History: Specific Events & Topics

What would it mean to read postcolonial writings under the prism of trauma? Ogaga Ifowodo tackles these questions through a psycho-social examinati...

Negotiating Memories of Protest in Western Europe explores the transmission of memories of 1970s protest movements in Italy, Germany, France and Gr...

The killing of new-born children is an intensely emotional and emotive subject. The hidden nature of this crime has made it an area incredibly diff...

This first major study of girls' health in modern Britain explores how debates and advice on healthy girlhood shaped ideas about the lives of young...

This first major study of girls' health in modern Britain explores how debates and advice on healthy girlhood shaped ideas about the lives of young...

A new interpretation of imperialism and environmental change, and the anxieties imperialism generated through environmental transformation and inte...

In a collection of essays about Texas gathered from his West Texas newspaper column, Lonn Taylor traverses the very best of Texas geography, Texas ...

Grounded in the Foucauldian literature on governmentality and drawing on a broad range of disciplines, this book examines the government of childho...

The concentrations camps that existed in the colonised world at the turn of the 20th Century are a vivid reminder of the atrocities committed by im...

Using a wide range of student testimony and oral history, Georgina Brewis sets in international, comparative context a one-hundred year history of ...

The Media of Testimony explores testimony relating to the Stasi in different cultural forms: autobiographical writing, memorial museums and documen...

Foreign students have travelled to Britain for centuries and, from the beginning, attracted controversy. This book explores changing British policy...

This collection provides the first in-depth, interdisciplinary and over-arching review of higher education in Ireland, situating higher education w...

Superstitions are commonplace in the modern world. Mostly, however, they evoke innocuous images of people reading their horoscopes or avoiding blac...

This study investigates the relationship between emotion, memory, exile and the poetics of grieving in Beckett's works. Using a psychoanalytic fram...

The first book in the new Postcolonialism and Religions series offers a preview of the series focus on multireligious, indigenous, and transnationa...

This book advances research into the government-forced labor used widely in colonial Kenya from 1930 to 1963 after the passage of the International...

The book brings together for the first time John Addington Symonds' key writings on homosexuality, and the entire correspondence between Symonds an...

The Face of Queenship investigates the aesthetic, political, and gender-related meanings in representations of Elizabeth I by her contemporaries. B...

This book illuminates intricate and unexpected connections among the past of academic feminism, the geopolitics of the Cold War, and the concept of...

This book focuses on human trafficking in Europe for labour and sexual exploitation. It includes empirical work on trafficking throughout Europe, i...

First published in 1988, Castle Gap and the Pecos Frontier was acclaimed by reviewers as superb, significant, and utterly delightful. In this revis...

The Vietnam War has had many long-reaching, traumatic effects, not just on the veterans of the war, but on their children as well. In this book, We...

The new histories of love and romance offered within this edited collection illustrate the many changes, but also the surprising continuities in un...