European History

The volume consists of sixteen papers on the history of Francia between the seventh and eleventh centuries. Originally published between 1979 and ...

This book examines the influence of imperialism and colonialism on the formation of national identities in the Nordic countries, exploring the mann...

John Armstrong's 2000-line poem The Art of Preserving Health was among the most popular works of eighteenth-century literature and medicine. It was...

This book brings together literary critics, political historians, historians of literature, cinema and theatre and cultural sociologists, to elucid...

Communism has cast a long shadow over Romania. The passage of little over a quarter of a century since the overthrow in December 1989 of Romanias l...

This book looks at the policing of social and political protest and of the role played by the French and Prussian armies in maintaining public orde...

The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audien...

Why was early modern Europe the starting point of the economic expansion which led to the Industrial Revolution? What was the states role in this m...

This book reframes the formative years of three significant artists: Henri Fantin-Latour, Alphonse Legros, and James McNeill Whistler. The trios co...

From William Langland's Piers Plowman, through the highly polemicized literary culture of fifteenth-century Lollardy, to major Reformation writers ...

This book explores the history and continuing relevance of melancholia as an amorphous but richly suggestive theme in literature, music, and visual...

How to persuade citizens to enlist? How to convince them to fight in a war which was, for many, distant in terms of kilometres as well as interest?...

A fresh, nuanced perspective on a profoundly perplexing country: this is what Wallis Wilde-Menozzi's unique, captivating narrative promises-and del...

Fifty Key Theatre Designers looks at the history of theatrical scenography by examining the work and contributions of fifty ground-breaking set, co...