A pathbreaking study, based on extensive interviews, which examines the place of Holocaust memory in the identity and…

\nExamining how crucial parts of the distorted normative order of the Third Reich evolved and were justified by regime-loyal…

Lord Acton (1834-1902) and Richard Simpson (1820-76) were the principal figures in the Liberal Catholic movement of…

This is a first-hand account of one of the most important scientific discoveries of the twentieth century. In 1983, two…

Originally published in 1940, this concise book was based upon a series of articles that were written during 1938 and 1939.…

During the eighteenth century European governments began systematically using an international credit structure whose centre…

A study in diplomatic history, the book shows how British diplomacy concerning the Papal Question proceeds in full…

This history of the internationally prominent insurance corporation Allianz AG in the Nazi era is based largely on new or…

\nThis book examines the challenges of Brexit for the legal and political landscape in the UK and in Ireland and for the…

\nFacing global climate crisis, Marx\'s ecological critique of capitalism more clearly demonstrates its importance than…

Based on over one hundred and thirty interviews with government officials, revolutionary activists, war veterans, and…

Rescuing the Crimean War from the shadows, Lara Kriegel illuminates the conflict and its afterlife. She revisits…

\nThis new translation of the Natural History\'s opening books lets readers immerse themselves in the natural world and…

The first comprehensive history of music at social recreations in antiquity, from private parties to festivals,…

This is a study of how German monetary history - in the form of the lessons learned from Germany's experience of inflation…

This book is an account of the battles fought by Judas Maccabeus between 166 and 160 B.C. against the forces of the…

The World of Ancient Israel is especially concerned to explore in greater depth than comparable studies the areas and…

The 2007 second edition of this authoritative history of the Isma'ilis from their origins in the formative period of Islam…

Surveying more than three thousand years of Egyptian civilization, Egypt and the Egyptians offers a comprehensive…

This is a survey of the long and fascinating history of the various ideas and theories about the cause of scurvy. The…

This book consists of a comprehensive collection of ancient literary evidence on Roman art and artists, assembled together…

Of the great European institutions of the Old Regime, the Catholic Church alone survived into the modern world.…

Alan Dessen reconstructs the stage in the Elizabethan era. He believes from stage properties, movements and configurations…

This book situates protection at the centre of the global history of empires, thus advancing a new perspective on world…

\nThis book is a comprehensive history of Continental police systems, especially in the context of political and diplomatic…

Featuring essays by top scholars and an expansive introduction, this volume surveys fifteenth-century Italian sculpture. It…

This volume provides a history of the Scandinavian Reformation from its evangelical beginning in the 1520s to its…

\nThrough its examination of the religious paintings by Pontormo, this book offers a new way to understand the fraught…

\nThis book offers academic readers a glimpse into the ways that religion, ethnicity, and globalization intersected in…

\nUses an interdisciplinary approach combining new archaeological evidence with archival material to reconstruct the lives…

Displaying a profound understanding of the local flora, fauna, history and people, William Marsden (1754-1836) provides an…

During the 1950s and 1960s, research on the prewar British economy was influenced strongly by ideas from Keynesian…

This illustrated two-volume history of Egypt, 'derived entirely from the monuments', was first published in an English…

This first comprehensive history of republican thought and activity in Australia traces debate around an Australian republic…

Written in the years following the First World War, Aaron's Rod questions many of the accepted social and political…

Sir Cyril Fox (1882-1967) was an archaeologist and Director of the National Museum of Wales. This book, first published in…

In a time when First World War studies remains largely Eurocentric, this book offers space for discussion in a comparative…

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The German doctor Franz Mesmer (1734-1815) was fascinated by the idea that invisible natural forces or 'magnetism' could…

\nA comprehensive survey of the field of Irish women\'s poetry, this book will be of intense interest to students,…

A wide-ranging study of violence in Latin literature, across the spectrum of texts and genres from Plautus to Prudentius.…

\nThis book traces the transformation of the belief systems that shaped life in ancient Near Eastern communities, from…

Vernacular poetry in Renaissance Italy was typically created and disseminated by improvising singer-poets. This is the first…

A collection of specially commissioned essays exploring the institutions, artists, thinkers, cultural and socio-political…

From its foundation in the fourth century to its fall to the Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth, the city of Constantinople…