Frank Costigliola & Michael J. Hogan 
America in the World [EPUB ebook] 
The Historiography of American Foreign Relations since 1941

The Politics of Religion in Napoleonic Italy explores the intense cultural conflict created by French rule in Italy at the start of the nineteenth century. Napoleon“s desire for cultural conformity …

Rewriting Hong Kong“s history from the bottom up, the chapters investigate vital, but hitherto obscured, aspects of the colony“s rise. They cover the Chinese collaboration with the colonial regime, …

From divine visions to self-tortures, some strange mystical experiences have shaped the Christian tradition as we know it. Full of colourful detail, Mystics of the Christian Tradition examines the my …

In 1662, Amy Denny and Rose Cullender were accused of witchcraft, and, in one of the most important of such cases in England, stood trial and were hanged in Bury St Edmunds. A Trial of Witches is a c …

Idle Hands is the first major social history of unemployment in Britain covering the last 200 years. It focuses on the experiences of working people in becoming unemployed, coping with unemployment a …

This book, first published in 1991, demonstrates that Marx is the legitimate founder of what was to become the critical theory of society. It argues that in order to justify a new conception of human …

This book examines the social, economic and political issues of public health provision in historical perspective. It outlines the development of public health in Britain, Continental Europe and the …

The Civil Wars Experienced is an exciting new history of the civil wars, which recounts their effects on the “common people“. This engaging survey throws new light onto a century of violence and po …

Since 1989 the former communist countries of Eastern Europe have witnessed a profound and dramatic upheaval. The economic coherence of this region, formerly maintained through the adoption of the Sov …

Between Poverty and the Pyre examines the history of the experience of widowhood across different cultures. It brings together a collection of essays by historians, anthropologists and philologists. …