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Soccer and Racism
This book aims to use soccer as a tool to understand key elements of Brazil’s history from the overthrow of the Monarchy in 1889 to the 1930 Revolution that brought Getulio Vargas to power – the so-called First Republic.
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Zen in American Life and Letters
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America Magica
An enthralling account of the conflicting experiences of discovering the New World, drawing upon the intriguing tales of early discovery and amazing illustrations of the day.
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Andean Civilization
Brings together exciting new field data by Andean scholars who came together to honor their friend, colleague, and mentor. An invaluable addition to any Andeanist's library, the papers in this book demonstrate the breadth and influence of Moseley's work and the vibrant range of exciting new work ...
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Settlement and Subsistence in Early Formative Soconusco
The Soconusco region, a narrow strip of the Pacific coast of Mexico and Guatemala, is the location of some of the earliest pottery-using villages of ancient Mesoamerica. Investigations at El Varal, a special-purpose estuary site of the later Early Formative (1250-1000 B.C.) are described here.
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Alexander Hamilton (1762-1824)
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Remaking the urban
This book examines the intersections between post-apartheid urban transformation and the politics of heritage-making in divided cities, using the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro in South Africa’s Eastern Cape as a case study. This author examines how the twin processes of memory-making and change have p...
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An Archaeology of Elmina (New edition)
An Archaeology of Elmina examines a complex African settlement on the coast of present-day Ghana from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries using the archaeological record, European narratives and indigenous oral histories.
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Ioannina (Greek language text) PB
Ioannina is a city where legends and nature intertwine, a city in which the lake plays a leading role. This book looks at Ioannina during the ages before and after the invention of script, the Byzantine and post-Byzantine times, the city’s conquest by the Ottomans, the reign of Ali Pasha and the ...
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Agora Modiano - Thessaloniki (Greek language text)
The Agora Modiano in Thessaloniki has been redeveloped into a modern covered food market. Texts written by an assortment of local residents, and testimonies of shopkeepers who have spent a lifetime in Modiano, portray the Market. The accompanying rich photographic material captures nostalgic mome...
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The Queen's Tower (Greek language text)
The Queen’s Tower and Estate, located at Ilion, is a hidden gem of Attica. This book provides its history, covering the first years of the independent Greek State. Amalia, wife of King Otto, aimed to create a model agricultural unit there, to inspire the development of agriculture and livestock f...
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Red Creative
Explores China’s cultural economy over the last twenty years, particularly through the lens of its creative hub of Shanghai. Takes a long-term historical perspective and raises questions about the nature of contemporary creative capitalism and the universal claims of Western modernity, offering n...
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Urban Space between the Roman Age and Late Antiquity
This book investigates the substantial changes that can be perceived within the urban fabric and its surrounding territory in the transition period between the second century and the sixth century AD in several areas of the Mediterranean Basin that have remained unexplored until now.
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Olympia
This book is an introduction to a crucial site of the ancient world, the site where the greatest sporting event of antiquity, the Olympic Games, were born. These Games at Olympia came to shape in large measure the history and the values of the ancient Greek world. The site is one of the most impo...
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Tehom (Abyss)
Photographs frame the narrative of a painful journey from Thessaloniki to Auschwitz: the loss of Renée Revah’s family in the concentration camp. She promises her grandfather, the sole family member to avoid this fate, that ‘Tehom’ (biblical Hebrew for ‘abyss’) will bring him to the scene of the c...
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Aristocratic Violence and Holy War
This book discusses the relationship between the idea of Holy War in early Islamic societies and the competition for resources and legitimacy among Muslims who lived on the Arab-Byzantine frontier, providing a fresh perspective on the history of that region during the late Umayyad and early Abbas...
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Making Routes
A rich interdisciplinary study of the diversity and dynamics of the migrations of displaced peoples across the Global South By the end of 2022, the number of forcibly displaced people worldwide had reached a record high of 100 million, the highest figure since the Second World War. The Russia...
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200 Years of Greece
This bilingual Greek/English album provides a concise summary of public construction in Greece from the founding of the modern Greek state to the present day, covering achievements and challenges over the centuries. A wealth of pictorial material vividly captures the process of construction, rene...
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Servus communis und Noxalhaftung
Noxal liability is a peculiar invention of the Romans. If a slave committed an offence, the owner could choose between paying a fine and noxal surrender of the offender to the injured party. Armin Heßelschwerdt's study is the first monograph to examine the legal problems that arose when such a sl...
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Description of Egyptian Architecture according to Denon
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The Petra Papyri I-V (boxed set)
The Petra Papyri Series, Greek language papyrus texts from the sixth century A.D. that were discovered in carbonized condition in Petra in 1992-93. This scholarly publication meticulously documents, translates and interprets the information recovered from approximately 140 papyrus scrolls found d...
