Book of Donmon Teith

European imperialism was extraordinarily far-reaching: a key global historical process of the last 500 years. It locked disparate human societies together over

This volume uncovers the interaction between people and the elements in very different British colonies throughout the world. Providing a rich overview of socio

A collection of essays addressing the collaboration of human and natural forces in the creation of cities, the countryside, and empires.

In one of the first ever environmental histories of the Ottoman Empire, Alan Mikhail examines relations between the empire and its most lucrative province of Eg

Throughout the nineteenth century, cholera was a global scourge against human populations. Practitioners had little success in mitigating the symptoms of the di