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'Report on the Agrarian Law' (1795) and Other Writings
'Report on the Agrarian Law' (1795) and Other Writings is the first modern English translation of perhaps the greatest work of the Spanish Enlightenment, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos’s Informe de la Ley Agraria (1795, Report on the Agrarian Law). Informe de la Ley Agraria is a major work of polit...
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British representations of the Spanish Civil War
Examines at the reception of the Spanish Civil War in British popular culture, and how supporters of both sides in Britain used the rhetoric and imagery of the conflict to bolster support for their respective causes in the arena of British public opinion
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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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The Discourse of Machiavelli's 'II Principe'
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Rhetoric and Poetic in Thomas More's 'Utopia'
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The Politics of an Erasmian Lawyer, Vasco de Quiroga
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The True Principles of Combat
The late 16th century was one of great political and social upheaval, an era in which medieval knights, feudal armies, town levies and hired mercenaries were giving way to modern militaries. Pike and shot had come to dominate the field, and swordplay had become a pastime, as often used to settle ...
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Reformation und kalkulierte Medialitat
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The Peter von Danzig Fight Book
Noted medieval combat authorities Dierk Hagedorn and Christian Henry Tobler join forces to present a transcription, translation and analysis of the Peter von Danzig Fight Book, one of the finest manuscripts of the 15th century devoted to the fencing tradition of German grandmaster Johannes Liecht...
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Studies in Jewish Manuscripts
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Die mittelalterliche Pfarrei
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Burgundian Poleaxe
Le Jeu de la Hache, written in the mid fifteenth century for the Burgundian Court, is the oldest known French-language martial arts text. In this new translation and interpretive guide, Jason Smith presents a complete translation of Le Jeu, photographic reconstructions of techniques and a primer ...
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Roger II and the creation of the Kingdom of Sicily
This student-friendly volume brings together English translations of the main narrative sources, and a small number of other relevant documents, for the reign of Roger II, the founder of the kingdom of Sicily.
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The Making Of Christian Communities in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
This volume explores the idea that survival of the Christian faith depended upon the making of these communities, of which the Christians of this period were themselves acutely – and sometimes acrimoniously – aware.
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Rethinking Norman Italy
This volume on Norman Italy (southern Italy and Sicily, c. 1000–1200) honours the pioneering scholarship of Graham A. Loud. An international group of scholars reassesses the paradigm by which Norman Italy has been understood, addressing subjects across four key themes: historiographies, identitie...
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Wills and Testaments in Medieval England from the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Century
A text book on Wills and Testaments in Medieval England, casting a light on many aspects of medieval life, including gender distinctions and the heavy influence of the church. For use by students of medieval English history.
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Byzantine Studies in Honor of Milton V Anastos
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Nurnberger Fastnachtspiele und stadtische Ordnung
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Ireland's Magdalen laundries and the nation's architecture of containment
This book contends that Ireland’s Magdalen laundries chiefly exist in the public mind at the level of story (cultural representation and survivor testimony) rather than history (archival history and documentation).
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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
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Ireland, India and empire
This book is offers a fresh perspective on the history of the end of Empire. Using the Irish and Indian independence movements as its focus, it details how each country’s nationalist agitators engaged with each other and exchanged ideas.
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Eva Gore-Booth
Academics, postgraduate and undergraduate students in Irish and British social and cultural history.
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Pindos - Grevena. Topia kai xoria tis Greveniotikis Pindou
The towering Pindus Mountains, jagged rocks and a huge mixed forest make up the landscape in Macedonian Grevena. Alpine valleys, rushing rivers, gentle streams, and villages feature in this lavishly illustrated book, which introduces readers and the many visitors to the landscapes and settlements...
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Ikarians in South Australia, 1900-1945
This book looks at a little-researched diaspora, originating on the Greek Aegean Island of Ikaria. Ikaria, being a small, isolated island, close to the Turkish coast, had a long and independent history, with periods of autonomy, including the short-lived Free State of Ikaria in 1912, which was th...
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Loyalty, memory and public opinion in England, 1658–1727
This book makes an important contribution to the ongoing debate over the emergence of an early modern ‘public sphere’. Focusing on the petition-like form of the loyal address, it argues that these texts helped to foster a politically aware public by mapping shifts in the national ‘mood’.
