Mapping the state

Mapping the State leads to a fundamental rethinking of the 1832 Reform Act by demonstrating how boundary reform underpinned this turning point in the development of the British political nation. Using significant new archival discovery, digital methods and ‘big data’, it provides a major reassess...

Octavia hill, social activism and the remaking of british society

Octavia Hill was a housing reformer, open space campaigner, co-founder of the National Trust, founder of the Army Cadet Force, and the first woman to be invited to sit on a royal commission. Yet despite her early pre-eminence, and the remarkable success of the institutions which she helped to fou...

Ravenna

In the long-debated transition from late antiquity to the early middle ages, the city of Ravenna presents a story rich and strange. From the fourth century onwards it suffered decline in economic terms. Yet its geographical position, its status as an imperial capital, and above all its role as a ...

European socialists across borders

From post-war debates on institutionalised cooperation in Western Europe to the ambitions of the European Union in the post-Cold War era, this volume investigates the impact of transnational socialist networks on European construction and integration, as well as the role of European socialism in ...

Designed for play: children’s playgrounds and the politics of urban space, 1840–2010

An original and accessible history of the modern playground in Britain and beyond. Charting its journey from marginal obscurity to popular ubiquity, this title demonstrates how a diverse set of actors across the philanthropic, voluntary, state and commercial sectors all sought to reimagine and re...

Archaeological discoveries at the temple of ramesses ii in abydos: vol. 1

This book is the first of a three-volume study of the structures and objects discovered during nine seasons of excavations (2017–2025) within the Ramesses II temple precinct conducted under the direction of Sameh Iskander.

The village: russian impressions

Chicago native, political activist, and journalist Ernest Poole (1880-1950) provides a distinctive view of the  Bolshevik Revolution in his work, The Village: Russian Impressions. This work is unusual in the library of American accounts of Revolutionary Russia because it addresses the world of th...

Russia in upheaval

Edward Alsworth Ross, one of the founders of the academic field of sociology, spent July–December 1917 traveling across the Russian Empire and talking to the people there. As he states in his brief introduction, “I have taken it as my business to describe impartially the major social changes goin...

Robert franklin williams speaks: a documentary history

Williams was a compassionate man. He was an intelligent American citizen and Korean war veteran, who claimed his right of American citizenship. Acutely aware of the broken promises of the US government, he remained fully invested in the rights, privileges, and responsibilities the Constitution gu...

Russia from the american embassy

David R. Francis held the post of the United States ambassador to Russia from April 1916 to November 1918, and represented his country before four Russian governments: the Imperial, Provisional, Soviet, and Northern. He was an eyewitness of the greatest events in the history of Russia: World War ...

Donald thompson in russia

Donald Thompson in Russia is a compilation of letters to his wife Dorothy in Topeka, Kansas, illustrated with photos. First published in 1918, it outlines Thompson’s conspiracy thesis that :German intrigue, working among the unthinking masses, has brought Russia to her present woeful condition.”

Six red months in russia

This new edition of Bryant's book is annotated and set in its appropriate historical context to create a more accessible text for modern readers on the anniversary of this truly world-changing event. 

Ten days that shook the world

Another view of Russia on the eve of revolution The author is an interesting person his own right as an American who became enamored with fascism

Through the russian revolution

Through the Russian Revolution by Albert Rhys-Williams, a Congregationalist pastor turned labor organiser and journalist, offers readers a first-hand account of the exciting and confusing events of the Russian revolution from June 1917 to August 1918. Williams, a lifelong defender of the Soviet s...

An intellectual history of migration law and policy c.1535-2020

A history of immigration law as a legal discipline: how it has been constrained and unconstrained by developments in migration policy, international law, constitutional law and legal theory.

Childhood in ancient egypt

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Motherhood and early childhood in ancient egypt

"A masterpiece of seminal, meticulous, and groundbreaking scholarship."—Midwest Book ReviewA richly nuanced analysis of how ancient Egyptian society regarded and dealt with pregnancy, mothers, birth, and childrenIn ancient Egypt, a woman’s primary role was that of mother, and as such she ensured ...

Amarna (arabic edition)

An illustrated cultural guide to the archaeological site of Amarna, the best-preserved pharaonic city in Egypt, now in ArabicAround three thousand years ago, the pharaoh Akhenaten turned his back on Amun, and most of the great gods of Egypt. Abandoning Thebes, he quickly built a grand new city in...

Women in ancient egypt

Cutting-edge research by twenty-four international scholars on female power, agency, health, and literacy in ancient EgyptThere has been considerable scholarship in the last fifty years on the role of ancient Egyptian women in society. With their ability to work outside the home, inherit and disp...

Critical race theory

Law's complex relationship with racism has increasingly become a matter of academic interest. Sociolegal thought tackling this relationship, however, remains scarce. A promising avenue for answers lies in insights generated by critical race theory as reconstructed in this award-winning work.

Settlement, subsistence, and social complexity

Brings together the work of some of the most prominent archaeologists to document the impact of Jeffrey R. Parsons on contemporary archaeological method and theory. Parsons is a central figure in the development of settlement pattern archaeology, in which the goal is the study of whole social sys...

Invented history, fabricated power

This book examines more than twenty cultures, both ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, emphasizing how kings, empires, religions and societies have enhanced their authority and power through fictional histories, claims of divine origins, fabricated genealogies, and miraculous events presente...

An age of progress?

An enthralling analysis of the defining social and political events of the twentieth century.

Reading inscriptions and writing ancient history: historical scholarship in the late renaissance (bics supplement 86)

Strongman eugen sandow’s world tour of 1904-1905

Strongman Eugen Sandow (1867–1925) was renowned as the world’s “perfect man” at the turn of the 20thcentury. This book examines his fascinating 2-year “world tour” of South Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and China in 1904–1905, at the peak of European imperialism and rising Asian confidence and n...

