Humanities books

Decolonizing images focuses on Egypt's local visual heritage and continues the urgent process of decolonizing the...  Read More >>

Agents of European overseas empires examines networks of trade and communication on a global scale whose activities...  Read More >>

This book explores the process by which the French Basque country acquired a folkloric regional identity in the...  Read More >>

This book offers a new study of Hobbes's reception among seventeenth- and eighteenth- century deists and freethinkers,...  Read More >>

This book bears witness to the personal experiences of Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe in the highly gendered profession...  Read More >>

Surviving repression tells the story of the Muslim Brotherhood in the aftermath of the 2013 coup. It is the first...  Read More >>

Is it possible for foreign things to be perceived as local? Transcultural things sets out to examine this seeming...  Read More >>

Haunted Britain offers a new emotional and cultural history of the Great War as told through the spiritualist and...  Read More >>

This book is a history of the Potters' Emigration Society from its founding in 1844 to its dissolution in early...  Read More >>

Details the political and cultural contexts of the entry of fairies to the historical record in twelfth century...  Read More >>

This study overturns twentieth-century thinking about pasticcio opera, redefining it as method not genre, and recontextualising...  Read More >>

This book presents a cultural history of Promethean Horror in the modern age, tracing the rise of a sub-genre of...  Read More >>

This book brings together a range of methodological approaches to highlight royal and elite sexualities the sexualities...  Read More >>

This edited collection focusses on the writing of ordinary, semi-literate people in history, emphasising the agency...  Read More >>

This book uncovers that exhibitions uniquely reveal the changing landscape of Irishness over two centuries by analysing...  Read More >>

This book explores how the Victorians standardised vision and transformed spectacle use. It offers new insights...  Read More >>

This book explores the sudden emergence of graphic sex-talk in English print culture during the events of the English...  Read More >>

This book, a companion to the author's acclaimed Emile and Isaac Pereire (2015), sheds new light on elite Jewish...  Read More >>

This book provides an innovative methodology for investigating how China has been conceptualised historically, tracing...  Read More >>

Neither use nor ornament is a book about personal productivity, narrated from the perspective of its obstacles:...  Read More >>

Based upon original research and bringing to life the words and actions of Bah', Muslim, and Jewish leaders during...  Read More >>

This book presents for the first time a coherent analysis of the British Isles as an imperial setting understood...  Read More >>

Through sources from literature and film to comics, music and the built environment across the globe, this work...  Read More >>

This book investigates both short- and long-term responses to disaster in the British Caribbean. It is the first...  Read More >>

A significant new account of emotion in Middle English literature, proposing key methodologies for the analysis...  Read More >>