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Der Eintritt der Juden in die akademischen Berufe
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Ebla in the Period of the Amorite Dynasties
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Wissenschaft des Judentums im deutschen Sprachbereich
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The Inscription of Queen Katimala at Semna
This is the first complete translation and commentary on the important tableau and inscription of Queen Katimala at Semna. The inscription is not illegible, as has often been stated, but is a well-composed Lower Nubian example of a politico-religious manifesto applying many of the conventions of ...
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Die Responsen als Spiegel der judischen Geschichte
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Bethsaida: A City by the North Shore of the Sea of Galilee
Experts in the field continue to investigate the site of Bethsaida, and have retrieved information on some of the most critical topics from 10th century BCE to 4th century CE. In this volume, thirteen articles shed light on the history of the region, and look at the remains dating from the time o...
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Briefliches Zitieren bei Paulus und Cicero
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Die Magie der Anspielung
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"Räume" im antiken Christentum
Christian Hornung examines "spaces" in ancient Christianity. He analyzes literary descriptions of the ecclesiastical building complex (including the church, bishop's house, and annexes) as well as synods, monasticism and the so-called public space and interprets "spaces" as forms of ecclesiastica...
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The Abu Bakr Cemetery at Giza
Reflects the work of the joint expedition of Cairo University and Brown University to record and publish the tombs uncovered on behalf of Cairo University by Prof. Abdel-Moneim Abu Bakr from 1949 through 1953, but never published.
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Nuclear Gaia
The book analyses new media archives on nuclear violence toward humans and the environment in the context of the ongoing project to transform Earth into Nuclear Gaia as a consequence of a confluence of political, military, economic, and scientific decisions made back in the 1940s, related to the ...
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Defending the realm?
Britain is often revered for its extensive experience of waging ‘small wars’. Its long imperial history is littered with high profile counter-insurgency campaigns, thus marking it out as the world’s most seasoned practitioner of this type of warfare. This is the first book to detail the tactical ...
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Communication and Colonialism in Eastern India
This volume offers a detailed analysis of colonial policies in respect to communication in India – via roads, ferries, steamships and railways – and reveals how communication became an integral part of colonial governance in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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The Old World, the New World, and the Creation of the Modern World, 1400–1650
This book provides a unique look at the early years of European discovery and colonization, analyzing the impact of this period on the historical development of both the New and Old Worlds.
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Impostures in early modern England
Tobias B. Hug examines a wide range of sources, from judicial archives and other official records to chronicles, newspapers, ballads, pamphlets and autobiographical writings.
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A history of the Greek resistance in the Second World War
This book tells the story of the Greek resistance to Axis occupation during the Second World War and in particular the life of armed guerrillas. Rather than provide a conventional military history it will illuminate for the first time the lives, experiences and thoughts of the resistance fighters...
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Children born of war in the twentieth century
This book explores the life courses of children born of warin different twentieth-century conflicts, from the Second World War to theRwandan Genocide and the LRA conflict. It is based on extensive archivalresearch, as well as oral history and participatory research methods, to addthe voices of th...
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Inventing the modern region
This book explores the process by which the French Basque country acquired a folkloric regional identity in the long nineteenth century. It argues that, despite originating in pre-‘modern’ customs, such stereotypical identity was invented in the long nineteenth century as part of France’s process...
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This England
A celebration of Englishness in the sixteenth century. Appeals equally to students of early modern history and its literary culture, presenting a view of 'Tudor England' and offering a firmer historical background to evaluating the English Renaissance.
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Francophone Africa at fifty
Explores the complexities of France's role in Africa over the past century
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Piercing the bamboo curtain
A comprehensive study of Lyndon Johnson's China policy based on a range of recently declassified government documents. This book explores the administration's relationship to both the Vietnam War and the Cultural Revolution and offers a new perspective on Johnson's capacity as a foreign policy le...
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Pre–school childcare in England, 1939–2010
Investigates how competing ideas about child development influenced the provision, practice and experience of childcare for the under fives since 1939.
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Making peace with the past?
A study of memory and trauma in the conflict in Northern Ireland, and of how personal and collective remembrance has influenced the narratives of reconciliation
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Princely power in the Dutch Republic
Princely Power in the Dutch Republic offers a vivid analysis of the role of patronage in the Dutch Golden Age. It is based on the highly illuminating private diaries of William Frederick of Nassau (1613-1664).
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The British people and the League of Nations
A rich and original study of the culture of association, showing the ‘Big Society’ in action in interwar Britain. First full-length study of a major British pressure-group, the League of Nations Union, since 1981, making extensive use of local archives. Essential reading for anyone interested in ...
