History: Specific Events & Topics

Changes in childhood and childrens roles in society, and in how children participate in determining their own lives, have long been of interest to ...

This inquiry concerns the cultural history of the chess-player. It takes as its premise the idea that the chess-player has become a fragmented coll...

After Britain abolished slavery throughout most of its empire in 1834, Victorians adopted a creed of anti-slavery as a vital part of their national...

Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the MAJOR PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN HISTORY series introduces readers to both primary sources and...

The collective significance of the themes that are explored in Slavery in the Global Diaspora of Africa bridge the Atlantic and thereby provide ins...

The astonishing story of the Sassoons, one of the nineteenth century's preeminent commercial families and 'the Rothschilds of the East'The Sassoons...

After the End argues that the cultural imaginaries and practices of the Cold War continue to deeply shape the present in profound but largely unnot...

This is the first book-length study of the role that friendship plays in diplomacy and international politics. Through an examination of a vast amo...

This is an annotated critical edition of Artículos de costumbres by the Romantic journalist Mariano José de Larra (180937), presented with a critic...

David Livingstones Zambesi expedition marked the beginning of an ongoing series of medical exchanges between the British and Malawians. This book e...

Fifty years ago Enoch Powell made national headlines with his 'Rivers of Blood' speech, warning of an immigrant invasion in the once respectable st...

This book argues that the Caribbean frontier, usually assumed to have been eclipsed after colonial conquest, remains a powerful but unrecognised el...

This book argues that the Caribbean frontier, usually assumed to have been eclipsed after colonial conquest, remains a powerful but unrecognised el...

Throughout the 1990s, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was forced to face the challenges posed by the genocide of Rwandan Tutsis and a succession of ...

Men in reserve focuses on working class civilian men who, as a result of working in reserved occupations, were exempt from enlistment in the armed ...

This edited collection investigates New Zealands history as an imperial power, and its evolving place within the British Empire. It revises and exp...

This is the first major study to comprehensively analyse English encounters with the New World in the sixteenth century and their impact on early E...

Whether reburied, concealed, stored, abandoned or publicly displayed, human remains raise a vast number of questions regarding social, legal and et...

During the nineteenth century, over 1.5 million migrants set sail from the British Isles to begin new lives in the Australian colonies. Health, med...

Drawing on recently released documents and private papers, this is the first book-length study to examine the intimate relationship between the Att...

This is the first full-length study of Irish Ribbonism, tracing the development of the movement from its origins in the Defender movement of the 17...