Brazil: essays on history and politics

This volume is published to mark the 80th birthday of Leslie Bethell, a major figure in Brazilian studies. It consists of seven of his essays on important themes in modern Brazilian history and politics. The essays are new, but they draw on book chapters and journal articles published (mainly in ...

New world objects of knowledge

With contributions from a renowned set of scholars, New World Objects of Knowledge delves into the hidden histories of forty of the New World’s most iconic artifacts, from the Inca mummy to Darwin’s hummingbirds. This volume is richly illustrated with photos and sketches from the archives and mus...

Queer between the covers

Queer Between the Covers presents a history of radical queer publishing and literature from 1880 to the modern day. The book demonstrates how the queer community could be brought together through shared literature and how LGBTQ people throughout modernity have used literature as an important foru...

Becoming a historian

Writing history is an art and a craft, which can sometimes make it feel intimidating. Becoming a Historian debunks the myths and demystifies the world of research for both research students and independent scholars. It outlines techniques to help design large-scale research projects, demonstrates...

The glasgow sugar aristocracy

This important book is the first to outline Scotland’s colonial past and Glasgow’s direct links with the slave trade through sugar plantations. It traces how significant fortunes and investments made through chattel slavery percolated into the Scottish economy and wider society, and examines, via...

The agōn in classical literature

The multifaceted agōn – a ‘contest of words’ – is a force formulating classical literary tradition. This book reflects on facets of the agōn and its representations in classical literature across a variety of genres and ideological contexts, from Homer to lyric poetry, drama, law, rhetoric and hi...

Coal country

This is the first book-length account of deindustrialization in the Scottish coalfields. The flooding and subsequent closure of Scotland’s last deep coal mine in 2002 brought a centuries long saga to an end. Colliery closures and job losses were not just experienced in economic terms: they had pr...

Freedom seekers

Freedom Seekers reveals the hidden stories of enslaved and bound people who attempted to escape from captivity in 17th-century London. It was the joint winner of the prestigious Frederick Douglass Book Prize from Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Ab...

The control of the past

Written by one of the few historians employed by the British government, this important book details how successive governments have applied a selective approach to the past in order to tell or re-tell Britain’s national history, with implications for the future. Providing a unique overview of th...

European socialists across borders

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

Victoria county history of cumbria: kirkoswald and renwick

This volume details the developments from premodern times to the present day of Kirkoswald and Renwick. Kirkoswald township was anciently a market and small industrial centre, and until 1566 Kirkoswald Castle was the principal seat of the powerful Barons Dacre of the North. The economy, largely d...

Democratising history

Democratising History interrogates the ways in which democracy has transformed modern Britain and how we teach its history. Nine research-led chapters offer new ways to think about the history of democracy in Britain since the early nineteenth century. These are complemented by six interludes tha...

The social and political life of latin american infrastructures

This cross-disciplinary book makes a novel contribution to global infrastructure debates and provides important new insights into Latin America’s history and politics. It captures the characteristics, limits and vibrancy of Latin America’s infrastructures, exploring irrigation networks in Peru to...

Capitalism, colonisation and the ecocide-genocide nexus

This timely publication examines the drivers of the ecologically induced genocide of Indigenous and place-based peoples in the former British colonies of Kenya and Australia. It synthesises radical political ecology with a political-economic approach to illuminate the nexus between the genocidal ...

Shaping migration between europe and latin america: new perspectives and challenges

Focusing on Latin America and Europe, two world regions historically linked by human mobility and cultural exchange, this insightful examination of their changing international migration patterns details their responses to significant demographic changes and new migration trends. The volume exami...

The victoria history of essex: southend

This new history of Southend describes its growth as a town and resort in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Its thematic chapters chart Southend’s expansion and developments in its infrastructure and economy, determined both by the impact of seasonal visitors and the year-round movement of ...

Refugee reception in southern africa

This book offers an original and unique perspective on refugee hosting in Southern Africa, through a comparative analysis of the politics surrounding the welcome afforded to refugees in Zambia and South Africa. While state-based reception is frequently framed as one-off moments, such as registrat...

