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The Great War

Localities and Regional Identities

Edited By: Craig Horner, Nick Mansfield

£39.99

The First World War transformed British society. While most focus is on military aspects, this volume considers how these changes varied across Britain’s Home Front. Was there a common national response, or did strong regional identities prevail?

Between Fear and Freedom

Cultural Representations of the Cold War

Edited By: Kathleen Starck

£39.99

The Cold War was not just a political and military competition, but a cultural one. This collection of essays by international scholars explores the conflict’s strategies and legacies in film, propaganda, music, architecture, fiction, and theatre.

Florida Studies

Proceedings of the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Florida College English Association

Edited By: General Editor, Claudia Slate

£39.99

Florida's long and colorful past is matched by its literary production, yet critical assessment has lagged. This volume corrects that oversight with papers on every aspect of Florida literature, including its African-American figures and teaching suggestions.

Florida’s long and colorful past is matched by its literary production, yet critical assessment has lagged. This volume corrects that oversight with papers on every aspect of Florida literature, including its African-American figures and teaching suggestions.

Eradicating Differences

The Treatment of Minorities in Nazi-Dominated Europe

Edited By: Anton Weiss Wendt

£39.99

These essays offer a new perspective on Nazi mass murder. Drawing on primary sources, they show the Nazis were more flexible than believed, exploiting ethnic rivalries in Eastern Europe to divide, rule, and encourage collaboration in their murderous policies.

Lost in the Antebellum

By: Robert D. Morritt

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This compendium of thought from pre-Civil War America features the “real” story of Davy Crockett, a novelist praised by Edgar Allen Poe, abolitionist singers, and a tale of a man’s return from the Moon. A concise view of the era, from oceanographers to filibusters.

In Search of Agamemnon

Early Travellers to Mycenae

By: Nektarios Karadimas, Dudley Moore, Edward Rowlands

£39.99

Before Schliemann, pioneers and ancients were fascinated by Mycenae. This book brings to life their thoughts and descriptions of the Lion Gate and ‘Treasury of Atreus’—observations that are not only of historical interest, but pure poetry.

Science and Empire in the Nineteenth Century

A Journey of Imperial Conquest and Scientific Progress

Edited By: Catherine Delmas, Christine Vandamme

£39.99

This book explores how sciences like anthropology and ethnography became tools of empire. It analyzes the link between knowledge and power, revealing the tension between scientific objectivity and imperialist propaganda in the British and American empires.

The Singular and the Making of Knowledge at the Royal Society of London in the Eighteenth Century

By: Palmira Fontes da Costa

£39.99

This book explores the role of singular experiences in making knowledge at the 18th-century Royal Society. It reveals how extraordinary phenomena were vital to the Society, yet their problematic authentication made it a target for literary satire.

Beyond the Battlefields

New Perspectives on Warfare and Society in the Graeco-Roman World

Edited By: Edward Bragg, Lisa Irene Hau, Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis

£39.99

Beyond the Battlefields explores the relationship between warfare and society in the Graeco-Roman world. This collection of essays examines the political, social, and artistic affects of war, covering topics from espionage to fantasies of peace in the Iliad.

Social History, Local History, and Historiography

Collected Essays

By: Roger C. Richardson

£39.99

These wide-ranging essays on early modern English history explore social change, the Revolution, Puritanism, and historical writing. Stressing the inter-connectedness of social and local history, this rewarding volume will interest specialists and non-specialists.

Past Matters

Heritage and Planning History— Case Studies from the Pacific Rim

Edited By: Caroline Miller

£39.99

In a Pacific Rim setting, who benefits from urban planning? These case studies from Australia, New Zealand, and beyond explore difficulties faced by indigenous peoples and ask whose interests are at stake in urban heritage debates, challenging 'Metropolitan Theory'.

Peacemaking, Peacemakers and Diplomacy, 1880-1939

Essays in Honour of Professor Alan Sharp

Edited By: Gaynor Johnson

£39.99

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.

Religious Reading in the Lutheran North

Studies in Early Modern Scandinavian Book Culture

Edited By: Charlotte Appel, Morten Fink-Jensen

£39.99

Religious Reading in the Lutheran North opens up an overlooked part of early modern history. Following the Reformation, high literacy fueled a boom in religious literature across the Nordic countries. This book investigates publication, reading habits, and interpretations.

Bridges Across the Sahara

Social, Economic and Cultural Impact of the Trans-Sahara Trade during the 19th and 20th Centuries

Edited By: Ali Abdullatif Ahmida

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This book rethinks the history of modern Africa, examining the Saharan trade not as a barrier, but as a bridge. It critiques colonial scholarship and provides an alternative narrative of the forgotten histories that linked North, Central, and West Africa.

Coming Home? Vol. 2

Conflict and Postcolonial Return Migration in the Context of France and North Africa, 1962-2009

Edited By: Sharif Gemie

£39.99

Forced displacement creates conflict. This book explores the complex inter-relationship of conflict, return migration, and the compelling search for a sense of home, shifting attention to the colonial and post-colonial framework of the French-North African nexus.

Public Offices, Personal Demands

Capability in Governance in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic

Edited By: Jan Hartman, Jaap Nieuwstraten, Michel Reinders

£39.99

This collection of essays explores a fundamental question of seventeenth-century governance: what makes a person capable for office? Focusing on the Dutch Republic, it shows how scientists, citizens, and merchants all joined the heated debate.

Eastern Indian Ocean

Historical Links to Contemporary Convergences

Edited By: Lipi Ghosh

£39.99

This pioneering study examines commercial and cultural linkages across the Eastern Indian Ocean, from past to present. It shows how reviving ancient connections can stimulate international trade, promote regional cooperation, and shape the India-South East Asia relationship.

The Orient of Europe

The Mythical Image of India and Competing Images of German National Identity

By: Nicholas Germana

£39.99

Why did German Romantics call Germany "the Orient of Europe"? This book reveals how they used an idealized India as a mirror to forge a national identity based on culture and spirit, not military might, during the Napoleonic Wars.

Why did German Romantics call Germany “the Orient of Europe”? This book reveals how they used an idealized India as a mirror to forge a national identity based on culture and spirit, not military might, during the Napoleonic Wars.

Florida Studies

Proceedings of the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Florida College English Association

Edited By: Claudia Slate

£39.99

Florida’s long and colorful past is matched by its literary production, yet critical assessment has lagged. This volume corrects that oversight with papers on Florida literature, including studies of African-American figures and suggestions for teaching.

Order and Disorder under the Ancien Régime

By: Jeffrey Merrick

£39.99

This collection explores monarchy, family, suicide, and sodomy in eighteenth-century France. It argues that the private and public weakness of sovereigns and husbands undermined their legitimacy, challenging simplistic assumptions about absolutism and Revolution.