History: specific events and topics

Argues that freed slaves exerted a profound influence on the transformation of Roman values under the Principate.

The book brings together cutting-edge scholarship from the United States and Europe to address political and cultural responses to the arms race of the 1980s.

Examines the complex interactions between English and Irish neighbours in the ''four obedient shires'' and how this shaped English identity.

Based on long-term research in northern Chad, this book provides a unique account of mobility, wealth, and aspirations to political autonomy at the heart of the contemporary Sahara.

Examination of literacy and reading habits in nineteenth-century Ireland and implications for an emerging cultural nationalism.

This volume brings together scholars of Mediterranean archaeology, ancient history, and complexity science to advance the study of maritime connectivity.

The story of the Dubliners who served in the British military and in republican forces during the First World War and the Irish Revolution.

Argues that Qing China was not just a continental empire, but a maritime power protecting its interests at sea.

Provides an overview of Native American philosophies, practices, and case studies and demonstrates how Traditional Ecological Knowledge provides insights into the sustainability movement.

Sheds new light on the presence and impact of Continental European literary traditions in post-Napoleonic Britain.

Challenges the divide between political and literary history, in an analysis of a major polemical text from mid-ninth century Europe.

Examines the entrenchment of Salafism in Lebanese society while also highlighting the movement''s transnational links to the Persian Gulf.

This book examines the connections between Bavarian tourism and the turbulent experience of German modernity for Germans and foreign tourists.

Drawing on Rwandan genocide survivor testimonies, this book offers a new approach to psychological trauma that considers both the positive and negative consequences.

Argues that North American settler colonialism included episodes of genocide of Indigenous peoples as defined by the United Nations Genocide Convention.

This innovative book reveals children''s experiences and how they became victims and actors during the twentieth century''s biggest conflicts.

The 1848 Revolutions in Europe that marked a turning-point in the history of political thought are examined here in a pan-European perspective.

Examines developments in the heartland of Greece after the reign of Alexander the Great, and rejects the usual pessimistic picture.

Demonstrates the crucial role that the Constitution played in the coming of the Civil War.

Zietlow explores the ideological origins of Reconstruction and the constitutional changes in this era through the life of James Mitchell Ashley.

This is an innovative study of how British Colonial rule and society in Malayan towns and plantations transformed immigrants into British subjects.

Provides a valuable transnational history of the African Diaspora through examination of British Afro-Caribbeans in Cuba.

A history of Egypt''s first teacher-training school, exploring 130 years of tension over the place of Islamic ideas and practices within modernized public spheres.

Shows how migration influenced American foreign policy in Cuban-American relations during the Cold War.

By taking a look at colonization and subalternity, this book offers a different view on Classical Greece and its modern legacy.

This study of the 1955 Bandung Conference is central to the history of international law and the post-colonial world order.

Uses a comparative analysis of case law in leading common law nations to demonstrate how religious discrimination is culturally determined.

Collected essays by Cambridge sociologist Keith Hopkins - one of the most radical, innovative and influential Roman historians of his generation.

Examines the struggle against rinderpest - a devastating cattle disease - and explores the history of international development.

A comprehensive global study of the political ideology of Christian Democracy, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day.

Explores the meanings of the term ''author'' for seventeenth-century German musicians, examining how compositions were made and used.

This book traces how early Americans imagined what a ''nation'' meant during the first fifty years of the country''s existence.

Through a comparative study of Morocco and Tunisia, Feuer proposes a compelling theory accounting for complexities in religion-state relations across the Arab world.

Chronicles the critical role the sciences have played in American foreign relations since World War II.

How a distinctive approach to social policy led democracy to flourish in the Federal Republic of Germany despite its past.

Explores how classical ideals of generosity influenced the writing and practice of gift giving in medieval Europe.

Focuses on enslaved families and their social networks in the city of Puebla de los Ángeles in seventeenth-century colonial Mexico.

A major illustrated collection offering a fresh interdisciplinary reading of Chinese women''s periodicals and history in the long twentieth century.

The guitar is the most played instrument in the West.

Examines the emergence of anti-imperialist internationalism during the interwar years from the perspective of India''s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.

The experiences of men who fought at sea reveal the relationship between discipline, leadership, and the strength of the fleet.

A unique account of everyday life under the Third Reich and one man''s opposition to the Nazi regime.

A unique look at how cinema shaped the cosmopolitan society in Tehran through cultural exchanges between Iran and the world.

This lively and erudite cultural history examines how Scottish identity was experienced and represented in novel ways.

This book compares secularity in societies not shaped by Western Christianity, particularly in Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa.

Contests over Berlin''s streets in the interwar period reveal the fragility of consumer capitalism, urban order, and liberal democracy.

An engaging, innovative history of Brazil''s black and indigenous people that redefines our understanding of slavery, citizenship, and national identity.

This book situates protection at the centre of the global history of empires, thus advancing a new perspective on world history.

The first global history of African linguistics as an emerging autonomous academic discipline, covering Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe.

This is study of the lived experience of monastic reform within the troubled and violent landscape of twelfth-century Germany.