A Divided Hungary in Europe
Despite fragmentation and Ottoman pressure, early modern Hungary flourished through intense cultural exchange. This series draws an alternative map of Hungary, replacing centre-periphery conceptions with new narratives that balance Western-Hungarian relationships.
With God on Our Side
This book uses Christian reactions to the Spanish Civil War to analyse the importance of Christianity in interwar Britain. Framed as a Holy War, the conflict exposed and increased pre-existing tensions between British Protestants and Catholics.
Peacemaking, Peacemakers and Diplomacy, 1880-1939
Leading scholars explore the ‘new diplomacy’ conducted before, during, and after the First World War. These essays examine its origins, the changing view of war as a diplomatic tool, and how the Paris Peace Conference was viewed inside and outside Europe.
Meeting the Information Challenge
Africa faces the serious challenge of information and communication technologies. Meeting this is vital for its social, economic and political goals. This volume provides both overview and detail on how this challenge can be and is being met.
“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.”
Bard of the Bethel
Former sailor Father Taylor became one of Boston’s most popular preachers. A missionary, reformer, and champion of religious tolerance, his story portrays a unique and forceful American character set against the backdrop of Boston in the age of revival and reform.
Lessons in Mythology
This volume offers eight approaches to myth from viewing personal narrative as a form of healing myth to observing the atrocities committed daily arising from destructive myth. It notes that myths have existed from the beginning of the human race, serving a myriad of functions.
This book examines World War One’s impact on Limerick, where initial support for the war crumbled as inept British policies fueled the rise of Sinn Féin separatists, paving the way for their 1918 election victory. A complex scene of unique local events.
Kamp Melbourne in the 1920s and ’30s
Homosexual men in Melbourne in the 1920s and ‘30s formed a subculture of friendship groups, meeting places and secret signs which allowed them to live their lives despite legal, social and moral restrictions. Murdoch investigates this subculture and those men who lived within it.
Ritchie examines what remains an under-studied aspect of Samuel Johnson’s profile—his attitude to social improvement. The cross-disciplinary framework provided applies perspectives from social and cultural history, legal history, architectural history and English literature.
This book is a contextual analysis of the Romanian rural architectural landscape in the communist and post-communist eras. It examines the legal framework for constructing private houses under the Ceausescu dictatorship and the social actions that transform a house into a home.
Intellectual Agent, Mediator and Interlocutor
This book critically examines African politics, arguing that many contemporary problems have their roots in the fifteen years prior to independence (1945–1960). This was the incubation period for the dysfunction that has stymied the continent ever since.
Reform and Renewal
The 1960s-70s fractured the transatlantic alliance with rivalry, yet this crisis also sparked renewal. Drawing on declassified files, this book reveals the domestic and economic forces that redefined US-European relations.
“Three women ruined the Kingdom: Eve, The Queen and the Countess of Derby.” This biography pieces together the life of Charlotte de La Trémoïlle, a Huguenot who defended Lathom House during a brutal siege and was the only woman sequestered by Oliver Cromwell’s Parliament.
Nature Alive
Inspired by the work of Alfred North Whitehead and his metaphysical “lens,” the contributors here bring a multiplicity of philosophical orientations to the table in challenging the mechanistic and reductionistic neo-Darwinian paradigm still dominant today in the life sciences.
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.
This book proposes a new explanation for early modern philosophy. It suggests the concept of relation, grounded in causal influence, can illuminate developments concerning causality, sense perception, and substance, showing it is closer to Aristotle than supposed.
Cold War Perceptions
This book investigates Romania’s early 1960s policy change towards the Soviet Union. Drawing on declassified archives, it argues the change was triggered by leaders’ perceptions of Soviet threats, focusing on CMEA reform and the Sino-Soviet dispute.
This book provides an engaging history of classical education in English schools, beginning in 1500 with massive educational developments in England as humanist studies reached the country from abroad, and ending with the headmastership of Thomas Arnold of Rugby School.
From a Heuristic Point of View
How do we get new knowledge? Carlo Cellucci argues that traditional logic is inadequate. We need a new, heuristic logic for generating knowledge. This book is a collection of essays from leading figures who discuss, criticize, and expand on Cellucci’s work.
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