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...

Women in iberian filmic culture

Focusing on cinema in Portugal and Spain, this collection brings together research about women and their status in relation to Iberian filmic culture. Through a revision of feminist theory and new accounts of film history it contributes to expanding debate and encourages comparison between Iberia...

Trailblazing women of australian public broadcasting, 1945–1975

Trailblazing women of Australian Public Broadcasting, 1945-1975 presents a compelling feminist perspective of Australian radio and television history. It resuscitates the careers of a group of female producers who strategically defied the odds and used broadcasting as a site for their activism in...

Clothing goes to war

Across the globe, raw materials and workers were shifted to war work and manufacturing for civilians almost ended. Governments mandated rationing programmes in many countries to regulate the limited supply. 75 years later the slow fashion movement is motivating new reductions in clothing consumpt...

Lloyd george at war, 1916-1918

‘Lloyd George at War, 1916–1918’ refutes the traditional view that Lloyd George was the person most responsible for winning the Great War.

Antiquity and loyalist dissent in revolutionary america, 1765–1776

The book explores how the loyalist rebuttal to the American patriot movement derived much of its inspiration and rationale from the ancient literature of the Greco-Roman world—the same repository of classical ideas and principles the patriots coopted to persuade their fellow countrymen to disavow...

The puritan ideology of mobility

The Puritan Ideology of Mobility: Corporatism, the Politics of Place, and the Founding of New England Towns before 1650 presents the ideology of mobility which Puritan leaders developed to justify migration and town founding. New England towns were born as living “bodies politic” with a metaphysi...

From broadway to the bronx

A fascinating and vibrant depiction of New York City in song across a variety of different genres, focusing on Broadway, musical theatre, hip hop, punk, folk, and jazz genres, as well as the work of New York born artists and those who are intimately connected with the city. 

Fan phenomena: disney

The first book to comprehensively engage with Disney fans and the company's relationship with them, spanning theme parks, film, television, stage productions and novels, as well as a variety of fannish interventions. It addresses timely issues such as race and queerness, the Covid- 19 pandemic an...

Popular radicalism and the unemployed in chicago during the great depression

In a time when mass joblessness and precarious employment are becoming issues of national concern, it is useful to reconsider the experiences of the unemployed in an earlier period of economic hardship, the Great Depression. Focusing on the bellwether city of Chicago, this book reevaluates their ...

The impact of coincidence in modern american, british, and asian history

In 21 case studies, this short book examines the distinctive coincidental history of America, Britain, and various Asian countries during the twentieth century.

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...

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 ...

Information and its role in hunter-gatherer bands

Explores the question of how information is acquired, stored, circulated, and utilized in small-scale hunter-gatherer societies. Brings together scholars from multiple disciplines, including archaeology, ethnography, linguistics, and evolutionary ecology to open discussion, and identify common gr...

London's underworld

A thrilling exposé and a considered anthropological review of London's seedy underbelly.

Yeki bud, yeki nabud

A collection of essays put together by colleagues, friends, and students of William M. Sumner to honor his contribution to Iranian archaeology and archaeological field methodology. This volume is published in association with The American Institute of Iranian Studies and The University of Pennsyl...

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...

Gender, emotions and power, 1750–2020

A timely intervention into contemporary debates on emotions, gender, race and power, this collection of essays interrogates how emotional expectations are established as gendered, racialised and class-based notions. It then explores the ways these expectations have historically been generated, st...

Witchcraft, magic and culture 1736–1951

The only serious study of witchcraft and magic from 1736 to 1951Brings together matters ranging from upper class spiritualism to rural witchcraft in an exciting and intellecually stimulating wayEssential reading for all social historians and all h. . . .

Max nettlau’s utopian vision

Max Nettlau’s Utopian Vision provides a historically grounded presentation of the entire literature of utopianism. Nettlau shows an encyclopaedic knowledge of the subject.

Fourteenth-century classicism: petrarch and bernat metge

The common writer in modern history

This edited collection focusses on the writing of ordinary, semi-literate people in history, emphasising the agency and voices of the subordinate classes and contesting conventional histories that treat them as passive or silent. It analyses ‘ordinary writings’ across a range of geographical area...

Waterscapes: reservoirs, environment and identity in modern england and wales

This book explores the impacts of reservoir construction and management in England and Wales from the late-nineteenth to early-twentieth century. Taking a comparative approach with case studies from Leeds’s Washburn Valley, Liverpool’s Vyrnwy Reservoir and Birmingham’s Elan Reservoir, it examines...

Memory, place and aboriginal-settler history

Taking the absence of Aboriginal people in South Australian settler descendants’ historical consciousness as a starting point, ‘Memory, Place and Settler‒Aboriginal History’ combines the methodologies and theories of historical enquiry, anthropology and memory studies to investigate the multitudi...

Life is war

A collection of oral histories that guides readers through through the decades (1944–92) in which the Communist Party controlled everything in Albania; what work one could do, what food was available, and even who one could marry.  Based on personal interviews with six men and women who survived ...

Public relations and the making of modern britain

This book tells the story of how the unorthodox liberalism of the public sector svengali Stephen Tallents helped reshape public life for a new social, political and technological age.

The urban refugee

This collection focuses on the spatial forms and urban consequences of forced migration. The chapters shed light on the multiple dimensions of the refugees’ urban experiences from the scale of the interiors to inner city neighborhoods and informal settlements, and from personal accounts to the fo...

Greek into latin from antiquity until the nineteenth century

Understanding immigration in ireland

A sociological analysis of immigration in Ireland. It is the first major comprehensive study of labour and asylum immigration into Irish society