Explores the competing psychologies that underlay the political and cultural struggle between the US and the USSR, in particular the fear and paranoia that all parties - from JFK to the Russ... read more
A global history of jurisprudence by an Oxford anthropologist. FP shows how European legal ideas came to dominate other ancient legal traditions, whether Mayan, Indian or Chinese, with the r... read more
This book, which grew out of Lister's online research project Whores of Yore, presents a global history of the oldest profession from the viewpoint of the sex workers themselves. From Mesopo... read more
Explores the tension between opposing views of the 1960s - as a period of joyful, necessary liberation and experiment or a time when authority was undermined and gave way to a pernicious, pe... read more
A history of global Britain told through its development as a mercantile power. ES shows how these commercial men, originally dismissed in the C16th as 'mere merchants', rose to become argua... read more
Marks a significant reorientation in our understanding of the C16th dissolution of the monasteries in England by showing that the 'dissolution' was, in fact, often a very gradual process of ... read more
AS guides us through a period of vast public investment in housing, schools and hospitals while also giving an exemplary portrait of London's teeming political and social scene and those - l... read more
The first of a two-volume history of this cosmopolitan and romantic landscape, stretching from the mountains of Georgia to the shores of the Caspian sea. Baumer, an historian and explorer (a... read more
A rich and sweeping history of the colourful Ottomans, from their rise to their downfall after WW1. It shows how they shifted from a policy of integration to one of exclusivity. Multiethnic,... read more
Over 100,000 Jews were killed in the Ukraine during the pogroms of 1918-1921. JV draws on trial records and witness testimony to argue that this chilling violence was a harbinger of the Holo... read more