A nicaraguan exceptionalism?

In recent years, child migrants from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador have made the perilous journey to the United States in unprecedented numbers, but their peers in Nicaragua have remained at home. Nicaragua also enjoys lower murder rates and far fewer gang problems when compared with her ne...

Understanding alba: progress, problems, and prospects of alternative regionalism in latin america and the caribbean

This collection analyses the impact and influence of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), whose vision of alternative regionalism has spearheaded Latin America and the Caribbean’s collective challenge to neoliberal globalisation in the twenty-first century. Moving beyond...

A return to the village: community ethnographies and the study of andean culture in retrospective

This edited volume brings together several scholars who produced outstanding ethnographies of Andean communities between the 1970s and 2000s and asks them to revisit, review, and reassess their original works in the light of contemporary anthropology, focusing on different academic and personal a...

Rethinking past and present in cuba

This volume comprises of essays and research articles written in homage to the seminal influence and contribution made by the late Alistair Hennessy towards the development of Cuban studies. Following Hennessy’s own cross-disciplinary and open-minded approach to the study of the history of Cuba, ...

Provincialising nature: multidisciplinary approaches to the politics of the environment in latin america

This book offers a timely analysis of some of the crucial challenges, contradictions and promises within current environmental discourses and practices within Latin America. Two interconnected analytical frameworks guide the discussions in the book: the relationship between nature, knowledge and ...

Memory, migration and (de)colonisation in the caribbean and beyond

Memory, Migration and (De)Colonisation furthers our understanding of Caribbean migrations and migrants in relation to the histories and cultures of countries of the Northern Atlantic. It focuses on the relationship between Caribbean migrants and processes of decolonisation. At the heart of this b...

Octavia hill, social activism and the remaking of british society

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

Mapping the state

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

Liberation theology and praxis in contemporary latin america

Focusing on the lived experiences and spiritual and embodied practices of those engaged in social action in Latin America, this book’s diverse, interdisciplinary contributions seek to re-evaluate the history and legacy of liberation theology in examining religious praxis in the region from the 19...

The afterlife of apuleius

Apuleius’ literary and philosophical fortune has been considerable since antiquity, mostly through the reception of The Golden Ass. The aim of this collection is to highlight a few major aspects of this afterlife, from the High Middle Ages to early Romanticism, in the fields of literature, lingui...

A liberal tide?

Over the past decade, a paradigm shift in migration and asylum law and policymaking appears to have taken place in Latin America. Does this apparent ""liberal tide"" of new laws and policies suggest a new approach to the hot topics of migration and refugees in Latin America distinct from the regr...

Ravenna

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

Chile and the inter-american human rights system

Creative spaces

The essays within this collection reassess dominant theoretical notions of ‘marginality’ in Latin America and argue that, in contemporary society, it invariably allows for (if not leads to) the production of the new. Viewing them neither as spaces of deprivation nor romanticized spaces of opportu...

Books, readers and libraries in fiction

This volume explores the depiction of books, libraries and reading in fiction from the medieval period to the present. Its varied case studies address common themes such as gender, genre and the relation between reading and writing itself and examine what fictional representations of reading tell...

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

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

Joaquim nabuco, british abolitionists, and the end of slavery in brazil

The correspondence between Joaquim Nabuco, the leading Brazilian abolitionist, and Charles Harris Allen, secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society, and other British abolitionists reveals a partnership to internationalize the struggle to abolish slavery. This collection of letters provides an insight...

Philosophy, science & exegesis: in greek, arabic & latin commentaries (bics supplement 83.2)

The struggle for an enlightened republic

Analyzes the evolution of politics, ideas, and culture in Buenos Aires from 1820-1827, focusing on Rivadavia's period as minister of government from 1821-24. This book also reveals the causes of his political downfall in 1827, after he became the president of the Argentine Republic.

Caamano in london

In January 1966, Colonel Francisco Caamano Deno, president of the Dominican Republic during the "Constitutionalist" uprising of 1965 and the subsequent US invasion, was exiled to London. This book presents documents from official archives on Caamano's conversations with British and American diplo...

