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Henry Cabot Lodge, Alexander Hamilton and the Political Thought of the Gilded Age

Edited By: H.G. Callaway

£61.99

This volume examines the darker side of the famed American founder, Alexander Hamilton. A Gilded Age revival of his ideas helped inspire an assertive American role in the world, culminating in an overseas empire. The book reveals his elitist and military-commercial convictions.

Herbert Croly’s The Promise of American Life at Its Centenary

Edited By: John Allphin Moore

£29.99

Herbert Croly’s The Promise of American Life is an enduring classic that influenced Theodore Roosevelt, the New Deal, and the Great Society. This anthology presents essays analyzing the book's impact on the 20th century and its suitability for the 21st.

Herbert Croly’s The Promise of American Life is an enduring classic that influenced Theodore Roosevelt, the New Deal, and the Great Society. This anthology presents essays analyzing the book’s impact on the 20th century and its suitability for the 21st.

Herbs and the Evolution of Human Societies

Edited By: Yue Yue, Molly Chatalic

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This volume analyses the evolving dialogue between humankind and nature. Spanning Africa, America, Asia, and Europe, it provides a meeting ground between plants and humanity in different dimensions.

Historical Aspects of Plantation and Spice Crop Production Systems in the Tropics

Edited By: B. Sasikumar, B. Mohan Kumar

£89.99

The history of spices and plantation crops is deeply entwined with colonialism, trade disputes, and revolution. This comprehensive work explores their antiquity, cultural significance, and global spread, revealing how these plants have historically shaped the world order.

Historical Bibliography as an Essential Source for Historiography

Edited By: Bernadette Cunningham, Václava Horčáková, Kristina Rexová

£47.99

This book explores the significance of historical bibliography for historical science. Bibliographers, historians and librarians from across Europe compare different methodological and technological approaches, and discuss the future of the field.

Historical Knowledge

In Quest of Theory, Method and Evidence

Edited By: Susanna Fellman, Marjatta Rahikainen

£39.99

This book offers theoretical and methodological building blocks for historical research. It addresses the challenges of evidence and interpreting the past, featuring texts by eminent historians Natalie Zemon Davis, Carlo Ginzburg, and Giovanni Levi.

Historical Perspectives on Social Identities

Edited By: Alyson Brown

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This collection of essays examines identity in 19th & 20th century Britain. It explores how social, cultural, and political change created fragmented identities, linking theoretical debates to historical work on class, gender, religion, and nationality.

Historical Representation and the Postcolonial Imaginary

Constructing Travellers and Aborigines

Edited By: John Hartnett

£29.99

This work provides an overview of oral history's role in empowering marginalized social groups, like the Irish Travellers and Australian Aborigines. It explores how oral history enables such groups to document pasts that were previously ignored.

This work provides an overview of oral history’s role in empowering marginalized social groups, like the Irish Travellers and Australian Aborigines. It explores how oral history enables such groups to document pasts that were previously ignored.

Historicising the French Revolution

Edited By: Carolina Armenteros, Tim Blanning, Isabel Noronha-DiVanna

£39.99

Though the French Revolution is long over, its memory holds sway. The sixteen essays in this volume investigate its intellectual and material legacies, exposing the myriad ways the Revolution changed humanity’s possible futures and continues to shape our world.

History and its Literary Genres

Edited By: Vanesa Matajc, Gregor Pompe, Gašper Troha

£29.99

Challenging the divide between objective history and fiction, this book explores the means and consequences of contemporary interactions between historiography and art. Scholars from diverse fields deconstruct old beliefs and reveal the social impact of representing the past.

History and Politics

Remembrance as Legitimation

Edited By: Adam Jarosz, Ralph Schattkowsky

£64.99

History and politics are interlinked. Politicians consistently use historical arguments, (re)interpreting the past and deciding what should be remembered. A prepared narrative of the past can become a powerful instrument to influence reality and consolidate power.

History Making a Difference

New Approaches from Aotearoa

Edited By: Lyndon Fraser, Marguerite Hill, Katie Pickles

£61.99

Timely direction and informed debate is given here, about the importance of history, considering why we should care about, teach, research and write history. The compilation offers new approaches that consider the ability and potential for history to ‘make a difference’ today.

History of International Relations and Russian Foreign Policy in the 20th Century (Volume I)

Edited By: Anatoly V. Torkunov, William C. Wohlforth, Boris F. Martyn

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Russia’s leading historians explore the great paradox of 1914-1945: how the desperate desire for peace following World War I could ignite the rise of Hitler and a second, even more devastating, global conflict.

History of International Relations and Russian Foreign Policy in the 20th Century (Volume II)

Edited By: Boris F. Martyn, Anatoly V. Torkunov, William C. Wohlforth

From £35.99

How did the allies of World War II become enemies? This volume unpacks the Cold War (1945-1991), arguing the conflict could have been avoided with pragmatism over ideology. As new rivalries replace old divides, we must be aware of our past to resolve the issues of today.

History of Modern Cremation in Romania

By: Marius Rotar

£54.99

This history of cremation in Romania analyses key periods from 1867 to the present day. It covers the Interwar period, when Romania became the first Orthodox country with a crematorium, provoking a vehement reaction, and the Communist and post-Communist eras.

Holocaust Persecution

Responses and Consequences

Edited By: Wendy Koenig, Nancy Rupprecht, Nancy E. Rupprecht

£39.99

This anthology uniquely approaches Holocaust Studies by focusing on the responses to and consequences of persecution. Essays by renowned scholars explore topics from Arab rescuers of Jews to the legal precedents set by the Nuremberg trials.

Holocaust Resistance in Europe and America

New Aspects and Dilemmas

Edited By: Abigail S Gruber

£52.99

Eleven essays are brought together here to investigate different aspects of resistance to the Holocaust, which took many forms, including armed and passive resistance. They analyse resistance to the Nazi regime and motivations to fight against Nazi Germany during World War II.

Home Front in the American Heartland

Local Experiences and Legacies of WWI

Edited By: Patty Sotirin, Steven A. Walton, Sue Collins

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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.

Homelands and Diasporas

Perspectives on Jewish Culture in the Mediterranean and Beyond

Edited By: Giorgia Foscarini, Dario Miccoli, Marcella Simoni

£61.99

This collection of essays on Jewish-related subjects celebrates Emanuela Trevisan Semi’s career and research, and is authored by a number of former students, friends and colleagues on the occasion of her retirement.

Horse Breeds and Breeding in the Greco-Persian World

1st and 2nd Millennium BC

By: Thomas Donaghy

£44.99

This book focuses on the origin and development of ancient horse breeds. It examines what happened when humans domesticated the horse, and through cross-breeding and training, created the famed breeds of the Greco-Persian world of the second and first millennia BC.