Steele at Drury Lane by John Loftis offers a comprehensive study of Richard Steele's pivotal role as both playwright and reformer in the early eighteenth-century London theater.
The introduction to Autocracy, Capitalism, and Revolution in Russia explores the unique social, economic, and political dynamics that shaped the 1917 Russian Revolution.
This thematically arranged book examines the evolution of rail transport and a number of railway workforces across Europe in the modern era, from around 1880 to 2023.
In the last third of the nineteenth century, the discourse on the Jewish question in the Habsburg crownlands of Galicia changed fundamentally, as clerical and populist politicians emerged to denounce the Jewish assimilation and citizenship.
Titoism in Action: The Reforms in Yugoslavia after 1948 offers the first sustained, English-language account of how a Communist state attempted to reinvent itself after breaking with Moscow.
Nearly forty years ago, Sir Lewis Namiers studies showed that there were no organized national political parties in England during the middle of the eighteenth century, and historians have assumed that much the same statement could be made about het period from 1780s to the 1830s.
Titoism in Action: The Reforms in Yugoslavia after 1948 offers the first sustained, English-language account of how a Communist state attempted to reinvent itself after breaking with Moscow.
To be one of "e;the middling sort"e; in urban England in the late seventeenth or eighteenth century was to live a life tied, one way or another, to the world of commerce.
The Wilhelmstrasse: A Study of German Diplomats Under the Nazi Regime by Paul Seabury offers a sobering examination of one of the twentieth century's most troubling institutional stories: the fate of Germany's venerable Foreign Office under Hitler.
Politics and Religion in Seventeenth-Century France: A Study of Political Ideas from the Monarchomachs to Bayle, as Reflected in the Toleration Controversy explores the evolving and contested concept of toleration within the complex interplay of religion and politics during a pivotal era in French history.
The remarkable history of the women who worked for Special Operations Executive across occupied Europe In the wake of the Nazi invasion of Europe, the tentative sparks of resistance in occupied countries were fanned by Britain's Special Operations Executive.
Political Institutions and Social Change in Continental Europe in the Nineteenth Century examines the profound transformations in governmental and political institutions during a period of rapid societal change.
Political Institutions and Social Change in Continental Europe in the Nineteenth Century examines the profound transformations in governmental and political institutions during a period of rapid societal change.
This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.
The Wilhelmstrasse: A Study of German Diplomats Under the Nazi Regime by Paul Seabury offers a sobering examination of one of the twentieth century's most troubling institutional stories: the fate of Germany's venerable Foreign Office under Hitler.
This is a full-scale intellectual biography of the French utopian socialist thinker, Chales Fourier (1772 - 1837), one of the great social critics of the nineteenth century.
This is a full-scale intellectual biography of the French utopian socialist thinker, Chales Fourier (1772 - 1837), one of the great social critics of the nineteenth century.
This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.
Politics and Religion in Seventeenth-Century France: A Study of Political Ideas from the Monarchomachs to Bayle, as Reflected in the Toleration Controversy explores the evolving and contested concept of toleration within the complex interplay of religion and politics during a pivotal era in French history.
