 1644-45

The story of the Royalist Northern Horse and its campaigns in 1644-45.

Judith M Barringer

Olympia

A comprehensive and richly illustrated history of one of the most important athletic, religious, and political sites in the ancient Greek and Roman worldThe memory of ancient Olympia lives on in the form …

Paul R Bartrop

The Holocaust in 100 Histories

This chronologically-arranged collection of articles demonstrates the complex and multifaceted nature of the Holocaust. From January 1933 and the ascent to office of Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany, …

Gary J Bass

Judgment at Tokyo

In the weeks after Japan finally surrendered to the Allies to end World War II, the victorious powers turned to the question of how to move on from years of carnage and destruction. For the Allied powers,…