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A global history of early modern violence
This is the first broad study of large-scale violence and the methods of its restraint in the early modern world. Its case studies range from the early 1500s to the 1830s, taking in African slave raiders, Dutch merchants, Burmese bandits, Kurdish highwaymen, Mughal warriors, Spanish colonial sold...
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The Vanishing Indian Upper Class
The Vanishing Indian Upper Class is based on a life-narrative [true-life story] and contains various elements of history, politics, religion, literature and poetry. In anonymized form it dramatizes a personal family history focused around a continuing and unresolved family inheritance and propert...
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Secret Agents and the Memory of Everyday Collaboration in Communist Eastern Europe
'Secret Agents and the Memory of Everyday Collaboration in Communist Eastern Europe' examines the ways in which post-Communist societies have sought to make sense of Communist-era collaboration. It explores the motivations for becoming an agent and the moralities of this role, as well as the pers...
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On Commerce and Usury (1524)
This volume presents Martin Luther’s contribution to the modern economic sciences, providing a detailed introduction and revised translation of his 1524 pamphlet, ‘On Commerce and Usury’ (‘Von Kauffshandlung vnd Wucher’).
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My Voice: Suzanne Harris
Suzanne's book is part of the My Voice Project, a collection of firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. Suzanne Harris lived in Paris in the war until her family fled to Argenty. She moved to England after the war and settled in Manchester.
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The imperial Commonwealth
The Imperial Commonwealth examines what empire meant to late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Australian settler colonists, how it seemed to entail special obligations for white settlers of British heritage, and how, in developing settler colonial categories of empire, Australian itself be...
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Disability and the Victorians
Disability and the Victorians investigates the attitudes of Victorians towards people with impairments, illustrates how these influenced the interventions they introduced to support such people and considers the legacies they left behind by their actions and perspectives. A range of impairments a...
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Sixteenth-century identities
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Conceptions of Dreaming from Homer to 1800
‘Conceptions of Dreaming from Homer to 1800’ is an intellectual history of European theories of dreaming from Homer until the end of the eighteenth century, the period during which the dream as divine revelation was at the centre of dream theory.
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The Historiography of Gladstone and Disraeli
This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the lively historical controversies surrounding the political careers of Gladstone and Disraeli. Organised thematically around the most contested areas of interpretation, it offers a unique insight into the politics of Victorian England.
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Approaches to the Study of Intercultural Transfer
“Approaches to the Study of Intercultural Transfer” explores the intricacies and mechanisms of intercultural transfers.
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Revising History in Communist Europe
Both Hungary’s 1956 uprising and the Prague Spring took place when regimes tentatively revised recent history. This process of remembering and forgetting shook the legitimacy, and shaped the actions, of communist party-states because their control of the past was central to their grasp of the pre...
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Jane Austen’s Aunt Behind Bars
This new book brings together Stephen Wade’s two areas of interest, focusing on the writers in the reigns of Anne to Victoria. The essays here recount and explore the prison experience of writers, both famous and obscure, who came to know the insides of Britain’s prisons.
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Pashtun Identity and Geopolitics in Southwest Asia
This book juxtaposes vital issues of Pashtun identity, state formation, Taliban on both sides of the Durand Line, Frontier Crimes Regulation, security prerogative and the civil societies of Pakistan and Afghanistan, which since 9/11, have been posited in a rather precarious geopolitics.
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A Narrative of Cultural Encounter in Southern China
Using a local land reclamation project of the later eighth century, this book explores the interaction between a local culture of the southeast coast and the Sinitic culture of the north.
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Peruvian Foreign Policy in the Modern Era
Peruvian Foreign Policy in the Modern Era is a chronological treatment of Peruvian foreign policy from 1990 to the present. It focuses on the impact of domestic politics, economic interests, security concerns, and alliance diplomacy on contemporary Peruvian foreign policy.
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The United States, the Soviet Union and the Geopolitical Implications of the Origins of the Cold War
‘The United States, the Soviet Union and the Geopolitical Implications of the Origins of the Cold War, 1945–1949’ examines the geopolitical implications of the process of institutionalization of the international order that took place in the aftermath of World War Two. The book argues that the or...
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Leisure and cultural conflict in twentieth-century Britain
A collection of articles addressing research trends in the history of British leisure while also presenting a wide range of articles on cultural conflict and leisure in the twentieth century. It includes innovative research on a number of topics, including television, cinema, the circus, women’s ...
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Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 97/2
The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is a long-running journal that publishes research complementary to the John Rylands Library’s extensive special collections.
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The Irish amateur military tradition in the British Army, 1854–1992
This book examines the framework in which Irish auxiliary forces, part-time soldiers of the British Army, have existed alongside their regular army counterparts and how they have interacted with wider society.
