This book examines the intellectual trajectories of international mid-career scholars working on the Second World War and the Holocaust in France across a wide range of disciplines, including history, literature, and cultural studies. It scrutinises...Loe edasi...
A study of obscene literature and journalism in 20th century France which is focused on the perspective of a history of reading and literary production....Loe edasi...
This book offers a new understanding of the main economic and political trends of 20th-century Britain, through the lens of Churchills early career and approach to industrialisation....Loe edasi...
Forbidden Desire is a pioneering study of the history of male-male sex in the whole of Early Modern Europe, including the European colonies and the Ottoman world....Loe edasi...
Collected essays from across disciplines exploring the phenomenon of Jewish art and antique dealers in modern European cultural history....Loe edasi...
Through the analysis of 10 oral witness testimonies of local residents and a previously undocumented letter correspondence between a Jewish Holocaust survivor and her gentile friend, The Jewish Purging of a Small German Town provides new insights in...Loe edasi...
A quantitative and qualitative study of dairy consumption in Spain since 1950 to explore the history of diet change and its consequences on society....Loe edasi...
When her marriage to Earl Cowper soured, she took a string of lovers, eventually taming a rake: the promising, promiscuous Lord Palmerston. Emilys life resembled real life Bridgerton - she even inspired the character Cressida Cowper....Loe edasi...
A detailed thematic examination of the dynamics of power and governance in Lombard Italy. The Age of Liutprand provides a thematic analysis of Lombard Italy in the pivotal early part of the 8th century. It surveys the crucial role and...Loe edasi...
The Wise and Their Works celebrates the 175th anniversary of the Great Exhibition in 2026. The men who inspired the Great Exhibition of 1851 - Henry Cole, Sir Robert Peel and above all Prince Albert himself - were at the centre of an extr...Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the tontine, an innovative financial instrument conceived and implemented in various settings throughout Georgian and early Victorian Britain. The book draws on metic...Loe edasi...
The Gallipoli campaign of the First World War seems to have been exhaustively studied by shelves of books and thousands of articles. This edited volume challenges this perception of completion, revealing extensive uncovered ground, misunderstandin...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487560805)
Why do we keep returning to the Weimar Republic as a focal point for queer and trans histories, and why are images so crucial to our understanding of this period? This volume brings together research from disciplines including history, art history...Loe edasi...
Coming soon! Infrastructure Sustainability and Urban Resilience in Medieval England by Roberta J. Magnusson.Coming soon! Infrastructure Sustainability and Urban Resilience in Medieval England by Roberta J. Magnusson....Loe edasi...
Following the passage of the 1834 New Poor Law, parishes in England and Wales were organized into unions, each of which had at least one workhouse, a public institution where impoverished individuals and families were housed, fed, and put to work. B...Loe edasi...
Sari: Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300186277)
This volume of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization covers the religious, political, economic, and geographic transformations of Jewish life through the early Middle Ages Volume 3 of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civiliza...Loe edasi...
“There are many books that explain the transformation of Russia by focusing on the politicians, oligarchs, and KGB/FSB spies who run Russia. This isn’t one of them. Let me explain how a kid from New York founded a law firm in Moscow, had to fle...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198099)
In 1975 the UK voted yes, by 67, to the European Community (EC). Since 1 January 1973, when the UK first joined, Edward Heath and Harold Wilson sought a fundamental transformation of the UKs relationship with the EC in terms of membership and pu...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198013)
Survival Capitalism is a cultural history of the 1980s financial revolution. It ranges in scope across the Thatcher government, the Bank of England, London Stock Exchange and member firms, and Lloyds of London. It offers timely new perspectives on t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526197979)
For the Victorian working class, lodging in someone elses home was commonplace. Drawing on hundreds of coroners inquests reported in the Victorian press, Living with lodgers traverses Englands domestic dwelling lodgings, providing an intimate portra...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198143)
Becoming couture explains how post-war Italian fashion reinvented itself through the persuasive strategies of intermediaries in Italy and the United States, beyond the myth of Giovanni Battista Giorgini and the Sala Bianca. -- ....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781807070410)
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 Atlan...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526199775)
This volume explores the shifting nature of anti-racism in Britain through 11 illuminating case studies. Together, they highlight the tensions between solidarity and paternalism, demonstrate the interplay between local, national and transnational fo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526199799)
A new translation of an important source for medieval monastic history that provides interesting insights the background to the Norman Conquest of England. -- ....Loe edasi...
