History

This volume combines vivid descriptions of various public celebrations with a sophisticated methodological and theoretical approach.

This volume combines vivid descriptions of various public celebrations with a sophisticated methodological and theoretical approach.

These are the stories of the last generation of children raised in British India, in their own words. Over 280 contributions and 200 photographs from over 120 individuals make this a unique record of an extraordinary time and place. The experience of life in the Raj is now remote from British daily life, ...

A groundbreaking and revealing portrait of two of the greatest British political leaders by a prize-winning historian.

Commemorating the Irish Famine: Memory and the Monument explores the history of the 1840s Irish Famine in visual representation, commemoration and collective memory from the 19th century until the present, across Ireland and the nations of its diaspora, explaining why since the 1990s the Famine past has come to matter so much in our present.

In this book, author Joseph Gibbs goes back to original memoirs, monographs, newspaper articles, and trial records to present a stark picture of piracy in the era of Blackbeard, Bartholomew Roberts, and Ann Bonny and Mary Read.

Judge Baltasar Garzon achieved international prestige in 1998 when he pursued the perpetrators of crimes committed in Argentina against Spanish citizens and began proceedings for the arrest of the Chilean ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet.

This is the story of the French Revolution told from a psychological and group dynamic perspective. The group perspective the nature of crowd behaviour and mob violence links to the complex relationship between leaders and groups.

What is a hangover? How does it
feel to suffer from one? What can hangovers tell us about the way attitudes to
alcohol have developed over time? In the humanities, why have we neglected the subject of the hangover in our
critical discussions of alcohol and intoxication?In the first comprehensive study ...

In eighteenth-century England, "variety" became a prized aesthetic in musical culture. Not only was variety--of counterpoint, harmony, melody, and orchestration--expected for good composition, but it also manifested in cultural mediums such as songbook anthologies, which compiled miscellaneous songs ...

Between 1500 and 1870, millions of Africans were transported across the Atlantic by European traders to work as slaves in the Americas. First published to accompany a permanent gallery in the Merseyside Maritime Museum, this reissue includes essays on women in slavery, the impact on West and Central Africa, and the African view of the slave trade.

The First World War comes to harrowing life through the intertwined lives of the soldier poets in Michael Korda's epic Muse of Fire.

American presidents have often pushed the boundaries established for them by the Constitution; this is the inspirational history of the people who pushed back

A man of both empire and the Enlightenment, as viceroy of New Spain (1785-86), Bernardo de Galvez was also pivotal in the design and implementation of Spanish colonial reforms. Extensively researched through Spanish, Mexican, and US archives, Quintero Saravia's portrait of Galvez reveals him as central to the histories of the Revolution and late eighteenth-century America.

Winner of the PEN / Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography and the Southern Historical Association Sydnor Award Three sisters from the South wrestle with orthodoxies of race, sexuality, and privilege.

'A welcome and important addition to this genre-especially given that it contains more than 300 cartoons, most of which have not been utilised in previously published books . . . With great skill Benson has created a highly readable, entertaining, and politically insightful description for each cartoon ...

Banks and bankers are hardly the most beloved people and institutions in this country. With its corruptive influence on politics and stranglehold on the American economy, Wall Street is not held in high regard by many outside the financial sector. But the pitchforks raised against this behemoth are largely ...

The Interesting Narrative is a first-hand account of the horrors of slavery, published on the eve of the British abolition debate in 1789. The most important African autobiography of the 18th century, it recounts Equiano's adventures on land and sea. This edition's introduction surveys recent debates about Equiano's birthplace and identity.