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Congress Wrestling with the Rise of the Administrative State During the 20th Century

By: Mordecai Lee

£77.99

The 20th century’s tectonic events created “big government.” As the bureaucracy grew, Congress fought for control. Now, conservatives challenge this "administrative state," arguing it has too much power. This book provides the history behind this crucial modern debate.

The 20th century’s tectonic events created “big government.” As the bureaucracy grew, Congress fought for control. Now, conservatives challenge this “administrative state,” arguing it has too much power. This book provides the history behind this crucial modern debate.

The British Indian Army

Virtue and Necessity

Edited By: Rob Johnson

£44.99

This work explores the British Indian Army: a unique partnership of imperial and South Asian cultures. An instrument of expeditionary war that enjoyed its greatest triumph defeating Japan in 1945, it paradoxically became a potent vehicle for a free India.

The Lost Gospel

Christianity and Blacks in North America

By: Jerome Teelucksingh

£34.99

Religion was a key factor for US Blacks integrating into 19th-century Canada. Protestant churches were crucial in their transition to freedom, fostering education, developing Black leadership, and guiding assimilation into their new host society.

Christ Among Them

Incarnation and Renaissance in Medieval Italian Culture

By: Edoardo Mungiello

£29.99

This essay newly interprets the rise of the individual in Italy, 1180-1300. As the idea of a tangible Christ as neighbor became consistent, worship became a form of individualism, a Christian praxis that shaped the later Renaissance and Reformation.

Masks of Identity

Representing and Performing Otherness in Latin America

Edited By: Přemysl Mácha, José Eloy Gómez Pellón

£39.99

This collection reveals how Otherness, a legacy of colonization, shapes Latin American society. Essays explore how the identities of indigenous peoples, women, and others are constructed, visually represented, performed, and contested.

To be a Sailor’s Wife

By: Hanna Hagmark-Cooper

£34.99

This book brings maritime women’s experiences to the fore. Based on the life stories of seafarers’ wives from the Åland Islands, it explores their perception of leading two parallel lives and investigates their attitudes to the myths surrounding their image.

The Libyan War 1911-1912

Edited By: Andrea Ungari

£44.99

The Italo-Ottoman war for Libya was a dress rehearsal for the First World War. Using new sources, these essays explore a conflict with profound repercussions for Italian and European politics that helped end the Belle Époque and raised the specter of a new war.

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.

The Deadlock between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Charles de Gaulle

By: Stanley Weintraub

Edited By: David A. Weintraub

£64.99

The untold story of the contentious wartime relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Charles de Gaulle. Despite mutual dislike, they manipulated each other to defeat Hitler. Their four years of distrust and animosity played a critical role in the Allies' path to victory.

The Faustian Motif in the Tragedies by Christopher Marlowe

By: Milena Kaličanin

£39.99

This book argues the Faustian pact with demonic forces is a motif explored not only in Doctor Faustus, but throughout Marlowe’s tragedies. It examines this pact in psychological and cultural terms, demonstrating its relevance for modern society.

Myths and Memories

(Re)viewing Colonial Western Australia through Travellers’ Imaginings, 1850-1914

By: Cindy Lane

£52.99

This book examines European travellers' perceptions of southern Western Australia between 1850 and 1914. Shaped by power and privilege, their narrow narratives created a mythical "pioneer" community, ignoring the inequalities of colonial life.

This book examines European travellers’ perceptions of southern Western Australia between 1850 and 1914. Shaped by power and privilege, their narrow narratives created a mythical “pioneer” community, ignoring the inequalities of colonial life.

Mourning and Disaster

Finding Meaning in the Mourning for Hillsborough and Diana

By: Michael Brennan

£34.99

Why did the Hillsborough disaster and the death of Princess Diana provoke such contrasting scenes of public mourning? This book asks what these events reveal about society, identity, and the ways we grieve for those we don't know personally.

The Captivity Narrative

Enduring Shackles and Emancipating Language of Subjectivity

Edited By: Benjamin Mark Allen

£34.99

These scholarly essays assess captivity, exploring how captives expressed psychological duress and coped with bondage. Offering historical, literary, and philosophical analyses, topics range from 17th-century captivity to 21st-century prisoner narratives.

The End of Middle Class Politics?

By: Sotiris Rizas

£64.99

Rizas approaches middle class politics from a historical perspective, looking at its progression since the early 1900s. He investigates the role of the middle classes in the evolution of mass politics in the West and the loss of middle class purchasing power after the 2008 Crash.

Right / Left / Right Revolving Commitments

France and Britain 1929-1950

Edited By: Stan Smith

£34.99

This collection of essays examines the complex responses of British and French intellectuals to the political crises from the 1920s to WWII. It explores the radical shifts in allegiance as writers confronted the rise of fascism and communism.

New Perspectives in British Cultural History

Edited By: Rosalind Crone, David Gange, Katy Jones

£39.99

A new generation of scholars is concerned with questions traditionally beyond the scope of history. The authors come from a range of disciplines, including literary studies, art, music, and science. Their cutting-edge research represents the latest trends.

Domestic Policy Discourse in the US and the UK in the ‘New World Order’

Edited By: Lori Maguire

£39.99

A unique comparative study of US & UK politics, blending personal accounts with sharp analysis. It tackles the era's defining issues, from the Clinton-Obama healthcare debate to the economic crisis, Climategate, and the 2010 UK election.

A unique comparative study of US & UK politics, blending personal accounts with sharp analysis. It tackles the era’s defining issues, from the Clinton-Obama healthcare debate to the economic crisis, Climategate, and the 2010 UK election.

Civic Duty

Public Services in the Early Modern Low Countries

By: Manon van der Heijden

£39.99

This study offers a new view on public services in the early modern Low Countries. It explores who provided services between 1500 and 1800, how they were rewarded, and how these responsibilities were shaped by conceptions of citizenship and collective interest.

‘Intimately Associated for Many Years’

George K. A. Bell’s and Willem A. Visser 't Hooft's Common Life-Work in the Service of the Church Universal – Mirrored in their Correspondence (Part One 1938-1949)

By: Gerhard Besier

£62.99

Between 1938 and 1958, Bishop George Bell and Willem Visser’t Hooft exchanged hundreds of letters. Their correspondence mirrors the ecumenical effort to unite Christian churches and navigate an age of international crisis and conflict.

Shifting Viewpoints

Cervantes in Twentieth-Century and Early Twenty-First-Century Literature Written in German

By: Meg H. Brown, Gabriele Eckart

£44.99

To understand a turbulent century, German writers turned to Cervantes. Don Quixote, recast as either fool or hero, became a powerful lens for grappling with fascism, war, and a divided world.