Caamano in london

In January 1966, Colonel Francisco Caamano Deno, president of the Dominican Republic during the "Constitutionalist" uprising of 1965 and the subsequent US invasion, was exiled to London. This book presents documents from official archives on Caamano's conversations with British and American diplo...

Gender and historiography: studies in the earlier middle ages in honour of pauline stafford

The chapters in this volume celebrate the work of Pauline Stafford, highlighting the ways in which it has advanced research in the fields of both Anglo-Saxon history and the history of medieval women and gender. Ranging across the period, and over much of the old Carolingian world as well as Angl...

A horizon of (im)possibilities

Since the 2018 presidential election result in Brazil, much debate has ensued about the country’s so-called ‘conservative turn’. A Horizon of (Im)possibilities brings together a myriad of different perspectives to help us better understand the political events that have shaken the country in rece...

Magna carta: history, context and influence

This book examines the history and influence of Magna Carta in British and American history. It considers the origins of the document in the context of the thirteenth century, the relevance of its principles to the seventeenth century disputes that led to the Civil War, the uses made of Magna Car...

A corpus of greek graffiti from dalmatia

This volume is a corpus of seven hundred Greek graffiti on ceramic artefacts from sixteen sites in Dalmatia, ranging in date from the late sixth to the first century BC. Most notably, the catalogue contains a substantial number of pieces from recent excavations at the two sanctuaries of Diomedes,...

Images of the pagan gods

Voice, silence and gender in south africa's anti-apartheid struggle

Tracing the political life of Masabatha Loate, a young black woman activist who testified at the trial of the ‘Soweto Eleven’ in 1978, this book examines the history of South Africa’s liberation struggle through the lens of voice, speech and silence, and what this reveals about the gendered dynam...

Reconciling rwanda

ContentsRwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) government departmentsGlossary of Kinyarwanda wordsChronology of key eventsIntroduction Contribution and engagement Conflict in context Gacaca: justice and reconciliation at the community genocide courts Nation-building and a return to unity Teaching the nati...

Coal country

This is the first book-length account of deindustrialization in the Scottish coalfields. The flooding and subsequent closure of Scotland’s last deep coal mine in 2002 brought a centuries long saga to an end. Colliery closures and job losses were not just experienced in economic terms: they had pr...

Understanding alba: progress, problems, and prospects of alternative regionalism in latin america and the caribbean

This collection analyses the impact and influence of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), whose vision of alternative regionalism has spearheaded Latin America and the Caribbean’s collective challenge to neoliberal globalisation in the twenty-first century. Moving beyond...

Pseudo-galenica

The works of Galen of Pergamum (c. 129-216 CE) were fundamental in the shaping of medicine, philosophy and neighbouring areas of knowledge. Yet, as early as Galen's own lifetime, spurious treatises crept into the body of his authentic works. This volume is the result of a conference held in 2015 ...

The politics of women's suffrage

Women’s suffrage was the most significant challenge to the constitution since 1832, seeking not only to settle demands for inclusion and justice but to expand and redefine definitions of citizenship. This book advances ongoing debates within suffrage history whilst also bringing new materials and...

Le septième siècle: changements et continuités/the seventh century: change and continuity

Star chamber matters

Star Chamber was an extraordinary court which came into its own over the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. This volume explores the history of an age through both the practices of its courts and the disputes of the people who came before them. With Star Chamber, we view a court that came...

Studies on wealth in the ancient world (bics supplement 133)

Menander 'misoumenos' or 'the hated man'

Judging from the numerous recovered papyrus fragments, Menander’s Misoumenos, or ‘The Hated Man’ was one of his most popular plays. This edition is the fullest to date of any English language edition of the play and aims to restore as much of the original action as possible through painstaking re...

Writing and the west german protest movements: the textual revolution

The 1960s protest movements marked an astonishing moment for West Germany. They developed a political critique, but are above all distinctive for their overwhelming emphasis on culture and the symbolic. In particular, reading and writing had a uniquely prestigious status for West German protester...

Menander 'epitrepontes' (bics supplement 106)

Medieval merchants and money

The essays in this volume were written in celebration of the scholarship of the medieval historian Professor James L. Bolton. They address a variety of questions in medieval economic and social history, and some look more widely at patterns of immigration to London, trade and royal policy, and th...

Queer between the covers

Queer Between the Covers presents a history of radical queer publishing and literature from 1880 to the modern day. The book demonstrates how the queer community could be brought together through shared literature and how LGBTQ people throughout modernity have used literature as an important foru...

Ernst kitzinger and the making of medieval art history

This volume brings together the papers given at the colloquium held at the Warburg Institute to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ernst Kitzinger. His work has been, and still is, fundamentally influential on the present-day discipline of art history in a wide range of topics. The first ...

Greek into latin from antiquity until the nineteenth century

Becoming a historian

Writing history is an art and a craft, which can sometimes make it feel intimidating. Becoming a Historian debunks the myths and demystifies the world of research for both research students and independent scholars. It outlines techniques to help design large-scale research projects, demonstrates...

