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History – European History
Dublin’s Great Wars 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
Popular Conservatism and the Culture of National Government in Inter-War Britain
Geraint Thomas | Peterhouse, University of Cambridge 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 November 2020 229 x 152 mm c.320pp 978-1-108-48312-4 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Women, Crime and Punishment in Ireland 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 C
De Valera and Roosevelt Irish and American Diplomacy in Times of Crisis, 1932–1939
Bernadette Whelan | University of Limerick 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 October 2020 229 x 152 mm c.350pp 978-1-108-83017-1 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Parnell and his Times
Edited by Joep Leerssen | Universiteit van Amsterdam 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 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 C
Cultivating the City in Early Medieval Italy
Caroline Goodson | University of Cambridge 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 C
Bernard Hamilton | University of Nottingham Monasticism was the dominant form of religious life in the medieval West and in the Byzantine world. Latin and Greek Monasticism in the Crusader States explores the parallel histories of monasteries and monasticism in western and Byzantine traditions in the Near East during the Crusader period c.1050-1300. • A rigorously researched comprehensive survey of monasteries and monasticism in the Near East during the ‘Crusader’ period • Innovative approach enabling a new understanding of indigenous religious institutions and culture in the Crusader states • Examines Latin and Greek monasticism side by side September 2020 244 x 170 mm 300pp 10 b/w illus. 978-0-521-83638-8 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Thinking about Animals in Thirteenth-Century Paris Theologians on the Boundary Between Humans and Animals
Ian P. Wei | University of Bristol Exploring the diverse ways in which theologians at the University of Paris in the thirteenth century understood the differences and similarities between humans and animals, this book analyses key theological works to demonstrate how thinking about animals became a crucial tool for generating knowledge of God and the whole of creation. • Resonates with current debates about what defines humanity and how humans should relate to other creatures • Presents extended close reading of key texts, including by William of
Auvergne, Bonaventure, Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas • Demonstrates the crucial importance of animals for understanding medieval attitudes towards the whole of creation and the creator August 2020 228 x 152 mm c.330pp 978-1-108-83015-7 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Fighting Terror after Napoleon How Europe Became Secure after 1815
Beatrice de Graaf | Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands Europe was forged out of the ashes of the Napoleonic wars by means of a collective fight against revolutionary terror. The Allied Council created a culture of in- and exclusion, of people that were persecuted and those who were protected, using secret police, black lists, border controls and fortifications, and financed by European capital holders. • Helps us to understand how a unified Europe came to be constructed around the collective fight against terror after 1815 • Examines the Allied Council, and its history, on the basis of new archives • Uncovers the emergence of secret police, black lists, border control and fortifications, and financial securities, in and around Europe September 2020 228 x 152 mm c.440pp 978-1-108-84206-8 Hardback £29.99 / US$39.99 P
The Dutch Overseas Empire, 1600–1800
Pieter C. Emmer | Universiteit Leiden This pioneering history of the Dutch Empire provides a new comprehensive overview of Dutch colonial expansion from a comparative and global perspective. It also offers a fascinating window into the early modern societies of Asia, Africa and the Americas through their interactions. • Offers the first full survey of the Dutch overseas empire over two centuries – an important but neglected element of colonial and global history • Overturns a colonial approach by offering a comparative and indigenous perspective on Dutch overseas expansion • Uses regional histories to understand the process of Dutch overseas expansion and early modern globalisation November 2020 228 x 152 mm c.400pp 978-1-108-42837-8 Hardback £69.99 / US$89.99 P 978-1-108-44951-9 Paperback £22.99 / US$29.99 P
The Intellectual World of Sixteenth-Century Florence Humanists and Culture in the Age of Cosimo I
Ann E. Moyer | University of Pennsylvania This study provides an overview of Florentine intellectual life and community in the late Renaissance. It shows how studies of language helped Florentines to develop their own story as a people distinct from ancient Greece or Rome. • Provides overview of intellectual life and community in 16th-c Florence • Shows how the studies of language, history, and art related and supported each other in later Renaissance • Helps locate the arguments about the nature of the Renaissance in the era of the Renaissance itself August 2020 228 x 152 mm c.350pp 978-1-108-49547-9 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Protestant Empires Globalizing the Reformations
