History: specific events and topics

Ethnography of Shias living along frontiers of Kashmir, negotiating belonging to India by calibrating transnational religious-cultural ideas with nationalist ideologies.

This book investigates in detail how illustrated manuscripts of vernacular texts provided education to children and adolescents in Renaissance Florence.

The first study exploring the lives of female slaves of the Ottoman imperial court, drawing from hitherto unexplored primary sources

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

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.

Offers an unprecedentedly rich portrait of the vibrant intellectual and intercultural exchanges sparked by the Crusades in thirteenth-century Acre.

Shah uncovers the complex interaction between constitutional law, religion and politics in three key plural societies in Asia.

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.

The first in-depth study of the history of copyright protecting the visual arts.

A fresh response to the problem of illegal immigration in the United States through the context of Christian theology.

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

A study of colonialism and indigenous health in Hawaiʻi, highlighting cultural change over time.

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

A fresh descriptive and normative perspective on law and religion supported by comparative case studies of Greater China.

A rounded portrait of the Royal College of Music, investigating its educational and cultural impact on music and musical life.

Explores in detail an important section of the population of the Roman world which has too often been neglected.

Discusses state and religion relations in Israel by applying a general theory regarding the role of religion in liberal countries.

Reframes gender variance and transition in positive, non-oppositional terms, informed by Christian constructive theologies of creation and personhood.

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 first systematic global study of how Christians respond to persecution, presenting new research by leading scholars of global Christianity.

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.

Explores the hidden history of unbelief in the early modern era through the lens of Momus, the Greek god of criticism and mockery.

The first full treatment of Jewish childhood in the Roman world.

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

North and South Vietnamese youths had very different experiences growing up during the Vietnamese War.

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

Explores how refugees were used as agents of nation-building in India, leading to gendered and caste-ridden policies of rehabilitation.

Provides a rich examination of how Turkish immigrants and their children created spaces of belonging in West German society.

Moral Contagion highlights the central roles that race and international diplomacy played in the development of American citizenship.

Explores how the British Empire responded to the environmental challenges of the world''s largest tidal delta.

Using newly-uncovered archival evidence, Jeff Eden sheds unprecedented light on the lives of slaves ensnared by the Central Asian slave trade.

A subtle yet wide-ranging study confirming the importance of rhetoric in physicians'' rise to medical dominance and prestige.

At last a history that explains how indigenous dispossession and survival underlay and shaped the birth of Australian democracy.

Offers a thorough examination of Afro-Barbadian migration to Liberia during the mid- to late nineteenth century.

This business history elucidates the international history of the interwar period by putting the armaments sector front and center.

Important intervention in Middle English studies that challenges widely accepted narratives on the identities of Chaucer''s scribes.

Examines Iran''s Armenian community, shedding light on Muslim-Christian relations in Iran since the 1979 revolution.

Explores how foreign policy was used to promote American nationalism by creating external threats in the early republic.

A path-breaking study of national, imperial and indigenous interests at stake in a controversial German expedition to British India.

Interrogates the traditional binary ''slave societies''/''societies with slaves'' as a paradigm for understanding the global practice of slaveholding.

A nuanced range of interdisciplinary perspectives on the role of emotions in moral and political reactions to mass violence.

Offers an innovative study of visual traditions in modern medical history through debates about the causes, impact and spread of AIDS.

Examines Europe''s first significant national policies on social welfare in the late nineteenth century, which had major implications for state-society relations.