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The irish and the spanish civil war, 1936–1939
The outbreak of the Spanish Civil War threw Irish politics, north and south of the border, into turmoil. Tragic events in Spain aroused emotive responses across the spectrum of Irish society. In contrast to most other communities of the British Isles, citizens of the Irish Free State were mainly ...
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The spoken word
Discusses the transition from a largely oral to a fundamentally literate society in the early modern period. During this period the spoken word remained of the utmost importance but development of printing and the spread of popular literacy combined to transform the nature of communication. Exami...
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The politics of alcohol
An accessible and critically illuminating guide to the social, political and cultural history of alcohol in England. Covering areas including law, public policy, medical thought, media representations and political philosophy, The politics of Alcohol will provide essential reading for anyone inte...
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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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Britain's lost revolution?
Using newly discovered sources from the French and Scottish archives this exciting new book challenges our fundamental assumptions regarding the emergence of the fully British state in the early eighteenth century.
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Egypt of the saite pharaohs, 664–525 bc
The Saite Dynasty (664–525 BC) represents a dynamic but lesser-known era in the history of ancient Egypt. In less than a decade Psamtek I reunified the country after almost 400 years of fragmentation. The Saite rulers promoted trade and embarked on important reforms, allowing Egypt to regain a ma...
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Empire and nation-building in the caribbean
This original and exciting book examines the processes of nation building in the British West Indies.
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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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Capitalism in contemporary iran
The book situates Iran within the motions and tendencies of global capitalism and resulting geopolitics to analyse the process of Iranian neoliberalisation and its impacts on the reconfiguration of the ruling class; reshaping of the subaltern classes and their struggles; reorganisation of the for...
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Art, politics and dissent
Art, politics and dissent provides a counter history to conventional accounts of American art.. Close historical examinations of particular events in Los Angeles and New York in the 1960s are interwoven with discussion of the location of these events, normally marginalised or overlooked, in the h...
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Peasants and historians
This book examines one hundred years of historical debate on the English peasantry in the later Middle Ages, exploring the influences and changes to peasantry society, economy and culture.
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The rise and fall of world orders
Drawing in lessons from 400 years of Great-Power politics, this volume challenges both the "declinist" arguments and the overstretched hypothesis of Paul Kennedy to develop an alternative approach to the debate on the rise and fall of the Great Powers. The first half of the book compares the Span...
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Britain and its internal others, 1750–1800
This book revisits six notorious incidents that occasioned vigorous debate in London's courtrooms, streets and presses. Each case adjudicated the presence of outsiders in London – from Jews and Gypsies to Africans and Catholics.
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Public corruption
A fascinating, confrontational investigation of the nature of corruption, its narcissistic origins and destructive future.
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Catholics and the ‘protestant nation’
This collection of original essays combines the interests of leading ‘Catholic historians’ and leading historians of early modern English culture to pull Catholicism back into the mainstream of English historiography
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Heresy and inquisition in france, 1200–1300
Exposes the inner workings of inquisitions in medieval France through expert translations of primary sources.
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Banished potentates
An examination of British and French deposition and exile of indigenous monarchs in Asia and Africa from 1815 until the 1950s.
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Exhibiting the empire
Examines various ways in which the Empire was displayed in Britain between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries, looking at music, satirical prints, exploration, battles and even nascent nationalism.
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The english revolution c. 1590–1720
This book is about the crisis of transition marked by the English Revolution (1640-1660), while at the same time placing it in the context of a long seventeenth century - running from about 1590 to 1720.Leading experts explore this theme, with special reference to developments in politics, religi...
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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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China’s peaceful rise
Adopting a constructivist approach, this book argues that China's prospects for achieving 'great power' status peacefully depend more on perceptions of the country's development than on concrete measures of power or economic benefits. Incorporating historical perceptions, survey data and general ...
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E. p. thompson and english radicalism
E. P. Thompson and English radicalism celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of The Making of the English Working Class, one of the most influential history books of the last fifty years, and demonstrates the present day relevance of Thomnpson’s historical, political and polemical writing and peace ...