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Local antiquities, local identities
This book considers a range of antiquarian practices – history-writing, archaeological investigations, works of art, architecture and literature – that emerged in early modern Europe. Challenging the idea of a single 'Renaissance', it assembles essays on local antiquities in Spain, Portugal, Fran...
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Gendered transactions
Explores Indian gender issues through diverse sources including letters, memoirs, fiction, housekeeping manuals, and forgotten texts from the colonial archives.
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Anti-racism in Britain
This volume explores the shifting nature of anti-racism in Britain through 11 illuminating case studies. Together, they highlight the tensions between solidarity and paternalism, demonstrate the interplay between local, national and transnational forces, and illustrate the legacies and trajectori...
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In the wake of the great rebellion
On Monday 19 September 1803, the most significant trial in the history of Ireland took place in Dublin. At the dock stood a former Trinity College student standing trial for heading a rebellion on 23 July 1803. Drawing on an intriguing range of sources, Patterson offers a comprehensive insight in...
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Conflict, peace and mental health
What are the human consequences of conflict and what are the appropriate service responses? This book seeks to provide an answer to these important questions, drawing on over twenty-five years of work by the author in Northern Ireland and elsewhere.
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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...
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9 Historic Revolutions
This book describes with fascinating detail what happened in the nine greatest revolutions of history. It also explains a progressive theory of history derived from the chapters on the revolutions. Finally, it shows how to apply the theory to the present.
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The bad German and the good Italian
This book describes how Italy elaborated a master narrative of the Second World War that evades the faults of Mussolini's fascist war by attributing all responsibility on the shoulders of the German ally
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My Voice: Helen Stein
Helen's book is part of the My Voice Project, a collection of firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. Helen was born in Strasbourg. She was helped by Marianne Cohn, who smuggled many children to safety in Switzerland, but Helen and her s...
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Destined for a Life of Service
This study of the construction of black womanhood in Jamaica between 1865 and 1938 sheds new light on the struggle for full and equal citizenship of people of African descent in the post-emancipation British Caribbean.
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Imperial expectations and realities
A wide-ranging edited collection that interrogates colonial expansion, and the mismatch between intention, perception and hype, and the actual realities.
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Genteel women
This book examines the transfer and adaptation of British female gentility in various locations across the British Empire, including Africa, New Zealand and India, as expressed through their personal and household possessions, specifically their dress, living rooms, gardens and food.
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Oceania under steam
Oceania under steam is a lively study of empire and the Pacific in the age of steam. It connects the intimate details of shipboard life with the high politics of imperial ocean space to present a wealth of new insights into the significance of shipping and the sea in the everyday life of colonial...
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Decolonizing the Diet
Synthesizing the science of nutrition, immunity and evolutionary genetics with a controversial new history of indigenous North America, “Decolonizing the Diet” shows how populations fail to recover from epidemics when their ability to hunt, gather and farm nutritionally dense plants and animals i...
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Artisans of the body in early modern Italy
This study of barbers-surgeons and other artisans involved in the care and appearance of the body - jewellers, tailors, wigmakers, upholsterers - sheds light on the strong sociocultural affinities that existed in the Early Modern period between these apparently unrelated trades, challenging the d...
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Women's medicine
This book covers the role played by British female doctors in the medicalisation of birth control and family planning at the national and transnational level between 1920–70. Drawing on a wide range of archived and published medical materials, Rusterholz sheds light on the strategies British fema...
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Planting the Seeds of Research
‘Planting the Seeds of Research’ explores why by the beginnings of the twentieth century the United States dominated agricultural production worldwide.
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Art versus industry?
Explores the relationship between industry and the visual arts in the long nineteenth century, using new research to reveal surprising collaborations between craftspeople, inventors, engineers and educators.
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The age of internationalism and Belgium, 1880–1930
Investigates internationalism using Belgium as its focal point; historically a major hub for transnational movements
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Paris and the Commune 1871–78
Colette Wilson writes clearly and authoritatively and her original, scholarly and beautifully illustrated book makes a strong contribution to our understanding of the Paris Commune, its aftermath in the early years of the Third Republic and French cultural memory overall
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Developing Africa
Investigates development in British, French and Portuguese colonial Africa during the last decades of colonial rule
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The rise and fall of the Scottish cotton industry, 1778–1914
This is the first full-length history of the Scottish cotton industry, from its beginnings in the late eighteenth century to its premature decline in the years leading up to the First World War.
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Women, credit, and debt in early modern Scotland
Uses court records to re-evaluate women’s economic roles in early modern Scotland.
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Jews and other foreigners
Drawing on a wide range documentary and oral sources, including interviews with refugees, this book explores the responses in Manchester to those threatened by the rise of Fascism in Europe.
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