This wide-ranging and extensively researched work reviews the way in which the British army exploited the potential of railways from the ‘dawn of the railway age’ to the outbreak of the First World War. -- .
A ground-breaking collection of essays by leading and emerging scholars, which uncovers the vibrant intellectual life of early modern provincial England. -- .
The first detailed critical history of British Modernist sculpture’s interaction with modern biology. -- .
Brings together the latest international research on a crucial figure for all those interested in early medieval European history in general, and Carolingian history in particular. -- .
This collection expands the history of Chinese medicine by bridging the philosophical concerns of epistemology and the history and cultural politics of transregional medical formations. -- .
Oliver Cromwell ranks as one of the most hotly debated figures in the whole of English history. This complex historiography has left us today with many different versions of Cromwell as man, general and statesman and the conflicting images are the subject of this book. -- .
A comprehensive presentation of humanitarian intervention in theory and practice during the course of the nineteenth century. -- .
Documents for the first time a representative sample of Irish immigrant families and uses the techniques of family and digital history to explore their long-term fate. -- .
Challenges the widely-held idea that Africans are powerless in the creation of self-image. It explores the ways in which image creation is a process of negotiation entered into by a wide range of actors within and beyond the continent. -- .
Examines the origins and effects of the use of interrogation techniques known as the ‘five techniques’. Through its in-depth... Læs mere
The book constructs a case for re-imagining Europe – not as an entity in Brussels or a series of fixed relations – but as a simultaneously real and imagined space of action which exists to the extent that Europeans and others act in and on it. -- .
Exposes the inner workings of inquisitions in medieval France through expert translations of primary sources. -- .