The first book-length study of Wales’s second political party in the decades after World War II. Wales is often consider......more

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From the moment of its inception, the East German state sought to cast itself as a clean break from the horrors of Natio......more

Since the advent of the reign of Mohammed VI in 1999, Morocco has deployed a new continental foreign policy. The Kingdom......more

"It is impossible to understand the history of modern Europe without some knowledge of the Weimar Republic. The brief fo......more

Friends and Enemies presents a collection of essays on Canadian foreign policy written by J.L. Granatstein, one of the l......more

Exploring the reform and regulation of juvenile females in the Victorian and early Edwardian era, this book presents the......more

Explores the question of whether heroes matter in the modern republic....more

A Cultural History of Color in the Renaissance covers the period 1400 to 1650, a time of change, conflict, and transform......more

A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Industry covers the period 1800 to 1920, when the world embraced color like ne......more

Bringing together an international group of literary scholars, intellectual historians, and cultural historians, this bo......more

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This book assesses trade unionism and labour relations from the foundation of the Irish Free State to the establishment ......more

Tracing the social history of modern German Jews from the end of the 18th century up to the aftermath of World War II, M......more

Explores the theological beliefs and teachings of Griffith Jones, his support for the Welsh language, and his persuasion......more

Shaping Tomorrow’s World tells the crucial story of how futures studies developed in West Germany, Europe, the US and wi......more

Describing the bomber force of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is a unique task. Compared to recent Chinese f......more

A treasure trove of beautiful and informative illustrations of key areas of the Holy Land during the late nineteenth cen......more

This book describes and analyses the Manchu, or Qing, army in all its aspects. The emphasis lays on the Qing army in the......more

The Principality of Transylvania was a new state, organized in the decades that followed the dissolution of the Medieval......more

This book tells the fascinating tale of a character like no other--Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) came to be known as th......more

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From "one of Russia’s smartest and best-sourced young journalists" (The New York Time......more

Unveiling the forgotten British heroes of the Alamo, this narrative redefines the iconic battle while exploring the cont......more

Mary Queen of Scots (1542-1587) was active as monarch of Scotland for just six years between 1561 and 1567, but her impa......more

Orit Ouaknine-Yekutieli examines the life and deeds of Thami al-Glaoui (1879-1956), and the multiple ways in which his s......more

A beautifully designed book showcasing important collections of Titanic-related memorabilia This is the first in a two-p......more

The British army between 1783 and 1815 - the army that fought in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars - has rece......more

Ireland at the outset of the Tudor era was a highly militarized society, with more than sixty Gaelic lordships maintaini......more

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While the 1914 Christmas truces have a mythological status in British culture, intimate interactions with the enemy are,......more

Readers who finished the acclaimed 2018 first edition swiftly dove into a second reading. Why the page-turning intrigue?......more

Early encounters between Britain and China are best known for igniting the First Opium War. Yet they also produced an en......more

An illustrated account of the dramatic engagement between the Luftwaffe’s Me 163 units and Allied bombers during the clo......more

Ramism and the Reformation of Method offers a fresh exploration of the philosophical and theological presuppositions of ......more

An illustrated account of how the USAAF’s might was challenged by the Jagdflieger and their heavily armed, and armoured,......more

From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergarten classes--this is a......more

This volume explores the extent to which the Revolutionary period (1740-1815) impacted the faculty, students and institu......more

Student-Centered Oral History explores the overlaps of culturally relevant teaching, student-centered teaching, and oral......more

Featuring a host of unpublished interviews, this is the first book to explore the greatest year in Hollywood’s history -......more

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In the early modern period, both legal and illegal maritime predation was a common occurrence, but the expansion of Euro......more

This book sheds new light on the ongoing fight to end prostitution through a historical study of its emotional communiti......more

After the proclamation of the Truman Doctrine in 1947, the United States became deeply involved in Greek affairs. By 195......more

This book examines the emergence of professional advertising in western India during the interwar period. It explores th......more

This book tells the story of an epochal change in the human condition that was part of what is often thought of as ’mode......more

While now long-forgotten, King Farouk of Egypt loomed large in British culture in the 1940s and 1950s. Farouk was of int......more

Petroleum from Coal shows why and how Friedrich Bergius and Franz Fischer and Hans Tropsch in 1913-26 invented and devel......more

The Isle of Man is predominantly a maritime nation. For many generations its menfolk have made their living from the sea......more

The first major publication about the case since Amanda Knox’s final exoneration. In November 2007 the body of British s......more

The story of the Jacobite Rebellions really began in 1534, when King Henry VIII changed the official religion of England......more

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A provocative look at the relationship between the far right and the American conservative movement from the 1930s to th......more

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Examines the entanglement of secularity and liberality in the foundation of the modern state in Britain. "Modern" Britai......more

In this book, Carl Niekerk probes the origins of modern anthropology in the European Enlightenment, foregrounding how th......more

This collection of essays examines the ways in which poverty was conceptualised in the social, political, and religious ......more

Now in its third edition, The Age of Reformation has been fully updated and extended, offering a comprehensive study of ......more

Now in its third edition, The Age of Reformation has been fully updated and extended, offering a comprehensive study of ......more

In sixteenth and seventeenth-century England, the Hacker family were powerful and wealthy people - owning substantial am......more

Queen Victoria brought Liverpool great wealth and prosperity, and its buildings reflect an ambition to be proclaimed ’se......more

Urban Battlefields: Lessons Learned from World War II to the Modern Era offers a detailed study of the complexities of u......more

Untold Truths brings together scholars, students, staff, and descendants to explore Loyola University Maryland’s histori......more

Untold Truths brings together scholars, students, staff, and descendants to explore Loyola University Maryland’s histori......more

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This title offers an original and compelling insight into why Australians have come to exhibit their nationhood in curio......more

Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act of 1924 recodified the state’s long-standing racial hierarchy as a more rigid Black-whit......more

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A wide-ranging new history of NATO, from its origins to the present day--published for the alliance’s seventy-fifth anni......more

Through sources from literature and film to comics, music and the built environment across the globe, this work studies ......more

British Malta, 1798-1835 explores the incorporation and early administration of Malta as a British protectorate, and lat......more

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