European history books

A lively and inviting history of Belfast—exploring the highs and lows of a resilient city  Read More >>

"This book analyzes right-wing memory politics in Poland through the concept of ""cursed soldiers"" as a key memory...  Read More >>

Popular media plays an important role in collective imaginations of history. The volume investigates this phenomenon...  Read More >>

Stories, statistics and meticulous maps reveal new insights into forgotten rural history of 1953 East Coast Floods....  Read More >>

This volume is the first to contain all of Luxemburg's eloquent writings on the 1917 Russian and 1918-19 German...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the influence of classical authors on Ben Jonson’s dramaturgy, with particular emphasis on...  Read More >>

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This book investigates how ideas of and discourses about Europe have been affected by images of the Mediterranean...  Read More >>

This study challenges the rose-tinted view of the interwar period in Romanian history, which is often judged against...  Read More >>

This volume examines the pervasive and persistent appropriations of the military orders across a broad chronology...  Read More >>

This book is a biographical history of Rottnest Island, a small carceral island offshore from Western Australia....  Read More >>

This book offers a comprehensive and comparative analysis of the history of passports, border surveillance, border...  Read More >>

Courtly Pastimes analyzes the underlying rationales for such activities: to display power and prestige, to acquire...  Read More >>

Poon analyzes the ways in which British colonists and Chinese leaders, backed by the rhetoric of public health and...  Read More >>

The text represents a long journey in the debate that characterized the multifaceted political phenomenon of neo-fascism....  Read More >>

"This collection of essays re-examines ideas of change and movements for change in early modern Europe without presuming...  Read More >>

This volume is the first to look at the constellation of Byzantine emotions. Originating at an international colloquium...  Read More >>

This volume seeks to identify both the content and the ways that the ‘Greek genius’ has long worked at the political,...  Read More >>

"This is the first synthetic book-length study in English of the Ukrainian nation-building during the ""long"" nineteenth...  Read More >>

This volume offers the first comprehensive survey of regime change in Italy in the period c.1494-c.1559.  Read More >>

Covering the 1960s and 1970s, this volume explores new ways of investigating, comparing and interpreting the different...  Read More >>

This is Volume IV in the Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales, and examines the changing politics...  Read More >>

This volume is the first to focus solely on how specific individuals and groups in Byzantium and its borderlands...  Read More >>

The studies collected here cover a period of about 33 years, from 1986 to 2019, and represent a sustained effort...  Read More >>

This political history studies the phenomenal growth of the modern British state’s interest in collecting, collating...  Read More >>