Pearson Longman publish history books across a wide range of subjects, including medieval, early modern and modern history, and history theory. We offer students a stimulating and engaging learning experience, publishing a number of textbooks in key areas that use tools such as chronologies, illustrations and guides to further reading to make key information accessible while challenging students to pursue the subject further. Browse our website to see what we can offer you and your students in each subject area.
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John Tosh's classic reader brings together some of the key writings of major historians of the last half century. This new edition has been carefully revised to take account of the latest trends within historiography and now includes readings on History from Below, Postcolonialism and Memory. It thus gives students access both to the academic mainstream and to recent more radical voices within the discipline.
Jonathan Sperber's new book is an innovative survey of European history from 1850 to the eve of the First World War in 1914. From the Baltic to the Mediterranean, the Atlantic to the Urals, this book sets out key social, economic, and political developments in the period and identifies development and tendencies common in varying degrees to the whole of Europe, and those specific to certain countries and regions. Ideal for students - Sperber's argument is clear and concise, and supported throughout by illustrative material.
The sixteenth century was an age of Reformation. There was religious reformation, as Protestantism came to England, Scotland and even Ireland, bringing liberation, chaos and bloodshed in its wake. And there was political reformation, as the Tudor and Stewart monarchs made their authority felt within and beyond their kingdoms more than any of their predecessors. Together, these two reformations produced not only a new religion, but a new politics - absolutist yet pluralist, populist yet law-bound - and a new society - controlled, fractured, yet more widely engaged and empowered than ever before.
The Norman Conquest was more than a purely English phenomenon as Wales, Scotland and Normandy were all deeply affected. This book's broad sweep successfully encompasses these wider British and French perspectives to offer a fresh, clear and concise introduction to the events which propelled the two nations into the Middle Ages and dramatically altered the course of history.
The Germanic Invasions of the fifth century brought about the collapse of the Roman Empire. 'The Barbarian Invasions' will change the way we think about those Dark Ages, looking at the Barbarians themselves rather than just their impact on the Roman empire.
The story of Fidel Castro has few parallels in contemporary history. None of the outstanding Third World leaders of the twentieth-century played such a prominent and restless part on the international stage and none survived as head of state for as long. Over almost 50 years, he was one of the most controversial political figures in the world, and his legacy has yet to be fully evaluated. Some of his most cherished plans were realized and are a model for many Third World countries. Yet despite enormous sacrifices by Cubans, his grand vision remains unfulfilled and its continued pursuit is full of risks.
Zionism is an international political movement that was originally dedicated to the resettlement of Jewish people in the Promised Land, and is now synonymous with support for the modern state of Israel. This addition to the Short Histories of Big Ideas series looks at the controversial and topical notion of Zionism from a balanced viewpoint, concentrating on where it came from, how it accomplished its goals, and why it affected so many people.
