Rudolf Virchow, the “Father of Pathology,” viewed life in microscopic detail and from a sweeping public health perspective. This book explores his innovations, his political life, and his fascinating work on race amid the rising anti-Semitism of 19th-century Germany.
Legacies of Trade and Empire
This book challenges established histories of slavery and indentured labour under European empires, focusing on the Indian Ocean. To break the silence on legacies of empire, authors explore decolonisation, agency, and the assertion of identities, musical practices, and cuisines.
Polish and Irish Struggles for Self-Determination
This book explores the little-known links between the Polish and the Irish. Subject to foreign rule, both nations fought for independence and were among the first to grant women voting rights, revealing a shared struggle for autonomy, mutual assistance, and self-organization.
Crossing Colonial Historiographies
This book offers an innovative engagement with the diverse histories of colonial and indigenous medicines across Asia, Africa, and the Americas. It explores new conceptual perspectives and highlights thematic commonalities and divergences across regions.
Living, Dying, Death, and Bereavement (Volume Two)
This unique book offers extensive interviews with pioneers in thanatology—the study of dying, death, loss, and grief. These in-depth conversations provide compelling life stories and a comprehensive, insightful review of the field for clinicians, researchers, and lay persons.
Radiation and Nuclear Energy
This book explains the benefits and risks of radiation and nuclear power in a simple manner. It covers applications in medicine, agriculture, and industry, then looks at nuclear power, arguing it has minimal environmental effects. Written for students and the public.
This collection of scholarly studies focuses on urban life and culture in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Vilnius in the 17th-18th centuries. It covers craft guilds, inns, music, plague outbreaks, and burial customs, contributing to the history of Eastern Europe.
This book examines the education of Uyghur elites in Moscow (1925-1935) at the University of the Workers of the East. Using student biographies, it reveals why this Comintern project to forge a revolution failed and how it could have succeeded against Soviet & Chinese control.
Other Combatants, Other Fronts
Much discussion of the First World War remains confined to the Western Front. This volume pushes the focus away to examine forgotten theatres and neglected experiences, exploring what ‘total war’ meant for people around the world implicated in this event.
A History of Muslims in the Australian Military from 1885 to 1945
For the first time, this book reveals the unknown stories of Muslim involvement in Australian military forces, from the Boer War to the Second World War. It is a Muslim narrative of the broader Anzac story, demonstrating how diverse Muslims fought for a common cause.
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.
T. S. Eliot greatly enhanced Dante’s profound influence on European literature. The essays in this volume explore what Eliot made of Dante, assessing modernism’s legacy by engaging its roots and covering topics from Eliot’s poetics to European unity.
Explore the surprising links between Ireland and Latin America. This collection examines the political and cultural influence of the Irish diaspora through literature, film, and history, revealing two cultures linked by shared destinies and a forgotten aspect of Irish heritage.
British Political Parties and National Identity
This book examines party political debates on Britishness under New Labour (1997–2010). It shows how discussions on devolution, multiculturalism, and globalisation led to a new consensus, while the European Union remained a deep, divisive cleavage.
Things That Liberate
This collection of essays explores objects that changed Australian women’s lives and shaped the feminist movement since 1970. Combining personal narrative and historical analysis, it documents the material culture of liberation, from overalls to kombis.
Home Front in the American Heartland
This collection explores World War One’s impact on the American Heartland, a region often overlooked in wartime histories. It uncovers the complexities of the home front experience, from conscription and propaganda to patriotism, class tensions, and gender roles.
This book is a collection of biographies of forgotten leaders in the temperance movement. Recovering the lives and works of these reformers enhances our understanding of the movement and is for anyone interested in the lost history of social movements.
This book shows that behavioural finance began not in the 1980s, but over 300 years ago. It offers the first comprehensive assessment of Joseph de la Vega’s Confusion of Confusions (1688), demonstrating it is the true precursor to modern behavioural finance.
Mindoro and Lingayen Liberated
From Dec 1944 to Jan 1945, two Allied invasions in the Philippines turned the tide against Japan. This book covers the battles of Mindoro Island and Lingayen Gulf, focusing on the devastating Kamikaze attacks on Allied ships and the war crimes of high-ranking Japanese officers.
Learning Abroad
Since 1959, Commonwealth scholarships have moved 25,000 people across borders, launching them into influence. This book tells the story of the plan, asking who was selected and why, and assesses the long-term impact to answer a key question: was it good value?
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