The margins of late medieval london, 1430-1540

This book explores the complexity of medieval London’s urban fringe communities. Going beyond London’s institutional structures, it casts new light on urban life at the level of the neighbourhood and considers the differences in economy, society and sociability which existed in different areas of...

The afterlife of inscriptions: reusing, rediscovering, reinventing, revitalizing ancient inscriptions (bics supplement 75)

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...

A world you do not know

A World You Do Not Know explores the wilful ignorance demonstrated by NorthAmerica’s settlers in establishing their societies on lands already occupied by indigenous nations.

The victoria history of herefordshire: cradley

Drawing extensively on local archival sources, this volume charts the social, economic, religious and political history of Cradley in Herefordshire. It explores the fragmented model of land ownership and the development of a powerful body of wealthy yeomanry that shaped the distinctive character ...

Blackburn’s ‘worthy citizen’: the philanthropic legacy of r.e. hart

The exceptionally fine colour images in this catalogue are selections from the R.E. Hart Collection held by the Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery. Seven medieval manuscripts and three incunables from the Collection were exhibited at Senate House Library in November of 2013. This project, Blackburn...

Technology's pulse: essays on rhythm in german modernism

Modernity, as has often been observed, was fundamentally concerned with questions of temporality. The period around 1900, in particular, witnessed numerous efforts to define, discipline or 'liberate' temporal experience. Within this broader framework of thinking about temporality, 'rhythm' came t...

Roman military diplomas vi

This sixth volume in the Roman Military Diplomas series catalogues, transcribes and reconstructs the 179 diplomas published between 2004 and 2007 alongside contextual information helping to illuminate everything from the commanders of units to the social lives of soldiers. It is an essential refe...

Shaping migration between europe and latin america: new perspectives and challenges

Focusing on Latin America and Europe, two world regions historically linked by human mobility and cultural exchange, this insightful examination of their changing international migration patterns details their responses to significant demographic changes and new migration trends. The volume exami...

Cultural worlds of the jesuits in colonial latin america

The volume demonstrates the diversity of Jesuit contributions to Latin American culture. They pioneered an interest in indigenous languages and cultures, compiling dictionaries and writing some of the earliest ethnographies of the region. They also explored the region’s natural history and made s...

A liberal tide?

Over the past decade, a paradigm shift in migration and asylum law and policymaking appears to have taken place in Latin America. Does this apparent ""liberal tide"" of new laws and policies suggest a new approach to the hot topics of migration and refugees in Latin America distinct from the regr...

Names on terra sigillata. volume 5. l to masclus ii (bics supplement 102.5)

Writing and muslim identity: representations of islam in german and english transcultural literature, 1990-2006

Writing and Muslim Identity is a comparative study of Islam in contemporary German- and English-language literature. At a time when the non-Islamic world seems to be defining itself increasingly in contrast to the Islamic world, this literary exploration of Islam-related issues sheds new and valu...

Freedom seekers

Freedom Seekers reveals the hidden stories of enslaved and bound people who attempted to escape from captivity in 17th-century London. It was the joint winner of the prestigious Frederick Douglass Book Prize from Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Ab...

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 ...

Petrarch’s famous men in the early renaissance: the illuminated copies of felice feliciano’s edition

Greek & roman philosophy 100 bc-200 ad. volumes 1-2 (bics supplement 94.1-2)

Aristotle and after (bics supplement 68)

Contesting clio's craft

Offers thoughts on approaches to the study of the Canadian past. This book contains essays that emphasises on international, transnational, and comparative approaches to the past. It covers such topics as the Atlantic World, oral history, postcolonialism, public history, historical periodization,...

Precarious professionals

Precarious Professionals uncovers the inequalities and insecurities which lay at the heart of professional life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain. Through twelve fascinating studies of women and men on the margins, this volume re-evaluates the relationship between professional identity...

Opposing patriarchy: women and the law in action in pre-unification italy (1815-1865)

Shifts in state boundaries and socio-economic structures deeply affected the political landscape in nineteenth-century Italy, coinciding with changes to the legal system. The patriarchal, hierarchical and strict class stratification of society saw women redefining their sense of self and rethinki...

The victoria history of middlesex: st clement danes, 1660-1900

St Clement Danes was home to a mix of rich and poor residents, including lawyers, artisans, servants and prostitutes. From being the site of aristocratic riverside houses in the 17th century, it became a commercial and cultural hub in in the 18th. After decaying into slums by the 1800s, it was su...

Masculinity and danger on the eighteenth-century grand tour

The Grand Tour was a journey to continental Europe undertaken by British nobility and wealthy landed gentry during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. As a rite of passage, the Tour also played an important role in the formation of contemporary notions of elite masculinity. Examining letter...

Philoponus and the rejection of aristotelian science (2nd edition) (bics supplement 103)