History: specific events and topics

This book demonstrates that premodern elite and royal women were critical to the geopolitical success of late medieval territorial monarchies, the progenitors of early modern states.

This volume examines the emergence of a market for Scottish art among Scotland's wealthy industrialists in the mid-nineteenth century and in the period leading up to the First World War.

Using theory and method, this book seeks to critique and illuminate rural matters.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the influences and impact of philosopher, writer and public intellectual, Jean Améry.

Using theory and method, this book seeks to critique and illuminate rural matters.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the influences and impact of philosopher, writer and public intellectual, Jean Améry.

This book follows the campaign to disestablish religion in Virginia from 1776 to 1786, when Thomas Jefferson’s bill to establish religious freedom was passed.

This Handbook brings together a plethora of decolonial perspectives from and about Asian countries beyond Southeast Asia.

This book collects together all contemporary and near-contemporary accounts of the 1467 emprise, a particular performative feat of arms, between Anthony Woodville, Lord Scales—brother of Elizabeth Woodville, wife of King Edward IV of England—and Antoine, ‘Grand Bastard of Burgundy,’ natural son of Duke Philip ‘the Good’ of Burgundy.

This book collects together all contemporary and near-contemporary accounts of the 1467 emprise, a particular performative feat of arms, between Anthony Woodville, Lord Scales—brother of Elizabeth Woodville, wife of King Edward IV of England—and Antoine, ‘Grand Bastard of Burgundy,’ natural son of Duke Philip ‘the Good’ of Burgundy.

The book invites its readers to explore the role erotic love, pleasure, and friendship play in crafting a good life.

This book addresses the debate within feminism and critical studies of men and masculinities on whether men should be encouraged to develop alternative masculinities, or whether they should be challenged to renounce masculinity altogether.

This book addresses the debate within feminism and critical studies of men and masculinities on whether men should be encouraged to develop alternative masculinities, or whether they should be challenged to renounce masculinity altogether.

The book invites its readers to explore the role erotic love, pleasure, and friendship play in crafting a good life.

In the 1890s, the choice between the gold standard and the free coinage of silver upended American politics.

In the 1890s, the choice between the gold standard and the free coinage of silver upended American politics.

The Coloniality of Catastrophe in Caribbean Theater and Performance calls attention to theater’s capacity to reveal the constructed roots of catastrophe and offer counter catastrophic strategies to live and imagine otherwise.

The Coloniality of Catastrophe in Caribbean Theater and Performance calls attention to theater’s capacity to reveal the constructed roots of catastrophe and offer counter catastrophic strategies to live and imagine otherwise.

This monograph examines religion in the first English Civil War as a tool for war both in instructing soldiers and portraying the enemy.