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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.

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.

Provides an opportunity to reflect on the origins of English colonialism around the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic world. As the essays here demonstrate, Anglo-Americans have been simultaneously experimenting with representative government and struggling with the corrosive legacy of racial thinking for more than four centuries.

The only clear and accessible guide to the key theorists and texts of modern political thought as well as the major methods of approaching them.

As entertaining as it is informative, this book explores the history of incarceration in the British Isles from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day.

The British experience of founding and then distancing itself from the first common market in the Victorian age is barely remembered while the second is being established. But there are many resonances with the modern European experience, in particular, membership of the European Monetary Union.

Welcome to Constitution Street, Edinburgh. The street, like the world at large, is in a moment of flux. Part memoir, part social history and a call to action, Constitution Street is an antidote to an age of personal and political anxiety.

Why was Winston Churchill so vindictive towards India and Indians?

Growing up in Leningrad, Polina Barskova saw no trace of the estimated million people who died in the city during the Nazi blockade of 1941-44. As one of Russia's most admired and controversial contemporary writers, she has repeatedly returned to the archive of texts still being recovered from the siege, ...

An enthralling 6,000-year journey through the history of books and reading. An international bestseller.

An accessible, though tightly argued book, which shows the importance of an open mind when dealing with the archaeology of sex and gender.