Gender and historiography: studies in the earlier middle ages in honour of pauline stafford

The chapters in this volume celebrate the work of Pauline Stafford, highlighting the ways in which it has advanced research in the fields of both Anglo-Saxon history and the history of medieval women and gender. Ranging across the period, and over much of the old Carolingian world as well as Angl...

A horizon of (im)possibilities

Since the 2018 presidential election result in Brazil, much debate has ensued about the country’s so-called ‘conservative turn’. A Horizon of (Im)possibilities brings together a myriad of different perspectives to help us better understand the political events that have shaken the country in rece...

Magna carta: history, context and influence

This book examines the history and influence of Magna Carta in British and American history. It considers the origins of the document in the context of the thirteenth century, the relevance of its principles to the seventeenth century disputes that led to the Civil War, the uses made of Magna Car...

A corpus of greek graffiti from dalmatia

This volume is a corpus of seven hundred Greek graffiti on ceramic artefacts from sixteen sites in Dalmatia, ranging in date from the late sixth to the first century BC. Most notably, the catalogue contains a substantial number of pieces from recent excavations at the two sanctuaries of Diomedes,...

Images of the pagan gods

Voice, silence and gender in south africa's anti-apartheid struggle

Tracing the political life of Masabatha Loate, a young black woman activist who testified at the trial of the ‘Soweto Eleven’ in 1978, this book examines the history of South Africa’s liberation struggle through the lens of voice, speech and silence, and what this reveals about the gendered dynam...

Reconciling rwanda

ContentsRwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) government departmentsGlossary of Kinyarwanda wordsChronology of key eventsIntroduction Contribution and engagement Conflict in context Gacaca: justice and reconciliation at the community genocide courts Nation-building and a return to unity Teaching the nati...

Pseudo-galenica

The works of Galen of Pergamum (c. 129-216 CE) were fundamental in the shaping of medicine, philosophy and neighbouring areas of knowledge. Yet, as early as Galen's own lifetime, spurious treatises crept into the body of his authentic works. This volume is the result of a conference held in 2015 ...

The politics of women's suffrage

Women’s suffrage was the most significant challenge to the constitution since 1832, seeking not only to settle demands for inclusion and justice but to expand and redefine definitions of citizenship. This book advances ongoing debates within suffrage history whilst also bringing new materials and...

Le septième siècle: changements et continuités/the seventh century: change and continuity

Star chamber matters

Star Chamber was an extraordinary court which came into its own over the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. This volume explores the history of an age through both the practices of its courts and the disputes of the people who came before them. With Star Chamber, we view a court that came...

Studies on wealth in the ancient world (bics supplement 133)

Menander 'misoumenos' or 'the hated man'

Judging from the numerous recovered papyrus fragments, Menander’s Misoumenos, or ‘The Hated Man’ was one of his most popular plays. This edition is the fullest to date of any English language edition of the play and aims to restore as much of the original action as possible through painstaking re...

Writing and the west german protest movements: the textual revolution

The 1960s protest movements marked an astonishing moment for West Germany. They developed a political critique, but are above all distinctive for their overwhelming emphasis on culture and the symbolic. In particular, reading and writing had a uniquely prestigious status for West German protester...

Menander 'epitrepontes' (bics supplement 106)

Medieval merchants and money

The essays in this volume were written in celebration of the scholarship of the medieval historian Professor James L. Bolton. They address a variety of questions in medieval economic and social history, and some look more widely at patterns of immigration to London, trade and royal policy, and th...

Ernst kitzinger and the making of medieval art history

This volume brings together the papers given at the colloquium held at the Warburg Institute to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ernst Kitzinger. His work has been, and still is, fundamentally influential on the present-day discipline of art history in a wide range of topics. The first ...

Greek into latin from antiquity until the nineteenth century

The margins of late medieval london, 1430-1540

This book explores the complexity of medieval London’s urban fringe communities. Going beyond London’s institutional structures, it casts new light on urban life at the level of the neighbourhood and considers the differences in economy, society and sociability which existed in different areas of...

