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Covering the history of medieval and early modern India, from the eighth to the eighteenth centuries, this volume...  Read More >>

This volume examines the selection and promotion of bishops within ecclesiastical politics at the Elizabethan court,...  Read More >>

At the heart of this volume is a concern with exploring levels of interaction between two particular objects of...  Read More >>

Illustrated Religious Texts in the North of Europe, 1500-1800 provides a new perspective on the role of visual imagery...  Read More >>

Using examples as diverse as Egyptian mummies, Celtic tombs, Native American ceremonial bundles, and contemporary...  Read More >>

This volume focuses on early modern paintings, sculpture and other artworks in which subjects have been difficult...  Read More >>

Drawing on a rich, yet untapped source of Scottish autobiographical writing, this book provides a fascinating insight...  Read More >>

The Essex village of Earls Colne, one of the most studied parishes in England, has been the subject of an ongoing...  Read More >>

This book reveals the history of how the vast landscape of moral philosophy was applied to the specific territories...  Read More >>

This volume contains key articles and chapters which represent both seminal and innovative scholarship on European...  Read More >>

Focusing on John Ruskin as a teacher and on his greatest educational work, Fors Clavigera, Sara Atwood examines...  Read More >>

In this volume scholars from an array of different disciplines have embraced what biography can offer them, expanding...  Read More >>

Drawing upon an impressive range of international sources, this book explores the late-nineteenth century partnership...  Read More >>

Liberally illustrated with photographs, maps, and other images, Advances in Forensic Taphonomy: Method, Theory,...  Read More >>

This anthology vastly expands our understanding of the much-misconstructed history of early modern Bengal and seeks...  Read More >>

This collection of essays reflects both the broad range of topics...  Read More >>

The café as an institutional site has been the subject of renewed interest amongst scholars in the past decade,...  Read More >>

Exploring the ways in which transatlantic relationships functioned in the nineteenth century to unsettle hierarchical...  Read More >>

Historically, pamphlets have been used as sources for topics ranging from witchcraft to popular politics. Drawing...  Read More >>

The classic articles and papers collected in this volume show the response of conservative monarchies to the enormous...  Read More >>

This study tackles the difficult yet crucial subject of the place of conscience in the development of English law,...  Read More >>

This book brings the political history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries up-to-date through a series...  Read More >>

Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in early modern globalization, travel and travel literature, whilst...  Read More >>

Through an analysis of textual representations of the American landscape, this book looks at how North America appeared...  Read More >>