History: Specific Events & Topics

In 1789, as the Bounty made its return voyage through the western Pacific Ocean, disgruntled crewmen seized control from their captain, William Bli...

'Do not miss this book' NAOMI KLEIN, author of This Changes EverythingThe history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation - of both human...

Scotland, with its stereotypes of the kilted warrior and the industrial 'hard man' has long been characterised in masculine terms, but there has be...

This book uses the methodology of sociology and literary studies to come to terms with the reality of Palestinian citizens of Israel across several...

What was the Scottish Enlightenment? Long since ignored or sidelined, it is now a controversial topic damned by some as a conservative movement ob...

Si léducation, thème phare du XVIIIe siècle, a fait lobjet dimportantes études historiques et littéraires, de nombreux textes dauteurs féminins son...

An analysis of the insider information and insights that over eighty Soviet intelligence officer defectors revealed during the first half of the So...

Henrietta Liston's Constantinople journal is a significant and hitherto virtually unknown work of women's travel writing. As the wife of the Britis...

Using a wide range of prosecution and trial records, along with more recent newspaper coverage of court proceedings, this book furnishes a fascinat...

The first full-length study of Frederick Douglass' visit to Scotland in 1846Frederick Douglass (181895) was not the only fugitive from American sla...

Four major communities, four buildings constructing their identities in the contested urban space of Jerusalem.This book examines a fascinating and...

In an era haunted by its past, modern Europe sought to break with the old; the future and the new became the ideal. In Italy however, where the rem...

This ambitious book, newly available in paperback, examines the encounter between Gaels and Europeans in Scotland in the central Middle Ages, offer...

Préfacée par Roger ChartierAu XVIIIe siècle, les libraires jouissent d'un monopole inégalé sur le monde du livre à Paris, laissant peu de place aux...

The long eighteenth century was a period of major transformation for Europe and India as imperialism heralded a new global order. Eschewing the red...

This title shows how Arab Christians struggled to balance religious and nationalist identities in Palestine between 1917 and 1948. Noah Haiduc-Dale...

Examines literatures and histories of the Cape in relation to postcolonial debates about nationalism How the Cape Colony was imagined as a politic...

How did Scotland's criminal justice system respond to marginalised street children who found themselves on the wrong side of the law, often for sim...