European history

The French Constitution of 1791 has a major legacy that overturned many centuries of historical tradition but remains little known outside of France.

The Oxford History of the Irish Book is a major series that charts one of the most venerable book cultures in Europe, from the earliest manuscript compilations to the flourishing book industries of the late twentieth century.

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This second volume of the letters of Dr Charles Burney follows directly from the first, published in 1991, and contains roughly two hundred letters written between 1785 and 1793.

Following the death in 1789 of Abbe de l'Epee, the first teacher of deaf pupils renowned in France and beyond, revolutionaries committed to founding national institutes for the education of deaf pupils.

Solidarity and Pressure is the first full-length study of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement (IAAM).

While much attention has been paid to the commemoration of conflict in the twentieth century, this book is the first to consider conflict memory in the long term, arguing that modern practices were not created out of the mud of the trenches, but evolved from much longer practices.

At the Restoration of 1660, there was no distinctive banking sector, and banking services were provided by a variety of traders, most notably the London goldsmiths.

Colonial Failure and Theatrical Form in Early Modern England shows how early modern English dramatists preserved and instrumentalized the early history of England's failed conquests of the Americas in the formal techniques they used to stage fictional worlds.

Solidarity and Pressure is the first full-length study of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement (IAAM).

Many are familiar with European modernists' interest in Chinese art and poetry, however less well known is that Russian literature and art at the turn of 20th century also flourished in a sustained dialogue with China.

The first combined history of two of the great Islamic empires of the 10th-13th centuriesAfrican invaders of Spain?

By using informers to provide intelligence on terrorism, the security and intelligence agencies who handle them gain knowledge of their offences.

The German Peasants' Revolts of 1525 were a defining moment both for the Protestant Reformation and the history of European culture.

The first combined history of two of the great Islamic empires of the 10th-13th centuriesAfrican invaders of Spain?

A pioneering history of this period of crisisThe Roman empire during the period framed by the accession of Septimus Severus in 193 and the rise of Diocletian in 284 has conventionally been regarded as one of crisis.

Before the First World War Germany was a global empire with colonies in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific.

The German Peasants' Revolts of 1525 were a defining moment both for the Protestant Reformation and the history of European culture.

In Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, universities were one of many institutional state structures wherein gender difference, the male breadwinner ideal, and heterosexuality were central to a conception of citizenship.

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Charlemagne and Rome is a wide-ranging exploration of cultural politics in the age of Charlemagne.

Just days into the miners' strike of 1984-1985, a few women in coalfield communities around Britain began to meet to consider how they could support the strike, a clash with the Thatcher government over the future of the coal industry.

The First World War transformed modern politics.

Western theories of biopolitics focus on its liberal and fascist rationalities.

Western theories of biopolitics focus on its liberal and fascist rationalities.

Concentrating on the formative years of the Cold War from 1943 to 1957, Patryk Babiracki reveals little-known Soviet efforts to build a postwar East European empire through culture.

Decoloniality has emerged as one of the most prominent subjects of public and academic debates of our time, bringing to the fore the post-colonial perspectives of previously underrepresented groups.

We are used to thinking that the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s was an essentially Western phenomenon.

At the Restoration of 1660, there was no distinctive banking sector, and banking services were provided by a variety of traders, most notably the London goldsmiths.

Byzantium was a strange entity--a relic of classical antiquity which survived deep into the Middle Ages.

Physicians have had a major role in framing the middle-class values of modern western society, especially those relating to the professions.

Before the First World War Germany was a global empire with colonies in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific.

Inspired by analogies betwen the construction of heresy and the representation of madness described by Michael Foucault in in Histoire de la folie a l'age classique (Madness and Civilization), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries demonstrates how the concept of heresy emerges in the work of Justin Matyr.

Inspired by analogies betwen the construction of heresy and the representation of madness described by Michael Foucault in in Histoire de la folie a l'age classique (Madness and Civilization), The Notion of Heresy in Greek Literature in the Second and Third Centuries demonstrates how the concept of heresy emerges in the work of Justin Matyr.

The Birth of the Archive traces the history of archives from their emergence in the Late Middle Ages through the Early Modern Period, and vividly shows how archives permeated and fundamentally changed European culture.

This, the third volume to appear in the New Oxford History of England, covers the period from the repeal of the Corn Laws to the dramatic failure of Gladstone's first Home Rule Bill.

The astonishing career of Galla Placidia (c.

This book is a biographical study of unprecedented scope and detail of the celebrated Anna Gordon, Mrs.

The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Orthodox Christianity investigates the various ways in which Orthodox Christian, i.

The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Orthodox Christianity investigates the various ways in which Orthodox Christian, i.

The Intimate State explores how state-supported mental health initiatives made emotional intimacy both politically valued and personally desired during a crucial period of modern British psychiatric and cultural history.

The Intimate State explores how state-supported mental health initiatives made emotional intimacy both politically valued and personally desired during a crucial period of modern British psychiatric and cultural history.

Beginning in the late nineteenth century, British companies used the resources of empire to create an imperial oil industry that controlled 20% of global oil reserves by 1939 and allowed for the movement of capital and labor between regions and companies.

Making Peace provides a fresh context for understanding gender relations in interwar Britain, seeing in the emergence of a powerful ideology of motherhood and a reemphasis on separate spheres for men and women a corollary to the political and economic restructuring designed to reestablish social order after World War I.

The link between weddings and death-as found in dramas ranging from Romeo and Juliet to Lorca's Blood Wedding-plays a central role in the action of many Greek tragedies.

Britain was the first country in the world to become an essentially urban county.

Britain was the first country in the world to become an essentially urban county.

Byzantium was a strange entity--a relic of classical antiquity which survived deep into the Middle Ages.

The late-eighteenth-century 'age of revolutions' has long been identified as a key moment in the gendering of modern democratic politics, one which opened up new debates on the 'rights of women' while often re-affirming the masculinity of the political citizen.

From Gilbert and Sullivan to Andrew Lloyd Webber, from Julie Andrews to Hugh Jackman, from Half a Sixpence to Matilda, Pick a Pocket Or Two is the story of the British musical: where it began and how it developed.