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The 1630s
An exciting collection of essays on the ‘personal rule’ of Charles I, whose inept and dangerous rule many historians feel put the country on the road to civil war
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Worth saving
The first detailed study on the experiences of disabled children during the Second World War.
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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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History matters
Written for everyone interested in women’s and gender history, History matters reaffirms the importance of viewing history from a distance and with feminist intent. Judith Bennett argues that the achievement of a more feminist future relies on rich, plausible, and well-informed history that is al...
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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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Gender, nation and conquest in the high middle ages
An account of noblewomen in Wales in the high Middle Ages, focusing on Nest of Deheubarth
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Confronting crisis in the carolingian empire
This is the translation of an extraordinary and enigmatic narrative of Carolingian history, which should interest historians of politics, religion and literature in equal measure. Radbertus’ ‘Epitaph for Arsenius’ is both a personal and a political text, written with twenty years of hindsight, by...
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Royals on tour
Travel by European and ‘native’ monarchs and other royals between Europe, Asia and Africa developed as a new form of personal and international politics in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The pageantry and politics of royal tours during the age of empire provides great insight into modern monarch...
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Borders and conflict in south asia
Borders and conflict in South Asia is the first full-length study of the 1947 drawing of the Indo-Pakistani boundary in Punjab. Using the Radcliffe commission as a window onto the decolonisation and independence of India and Pakistan, and examining the competing interests – both internal and inte...
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The age of upheaval
A study of one of the most intense and formative periods of modern political history. The years 1899-1914 witnessed a fundamental challenge to many Victorian values and institutions: Free Trade, the new Poor Law, the House of Lords, the Irish Union - all were under attack, while organized labour ...
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A history of the northern ireland labour party
This book is the first, definitive history of the Northern Ireland Labour Party (NILP), a unique political force in twentieth century British and Irish politics that drew its support from Protestants and Catholics and became electorally viable despite deep-seated ethnic, religious and national di...
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Orangism in the dutch republic in word and image, 1650–75
This remarkable study represents a completely original presentation of the language and imagery used by the Orangists in the critical period in the mid-seventeenth century Netherlands as they sought the restoration of the stadholderate in the person of the young prince William III.Stern argues th...
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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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The impact of the troubles on the republic of ireland, 1968–79
This book tells the story of how the war in Northern Ireland threatened to engulf the Republic. It explains how popular opinion responded to the crisis from marching in solidarity with nationalists to increasing disengagement and fear.
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Reporting the raj
This book is the first analysis of the dynamics of British press reporting of India and the attempts made by the British Government to manipulate press coverage as part of a strategy of imperial control. The press was an important forum for debate over the future of India and was used by signific...
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Imperial persuaders
The first book to provide an historical survey of images of black people in advertising during the colonial period. Analyses the various conflicting, and changing ideologies of colonialism and racism in British advertising. Reveals the historical and production context of many well known advertis...
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Noble society
This volume contains five biographical sources, translated into English for the first time , about noblemen and noblewomen living in twelfth-century Germany.
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The unorthodox imagination in late medieval britain
The unorthodox imagination in late medieval Britain explores how medieval people responded to images, stories, beliefs and practices which were at odds with the normative world view, from the heretical and subversive to the marvellous and exotic
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Population, providence and empire
Over seven million people left Ireland over the course of the nineteenth century. This book is the first to put that huge population change in its religious context, by asking how the Irish Catholic, Anglican and Presbyterian churches responded to mass emigration.
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Freedom and the fifth commandment
Addresses the War of Independence from a new perspective by focusing on the attitude of the Catholic clergy
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British foreign policy, 1919–1939
Provides students with a clear narrative overview of the period which will enable them to form critical opinions. Introduces students to the historical controversies of the period and communicates the results of recent specialist studies to a student readership in an easily understood manner. A...
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Bulletin of the john rylands library 97/1
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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Friars’ tales
David Jones has translated two important collections of short stories from the late thirteenth century that were assembled in the British Isles. The collections of narratives depict working daily life as well as offering a moral and theological insight into medieval life overall.
