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The Wars of the Roses

John Watts

This concise and interpretative book digs under the surface events of the Wars of the Roses to explore the underlying dynamics of a typical civil war. Beginning with a demonstration of why the well-worn storylines of the Wars are so misleading, it moves on to expose the...

The Stolen Crown

Tracy Borman

Love, Class and Empire

A. James Hammerton

Early twentieth-century Persia and the Persian Gulf presented a largely blank slate to the British, best known only as a vital conduit to India and a site of contest – the 'great game' – with the Russian Empire. As oil discoveries and increasing trade brought new...

Transnational and Transatlantic Perspectives on the Balkans, 1850–1918

Eva Tamara Asboth

This book considers the position and historiography of the western Balkans in modern Europe. It challenges the linear narrative that the region was 'Europeanised' in the twentieth century - that is, brought into a wider fold of European countries through political,...

Managing Global Student Migration in the Twentieth Century

Dzovinar Kévonian , Guillaume Tronchet

This open-access book examines student migration in the twentieth century, focusing on the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris. Established in 1925 by the French government with support from a diverse coalition of international public and private actors, this...

The Battle for British Entry into the European Community, 1971-72

Geoff Horn

This book offers a new perspective on the parliamentary battle for British entry into the European Community (EC) – the forerunner of the EU. It provides a historical case study of how the whipping operation, overseen by the Chief Whip Francis Pym, played a...

Das politische System der Ukraine

Michael Dobbins

Die Beiträge dieses Sammelbandes sind von ausgewiesenen ExpertInnen der politikwissenschaftlichen Osteuropaforschung formuliert und bieten einen umfassenden Überblick über die politische Geschichte der Ukraine.Die AutorInnen analysieren dabei das...

Time and Governance in Fifteenth-Century Perpignan

Philip Daileader

In the fifteenth century, Renaissance humanists were not the only ones to think about time differently from previous generations. Time and Governance examines how and why late medieval townspeople – those who bought, sold, and manufactured for a living –...

Democracy's Double Helix

Lars Behrisch

Where does our modern democracy come from? It is a composite of two very different things: a medieval tradition of political participation, pluralistic but highly elitist; and the notion of individual equality, emerging during the early modern period. These two things...

The Taste of Agency

Natallia Paulovich

This book explores the evolving role of women in Georgian society through the lens of food and cooking. Drawing on ethnographic research in Ozurgeti, it reveals how domestic practices serve as powerful expressions of female agency. From the 19th century to the...

History and Decolonization

Javier Garcia Fernández

History and Decolonization: Essays from Southern Europe takes a fresh approach to world history by integrating the historical experience of Southern Europe into debates on colonialism, racism and patriarchy. To approach Europe from its southern fringes can open new...

The Unbroken Covenant

Samuel Beckton

During discussions for the Government of Ireland Act 1920, Northern Ireland as we know it was created. However, there were discussions of the Irish boundary line, including partitioning the full province of Ulster. This raises a fundamental 'what if' within Irish...

The Foxite Whigs and Visual Culture, 1780-1810

Callum D. Smith

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the intricate relationship between radicalism and sociability in late Georgian parliamentary and extra-parliamentary politics, focusing on the Foxite-Whig faction. Re-evaluating the significance and tactical use of...

Male Same-Sex Relations and the Court of Peter I

Hanna Filipova

This book explores Peter I’s same-sex relations, men’s sociability and male favoritism at the royal court in the context of the Petrine myth, scenarios of power, propaganda and othering. The first part is devoted to sources, historiography, the theory of the...

Religious Instruction for Soldiers in the First English Civil War, 1642–1646

Antti Taipale

This monograph examines religion in the first English Civil War as a tool for war both in instructing soldiers and portraying the enemy. It argues that thus far, the remarkable differences between the teaching of Parliamentarian and Royalist ministers to their...

The Transition Trap

Adham Khudaykulov

This book explores the transition from Soviet socialism to the present state of Central Asia's five countries. The role of the of state in regulating the market has been nowhere so topical, yet highly controversial, as in the case of five post-communist Central Asian...

Von „Arbeitskameraden“ zu „Badoglioschweinen“

Freia Anders , Brunello Mantelli

Das Buch untersucht die Anwerbung und den Einsatz italienischer Arbeitskräfte in der deutschen Kriegswirtschaft. In einer ersten Phase (1938-1942) waren Einberufung und Beschäftigung Teil des deutsch-italienischen Bündnisses, der...

Zur Entstehung der translatorischen Ausbildung in Deutschland

Anke Lutz

Die Entstehung der translatorischen Ausbildung in Deutschland fällt in den Zeitraum von den frühen 1880er Jahren bis in die späten 1940er Jahre. In diesen 70 Jahren wurde mit ersten Institutions- und Methodenbildungen die Grundlage für die heutige translatorische...

The Radical Fifties

Sophie Scott-Brown

The 1950s are usually portrayed as conservative, conformist, and apathetic, but was there more to this much-maligned decade than that? In Britain, the convergence of conflicting political moments-the Cold War, the Bomb, the rise of America, the decline of the empire,...

Renaissance Automata of the Villa Pratolino

Lily V. Filson

This book explores the automata of the Medici Villa Pratolino, focusing on the intersection of art, engineering, and philosophy in the late sixteenth century. The author examines how these ‘living sculptures’ went beyond traditional Renaissance static forms,...