Giving birth in eighteenth-century england

This fascinating new book radically rewrites all that we know about eighteenth-century childbirth by placing women’s voices at the centre of the story. Utilising an extensive and under-researched body of materials, such as letters, diaries and recipe books, the volume explores the rituals of chil...

The afterlife of herodotus and thucydides

This book seeks to explore the reception of the writings of Herodotus of Halicarnassus and Thucydides the Athenian from the Byzantine era until today, following the ups and downs of their scholarly reputations

The fevered novel from balzac to bernanos: frenetic catholicism in crisis, delirium and revolution

This book examines a corpus of frenetic novels – by Balzac, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Zola, Huysmans, Bloy and Bernanos – that foreground the motif of fever within a recurring masterplot: a pious young woman, just discovering her sexuality, finds herself torn between two father-figures, a doctor (typic...

What future for human rights in a non-western world?

Administering the empire, 1801-1968

A user-friendly archival guide, Administering the Empire explains the organisation and potential information of the records of the British Colonial Office, and those of other departments responsible for colonial administration, currently held at the National Archives. The book also outlines the e...

Mexican soundings

Contains essays that convey the enduring nature of the questions raised by the work of David Brading. These essays reflect a range of his interests: from Mexican Baroque and post-Tridentine Catholicism to studies of the dynamics of state-building in nineteenth century Mexico.

We mark your memory: writings from the descendants of indenture

Indenture was the process whereby individuals entered, or were coerced, into an agreement to work in a colony in return for a fixed period of labour, but this was often open to abuses of power. Hidden within this little-known system of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Indian migration unde...

Providing for the poor

The Old Poor Law dispensed benefits to paupers in a uniquely comprehensive, pre-modern system of relief. Providing for the Poor re-examines the micro-politics of poverty in the long eighteenth century. It bridges the gaps in our understanding of the experiences of people across the social spectru...

Exploring ancient sculpture – essays in honour of geoffrey waywell (bics supplement 104)

Azariah de'rossi's observations on the syriac new testament

Women and the law

Originally published in 1984, Women And The Law is a pioneering study of the way in which the law has treated women – at work, in the family, in matters of sexuality and fertility, and in public life. It went on to inspire a legion of women lawyers and feminist legal rulings, from the Family Law ...

Exclusion and engagement

This collection offers a reappraisal of social policy in response to the scale of the challenges confronting Latin America. Divided into four sections it explores the functions of social policy and the prospects of its performing a new and more dynamic role.

The roman sketchbook of girolamo da carpi

Urban microcosms 1789-1940

Urban microcosms are small-scale communal spaces that are integral to, or integrated into, city life. Some, such as railway stations or department stores, are typically located in city centres. Others, such as parks, are less quintessentially metropolitan, whilst harbours or beaches are often loc...

Democratising history

Democratising History interrogates the ways in which democracy has transformed modern Britain and how we teach its history. Nine research-led chapters offer new ways to think about the history of democracy in Britain since the early nineteenth century. These are complemented by six interludes tha...

The victoria history of gloucestershire: yate

Right on?

Assesses George W Bush's presidency in terms of its historical context, first-term record, and second-term prospects. This book considers his administration from the perspective of its engagement in an ideologically driven project to consolidate conservative ascendancy over US politics and public...

Guilds and association in europe, 900-1900

Children’s experiences of welfare in modern britain

This important book brings the history of childhood and welfare in Britain through the eyes of children to light. Focusing on the period 1830 to 1980, it demonstrates how the young were integral to the making, interpretation, delivery and impact of welfare services. The chapters consider a wide r...

Sicilia nutrix plebis romanae: rhetoric, law & taxation in cicero's verrines (bics supplement 97)

Dilemmas of political change in mexico

'Dilemmas of Political Change in Mexico' provides an assessment of Mexico's political dynamics at the turn of the 21st century.

International handbook on clinical tax education

This practical handbook explores the benefits of a clinical tax education and equips readers in the profession with the tools needed to start a clinical tax project. It investigates the ways in which tax clinics can both educate and remedy tax positions for local communities in supporting those w...

Christian felix weiße the translator

Christian Felix Weiße (1726-1804) is best known as a dramatist and influential children’s writer of the Enlightenment period. This is the first book to explore his singularly extensive output as a literary translator, investigating the conditions which allowed Weiße to become the most prolific Ge...

