General & World History

The revolutionary Wilhelm Steinitz (1836-1900) considered himself to be in the vanguard of an emerging, late-19th century ‘Modern’ school, which em...

How the last years of Stalin’s rule led to the formation ofan imperial Soviet consciousness In this nuanced historical analysis of late Stalinism o...

A fresh treatment of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, revealing the close ties between Mussolini and Hitler and their regimes From 1934 until 1944 M...

The definitive history of how witchcraft and black magic have survived, through the modern era and into the present dayCursed Britain unveils the e...

What do ordinary citizens really want from their governments? Democracy has long been considered an ideal state of governance. What if it’s not? Pe...

big history and the future of humanity "This remains the best single attempt to theorize big history as a discipline that can link core concepts an...

A COMPANION TOWORLD HISTORY "This new volume offers insightful reflections by both leading and emerging world historians on approaches, methodologi...

This edited volume delves into the intricate landscape of educational internationalism during the Cold War, providing an in-depth examination of it...

The Caedmon Poems (1916) contains the texts of Caedmon’s poems, the birth of Christian poetry in England. The poems are reproduced in a modern Engl...

Anglo-Saxon Art to A.D. 900 (1972) was the first account to be written of art in England in the period of Celtic, Romano-British and Anglo-Saxon st...

Beowulf and Judith (1953) contains an extensive introduction to the texts of Beowulf and Judith, the full texts of the poems themselves, and compre...

The Paris Psalter and the Meters of Boethius (1932) contains the texts and comprehensive notes on the Paris Psalter (the most extensive collection ...

King Alfred's West-Saxon Version of Gregory's Pastoral Care (1871) is a key Anglo-Saxon text. Preserved in two manuscripts written during Alfred’s ...

The Exeter Book (1936) contains the texts of the Exeter Book, the largest of the great miscellanies of Anglo-Saxon poetry, together with an extensi...

The Viking Road to Byzantium (1976) is a major study of the Vikings who travelled east, based on the evidence of written sources and archaeology. C...

Late Saxon and Viking Art (1949) is a lavishly-illustrated examination of the art of the Saxon era – the carvings, sculpture, illustrations, drawin...