An overview of the early years of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), highlighting the debates about how far the organisation should be self-supporting or state-funded....Loe edasi...
This book provides a detailed picture of foreigners who performed military service in the Principality of Transylvania over almost one and a half centuries. It explores their social and cultural background, their motivation for seeking employment...Loe edasi...
This book provides a unique perspective on migration throughout Western Europe after the Second World War by exploring the complex histories of migrant children and families under the conditions of a restrictive migration regime. By historicising wh...Loe edasi...
This book is the first major biography of General Miguel Primo de Rivera, dictator of Spain between 1923 and 1930, who played a key role in the shaping of a counterrevolutionary Europe in the interwar era.Following new historiographical tre...Loe edasi...
Follow the Romans through Kingship, Republic, and Empire. Understand their society, their values, their heroes, their victories, and their defeats. The name “Rome” brings to mind an array of images: a Senate, an empire, an army, the Seven Hills, the...Loe edasi...
This book examines the intellectual trajectories of international mid-career scholars working on the Second World War and the Holocaust in France across a wide range of disciplines, including history, literature, and cultural studies. It scrutinises...Loe edasi...
A study of obscene literature and journalism in 20th century France which is focused on the perspective of a history of reading and literary production....Loe edasi...
This book offers a new understanding of the main economic and political trends of 20th-century Britain, through the lens of Churchills early career and approach to industrialisation....Loe edasi...
Dark and strange and wonderful MARK HADDON, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Hilarious, moving, and delightfully weird JO HARKIN, author of The Pretender A bold, vivid and fiercely imaginative his...Loe edasi...
Forbidden Desire is a pioneering study of the history of male-male sex in the whole of Early Modern Europe, including the European colonies and the Ottoman world....Loe edasi...
Collected essays from across disciplines exploring the phenomenon of Jewish art and antique dealers in modern European cultural history....Loe edasi...
Through the analysis of 10 oral witness testimonies of local residents and a previously undocumented letter correspondence between a Jewish Holocaust survivor and her gentile friend, The Jewish Purging of a Small German Town provides new insights in...Loe edasi...
A quantitative and qualitative study of dairy consumption in Spain since 1950 to explore the history of diet change and its consequences on society....Loe edasi...
When her marriage to Earl Cowper soured, she took a string of lovers, eventually taming a rake: the promising, promiscuous Lord Palmerston. Emilys life resembled real life Bridgerton - she even inspired the character Cressida Cowper....Loe edasi...
A detailed thematic examination of the dynamics of power and governance in Lombard Italy. The Age of Liutprand provides a thematic analysis of Lombard Italy in the pivotal early part of the 8th century. It surveys the crucial role and...Loe edasi...
The Wise and Their Works celebrates the 175th anniversary of the Great Exhibition in 2026. The men who inspired the Great Exhibition of 1851 - Henry Cole, Sir Robert Peel and above all Prince Albert himself - were at the centre of an extr...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781837052219)
Anne Crawford allows the queens to speak for themselves through their own correspondence, with each letter set in context and a general introduction on the role of the queen in medieval and Tudor England....Loe edasi...
This book argues that the humanities must reclaim a fuller idea of human by tracing how thinkers from Dante to Vico grappled with the tension between individual freedom, social realities, and historical forces....Loe edasi...
For three centuries, the Vikings changed the political world of northern and western Europe. This encyclopedia explores exactly how they did it in a highly readable and informative resource volume....Loe edasi...
This book offers a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the tontine, an innovative financial instrument conceived and implemented in various settings throughout Georgian and early Victorian Britain. The book draws on metic...Loe edasi...
