Collection: History
-
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The indian uprising of 1857-8
An in-depth study of the 1857 Indian mutiny-rebellion, exploring the political and social themes of this remarkable phenomenon.
Regular price £50.00Sale price £50.00 Regular price £50.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
British battles 493–937
British Battles 493–937 revolutionizes our understanding of early British history by correctly locating for the first time conflicts from Mount Badon to Brunanburh.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Colonial urbanism in the age of the enlightenment
This book tells the story of how the monarchy aimed at creating a new capital city in a remote and forgotten area of the empire. It also shows how the local Creole bourgeoisie rapidly assumed the role of urban developers, and enhanced their economic status by investing in and controlling the Buen...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Grand duchess elena pavlovna, princess isabel and the ending of servile labour in russia and brazil
Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna and Princess Isabel were key players in the political struggle ending servile labor in the empires of Russia and Brazil. This book chronicles the political activity of the two royal women to end servile labor in their respective countries
Regular price £19.99Sale price £19.99 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
An age of progress?
An enthralling analysis of the defining social and political events of the twentieth century.
Regular price £16.00Sale price £16.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
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...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Socialist realism in central and eastern european literatures under stalin
This collection on the export of Socialist Realism into Central and Eastern Europe after WWII is the first work on the subject which offers an in-depth analysis of the particularities of distinct national and cultural contexts and explores complexities of the cultural Sovietisation of the region.
Regular price £45.00Sale price £45.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
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.
Regular price £13.50Sale price £13.50 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Exporting empire
Looks at the attitudes of colonial officials in Africa who served between the end of the19th century and WWII, as well as what shaped such attitudes, including education and training, interrelationships, infrastructural change, and anti-colonial nationalism.
Regular price £19.99Sale price £19.99 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
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
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Nationalizing the body
‘Nationalizing the Body’ examines the different meanings of ‘modern medicine’ that were employed in colonial South Asia, and explores the different discourses that were constructed around ‘modernity’.
Regular price £60.00Sale price £60.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The debate on the crusades, 1099–2010
This is the first book-length study to chart how the dramatic events of 30 generations ago have been understood, shaped and manipulated by writers in successive periods since and to show how modern images of the crusades are as much a product of our own and intervening times as of the bloody wars...
Read MoreRegular price £80.00Sale price £80.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Reconstructing modernity
This book examines the redevelopment of British cities in the immediate post-war, challenging existing histories of reconstruction and urban modernism.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
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...
Read MoreRegular price £13.99Sale price £13.99 Regular price £13.99Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Healthy living in the alps
Healthy living in the Alps examines the relationship between the search for relief from respiratory diseases, such as tuberculosis, in high alpine resorts and the development in the same places of winter sports tourism.The first winter visitors to the Swiss Alps began to arrive in the 1860s and w...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
From silent screen to multi-screen
The book is the first comprehensive survey charting the development of cinema exhibition and cinema-going in Britain from the first public film screening – the Lumière Brothers’ showing of their Cinématographe show at London’s Regent Street Polytechnic in February 1896 – through to the developmen...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Humanitarian aid, genocide and mass killings
Throughout the 1990s, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) faced challenges posed by the genocide of Rwandan Tutsis and a succession of outbreaks of political violence in Rwanda and in its neighbours. This book recounts the experiences of the MSF teams working in the field.
Regular price £80.00Sale price £80.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
British military service tribunals, 1916–18
An analysis of the Military Service Tribunals which considered applications for exemption from men during the First World War, this book illuminates a previously under-researched area of British military and social history.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
My voice: jackie young
Jackie'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. Jackie was born in 1941 and survived Theresienstadt concentration camp. He came to England in 1945 and was adopted but not told about ...
Read MoreRegular price £13.99Sale price £13.99 Regular price £13.99Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Surviving kinsale
This is the story of La Coruña ,which became a virtual encampment of starving homeless Irish nobles, soldiers, women, children, elderly and poor following the Battle of Kinsale.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
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.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Encountering early america
Encountering early America traces the many cultural influences that shaped English understandings of the Americas in the sixteenth century. The book demonstrates that the first century of English engagement with America was dynamic, adaptive and had a lasting influence on exploration and settleme...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
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.
Regular price £90.00Sale price £90.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The fourth estate
This book recounts the history of journalism in Ireland from the 1880s to today, using previously un-consulted records to explore how changing practices in the field have affected the country's social and cultural development
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Spectacles and the victorians
This book explores how the Victorians standardised vision and transformed spectacle use. It offers new insights into how technology and its adoption in medical and non-medical contexts shaped, and continues to shape, our understanding of sensory perception and the assimilation of assistive devices.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £85.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Empire and sexuality
Established in the belief that imperialism as a cultural phenomenon had as significant an effect on the dominant as it did on the subordinate societies, the "Studies in Imperialism" series seeks to develop the new socio-cultural approach which has emerged through cross-disciplinary work on popula...