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British civic society at the end of empire
The end of the empire and the legacies of Britain’s imperial past have shaped how the British public interact with the outside world. This book shows how the international activities of civic associations in the 1960s can help us to understand the impact of decolonisation on the British public’s ...
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The cooke sisters
A study of five remarkable sixteenth-century women. Part of the select group of Tudor women allowed access to formal humanist education, the Cooke sisters were also well-connected through their marriages to influential Elizabethan politicians.
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Contemporary history on trial
On issues ranging from the Holocaust to Srebrenica, contemporary historians are being asked to serve as 'expert witnesses' to painful events in the recent past - in the courtroom and in the media. Leading historians from across Europe reflect upon their experiences in this emerging public role.
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Refugees and expellees in post-war germany
At the end of the Second World War, some 12 million German refugees and expellees fled or were expelled from their homelands in Eastern and Central Europe into what remained of the former Reich. This book examines their economic, social and political integration in Germany from 1945 up to the pre...
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Taking travel home
This book provides a new cultural history of the travel souvenir. It uncovers how eighteenth-century British women enlisted the objects they collected during their European travels to realise their ambitions in the arenas of connoisseurship, science and friendship, and to stake their claims to ag...
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Women, travel and identity
Explores British women's journeys abroad on steamships and trains during a period of great social, cultural and technical change, using a wide variety of sources including women's letters and diaries, contemporary art, advertising, fiction and etiquette guides.
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Heroic imperialists in africa
This book looks at imperial heroes from behind the legends of a dozen major colonial figures on both sides of the Channel, revisiting the familiar stories from a radically new angle. It demonstrates how their reputations were made over several decades, and depicts the milieus and individuals who ...
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Queen and country
Detailed study of same-sex desire and military authority in the British Armed Forces between 1939 and 1945
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Migrants of the british diaspora since the 1960s
This is the first book to explore the multiple country movement of migrants of the ‘British diaspora’ since the 1960s. It is an engaging oral history of migrant experiences and attitudes, based largely on intimate life histories which connect migration to life experiences like love and marriage, ...
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Saudi arabia and iran
This volume provides a detailed exploration of the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran across the Middle East. It considers the impact of this rivalry on regional and domestic politics, highlighting how the relationship is shaped by the contingencies of time and space.
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Entertaining the empire
Comic songs and sketches created in London traversed the British empire in the half century before the First World War. The amateurs and professionals who performed them in colonial venues resemblingthose at Home transformed an inane popular culture into a bulwark of an increasingly racialised Br...
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Vienna’s ‘respectable’ antisemites
This book presents a radical reconsideration of the role of key players in developing an organised, politically oriented antisemitism in Vienna in the decades leading to the 1938 Anschluss. It pays particular attention to the clergy and how their antisemitism fitted the worldview of an authorita...
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A minority and the state
This is the only general history of Britain's travelling communities in the twentieth century and covers state and legal developments affecting Travellers as well as their experiences of missions, education, warand welfare.
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Popular science and public opinion in eighteenth-century france
This book analyses the forms of popular science, the social and economic status of those who practiced it and the audience, and the settings for scientific dissemination and appropriation.
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Celtic identity and the british image
This work explores the idea of the Celt and the definition of the so-called "Celtic Fringe" over the last 300 years. It is an in-depth study of the literary and cultural representation of Ireland, Scotland and Wales over this period, and is based on a wide-ranging grasp of issues of national iden...
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Serving the empire in the great war
Explores the role of both mules and mule drivers to the British war effort and in particular the social and economic aspects of the Cypriot contribution to the Great War. It also questions why Cypriots forgot this extraordinary contribution.
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The flâneur and his city
The book provides a ‘flâneur’s eye view’ of Parisian life in the first half of the nineteenth century: dress, cafés and restaurants, but also shops and passages, the omnibus, bals publics and carnival. The author provides general conclusions about the private and public spheres in ‘le vieux Paris...
