This book explores witchcraft accusations as bizarre and violent reflections of the tensions, fears, and fantasies within one of Early Modern Europe’s most culturally diverse societies.
Drawing from a wealth of historical and scholarly sources, Johnson traces the important social, religious and political development of Ireland's struggle to become a unified, settled country.
The Roman Conquests series seeks to explain when and how the Romans were able to conquer a vast empire stretching from the foothills of the Scottish Highlands to the Sahara Desert, from the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf.
Volume IV comprises two sections dealing, respectively, with the development of pet culture and its evolution as a cultural institution over the course of the long nineteenth century, and with the variegated presence of domesticated (and feralised) animals in U.
This book is about “zero generation” witness literature: texts written by those who died in the Holocaust and who knew, at the time of their writing, that they would not survive.
This book is about “zero generation” witness literature: texts written by those who died in the Holocaust and who knew, at the time of their writing, that they would not survive.
This book investigates environmental issues traced through the epistolography of the late Byzantine period, which spans roughly the end of the twelfth century to the mid-fifteenth century.
This book investigates environmental issues traced through the epistolography of the late Byzantine period, which spans roughly the end of the twelfth century to the mid-fifteenth century.
Many a book has been written about the Medici; yet how little has been said about the private lives of the founders of that wonderful family which rose from prosperous middle-class condition to take its place among the sovereign houses of Europe, to seat its daughters on the throne of the Queen-consorts of France, and its sons on the Chair of St.
The purpose of this book is to offer a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the works of the great Greek orators, shedding light on their remarkable speeches and the distinctive styles that defined them.
The 2016 referendum on Brexit represents a watershed moment in the United Kingdom's contemporary history, reflecting new divides and questioning many of the premises on which the country's identity and position in the world had been based for almost half a century.
Originally published in 1964, this collection of documents was the first to show in detail how the structure and conventions of British government had changed since the First World War.
First published in 1988, Modernization Frustrated (now with a new preface by the authors) is a provocative analysis of modern British economic and political history.
The 2016 referendum on Brexit represents a watershed moment in the United Kingdom's contemporary history, reflecting new divides and questioning many of the premises on which the country's identity and position in the world had been based for almost half a century.
