Overview :All serious historical inquiry constantly encounters these major questions: what are the forces of historical change? and are there any gene... Read More
Overview :Roy Porter's historical overview of madness reveals the radically different perceptions of madness and approaches to its treatment, from ant... Read More
Overview :The eighteenth-century Enlightenment was one of the most exciting and significant currents of European culture. Battling against tyranny, ig... Read More
Overview :This dazzling and yet intimate book is the first modern one-volume history of London from Roman times to the present. An extraordinary city,... Read More
Overview :This collection of essays explores the complex and contested histories of drugs and narcotics in societies from ancient Greece to the presen... Read More
Overview :This study surveys the growth of European intervention outside Europe between 1860 and 1914. It treats its subject, 'imperialism', as a proc... Read More
Overview :Pleasure, wrote Oscar Wilde, is the only thing worth having a theory about. In Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century, Roy Porter and Marie Mulv... Read More
Overview :Newly published in paperback, Myths of the English is a fascinating exploration of Englishness: the images, characters, myths and peculiarit... Read More
Overview :The Cambridge History of Medicine, first published in 2006, surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to the present. Co... Read More