A magisterial history of the greatest and most terrible event in history, from one of the finest historians of the Second World War. A book which shows the impact of war upon hundreds of millions of people around the world- soldiers, sailors and airmen; housewives, farm workers …
Considers how notions of Britishness were constructed and promoted through architecture, landscape, painting, sculpture and literature. Maps important moments in the self-conscious evolution of the idea of 'nation' against a broad cultural historical framework. An important addi…
'Borders and conflict in South Asia' is the first full-length study of the 1947 drawing of the Indo-Pakistani boundary in Punjab. Using the Radcliffe commission as a window onto the decolonization and independence of India and Pakistan, and examining the competing interests, bot…
"Stirring language and appeals to collective action were integral to the battles fought to defend empires and to destroy them. This collection explores the rhetoric relating to empire and imperialism in a wide variety of geographic, political, social and cultural contexts. Why d…
This study looks at the problems facing the imperial police forces during the acute political dislocations following decolonization in the British Empire, from Ireland to India and in the Asian and African colonies. This book examines the changing roles and experiences of the po…
"This book is an account of the British experience in Egypt over two centuries, informed by the testimonies of a diverse set of individuals. Providing life stories alongside institutional portraits, it offers multiple perspectives on colonial and imperial cultures, from five gen…
"In the 1930s, a series of crises transformed relationships between settlers and Aboriginal people in Australia's Northern Territory. This book examines archives and texts of colonial administration to study the emergence of ideas and practices of indirect rule in this unlikely …
" Noble society collects five Latin sources, translated into English for the first time, highlighting the diverse experiences of German aristocrats between 1075 and 1200. These biographical texts show noblemen and noblewomen - a margrave, a bishop, an abbess, a count and a magis…
This is the first collection of translated sources on towns in medieval England. It draws on the great variety of written evidence for this significant and dynamic period of urban development, and invites students to consider for themselves the challenges and opportunities prese…
This publication focuses on the history of the humanities from Antiquity to the present. Its central theme is the way in which scholars throughout the ages and in virtually all civilisations have sought to identify patterns in texts, art, music languages, literature, and the pas…
This publication focuses on the history of the humanities from Antiquity to the present. Its central theme is the way in which scholars throughout the ages and in virtually all civilisations have sought to identify patterns in texts, art, music, languages, literature, and the pa…
This publication focuses on the history of the humanities from Antiquity to the present. Its central theme is the way in which scholars throughout the ages and in virtually all civilisations have sought to identify patterns in texts, art, music languages, literature, and the pas…
This publication focuses on the history of the humanities from Antiquity to the present. Its central theme is the way in which scholars throughout the ages and in virtually all civilisations have sought to identify patterns in texts, art, music languages, literature, and the pas…
Offers the first overarching history of the humanities from Antiquity to the present
Offers the first overarching history of the humanities from Antiquity to the present