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The debate on the american civil war era
This study is the first to critically survey the changing and highly controversial historical literature surrounding the American Civil War era, from contemporary interpretations up to the present.. The book analyses both historians attitudes and assumptions and suggests that each writer's perspe...
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Ideas of poverty in the age of enlightenment
This collection of essays examines the ways in which poverty was conceptualised in the social, political, and religious discourses of eighteenth-century Europe and North America.
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Tolerance, regulation and rescue
This book provides a wide-ranging analysis of 'unrespectable' women and children living on the margins of mainstream Italian society, considering the interrelated aspects of Italian social history, Catholic charity and social policy over a period of five centuries.
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Masculinities, militarisation and the end conscription campaign
Explores the gendered dynamics of apartheid-era South Africa's militarisation, analysing the defiance of compulsory military service and the anti-apartheid activism of the white men and women in the End Conscription Campaign.
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Mary and philip
This book presents a new interpretation of the co-monarchy of Mary I and Philip II. It reclaims Mary as a great Catholic queen and fleshes out Philip’s contributions as king, exposing the sectarian historiography that has cast their reign in a negative light. An important corrective for the histo...
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Joining up in the second world war
Joining up explores men’s encounters with representations of the First World War in interwar Britain, and illuminates how these informed their understandings of the First World War and how those understandings shaped their attitudes to Second World War enlistment and their conceptions of masculin...
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Experiencing war as the 'enemy other'
An original and engaging study which examines the impact of World War Two on the Italian community in Scotland.
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The experience of suburban modernity
Looks at the history of the London suburbs in the interwar years
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Gentry culture in late-medieval england
This book is a comprehensive introductory guide to late medieval gentry culture, including chapters on gentility, chivalry, politics, education and recreation, literacy, literature, cultural networks, religion, music and the visual arts. It surveys existing work in the fieldand presents new resea...
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The korean war in britain
The Korean War in Britain is the first social history of the Korean War (1950-1953) in Britain. Assessing the impact of the war from 1950 to the early twenty-first century, this original book examines how British people responded to the Korean War and it came to be known as the ‘Forgotten War’ of...
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Bodies complexioned
Skin-tones mattered in early modern England. Indexing health, social status, religious affiliation and national allegiance, they helped explain (away) poverty, colonialism, war and slavery. Drawing physical distinctions as a means to power has a complex history – one belying racism’s assumption t...
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The history of emotions
The first accessible text book on the theories, methods, achievements and problems in this burgeoning field of historical inquiry.
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The british seaside
This is the first detailed academic cultural study of the rise and fall of the seaside holiday in Britain. This book offers an entertaining and broad interpretation of the holidays and resorts.
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Plagues of the heart
Using a micro-historical approach, this book explores how the 'culture of covenanting' shaped lived experiences and communities in seventeenth-century Scotland and offers a more complete understanding of protestant identity in the early modern Atlantic world.
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The kiss in history
In this collection, an eminent group of cultural historians have explored 'the kiss' using a wide range of evidence. By analyzing 'the kiss' and its position - embedded as it is as part of our culture - it shows how history can use small gestures to take us to big issues concerning ourselves and ...
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Germany's european diplomacy
This book offers a nuanced analysis of the German role in the EU, using a novel approach which identifies German influence in the EU in terms of "soft" power.
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New york hustlers
This exciting history of male prostitution in New York, the first detailed history of the hustler, draws the reader into the fascinating sexual culture of postwar America. its subject matter and style will appeal to a wide range of readers, especially those interested in the histories of sex, the...
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The political writings of archbishop wulfstan of york
Archbishop Wulfstan of York (d. 1023) is among the most important legal and political thinkers of the early Middle Ages. A leading ecclesiastic, innovative legislator, and influential royal councilor, Wulfstan witnessed firsthand the violence and social unrest that culminated in the fall of the E...
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Medieval women and urban justice
This is the first in-depth, comparative study of women’s access to justice in medieval English towns. It compares the records of Nottingham, Chester and Winchester and a wide range of legal actions to highlight the variable nature of women’s legal status in actions that arose from the complex, me...
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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...
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