The afterlife of inscriptions: reusing, rediscovering, reinventing, revitalizing ancient inscriptions (bics supplement 75)

A world you do not know

A World You Do Not Know explores the wilful ignorance demonstrated by NorthAmerica’s settlers in establishing their societies on lands already occupied by indigenous nations.

The victoria history of herefordshire: cradley

Drawing extensively on local archival sources, this volume charts the social, economic, religious and political history of Cradley in Herefordshire. It explores the fragmented model of land ownership and the development of a powerful body of wealthy yeomanry that shaped the distinctive character ...

Forging fraternity in late medieval society

Departing from traditional guild studies, Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society crosses conventional historiographical boundaries to reconceptualise guild membership as both a structure for complex social relations and identities. With over 18,000 members recorded in the guild’s massive ext...

Blackburn’s ‘worthy citizen’: the philanthropic legacy of r.e. hart

The exceptionally fine colour images in this catalogue are selections from the R.E. Hart Collection held by the Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery. Seven medieval manuscripts and three incunables from the Collection were exhibited at Senate House Library in November of 2013. This project, Blackburn...

Technology's pulse: essays on rhythm in german modernism

Modernity, as has often been observed, was fundamentally concerned with questions of temporality. The period around 1900, in particular, witnessed numerous efforts to define, discipline or 'liberate' temporal experience. Within this broader framework of thinking about temporality, 'rhythm' came t...

Roman military diplomas vi

This sixth volume in the Roman Military Diplomas series catalogues, transcribes and reconstructs the 179 diplomas published between 2004 and 2007 alongside contextual information helping to illuminate everything from the commanders of units to the social lives of soldiers. It is an essential refe...

Cultural worlds of the jesuits in colonial latin america

The volume demonstrates the diversity of Jesuit contributions to Latin American culture. They pioneered an interest in indigenous languages and cultures, compiling dictionaries and writing some of the earliest ethnographies of the region. They also explored the region’s natural history and made s...

Names on terra sigillata. volume 5. l to masclus ii (bics supplement 102.5)

Writing and muslim identity: representations of islam in german and english transcultural literature, 1990-2006

Writing and Muslim Identity is a comparative study of Islam in contemporary German- and English-language literature. At a time when the non-Islamic world seems to be defining itself increasingly in contrast to the Islamic world, this literary exploration of Islam-related issues sheds new and valu...

Innovations in teaching history

An essential teaching companion offering practical strategies for enhancing learning for all teachers of history in higher education, this collection of seven case studies reflects on how we teach the history of the long eighteenth century. It is grounded in real academic practice and focuses on ...

Petrarch’s famous men in the early renaissance: the illuminated copies of felice feliciano’s edition

Greek & roman philosophy 100 bc-200 ad. volumes 1-2 (bics supplement 94.1-2)

Aristotle and after (bics supplement 68)

Contesting clio's craft

Offers thoughts on approaches to the study of the Canadian past. This book contains essays that emphasises on international, transnational, and comparative approaches to the past. It covers such topics as the Atlantic World, oral history, postcolonialism, public history, historical periodization,...

Precarious professionals

Precarious Professionals uncovers the inequalities and insecurities which lay at the heart of professional life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain. Through twelve fascinating studies of women and men on the margins, this volume re-evaluates the relationship between professional identity...

Opposing patriarchy: women and the law in action in pre-unification italy (1815-1865)

Shifts in state boundaries and socio-economic structures deeply affected the political landscape in nineteenth-century Italy, coinciding with changes to the legal system. The patriarchal, hierarchical and strict class stratification of society saw women redefining their sense of self and rethinki...

The victoria history of middlesex: st clement danes, 1660-1900

St Clement Danes was home to a mix of rich and poor residents, including lawyers, artisans, servants and prostitutes. From being the site of aristocratic riverside houses in the 17th century, it became a commercial and cultural hub in in the 18th. After decaying into slums by the 1800s, it was su...

