Archaeology books

Thomas Harrison is today perhaps best remembered for the manner of his death. As a leading member of the republican...  Read More >>

A controversial figure of the interwar period, with an enthusiasm for hiking, nudism, folk dancing and voluntary...  Read More >>

The oldest and most renowned Dutch university, Leiden was an attractive proposition for travelling foreign students...  Read More >>

Whilst the Protestant Reformation of 1560 is acknowledged as being a watershed moment in Scottish history, relatively...  Read More >>

Inspired by recent research on the cultural impact of economic change, an international team of leading academics...  Read More >>

Luther's 95 Theses begin and end with the concept of suffering, and the question of why a benevolent God allows...  Read More >>

This collection is the first to concentrate attention on the actual relationship that existed between the Irish...  Read More >>

With a focus on England from the accession of Elizabeth I to the mid-1620s, this book examines the practice of public,...  Read More >>

Early modern Naples has been characterized as a marginal place on the fringes of the European world. In recent historiography...  Read More >>

In this book, the role of royalist agents, spies and conspirators is uncovered and examined. Shifting the traditional...  Read More >>

The Imitatio Christi is considered one of the classic texts of Western spirituality. In this pioneering study, the...  Read More >>

The essays in this volume concentrate on festival iconography, the visual and written languages, including ephemeral...  Read More >>

Lord Kitchener and Lord Haig are two monumental figures of the First World War. Their reputations, both in their...  Read More >>

Autism, Down syndrome, and other such labels assume that 'intellectual disability' is a permanent aspect of human...  Read More >>

In his groundbreaking book The British Way in Warfare (Routledge, 1990), David French outlined the skillful combination...  Read More >>

This volume is the first attempt to assess the impact of both humanism and Protestantism on the education offered...  Read More >>

The guild buildings of Shakespeare’s Stratford represent a rare instance of a largely unchanged set of buildings...  Read More >>

The mastery of nature was viewed by eighteenth-century historians as an important measure of the progress of civilization....  Read More >>

A greater fluidity in social relations and hierarchies was experienced across Europe in the early modern period,...  Read More >>

In 1705-1706, an ’epidemic’ of mysterious deaths terrorized Rome. Pope Clement XI’s physician, Giovanni Maria Lancisi,...  Read More >>

Contributing an original dimension to the study of women in 16th-century England, this pioneering work examines...  Read More >>

Proposing the concept of transformation as a key to understanding Victorian literature, this collection focuses...  Read More >>

Between 1918 and 1939, 448 men who performed uniformed service in the First World War became Conservative MPs. This...  Read More >>

During the twentieth century the financial sector became possibly the most regulated area of the economy in many...  Read More >>

The comic reform plot was not merely a generic turn towards morality or sentimentality, Gollapudi argues, but an...  Read More >>