Shaping knowledge: the transmission of the 'liber floridus'

The encyclopedic compilation Liber Floridus, created by Lambert of Saint-Omer in the early twelfth century, survives not only in the form of his famous autograph, but also in several later manuscripts. These manuscripts transformed the knowledge assembled by him as their makers not only selected ...

Codices boethiani: portugal and spain v. 4

Refugee reception in southern africa

This book offers an original and unique perspective on refugee hosting in Southern Africa, through a comparative analysis of the politics surrounding the welcome afforded to refugees in Zambia and South Africa. While state-based reception is frequently framed as one-off moments, such as registrat...

The glasgow sugar aristocracy

This important book is the first to outline Scotland’s colonial past and Glasgow’s direct links with the slave trade through sugar plantations. It traces how significant fortunes and investments made through chattel slavery percolated into the Scottish economy and wider society, and examines, via...

Revisiting the falklands-malvinas question

The conflict over possession of the Falklands-Malvinas Islands was waged in an area remote both geographically and geo-politically in an era of cold war and also of tensions within and between sovereign states of the supposed western bloc. It has been broadly perceived as an absurd confrontation,...

Names on terra sigillata. volume 8 (s to symphorus) (bics supplement 102.8)

The victoria history of hampshire: mapledurwell

Mapledurwell is the first parish history to be published by the New Victoria History of Hampshire group. Since publication of the first Victoria County History account of the parish in 1911, ideas about what constitutes a good parish history have been transformed. This new history includes much ...

Brazil since 1985

Looking into Brazil's experience of democracy is an arduous task, given the complexities of a country of continental size and great regional contrasts, where areas of prosperity mingle with underdevelopment and poverty. This book looks at some key issues involved in building up a democracy?

The "liber aristotilis" of hugo of santalla

Brazil: essays on history and politics

This volume is published to mark the 80th birthday of Leslie Bethell, a major figure in Brazilian studies. It consists of seven of his essays on important themes in modern Brazilian history and politics. The essays are new, but they draw on book chapters and journal articles published (mainly in ...

Broken government?

Barack Obama's election as president in 2008 generated widespread hope that the United States was entering a new era whereby government, in a reversal of Ronald Reagan's famous dictum, would be the solution to the nation's manifold problems amid the worst economic downturn since the Great Depress...

Names on terra sigillata. volume 9 (t to eximus) (bics supplement 102.9)

Leasing and lending: the cash economy in fourth-century bc athens (bics supplement 74)

The non-independent territories of the caribbean and pacific: continuity or change?

By the end of the 20th century the once great modern European empires had gone – well, almost! Today, scattered around the world, there are small territories, remnants of empire that for one reason and another have eschewed independence and retain links of various kinds with the former imperial p...

Documenting the roman army: essays in honour of margaret roxan (bics supplement 81)

This volume places on record the proceedings of the colloquium held in honour of Dr. Margaret Roxan at the Institute of Classical Studies in May 2002. The theme of the colloquium was the written record of the Roman army, though the scope of the contributions embraced both historical and archaeolo...

The signature in law

Drawing on cases from common law jurisdictions across the world, this book demonstrates that judges expanded the meaning of a signature as technologies developed and were used in unanticipated ways. It explores the judicial development of the concept of the signature from the thirteenth century t...

Achieving access to justice in a business and human rights context

This book explores the interplay between access to justice and business and human rights in European civil-law countries. Focusing on Multinational enterprises (MNEs), which are rarely held accountable for their involvement in human rights abuses and environmental damage, it evaluates the extent ...

The victoria history of essex: southend

This new history of Southend describes its growth as a town and resort in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Its thematic chapters chart Southend’s expansion and developments in its infrastructure and economy, determined both by the impact of seasonal visitors and the year-round movement of ...

Logos: rational argument in classical rhetoric (bics supplement 96)

Innovations in teaching history

An essential teaching companion offering practical strategies for enhancing learning for all teachers of history in higher education, this collection of seven case studies reflects on how we teach the history of the long eighteenth century. It is grounded in real academic practice and focuses on ...

Democracy after pinochet

Explores how democracy has developed in Chile since the end of the military dictatorship in 1990. This book brings together an examination of international influences on the country's political development with empirically based analyses of Chilean political institutions and change.