Italian art embodies a model of ideal beauty that is deeply rooted in western historical consciousness. In the 1930s, the Italian fascist regime appropriated this model to establish cultural-political relations with other governments. As ambassadors of fascist cultural diplomacy, iconic masterp..

Price: $79.99

Taming Philippine Headhunters (1934) reveals the special system of government worked out by the American colonial authorities and Filipino leaders to approach the peoples of the mountain region, the issues – political, economic, social, religious and educational – and their assimilation ..

Price: $39.99

The South Seas in the Modern World (1942) surveys the economic, social, educational and strategic problems facing the islands of the Pacific dependencies on the eve of the Second World War. The islanders had been disrupted by the arrival of white traders and missionaries causing economic..

Price: $44.99

First published in 1966, in Human Robots in Myth and Science, the author traces the idea of the robot from antiquity until the present day (1960s) and sketches the lines of its likely development in the future.

Price: $39.99

First published in 1931, History of Palestine is the dramatic picture of the Holy Land to which Jews returned after many centuries. The author has written the history of Palestine of 4000 years with the mind of the scholar and the heart of the religious mystic.

Price: $44.99

Games and Gamesters of the Restoration (1930) reprints two different books The Compleat Gamester (1674) and Lives of the Gamesters (1714) that together give a comprehensive and representative view of gamesters and gambling in the latter half of the seventeenth century – a t..

Price: $44.99

First published in 1985, The European Crisis of the 1590s (now with a new preface by Peter Clark on the current literature on crisis and catastrophe) investigates in depth for the first time the origin and scale of the critical problems of the 1590s and their impact on European society.<..

Price: $44.99

During the years 1175–1425, English society developed in many ways. First published in 1979, England 1175–1425 offers an ideal introduction to the period, presenting as it does a view of a whole society that is derived from a study of economic, social, political, and administrative histo..

Price: $39.99

First published in 1969, Conflict and Stability in Fifteenth-Century England is a study of a much neglected and misinterpreted century of English history—the century of the Wars of the Roses which, the author shows, had only a comparatively small effect on English life.

Price: $39.99

In his book The Catholic Church and the French Nation 1589–1989 (originally published in 1990), Norman Ravitch interprets the interaction of the Roman Catholic Church with the national life of France over a period of 400 years. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of..

Price: $39.99