History

Reforming Urban Labor is a history of the nineteenth-century social reforms designed by middle-class progressives to domesticate the labor force. I...

In this invaluable reference work, the world’s foremost authorities on France’s political, social, cultural, and intellectual history explore the h...

Jim Nichols was a lively, vigorous frontiersman who came to Texas about the time of its Revolution. As with many men of that day, Nichols' formal ...

This young adult biography introduces middle school readers to a remarkable woman who founded the Women’s Army Corps, served as Secretary of Health...

The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume I traces the emergence of Anglophone Protestant Dissent in the post-Reformation era ...

This book analyzes the reasons for the emergence and extinction of the Croatian name in four Slovene border regions. The author uses comparative me...

This volume assembles written versions of lectures presented and discussed at the conference «Invention, Rewriting, Usurpation – Discursive Fights ...

A freewheeling, nonlinear exploration of the performing duo and their decade-long collaboration from 1946 to 1956.From 1946 to 1956, Dean Martin an...

Arguing about Empire analyses the most divisive arguments about empire between Europe's two leading colonial powers from the age of high imperialis...

From the Straits of Gibraltar to Sicily, the European northern Mediterranean nations to the shores of North Africa, the western Mediterranean is a ...

Across the course of American history, imperialism and anti-imperialism have been awkwardly paired as influences on the politics, culture, and dipl...

Much research on the city in developing societies has focused mainly on one of three areas—planning, demography, or economics—and has emphasized e...

A War of Peoples, 1914-1919 provides a new perspective on the First World War, offering a concise narrative of the war from the first military acti...

After forty years of congressional service, five terms in the House and five in the Senate, George William Norris (1861–1944) was going home to Neb...

Writing in his late teens and early twenties, Sāmī ‘Amr gave his diary an apt subtitle: The Battle of Life, encapsulating both the political climat...

When the Second World War broke out, ballet in Britain was only a few decades old. Few had imagined that it would establish roots in a nation long ...

In 1964, Nina Simone sat at a piano in New York's Carnegie Hall to play what she called a show tune. Then she began to sing: "Alabama's got me so u...

The Metaphysical Society was founded in 1869 at the instigation of James Knowles (editor of the Contemporary Review and then of the Nineteenth Cent...

The collapse of the Ottoman Empire was by no means a singular event. After six hundred years of ruling over the peoples of North Africa, the Balkan...

Yomi Sode's hit show COAT tackles immigration, identity and displacement. 'I don’t know my grandparents’ names, how embarrassing is that? But I ca...

The two decades between the first and second world wars saw the emergence of nuclear physics as the dominant field of experimental and theoretical ...

According to the terms of Aristotle's Politics, to be alive is to instantiate a form of rule. In the growth of plants, the perceptual capacities an...

Quantifiable citizenship in the form of birth certificates, census forms, and immigration quotas is so ubiquitous that today it appears ahistorical...

This interdisciplinary volume explores core emerging themes in the study of early modern literary-diplomatic relations, developing essential method...

Servilia is often cited as one of the most influential women of the late Roman Republic. Though she was a high-born patrician, her grandfather died...

In what tense should we refer to the dead? The question has long been asked, from Cicero to Julian Barnes. Answering it is partly a matter of gramm...

Today's information technology often seems to take on a life of its own, spreading into every part of our lives. In the Roman world things were dif...

Houses Divided provides new insights into the significance of the nineteenth-century evangelical schisms that arose initially over the moral questi...

In recent years, the discipline of Classics has been experiencing a profound transformation affecting not only its methodologies and hermeneutic pr...

Prior to the 1666 fire of London, St Paul's Cathedral was an important central site for religious, commercial, and social life in London. The liter...

This is a pioneering study that examines the sale of sex in classical Athens from a commercial (rather than from a cultural or moral) perspective. ...