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.
Identity, Migration and Belonging
This book explores the development of the Jewish community of Leeds from the 1880s to WWI. It reveals a side of Jewishness not fully understood, providing a greater understanding of the relationships between majority and minority communities.
This book presents achievements in industrial and applied mathematics, offering new methods and algorithms for solving real-life problems. It promotes interdisciplinary collaboration and covers topics like numerical methods, control systems, and scientific computing.
The Foreignness of Foreigners
This collection examines Britain’s encounters with the Other through literature, art, and politics. It explores how figures of the foreigner were imagined and fabricated, revealing the crucial role Otherness played in fashioning Britain’s national identity.
Yea, Alabama! A Peek into the Past of One of the Most Storied Universities in the Nation
A history of the University of Alabama as never before published. Years of research into newly discovered documents reveal dramatic rivalries, political intrigue, the University’s near-total destruction, and the never-before-told story of slavery.
On St. Patrick’s Day, ‘Everyone is Irish’. But how is this day celebrated, consumed, and contested around the world? This volume explores its global appeal and how it has been commoditized, from the symbolic and religious to the political.
40 Years are Nothing
The 1973 coups in Uruguay and Chile ushered in a new kind of dictatorship. Through state terror and ideological genocide, they imposed radical neoliberal systems whose brutal legacies continue to shape both nations today.
Governing Sex, Building the Nation
Exploring the sexual politics of Chinese nationalism in Taiwan, this book focuses on the politicisation of prostitution and its role in postcolonial nationhood. It uncovers the interlinkages between colonialism, prostitution and nationalism in East Asia.
Africa’s Many Divides and Africa’s Future
“If in the past the Sahara divided us, now it unites us,” Kwame Nkrumah declared. Determined to bridge Africa’s many divides, he proposed a pan-African government. This collection of papers contextualizes his vision in an era of globalization.
Global Safari
Global Safari is a memoir-travelogue chronicling a journey from a local village in the Congo to the global village. It is a story of courage, international friendship, hope, and homecoming—the quest and conquest of a new self through transits and transitions.
Ancient Warfare
This collection presents current research on ancient warfare, covering a wide range of themes and neglected topics. Readable and engaging, it offers a high standard of scholarship appealing to historians, students, and a wider audience.
This book explores the history of migration in India. In contrast to the 19th century’s mass migration of labourers, it investigates the comparative immobility of the people of Andhra, discussing causes including their traditional attachment to their native locale.
In Search of the Classical World
An introduction to the ancient Aegean, from the Minoans, Mycenaeans, and Trojans to the Classical Greeks. Explore their history, the wars against Persia, the strife between Athens and Sparta, and how Homeric heroes shaped their literature and drama.
As global conditions shift, we must redefine the nation. It promises solidarity and forges identity, but its power is built upon the indispensable structures of civil society.
Between the 16th and 19th centuries, towns in Europe and East Asia helped shape individual consciousness. These essays explore how personal writings placed individuals into urban histories, challenging the idea that individualism emerged only in European society.
This book analyses four Welsh communities in the US to test the assumption they were a prime illustration of the American Dream. It assesses their socio-economic success and tracks the cultural changes that transformed the Welsh into Welsh-Americans and, ultimately, Americans.
Based on fresh research into primary sources, this volume examines the formative years (1849–1875) of the International Telegraph Union. It appraises the ITU’s mechanics amid constant diplomatic pressure, offering a history of media, international relations and business.
Engendering Ireland
This collection of essays reveals the complex and unrecognised roles gender has played in modern Ireland. Exploring masculinity and femininity in history, literature, and society, these chapters offer fresh perspectives on contemporary debates.
In the European Middle Ages, religion intersected with all aspects of existence, from everyday life to relations of power. This book brings together scholars who use diverse medieval examples to offer a renewed perspective for understanding the era.
Colonies in Conflict
This book traces the little-known history of the British Overseas Territories, the last remnants of the British Empire. It reveals how today’s wars, scandals, and controversies are rooted in a past of conflict, corruption, and neglect by a two-speed Empire.
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