Geschichte

First published in 1973. Part of the studies in Commonwealth Politics and History series, this volume is a collection of essays with the topics of Empire and authority, social engineering, traditiona …

This groundbreaking book brings together two key themes that have not been addressed together previously in any sustained way: domestic service and colonization. Colonization offers a rich and exciti …

Youth, Heroism and War Propaganda explores how the young maritime hero became a major new figure of war propaganda in the second half of the long 18th century. At that time, Britain was searching for …

Drawing on newly available archival materials including official documents, reports, and personal accounts, this remarkable study presents a detailed picture of the living standards of various social …

What do Socrates, Hypatia, Giordano Bruno, Thomas More, and Jan Patocka have in common? First, they were all faced one day with the most difficult of choices: stay faithful to your ideas and die or r …

First published in 1924, Max Beer“s work comprises the history of social thought from the fourth to the fourteenth century. He considers in detail the heretical social movement and the story is brou …

Stories of True Crime in Tudor and Stuart England is an original collection of thirty stories of true crime during the period 1580-1700. Published in short books known as chapbooks, these stories pro …

The Bretton Woods system ensured a quarter of a century of relative stability on the world“s financial markets. The quarter of a century which has followed has brought financial chaos and excessive …

Ireland in Conflict, 1922-1998 sets out the main political, economic and social developments in Ireland, north and south of the border, since the 1922 treaty. This book explains the troubles in their …

For Socrates, philosophy, was the study of how to lead one“s life, and for Wittgenstein, `philosophy leaves everything as it is.“ Throughout this book, the work of the ancients is set in the contex …