Edited by Ulinka Rublack | University of Cambridge Protestantism during the early modern period is predominantly presented as a European story. Through its wide geographical and chronological scope, this volume advances a new approach to understanding the Protestant Reformations, demonstrating the crucial role of global interactions, placing Protestant ideas and practices in a comparative context. • Replaces Euro-centric accounts of Protestantism for the early modern period • Connects the history of Protestant Europe with global history • Underlines the importance of the history of slavery and of the emotions for the history of Protestantism before 1800 September 2020 228 x 152 mm c.350pp 978-1-108-84161-0 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
War and Citizenship Enemy Aliens and National Belonging from the French Revolution to the First World War
Daniela L. Caglioti | Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘Federico II’ Daniela L. Caglioti shows how states at war, when faced with real or alleged security threats, redrew the boundaries between members and non-members, thus redefining belonging and the path to citizenship. A key text for those interested in questions of citizenship, human rights, immigration, national borders, international law and security. • Combines global, comparative, transnational and trans-imperial approaches to help redefine citizenship and belonging • Provides a multi-disciplinary approach, connecting history with sociology, law and international relations • Considers the impact of war on a wide range of actors, including states and armies, but also diplomats, lawyers and ordinary people caught by war or changing national boundaries
Human Rights in History
October 2020 228 x 152 mm c.430pp 978-1-108-48942-3 Hardback £29.99 / US$39.99 P
Democracy, Nazi Trials, and Transitional Justice in Germany, 1945–1950
Devin O. Pendas | Boston College, Massachusetts Revising our understanding about how transitional justice works, this study analyses and compares Nazi trials in post-war East and West Germany from 1945 to 1950 to challenge assumptions about the political outcomes of prosecuting mass atrocities. • Examines the experience of transitional justice in West and East
Germany between 1945 and 1950 • Shows how ‘bad trials’ have promoted democracy in West Germany, while ‘good trials’ helped legitimate a new dictatorship in East
Germany • Shows that transitional justice trials can lead to both democracy and new dictatorships, challenging conventional wisdom September 2020 234 x 156 mm 230pp 978-0-521-87129-7 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Love between Enemies Western Prisoners of War and German Women in World War II
Raffael Scheck | Colby College, Maine Based on thousands of court cases, this innovative study explores the love stories between enemy prisoners of war and German women during the Second World War. It portrays an intimate picture of life in wartime Nazi Germany, from an international perspective, with a particular focus on German women’s experiences. • Offers an intimate perspective on the Second World War • Exposes the human drama of love in the midst of the most destructive war in world history • Explores how both parties came to terms with their forbidden relationships in the aftermath of war October 2020 228 x 152 mm c.400pp 978-1-108-84175-7 Hardback £29.99 / US$39.99 P
Sixties Europe
Timothy Scott Brown | Northeastern University, Boston A social, political and cultural history of left-wing social movements in 1960s Europe, Sixties Europe examines the border-crossing uprisings of the 1960s on both sides of the Iron Curtain, placing them in the broader context formed by Third World liberation struggles and Cold War geopolitics. • Offers a social, political and cultural history of
Europe across a transformative decade • Treats 1968 in Europe as a whole, examining 1960s social movements in both the capitalist West and the state socialist East • Places European developments within a broader global and transnational context formed by Third World liberation struggles and
Cold War geopolitics
New Approaches to European History
August 2020 228 x 152 mm 250pp 978-1-107-12238-3 Hardback £59.99 / US$79.99 P 978-1-107-55290-6 Paperback £19.99 / US$25.99 P
After the Deportation Memory Battles in Postwar France
Philip Nord | Princeton University, New Jersey 160,000 people, a mix of résistants and Jews, were deported from France to camps in Central and Eastern Europe during the Second World War. Philip Nord addresses how the Deportation, and how it was remembered, became politicized against the backdrop of changing domestic and international contexts. • Focuses on both Jews and non-Jews who were deported from France in large numbers during the Second World War • Provides a fresh perspective on source materials, using politics, films and literature as key sources • Considers the religious dimension of post-war memorialization in
France
Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
December 2020 228 x 152 mm c.450pp 978-1-108-47890-8 Hardback £29.99 / US$39.99 P
The Russian Conquest of Central Asia A Study in Imperial Expansion, 1814–1914
Alexander Morrison | New College, Oxford Russia’s conquest of Central Asia was perhaps the nineteenth century’s most dramatic and successful example of European imperial expansion. Alexander Morrison provides a definitive diplomatic and military history, explaining how and why a vast region of steppe, desert, mountain and oasis, mainly populated by Muslims, came under Russian rule. • Provides multiple perspectives on the conquest, giving a voice and agency to Central Asian actors • Combines Russian and English-language archival sources with memoir literature and Persianate chronicles • Based on extensive research in Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan,
Georgia and India December 2020 228 x 152 mm 480pp 978-1-107-03030-5 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