Masculinity and danger on the eighteenth-century grand tour

The Grand Tour was a journey to continental Europe undertaken by British nobility and wealthy landed gentry during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. As a rite of passage, the Tour also played an important role in the formation of contemporary notions of elite masculinity. Examining letter...

Philoponus and the rejection of aristotelian science (2nd edition) (bics supplement 103)

Currency & exchange in ancient pompeii

The victoria history of hampshire: medieval basingstoke

Though Basingstoke is often seen as the product of the last decades of the 20th century, its beginnings go back to c.1000. By 1500 it was among the top 60 towns in England by wealth and taxpayers, and the centre of a major industrial area, whose manufactured cloths formed part of international pa...

Atlantic isles: travel and identity in the british and irish west, 1880–1940

Atlantic Isles examines the cultural and political prominence of the ‘westward gaze’ in late-nineteenth century Britain and Ireland. The book reveals how imagined geographies from the Cornish cliffs to the Connemara highlands were spaces of modern enchantment while also central to notions of Brit...

The digital classicist 2013

This wide-ranging volume is a collection of papers that initially emanated from presentations at Digital Classicist seminars and conference panels and showcases exemplary applications of digital scholarship to the ancient world. It critically examines the many challenges and opportunities afforde...

Sifting the soil of greece. the early years of the british school at athens (1886–1919) (bics supplement 111)

The victoria history of essex: harwich, dovercourt and parkeston in the 19th century

This book explores the changing character of Harwich, Dovercourt and Parkeston over the course of the 19th century, including the borough’s economic, social and political history. Its coastal location dictated its prominent role as a port and naval base from the 14th century onwards, and it retai...

Contemporary challenges in securing human rights

This volume is published in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights offered at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. The chapters reflect on cutting-edge challenges in the field of human rights. Topics include refugee protection, wome...

Guilds, society and economy in london 1450-1800

This book is made up of a collection of papers from the 'Revisiting the livery companies of early modern London' conference held in April 2000 by the CMH, exploring the history of London livery companies from a variety of perspectives. Employing historical and interdisciplinary approaches, it exa...

Anti-communism in britain during the early cold war

A revisionist history of anti-communism in Britain during the early Cold War, this is the first book to examine how British Cold War anti-communism transpired and manifested. Drawing from a wealth of archival material, it argues that an overreaction to the communist threat occurred and explores, ...

Out of arcadia: classics and politics in germany in the age of burckhardt, nietzsche and wilamowitz (bics supplement 79)

Cinemas and cinema-going in the united kingdom

In the first half of the twentieth century, cinema-going was the most popular commercial leisure activity century. But with the transition to peacetime, leisure habits changed. During the 1950s increased affluence, the growth of television ownership and the diversification of leisure led to rapid...

Themes in plato, aristotle, and hellenistic philosophy

The present volume collects together papers based on the annual Keeling Memorial Lecture in ancient philosophy given at University College London, over 2011-18 (and one from 2004, previously unpublished). It contains contributions to theoretical as well as practical ancient philosophy, and in som...

Before grenfell

On 14 June 2017, flames engulfed Grenfell Tower, a residential block of flats in West London. Seventy-two people lost their lives and many hundreds more were traumatised as a national ‘cladding crisis’ unfolded. Before Grenfell traces the underlying causes of the fire through more than four decad...

Erôs and the polis: love in context

The articles in this volume share a historicizing approach to the conventions and expectations of erôs in the context of the polis. They pursue a variety of issues, including: the link between homosexual erôs and politics; sexual practices that fell outside societal norms; and the roles of sophro...

World crisis effects on social security in latin america and the caribbean

Assesses the effects of the world economic crisis on social security and welfare in the region. This book identifies the strengths and weakness of Latin American social security before the global crisis. It evaluates the event's actual and potential effects on pensions, health care, and social as...

A british book collector

Based on a major exhibition at Two Temple Place in London, A British Book Collector celebrates one of the finest collections of manuscripts and rare books in the north-west of England.