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The Cromwellian Protectorate
Examines the nature of the first regime ever to have effective control of the British Isles and the impact that it had on England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and on Britain’s international reputation. One of the few stuides to view the period as one of acheivement rather than merely a reactiona...
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Cricket and community in England
Cricket and Community in England: 1800 to the Present Day is a path-breaking enquiry into the social history of the summer game.
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The social world of early modern Westminster
This book is the first study to provide an integrated picture of Westminster during this crucial period in its history. It reveals the often problematic relations between the diverse groups of people who constituted local society – the Court, the aristocracy, the Abbey, the middling sort and the ...
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The origins of the Scottish Reformation
This is the first synthetic narrative of the origins of the Scottish Reformation of 1560; the narrative covers the period 1525-60. It brings together religious history with the political history of Mary, Queen of Scots’ reign, paying particular attention to the role of warfare and violence. It is...
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Black Bartholomew's Day
Black Bartholomew's Day is the first comprehensive study of the politicised preaching and polemical literature surrounding the mass ejection of Puritan ministers from the Church of England in 1662 - a pivotal event in the history of religion in Britain
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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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Ireland, Africa and the end of empire
In the twenty years after Ireland joined the UN in 1955, one subject dominated its fortunes: Africa. The first detailed study of Ireland’s relationship with that continent, this book documents its special place in Irish history.
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Scotland, empire and decolonisation in the twentieth century
This volume represents one of the first attempts to examine the connection between Scotland and the British empire throughout the entire twentieth century.
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Enlightenment Travel and British Identities
‘Enlightenment Travel and British Identities’ is the first-ever collection of essays devoted to the influential eighteenth-century travel-writer, antiquarian and naturalist, Thomas Pennant (1726–1798). Offering a truly multidisciplinary range of perspectives, it explores the complex networks of i...
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Judisches Leben in der Weimarer Republik /Jews in the Weimar Republic
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Das Wahlverhalten der judischen Bevolkerung
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Preussen zwischen Hegemonie und "Preussenschlag"
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Teilnehmende Zeitgenossenschaft
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Das Bild vom Juden im Deutschland des fruhen 16. Jahrhunderts
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Kaiser, Christ, and Canaan
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The Germans in India
This book offers a new interpretation of global migration from c. 1815–1920 by examining the elite German migrants who moved to India especially missionaries, scholars and scientists, businessmen, and travelers.
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Vulnerabilitat / La vulnerabilite
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Reformation als Transformation?
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Russia in the Age of Alexander II, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
A vibrant, enthralling account of Russia's most fascinating period of history.
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Migrant Resettlement in the Russian Federation
A book about restructuring homes and homelands in the context of the post-Soviet era.
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Homelands
A comprehensive study of war, population and statehood in Eastern Europe and Russia, 1918–1924.
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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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Hidden Treasures at the Gennadius Library
The New Griffon volume 12 seeks to highlight several discoveries in a variety of areas and time periods: Father Konstantinos Terzopoulos explores 16 manuscripts of Byzantine chant; Leonora Navari presents the published works of Cardinal Bessarion, one of the heroes of Joannes Gennadius because of...
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People, Nations and Traditions in a Comparative Frame
This book illustrates and celebrates Professor Jonathan Steinberg’s – a celebrated historian of modern Europe, especially Germany, Italy, Austria and Switzerland – contributions to historical practice. Professor Steinberg embraced methodological pluralism and pioneered comparative history, explor...
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Agricultural History in Great Britain and Western Europe before 1914
Fussell's work traces the emergence of farming history in the last two centuries, focusing on its growth as a vital historical discipline, with a special emphasis on rural life in England and Western Europe during the 19th century. The book contextualizes agricultural history writers in their soc...
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Creating Irish Tourism
Based on the accounts of British and Anglo-Irish travelers, 'Creating Irish Tourism' charts the development of tourism in Ireland from its origins in the mid-eighteenth century to the country's emergence as a major European tourist destination a century later.
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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.
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Emmanuel Macron and the two years that changed France
This book looks at the period 2015–18 in French politics, which witnessed the emergence of a new political order centred on Emmanuel Macron. It asks whether modern political leadership is capable of restoring trust in political institutions and investigates the transformative nature of the Macron...
