General & world history books

The purpose of this collection is to bring together representative examples of the most recent work that is taking...  Read More >>

The Society of Jesus was founded on a principal of strict obedience to papal authority, yet the turbulent political...  Read More >>

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

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

Documenting lived experiences of men in charge of others, this collection creates a social and cultural history...  Read More >>

Franciscans in sixteenth-century New Spain were deeply ambivalent about their mission work. Fray Juan de Zumárraga,...  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 >>

Since the mid-1970s, the term zone has often been associated with the post-war housing estates on the outskirts...  Read More >>

The British state between the mid-seventeenth century to the early twentieth century was essentially a Christian...  Read More >>

Perspectives on English Revolutionary Republicanism takes stock of developments in the scholarship of seventeenth-century...  Read More >>

Addressing one of the most controversial and emotive issues of American history, this book presents a thorough re-examination...  Read More >>

Analysing the make-up and workings of the Royalist party in Scotland and Ireland during the civil wars of the mid-seventeenth...  Read More >>

Through its focus on the relationship between foreign and domestic politics, this book provides a new perspective...  Read More >>

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

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

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 >>

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 >>

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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 >>