A dramatic history of the Labour Party’s first hundred years. From Glasgow rent strikes to the danger of Hitler, this book describes how the party impacted ordinary people and shaped modern Britain. Accessible and challenging, it asks: How does Labour measure up after a century?
When Hitler ordered a secret program to kill the handicapped, brave citizens spoke out. They claimed the disabled were not “ballast people” but humans who deserved to live. This is the story of those who risked arrest, imprisonment, and execution to protest the immoral killing.
This book provides an engaging history of classical education in English schools, beginning in 1500 with massive educational developments in England as humanist studies reached the country from abroad, and ending with the headmastership of Thomas Arnold of Rugby School.
Teaching Irish Independence
This book assesses how history teaching in Irish schools (1922-72) was used by church and state. It argues history was exploited to justify the state’s existence, serve as religious education, and legitimize the restoration of the Irish language.
Teaching the Shoah
This collection of essays and creative pieces showcases new ways to teach the Nazi genocide. Featuring academic contributions, a play, and a short story, it addresses the overarching question: how can and should the Shoah be taught to share its most important lessons?
This volume explores scientific and technical knowledge in 13th-16th century Europe, with a special focus on the Iberian Peninsula. Drawing on recipe books, technical treatises, and archaeology, it presents a holistic perspective of technical knowledge during the Middle Ages.
By studying the temperance societies of Victorian and Edwardian England, this book opens a window onto middle-class and working-class society. These organizations of men, women, and children provided the backbone for temperance as both a social movement and a political lobby.
In 18th-century China, Jesuits defied a papal ban on Chinese Rites. Teodorico Pedrini was sent to enforce orthodoxy. To silence him, they imprisoned him, bringing him near death. His writings reveal their plot and cast a new perspective on the proscription of Christianity.
Terrorism in Literature
This volume explores terrorism in literary works, celebrating literature as a subversive tool for change. With insights from scholars across the world and a foreword by acclaimed writer Tabish Khair on literature as a powerful tool for dissent and truth telling.
This volume is a rigorous update of the state of the art in the investigation of Old and Middle English. Written by some of the best known experts in this field, it addresses various issues, such as etymology, manuscript sources, and medieval literary traditions, among others.
This book demythologises the Hitlerjugend Division. Using an innovative social psychology approach, it provides insights into the psychological mechanisms that facilitated their moral disengagement, culminating in the division’s unparalleled combat motivation and war crimes.
The 1960s in Australia
The 1960s is a heavily mythologised decade. This collection challenges that myth, showing that not everyone in Australia experienced it the same way. Expert historians explore the complex social realities, power, and politics of this significant time.
The Admiralty Sessions, 1536-1834
Between 1536 and 1834, England’s Admiralty Sessions tried serious maritime crimes like piracy and murder. This book documents the unique court’s history, its immense challenges, and its battle to enforce the law thousands of miles from shore.
The Alps and Resistance (1943-1945)
This book explores the Alps’ dual function during the Italian Social Republic: a center of battles and opposition to fascism, and the cradle of the political debate that would forge modern Italian and European democracy.
The American Culture of Despair
Is the United States a democratic society, or does it show signs of the cultural despair that preceded fascism? This book examines critical moments, from the Civil War to JFK’s assassination, revealing a long history of authoritarian tendencies and a regressive cycle of crisis.
The American Occupation of Australia, 1941-45
During WWII, over 120,000 American troops were based in Australia. This book examines the resulting “fault lines” in the alliance: GI crime, jurisdictional disputes, and fraught race and gender relations, challenging the accepted history of this occupation.
The Americas and the New World Order
Written by leading experts and new scholars, this collection of essays portrays the Americas’ place in the world. Spanning the Colonial Era to the present, it explores vital issues like migration, crime, economics, and relations between Asia and the Americas.
This first comprehensive volume explores the concept of the ‘home front’ in Greek and Roman Antiquity. Crossing borders between history, social sciences, and religious studies, it investigates the impact of war on the social and religious spheres of civilian communities.
The Archbishops of Cyprus in the Modern Age
Cypriot archbishops have long wielded political power. Most remember the nationalist politician and first President, Archbishop Makarios III. But were they all like him? This unique study explores the role of the archbishop-ethnarch.
Gáldy presents the history, art, and architecture of 25 of the main Florentine churches. She also provides plans and photos of the façades, and introduces important vocabulary and the main textual sources of the 13th to the 17th centuries.
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