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Framing narratives of the Second World War and Occupation in France, 1939–2009
Brings together an internationally distinguished group of contributors and offers an authoritative overview of criticism on war and occupation narratives in French, a redefinition of the canon of texts and films to be studied, and a vibrant demonstration of the richness of the work in this area.
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The French empire between the wars
By considering the distinctiveness of the inter-war years as a discrete period of colonial change, this book addresses several larger issues, such as tracing the origins of decolonization in the rise of colonial nationalism, and a re-assessment of the impact of inter-war colonial rebellions in Af...
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Death and the crown
Looking at the royal rituals around the death of Louis XV and the accession of Louis XVI, this book sheds new light on the politics and culture of the period, offering original perspectives on court culture, the transition of power, the recall of the Paris parlement and the first year of Louis X...
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Lobbying for Equality
The inspiring story of Jacques Godard, set during the dramatic years of the French Revolution, shows how one determined individual can be a catalyst for lasting and meaningful change. Within two tumultuous years, the campaign for Jewish equality achieved its goal: Jews became equal citizens of Fr...
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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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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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Fabricating Authenticity in Soviet Hungary
This book explores the memory of the First Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919, which proved crucial for communist Hungarian political culture throughout the twentieth century. Apor takes an innovative approach to understudied aspects of European memory cultures, focusing particularly on how a dict...
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Gender, crime and empire
Examines the experiences of the convict men and women transported to the British penal colony of Van Diemen’s Land between 1803 and 1852, challenging the received notions of convict women as a particularly oppressed and exploited group, supposedly dominated by convict men as much as by the imperi...
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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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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’.
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Britain in India, 1858–1947
‘Britain in India, 1858–1947’ examines the last ninety years of British India, from the establishment of Crown rule after the Mutiny to withdrawal and partition in 1947.
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Calcutta Mosaic
‘Calcutta Mosiac’ explores the history of the diverse immigrant communities of this great city.
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Citizenship and Statelessness in Sri Lanka
‘Citizenship and Statelessness in Sri Lanka’ analyses the context of the agreement between the Sri Lankan and Indian government that led to the loss of citizenship of Indian Tamil estate workers in Sri Lanka.
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Fortified Cities of Ancient India
Based on solid textual and archeological research, this volume offers a comparative exploration of the development of towns and cities in ancient India.
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Statemaking and Territory in South Asia
This volume seeks to understand how European colonization transformed the organization of territory in South Asia through an examination of the territorial disputes that underlay the Anglo–Gorkha War of 1814–1816 and subsequent efforts of the colonial state to reorder its territories.
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Indian Democracy
‘Indian Democracy’ is an attempt to understand the development of democratic polity in India.
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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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Missionaries and their medicine
Missionaries and their Medicine is a lucid and enthralling study of the encounter between Christian missionaries and an Indian tribal community, the Bhils, in the period 1880 to 1964.
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Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius (1000-250 BC)
The treatment of social stratification, clan and lineage organisation, as well as gender and ethnic differences will be of interest to those involved in the general or comparative analysis of grand themes in the Social Sciences.
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Religion, Law and Power
Examines the interplay of distinct yet overlapping facets of history, Hinduism, the state and the nation in Eastern India.
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Threads of globalization
Threads of globalization is an interdisciplinary volume that brings fashion-specific garments, motifs, materials, and methods of production—into dialogue with gender and identity in various cultures throughout Asia during the long twentieth century.
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Culture, Ideology, Hegemony
Meticulously researched and lucidly argued, this analysis is illuminated by a rare sensitivity to the nature of class formation and class values, as well as to the material conditions of human existence.
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Inventing Subjects
A Marxist-Feminist perspective on the development of socio-cultural formations in colonial India.
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Confronting Colonialism
A rare insight into a turning point of Indian history, commemorating the second centenary of Tipu's final battle against the British at Sriranagapatnam in 1799.
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New frontiers
Examines European, American and Japanese communities in China and Korea, and challenges received notions of agency and collaboration by also looking at the roles in China of British and Japanese colonial subjects from Korea, Taiwan and India, and at Chinese Christians and White Russian refugees.
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Confronting the Body
A key South Asian Studies title that brings together some of the best new writing on physicality in colonial India.
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