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War Time Preaching and Teaching

By: Jeffrey Jon Richards

£39.99

Explore the preaching and teaching of Rudolf Bultmann and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Often misunderstood, this book objectively views their methods of biblical interpretation, showing how both sought to communicate the Gospel in a relevant manner during a challenging time.

The World of Women in the Ancient and Classical Near East

Edited By: Beth Alpert Nakhai

£39.99

This book combats modern scholarship’s marginalization of women in antiquity, proving their roles in the home, workplace, and society were essential for survival. Using archaeology and textual studies, it highlights women's extensive accomplishments.

The 1960s in Australia

People, Power and Politics

Edited By: Shirleene Robinson, Julie Ustinoff

£39.99

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.

British Decolonisation, 1918-1984

Edited By: Richard Davis

£39.99

Few subjects are more controversial or important to today’s world than the British Empire. Using case studies, this book examines how the Empire ended, how independence was won and resisted, and what its collapse tells us about its legacy.

(Re)Creating Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Edited By: Amanda Mordavsky Caleb

£39.99

This collection reconsiders the history of science in nineteenth-century Britain. Moving away from a Darwin-focused history, these interdisciplinary essays offer fresh insights into scientific development through history, religion, literature, and art.

Pursuits and Joys

Great Victorian Antiquarians and Intellects

Edited By: Heather Sebire

£39.99

This volume is a collection of updated papers exploring the remarkable Lukis family and their contemporaries. It examines their pioneering work and the evolution of archaeology as a discipline in the nineteenth century across Britain and Europe.

The Emergence of a Greek Identity (1700-1821)

By: Stratos Myrogiannis

£39.99

This book reveals how Greek Enlightenment intellectuals forged a modern national identity. They reframed history to include Byzantium and transformed liberal Enlightenment ideas into a nationalist ideology, paving the way for the War of Independence in 1821.

Divided we stand

The French and Italian political parties and the rearmament of West Germany, 1949-1955

By: Linda Risso

£39.99

In the 1950s, fears of a ‘new Wehrmacht’ clashed with the ambition for European integration, sparking passionate political debates. This book offers an innovative examination of the role non-state actors and political parties played in France and Italy.

The Centre and the Margins in Eighteenth-Century British and Italian Cultures

Edited By: Lia Guerra, Frank O'Gorman

£39.99

Who determines the ‘Centre’ of a culture and what the ‘Margins’? The Margins of one generation can become the Centre of another in a seismic cultural shift. How does this transformation occur and what does it reveal about the very nature of culture itself?

Generations in Towns

Succession and Success in Pre-Industrial Urban Societies

Edited By: Finn-Einar Eliassen, Katalin Szende

£39.99

This book fills a gap in urban history with twelve studies of generations in late medieval and early modern European towns. Dealing with topics like succession, inheritance, and conflict, the articles demonstrate the importance of generational studies on pre-modern towns.

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.

British-French Exchanges in the Eighteenth Century

Edited By: Kathleen Hardesty Doig, Dorothy Medlin

£39.99

In the 18th century, the flow of people and ideas between France and Britain became a flood. This collection of essays examines these exchanges through correspondences, translations, and personal sojourns, revealing intellectual influences in the arts and sciences.

From Queens to Slaves

Pope Gregory’s Special Concern for Women

By: John R. C. Martyn

£39.99

This book is a study of the women involved with Pope Gregory the Great. It covers everyone from royal and aristocratic women to abbesses, nuns, widows, and even women escaping slavery, exploring their legal cases and relationships with the pope.

Rethinking the Racial Moment

Essays on the Colonial Encounter

Edited By: Barbara Brookes, Alison Holland

£39.99

This collection of essays re-energises the debate on race by focusing on its intersections with colonialism. It shifts our historical understanding, offering invigorating new approaches to cultural encounters via the interpretive frame of ‘the moment.’

Astronomy and Astrophysics in Spain (1850-1914)

Edited By: Pedro Ruiz-Castell

£39.99

This book explores the progress of astronomy and astrophysics in Spain from the late 19th to the early 20th century. The eclipses of 1900 and 1905 were a crucial turning point, connecting Spanish scholars with the international community.

Trajectories of Memory

Intergenerational Representations of the Holocaust in History and the Arts

Edited By: Beth Griech-Polelle, Christina Guenther

£39.99

This volume offers new perspectives on remembering the Holocaust in history, literature, and theatre. It addresses changing representations across generations and asks: As survivors die, how do we transmit their difficult legacy and respond to the dictum: Never again?

A Study in Legal History Volume III; Freedom under the Law

Lord Denning as Master of the Rolls, 1962-1982

By: Charles Stephens

£39.99

Hailed as the 20th century's most important judge, this book explores Lord Denning's career against the backdrop of the 1960s and 70s, examining his role in the Profumo affair and the controversies that shaped modern Britain.

Hailed as the 20th century’s most important judge, this book explores Lord Denning’s career against the backdrop of the 1960s and 70s, examining his role in the Profumo affair and the controversies that shaped modern Britain.

Speaking of Endangered Languages

Issues in Revitalization

Edited By: Anne Marie Goodfellow

£39.99

This book provides an overview of endangered indigenous languages, describing local responses to maintaining them. Each chapter presents a case study of a threatened language, examining local grassroots efforts at revival and suggesting a re-examination of retention programs.

Moving from Infancy to Young Adulthood

A Contemporary Review of the Development of the Virgin Islands

By: Dana Lewis-Ambrose

£39.99

A review of the Virgin Islands' (BVI) economic and political development over the past 60 years. This book explores future possibilities and comments on present systems, making it a must-read for island scholars, policy makers, and students.

A review of the Virgin Islands’ (BVI) economic and political development over the past 60 years. This book explores future possibilities and comments on present systems, making it a must-read for island scholars, policy makers, and students.

Womanhood in Anglophone Literary Culture

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Perspectives

Edited By: Robin Hammerman

£39.99

This collection of essays examines how nineteenth and twentieth century women writers responded to patriarchal assumptions about literary merit while contributing to new conceptions of womanhood in Anglophone literary culture.