Read MoreRegular price £19.99Sale price £19.99 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Ephemeral city
Explores the rapid rise of cheap print and how it permeated Venetian urban culture in the Renaissance
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Ireland and the renaissance court
This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores the court culture of Ireland and the Irish from the late-medieval period through to the revolutionary upheavals of the 1640s. By drawing on English, Irish and Latin sources, it paints a vivid and detailed picture of Irish politics and society i...
Read MoreRegular price £90.00Sale price £90.00 Regular price £90.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Egypt
The book is a treatment of the British colony in Egypt from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth century, revealing deep-seated cultural and economic links, while also considering how the mundane concerns of ordinary colonials fared in a strategically vital imperial base, with all i...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Rethinking the carolingian reforms
This book sets out to challenge current interpretations of Carolingian culture, and especially its perceived correctio (correction), reform or renaissance. When we consider authors who operated outside the direct sphere of influence of the court, a much more dynamic image of Carolingian culture c...
Read MoreRegular price £90.00Sale price £90.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Women in exile in early modern europe and the americas
Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas presents the important yet largely untold stories of a diverse group of women exiled across the Atlantic world in the early modern period. The book provides a new vantage point from which to enrich the study of exile and also contributes impo...
Read MoreRegular price £90.00Sale price £90.00 Regular price £90.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Anglo-french attitudes
This collection of essays written by scholars from a variety of disciplines is about a favourite game of Anglo-French intellectual life since the eighteenth century: the game of cultural transfers and comparisons between English and French intellectuals themselves.
Regular price £30.00Sale price £30.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The scots in south africa
The first full-length book to deal with Scottish emigration to South Africa and the resulting conflicts and relationships with African peoples. Deals with exploration, scientific endeavour, military campaigns, Christian missions, western education, intellectual institutions and the professions, t...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The french army 1750–1820
A thoroughly researched and clearly written account of the French military from the Revolution to the Restoration, exploring the evolving idea of merit
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
French children under the allied bombs, 1940–45
Provides a unique perspective on the Allied bombing of France during the Second World War which killed around 57,000 French civilians. Using oral history and archival research, it provides an insight into children's wartime lives in which bombing often featured prominently, even though it has sli...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Charitable hatred
Charitable hatred presents a challenging new perspective on religious tolerance and intolerance in early modern England. Instead of charting a path of linear progress from persecution to toleration, it emphasises the complex interplay between these two impulses throughout the sixteenth and sevent...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Beyond the metropolis
Draws on previously unexplored visual and ephemeral sources to re-evaluate the British city, its changing form, representation and impact.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
South asia from the margins
Looks at the diversities of South Asian social History, focusing on Orissa. Examines the environment; health and medicine; conversion (in Hinduism); popular movements; social history of princely states; connections between the marginal social groups and nationalism; decolonisation; patriarchy; an...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
British fascism, 1918–1939
A major new and balanced study of British Facism which surveys the development of British fascism between 1918 and 1939. Provides an accessible guide to the essential features of British fascism in the interwar period. Considers a previously under-researched area of British fascism, namely fascis...
Read MoreRegular price £19.99Sale price £19.99 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The elizabethan conquest of ireland
This is a study of how the prosecution of the Nine Years' War in the last decade of Elizabeth I's reign impinged on government and society at central and local levels in the shires of England and Wales.
Regular price £19.99Sale price £19.99 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Politics, pauperism and power in late nineteenth-century ireland
This is a study of the nature and operation of the poor law system in post-Famine ireland. Topics covered include the politicisation of the welfare system, the relief of distress, the provision of labourers' cottages and the role of women.
Regular price £19.99Sale price £19.99 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Petrified utopia
‘Petrified Utopia’ redresses the lack of scholarship on the issue of the pursuit of collective happiness in Soviet culture, and presents a collection of essays that discuss different manifestations of happiness in literature and visual culture.
Regular price £60.00Sale price £60.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
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.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Health, medicine, and the sea
Students and lecturers in British and colonial medical, social and maritime history.
Regular price £19.99Sale price £19.99 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
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...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
History beyond apartheid
This book brings leading historians of South Africa together to consider new methodological and theoretical approaches within the field.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Monarchies and decolonisation in asia
Provides new perspectives on the role of European colonial monarchies, and the monarchies of Asia, in the late colonial period, during the process of decolonisation, and in its aftermath.
