Views from the Parish
This collection of essays explores churchwardens’ accounts in a number of parishes in England, Wales and Ireland. These accounts offer an invaluable source of information about the maintenance of the church fabric, and the nature of parish worship and community life in general.
The Role of Religions in the European Perception of Insular and Mainland Southeast Asia
This collection enhances existing knowledge on travel, travel experiences and travel writing by Europeans in mainland and insular Southeast Asia from the 16th to the 21st centuries, and demonstrates how these travellers perceived religion in Southeast Asia.
Between Memory and Mythology
This volume examines the relationship between myth and memory, exploring how war narratives are used to construct modern identities. These essays show how political elites engage in mythmaking to shape national and cultural self-perception.
“We Learned that We are Indivisible”
A first-rate team of scholars examines the Shenandoah Valley’s Civil War story. This collection of essays explores leadership, key battles, the war’s impact on the diverse population, and postwar reconciliation efforts in the “Breadbasket of the Confederacy.”
The Isle of Man TT Races
This book uses the Isle of Man TT Races to examine the deep links between sport and society. It charts the event’s history and its role in shaping Manx politics, economy, and identity. Where else can a racer take in so much history at 200 mph?
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.
A Divided Hungary in Europe
Despite fragmentation and Ottoman pressure, early modern Hungary flourished culturally through intense exchange with Europe. These volumes draw an alternative map of the era, replacing centre-periphery conceptions with new narratives from historical actors.
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.
This book addresses the neglected link between national identity and colonial culture in Italy. It is a critical reflection on a denied past, reconstructing uncomfortable memories that overlap the challenging present circumstances of rigidity, racism and rejection.
Re-Inventing Western Civilisation
This book reveals neoliberalism as a transnational tradition carried by a network seeking societies based on individual freedom and a free market, transforming the overall picture of European (neo)liberalisms in the twentieth century.
Living Like Nomads
Living Like Nomads illuminates the unknown history of Milanese anarchists in the two decades before fascism. It tells the fascinating stories of their lifestyles, political campaigns, and ideological debates. They were the first to resist the violence of Mussolini’s black shirts.
Empires, Nations and Private Lives
Bringing together papers presented at a conference devoted to little-known facets of the First World War’s cultural and social history, this collection examines the causes and consequences of the conflict from a perspective extending beyond the traditional focus on Europe.
Money of the Russian Revolution
During the Russian Revolution, over 20,000 kinds of banknotes were issued by competing authorities. Using new archival data and unique illustrations, this book revises the established view of daily life and dispels myths about the economy during the Civil War.
Xenophon, a historian and man of action, developed his own theory of moral education, distinct from that of philosophers like Plato and Aristotle. This work explores his innovative, influential thought and its extensive impact on European cultural history.
McElwee explores the under-representation of the poor rural worker in paintings of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, showing that depictions of the rural landscape rarely reflected the harsh realities of the life of the labourer.
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.
Glimpsing Modernity
Glimpsing Modernity captures the metamorphosis of military medicine during the First World War in a series of vignettes. These stories provide new interpretations of known themes and examine less well-known, but truly important medical topics.
From a Traditionalist perspective, the Modern Era is a Dark Age. This work deconstructs the myth of “progress,” exposing Modernity’s values as inversions of Tradition that set the stage for a final showdown. It clears away illusions to lead a new generation to write history anew.
Female Beauty Systems
Female beauty systems sort individuals into “more” or “less” desirable. These essays examine Western female beauty systems over the centuries, considering how women have complied with, contributed to, profited or suffered from, and resisted them.
Offering perspectives from under-discussed linguistic contexts, including Spain and Austria, in addition to more prominent countries such as the UK, this title explores tensions between the local and the global in education, investigating its increasing commodification.
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