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From 1600 BC urban civilisation in Greece began to thrive and the power of a number of warlord states began to be felt around the Aegean.

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This work is an engaging exploration of the process of historical research, following historians as they search for solutions to the greatest mysteries of all time.

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This is an investigation into the true origins of the celebrated Bronze Age artifact, the Snake Godess.

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This book examines how in the nineteenth century Shetland became a female place. It offers fascinating insights into the formation and workings of a matriarchal society. The book includes a glossary and will appeal to those interested in local dialects, as well as students and academics of Gender Studies and Scottish History.

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List of tables and figures; List of Illustrations; Glossary; Note on Shetland dialect; Map; Preface and acknowledgements; 1. Pasts, peoples, selves; 2. Stories; 3. Place; 4. Work; 5. Culture; 6. Sexualities; 7. Power; 8. Reflections; Bibliography; Index

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In this book, Albert L. Weeks provides a lucid analysis of the Cold War as he dispels the myths that have made their way into contemporary historiography on the topic, while using the conflict as a lens through which to view contemporary crises, such as Russias recent intervention in Ukraine.

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Using contemporary diaries and letters, mainly translated from Japanese, we follow a group of Nagasaki residents, (including several Australian POWs) from the early morning of the day of the bombing of Hiroshima to midnight on the day of the second bombing in Nagasaki.

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Names are everywhere, identifying people, places, animals, plants, public houses and fields. The investigations in this work involve detective stories into the connections between names and related subjects - archaeology and the landscape; genealogy, genetics and family networks; dialects and social customs; and industrial and farming practices.

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Helps take the stress out of choosing the perfect name for your bundle of joy. It includes over 3000 boys' and girls' names, and their meanings, and provides lots of sound advice.

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Drawing on English, Chinese and Japanese sources, this study challenges the prevailing view that the Rape of Nanking was a deliberate, planned effort on the part of the Japanese military. It concludes that it was instead an unfortunate tragedy of conventional warfare.

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This revisionist history offers a fresh analysis of Napoleon and the French army as they defended their empire against the massive Coalition invasion of 1814.

French defeat in 1814 is too often shrugged off as the result of obvious and understandable factors.

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Tells the story of Napoleon and his crucial relationship with Russia, from the 1790s and Bonaparte's rise to power, through the period of Austerlitz, Tilsit and the Russian invasion, to the Emperor's fall and its aftermath.

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This new study of Napoleon emphasizes his ties to the French Revolution, his embodiment of its militancy, and his rescue of its legacies. Jordan's work illuminates all aspects of his fabulous career, his views of the Revolution and history, the artists who created and embellished his image, and much of his talk about himself and his achievements.

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Examines Napoleon as a strategist; as a coalition commander; Napoleon's campaigns and Napoleon on the battlefield. This book also looks at areas often ignored in the context of pre-industrial warfare - logistics and counter-insurgency.

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In the two decades between 1850 and 1870 Napoleon III and his Prefect of the Seine, Baron Haussmann, created the modern city of Paris out of the congested and ill-equipped capital of the 18th century. They gave Paris many of its present major streets, its great municipal parks, the Central Markets, the Opera House and other well-known buildings, as