European history

This is the definitive history of Canna, one of the most beautiful of all the Scottish islands.

For almost a century the islands of Orkney and Shetland were under the rule of the Stewart earls, father and son, a rule remarkable for its infamous reputation in island history.

What would America have been without the Scots?

'A gripping insight into many Scots who ventured forth in a trade harsher than fiction but no less colourful' - Scots MagazineSeawolves is an exciting and thorough examination of Scots connected to piracy, whether they are victims or villains, real or literary.

Utilising primary sources in Russian archives, relevant research on Russian and Soviet history and memoirs from contemporaries, this book examines the life of Grigory Zinoviev (1883-1936).

Explains the extent, necessity and importance of black-market activity in France during the Second World War.

This engaging history shows how Cambridge has grown from earliest times to the present day, looking at both ''town'' and ''gown''.

Comparative history is one of the most important methodologies of historical investigation taught in universities across the world.

This highly original work redefines the place of war and empire-building in the making of early modern Venice.

The first comprehensive survey of monasteries and monasticism in the Near East during the ''Crusader'' period.

This book examines how local elites from the dissolved Austria-Hungary managed to survive and often thrive despite the empire's collapse in 1918.

Offers a new interpretation of Johann Gottfried Herder''s political thought, situating his ideas in pan-European Enlightenment debates.

A new narrative history of the east Roman field armies based on all the available sources.

Traces Fackenheim''s early concern with revelation and how it shifted to his later focus on the Holocaust (post-1967).

This interdisciplinary volume re-evaluates the interconnectedness of the Merovingian world with its Mediterranean surroundings.

This cultural history of the Japanese home front during the Asia-Pacific War challenges ideas of the period as one of deprivation and repression.

Noakes'' revelatory analysis of Victorian scientists'' fascination with psychic phenomena connects science, the occult and religion in intriguing new ways.

Reveals how early modern religious conceptions of covenant and community were deployed for surprisingly radical political ends.

The first major study of the relationship between liturgy and historiography in early medieval Rus.

This volume reveals music''s role in Victorian liberalism and its relationship with literature, locating the Victorian salon within intellectual and cultural history.

A pioneering study of Greek religion and cults at a key colonial frontier, with major consequences for antiquity at large.

This book argues that the introduction of popular sovereignty as the basis for government in France facilitated a dramatic transformation in international law in the eighteenth century.

King Arthur and the Battle for Britannia is the last in a series of three books.

Explores the evolving human rights of Roma in Eastern Europe''s recent history, and the complex politics of Roma rights today.

Presents a landmark study combining key specialists around the region with well-established international scholars, from a wide range of disciplines.

The first book to explore the development and importance of writing in ancient Cypriot society over 1,500 years.

Approaches to the impact of Wilsonianism have traditionally been developed from the fields of international relations, international law and the study of global self-determination movements.

Approaches to the impact of Wilsonianism have traditionally been developed from the fields of international relations, international law and the study of global self-determination movements.

Examines Nazi legal theory, the normative ideas driving the Führer state and the legal subtext to the regime''s escalating atrocities.

An ambitious account of Indigenous-settler relationships and struggles over Indigenous rights in British white settler colonies from the 1770s to 1830s.

Investigates papal government in the later-twelfth century, focusing on the decrees issued at papal councils, and their reception.

Analyses the rhetoric of dissidents, outsiders and truth-tellers to challenge preconceptions about free speech and political criticism in the early Middle Ages.

Examines the complex relationship between Roman Catholicism and the global Irish diaspora in the nineteenth century for the first time.

The British Army''s devastating effectiveness against colonial rebellion is exposed in this military history of Britain''s pacification of the Arab revolt in Palestine.

Sheds light on the motivations that lay behind the adoption of pottery, the challenges that had to be overcome.

This exploration of the statistical evidence on Germany''s post-war reconstruction sheds new light on the foundations of German economic power.

The end of empire in Britain itself is illuminated through explorations of its impact on key domestic institutions.

Argues that immigration politics is a central - but overlooked - matter of contestation in the democratic thought of classical Athens.

Recreates the harsh mountain warfare during the Wehrmacht''s and Red Army''s clash on the highest battlefield of World War Two.

Challenges preconceptions of convict transportation from Britain and Ireland, penal colonies and religion.

This study shows some of the ways in which medieval Scandinavians received and re-interpreted pre-Christian religion.

A transnational history of how Indigenous peoples mobilised en masse to support the war effort on the battlefields and the home fronts.

The legacies service in the First World War had on women''s lives and the privileges it afforded some of them.

The lives of ordinary German soldiers offer new insights into the occupation of France, the history of Nazism and the Second World War.

Challenges the persistent orthodoxies of the Tokyo tribunal and provides a new framework for evaluating the trial, revealing its importance to international jurisprudence.

The relationship between landscape and identity is explored to reveal how Englishness encompasses the urban and rural, and the north and south.

The first substantial study of Victoria''s Requiem, among the most prominent Renaissance musical works, encompassing its genesis, style, and impact.