Regular price £90.00Sale price £90.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Community and identity
This fluent, accessible and richly informed study, based on much previously unexplored archival material, concerns the history of Gibraltar following its military conquest in 1704, after which sovereignty of the territory was transferred from Spain to Britain and it became a British fortress and ...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Tuairim, intellectual debate and policy formulation: rethinking ireland, 1954–75
Explores how from its formation in 1954 the intellectual movement Tuairim (‘opinion’ in Irish) was at the vanguard of the challenge to orthodoxy and conservatism.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
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...
Read MoreRegular price £18.36Sale price £18.36 Regular price £18.36Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The culture of diplomacy
This is an original study of British diplomacy in the age of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. It examines the social, cultural and intellectual aspects of diplomatic life and practice between 1750 and 1830.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The politics of expansion
The book gives an original and accessible discussion of an era of educational expansion, exploring the transformation of Irish education in the 1960s and early 1970s. The work sheds new light on the crucial role of international organisations in stimulating change in Irish educational policy.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The abcs of cold war history
A short, but highly relevant, history of the Cold War, 1919–1994, and its significance today. The 75-year Cold War pitted the Anglo-American world against the Soviet Bloc, with China, the ultimate prize.
Regular price £14.99Sale price £14.99 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The elite center cannot hold
A resurgent liberalism has become hegemonic in Philippine media and academic discourses, which were previously characterized by progressive and nationalist perspectives. While resurgent Philippine liberalism (RPL) has been precipitated by recent and current crises.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
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
Regular price £80.00Sale price £80.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
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...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Inside the russian revolution
This is the first republication of Rheta Child Dorr’s book Inside the Russian Revolution (Macmillan, 1917) that depicts the overthrow of the tsar as a positive, democratic move with hope of a Russia following the American path to constitutional democracy.
Regular price £24.99Sale price £24.99 Regular price £24.99Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Scotland and the music hall, 1850–1914
Music hall reflected the lifestyles and preoccupations of working people in a way that only television in the modern era has done since. While London dominated the wider British music hall, Glasgow was the centre of a vigorous Scottish performing culture developed in a Presbyterian society with a...
Read MoreRegular price £19.99Sale price £19.99 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
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...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
English radicalism in the twentieth century
English radicalism has been a persistent and important, though minority, strand in English political culture since at least the English Civil War. This book explores, in historical context, the nature of this radicalism – its beliefs, practice and importance – in the twentieth century.
Regular price £30.00Sale price £30.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Late imperial russia
A broad and detailed examination of the stability of the late imperial regime. There is general accord that Russia was not evolving into a stable constitutional monarchy
Regular price £19.99Sale price £19.99 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Visions of empire
This book offers a ground-breaking perspective on how imperial culture was disseminated from the 1890s onward. It identifies the important synergies that grew between a new civic culture and the wider imperial project. Three case studies are considered against an extensive analysis of seminal and...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
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...
Read MoreRegular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
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...
Read MoreRegular price £30.00Sale price £30.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Collaboration in space and the search for peace on earth
The book explores the peaceful exploration of space, which became a launching pad for new visions of human community and peaceful collaboration during the Cold War.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The illusion of the burgundian state
This innovative book explores Burgundian history and historiography while offering a complete synthesis covering the nature of politics in medieval Europe and the formation of the medieval state.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Britain and europe since 1945
This important book offers a refreshing and challenging perspective on the nature of history by analysing the character, role, functioning and wider uses of historiography. Taking British policies towards European integration since the Second World War as a case study, the author demonstrates how...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
A history of russia volume 1
A comprehensive and accessible history of the culture, people and politics of this vast and enigmatic nation.
Regular price £19.99Sale price £19.99 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
P. s. o'hegarty (1879-1955)
'P. S. O'Hegarty (1879-1955)' provides an informative and lively biography of the Irish nationalist P.S. O'Hegarty, a major historical figure in the modern separatist movement.
Regular price £60.00Sale price £60.00 Regular price £60.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Working in a world of hurt
Focuses on doctors and nurses in wartime casualty clearing stations, hospitals and prison camps
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Excursions
This choice collection of Thoreau’s nature writing includes the essays ‘The Succession of Forest Trees,’ ‘Walking’, and ‘Autumnal Tints’ – each one an explorative reach into the heart of the natural world.
Regular price £9.59Sale price £9.59 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Global biographies
Global biographies offers a thorough historiographical intervention, a new set of biographical approaches to global history – ‘time and periodization’, ‘exceptional normal’ and ‘space and scales’ – and a broad and critically reflective set of case-studies spanning the globe.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The jacobites
This book is a comprehensive survey of the Jacobite movement, from its violent counter-revolutionary origins to its bitter conclusion. Written to be easily accessible, it takes into account the latest research and is designed to provide an easy introduction to the field.
