History – British History / History – European History
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De Valera and Roosevelt
Dublin’s Great Wars
Irish and American Diplomacy in Times of Crisis, 1932–1939 Bernadette Whelan | University of Limerick
The First World War, the Easter Rising and the Irish Revolution Richard S. Grayson | Goldsmiths, University of London
The first integrated history of the Dubliners who served in the British military and in republican forces during the First World War and Irish Revolution. Richard S. Grayson reveals the importance of First World War experiences to the Easter Rising as well as to the War of Independence and the Civil War. • The first study of Dubliners’ military service in the First World War • Puts a strong focus on the British army veterans who joined the IRA • Highlights the lost narrative of Dublin loyalism through the history of the 36th (Ulster) Division August 2018 228 x 152 mm 484pp 27 b/w illus. 13 maps 26 tables 978-1-107-02925-5 Hardback £20.00 / US$34.95 G
This first comprehensive history of American and Irish diplomacy during the 1930s examines how all aspects of formal and informal diplomacy operated between the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Éamon de Valera, focusing on the diplomats based in Washington DC and Dublin respectively. • Analyses formal and informal diplomatic life to revise our current understanding of the relationship between the American and Irish administrations • Details the many ways that Irish issues irritated State Department and White House officials, and the persistent British influence in official America’s views of and approaches to Ireland • Explains how diplomats worked on behalf of their governments to implement their foreign policies
Popular Conservatism and the Culture of National Government in Inter-War Britain
October 2020 229 x 152 mm c.350pp 978-1-108-83017-1 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99
Geraint Thomas | Peterhouse, University of Cambridge
Edited by Joep Leerssen | Universiteit van Amsterdam
Exploring how British Conservatives adapted to the challenges of mass democracy after 1918, this is the first study to explain how and why, despite their suspicion of coalitions, the Conservatives championed the cross-party National Government of 1931–40. • Shows for the first time how the fortunes and character of popular Conservatism differed by region and locality, and explains how and why – despite their suspicion of coalitions – the Conservatives championed the cross-party National Government of 1931-40 • Places the work of government on domestic policy and economic management at the centre of inter-war popular politics and the study of political culture • Explores the contributions of important Conservative figures, including Neville Chamberlain, Walter Elliot, Oliver Stanley, and Kingsley Wood
Marked by names such as W. B. Yeats, James Joyce and Patrick Pearse, the decade 1910–1920 was a period of revolutionary change in Ireland. Leading experts in Irish history, literature and culture address Ireland’s entrance into modernity as a response to the lingering memory of the national leader Charles Stewart Parnell. • Examines the modernization of Ireland from a new perspective • Integrates literary, culture-historical, and political-historical perspectives, providing examples from different fields of how Ireland negotiated its entrance into modernity • Reassesses Parnell in terms of the void he left behind
November 2020 229 x 152 mm c.320pp 978-1-108-48312-4 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99
Parnell and his Times
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October 2020 228 x 152 mm c.300pp 17 b/w illus. 978-1-108-49526-4 Hardback c. £31.99 / c. US$45.00
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History – European History Cultivating the City in Early Medieval Italy
Women, Crime and Punishment in Ireland
Caroline Goodson | University of Cambridge
Life in the Nineteenth-Century Convict Prison Elaine Farrell | Queen’s University Belfast
Focusing on women’s relationships, lifecircumstances and agency, Elaine Farrell reveals the voices, emotions and decisions of incarcerated women and those affected by their imprisonment, offering an intimate insight into their experiences of the criminal justice system across urban and rural post-Famine Ireland. • Enriches our understanding of life in nineteenth-century Ireland with fascinating archival research • Offers a rare and intimate insight into women’s lives before, during and after imprisonment • Demonstrates how individual stories of diverse women at different stages of their lifecycles or criminal careers are revealing of the lives of inhabitants more generally October 2020 229 x 152 mm c.330pp 978-1-108-83950-1 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99
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Concentrating on a period of social, economic, and political change in the Italian peninsula, Caroline Goodson demonstrates the centrality of food-growing gardens to the cultural lives and economic realities of early medieval cities, and shows how urban gardening transformed Roman ideas and economic structures into new, medieval values. • Challenges conventional ideas about the Fall of Rome • Offers a new way to see and analyse urban experience in early medieval cities • Unites textual and material evidence for urban horticulture November 2020 228 x 152 mm c.336pp 978-1-108-48911-9 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99
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