156 products in History

This text explains how telecommunications regulation works on the inside. It provides an insight into the dynamic process of regulation in the United Kingdom - a pioneer in the development of regulatory

This invaluable text traces Russia's complex historical dveleopment in the last century, its recent political troubles and economic misfortunes and its place in the contemporary international system.

Focusing not only on the art of agriculture proper - the tools and the techniques, the plants cultivated and the animals reared - this book also shows how agriculture fitted into the

The question of ethnicity is highly controversial in contemporary archaeology. The author responds to the need for a reassessment of the ways in which social groups are identified in the archeological record.

Provides a valuable insight into the condition of Britain in the early part of the nineteenth century. It includes original documents from a range of disciplines.

Understanding the history of Athens in the second half of the fifth century BC is largely dependent on the legacy of the historian Thucydides. Previous scholarship has tended to view Thucydides' account

Provides an essential and original introduction to the challenges facing Germany in its recent past and the problems still confronting it today.

This title presents an inclusive survey of Irish thought and the history of Irish ideas against the backdrop of current political and social change in Ireland. It should be of great value

The first English translation of Galen's classic texts on health and food. Supported by a lucid introduction, notes and an extensive bibliography this elegant translation will be a must for all classicists,

This landmark book shows how much Victorian and Edwardian Roman archaeologists were influenced by their own experience of empire in their interpretation of archaeological evidence.

The volume covers the "second-tier" industrializer - China, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, India and Bangladesh. Interdisciplinary in nature,it will be of great interest to students and scholars of Asian and development

Gudis investigates the cultural implications of the billboards and other outdoor advertising on the built and natural environments, and people's experience of these basic facts of daily life. Pivoting on the themes

A detailed historical account of the emergence of economic history as an academic discipline in England told through a combination of biography, institutional change and the history of scientific thought and methodology.

This work argues that it is imperative to look beyond the empirical observations and conventional materialist reading of Chinese military development to understand its dynamics and directions in doctrinal terms.

Taking a interdisciplinary approach, this book deals with the questions of employee representation, trade union recognition and membership of unions in Britain.

An in-depth analysis of the interactions between tourists, the local community and place, showing how community ownership and participation in tourism affect the politics of representation and identity and the nature of

Presents major writings on the revolution and its context, bringing together key texts to illustrate interpretive approaches and covering the central topics and themes. This volume forms a coherent representation of both

In contrast to recent revisionist interpretations, this work stresses the crucial importance of the war experience itself, rather than political ideology, in the understanding of the volunteers's role and experiences within the

The Ming dynasty era (1368-1644) saw the development of a relationship between the state and society that continues in China today. Brook argues that this was in response to changes in commercial