Regular price £80.00Sale price £80.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The social context of economic change in britain
Analyses economic growth in Britain under Thatcher in a variety of different social contexts.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Household servants in early modern england
Using a wide variety of sources this lively socio-cultural history examines household service, one of the largest, most multi-layered, most mobile and most indispensable sectors of employment in early modern England
Regular price £80.00Sale price £80.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
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.
Regular price £60.00Sale price £60.00 Regular price £60.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Destination australia
In 1901 most Australians were loyal, white subjects of the British Empire with direct connections to Britain. Within a hundred years, following an unparalleled immigrationprogram, its population was one of the most diverse on earth. This book tells the story of this extraordinary transformation.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Communities in early modern england
This volume attempts to rediscover the richness of community in the early modern world - through bringing together a range of fascinating material on the wealth of interactions that operated in the public sphere. Divided into three parts the book looks at:the importance of place – ranging from th...
Read MoreRegular price £19.99Sale price £19.99 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The stakes of regulation
This engaging work functions as extended critical essay in dialogue with the republication of ‘Bread, Politics and Political Economy’ (1976), focused on 18th-century France, dealing with the fraught question of regulation in its multiples guises: economic, social, political, cultural and psycholo...
Read MoreRegular price £23.96Sale price £23.96 Regular price £23.96Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Museums and empire
Museums and Empire is the first book to examine the origins and development of museums in six major regions if the British Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Assassination in colonial cyprus in 1934 and the origins of eoka
This book explores the assassination of Antonios Triantafyllides, a leading Cypriot lawyer and politician, in British colonial Cyprus in January 1934. It places the event into its broadest possible context and sifts through all the evidence in order to reach a plausible answer to this mysterious ...
Read MoreRegular price £19.99Sale price £19.99 Regular price £19.99Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The harem, slavery and british imperial culture
This book focuses on British efforts to suppress the traffic in female slaves destined for Egyptian harems during the late nineteenth-century and considers this campaign in relation to gender debates in England, the position of newly-established Muslim communities in that country, and Orientalist...
Read MoreRegular price £19.99Sale price £19.99 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The derby philosophers
This book focuses upon the activities of a group of Midland intellectuals who strove to promote social, political and urban improvements which had national and international consequences. It examines a turbulent period of British history, an age of political and industrial revolution in which the...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Britain in the second world war
This text provides original documents which are designed to help the reader evaluate claims that World War II introduced a new sense of social solidarity and social idealism which led to a consensus on welfare state reform.
Regular price £19.99Sale price £19.99 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Noblewomen, aristocracy and power in the twelfth-century anglo-norman realm
Offers an important reconceptualisation of women’s role in aristocratic society and suggests new ways of looking at lordship and the ruling elite in the high middle ages
Regular price £19.99Sale price £19.99 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
British depth studies c500–1100 (anglo-saxon and norman britain)
‘British Depth Studies c500–1100 (Anglo-Saxon and Norman Britain)’ is designed for students and teachers preparing for the new GCSE ‘Anglo-Saxon and Norman England’ British Depth Study components of the Edexcel and AQA examination boards.
Regular price £14.94Sale price £14.94 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
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.
Regular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £25.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Daum's boys
The first English language in-depth study of a footsoldier of the seventeenth-century Republic of Letters. Its subject, the German polymath and schoolteacher Christian Daum, left behind one of the largest private archives of any early modern European scholar.
Regular price £85.00Sale price £85.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Good trouble
Good Trouble is the story of the strong connection between the Black Civil Rights Movement in the United States and the Catholic Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland – specifically, the influence of the Montgomery to Selma march on the 1969 Belfast to Derry march through oral history.
Regular price £19.99Sale price £19.99 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
Aboard the democracy train
'Aboard the Democracy Train' is a gripping front-line account of Pakistan's decade of turbulent democracy (1988-1999), as told through the eyes of the only woman reporter working during the Zia era for the nation's leading English language newspaper.
Regular price £11.99Sale price £11.99 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
The subject of britain, 1603–25
This book reinterprets early seventeenth-century texts by situating them within the context of Jacobean writing on Britain and Britishness. Central to its argument are ideas about nationhood, identity and community that were occasioned by the accession of a Scottish king to England's throne, cont...
Read MoreRegular price £25.00Sale price £25.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per -
We're sorry. An error has occurred
Please cancel or retry.
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.
Regular price £90.00Sale price £90.00 Regular price £0.00Unit price / per























































































































































































