Warren C. Brown 
Beyond the Monastery Walls [PDF ebook] 
Lay Men and Women in Early Medieval Legal Formularies

Bradshaw“s Railway Handbook was originally published in 1866 under the title Bradshaw“s Handbook for Tourists in Great Britain and Ireland. It appeared in four volumes as a comprehensive handbook f …

In its various European contexts, the invention and spread of newspapers in the seventeenth century had a profound effect on early modern culture and politics. While recent research has explored the …

Europe in the nineteenth century saw spectacular growth in the size and number of cities and in the proportion of the population living in urban areas. Many contemporaries thought that this social re …

In this exploration of the nature of occupation, Eric Carlton concentrates on the complex relationship between military authority and civilian population and explores the methods used by dominant pow …

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 …

This book provides a fresh overall account of organised antislavery by focusing on the active minority of abolutionists throughout the country. The analysis of their culture of reform demonstrates th …

This presents a major re-evaluation of the standard view of revolutionary armies, the range of attitudes towards the role of heroic individuals, the formation and leadership of armies, and the differ …

The role of democracy promotion in US foreign policy has increased considerably in the last three decades, booming especially in the immediate years after the end of the Cold War. The rise of democra …

Loades explores England“s religious cultures during the reign of Mary Tudor. He investigates how conflicting traditions of conformity and dissent negotiated the new spiritual, political and legal la …

Despite their economic and social importance, there are relatively few book-length studies of national insurance industries. This collection of nine essays by a group of international experts redress …