Documents Concerning Central Europe from the Hospital’s Rhodian Archives, 1314–1428 brings together over 450 texts concerning the Hospitallers during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. These tex …

Described by Melvin Lasky as ‘one of the great journalists of our time, ‘ Luigi Barzini was also one of the great cultural historians of modern Italy. From Caesar to the Mafia brings together his fin …

This represents the first study devoted to the life and after-life of St John of Beverley. John was bishop of Hexham and then York, after which he retired to his own monastery in Beverley and was bur …

Arguably no modern ideology has diffused as fast as Socialism. From the mid-nineteenth century to the last quarter of the twentieth socialist ideals played a crucial part not only in the political sp …

‘This book with its felicitous title brings together with great skill and sensitivity a large amount of current historical scholarship on the trade and civilization of the Indian Ocean during the Isl …

Originally published in 1988, and the companion book to The Puritan Gentry, covering the period of the Civil War, the English republic and the Restoration of Charles II in 1660, this book gives an ac …

First published in 2004. This 6 volume set focuses on the influential economic and political commentators who saw weaknesses in the infrastructure of the British Empire at the turn of the twentieth c …

In a radical reflection, John Young contends that the US model of democracy has failed the Global South because its emphasis on the supremacy of market capitalism entails a loss of national sovereign …

This powerful book draws direct comparisons between the plight of African slaves, and the systemic ‘othering’ of people designated ‘mad’ throughout Western history. Drawing on contemporary historical …

Despite claims that written exams narrowed the curriculum, ruined children s health, and turned teachers into automatons, once tests took root in American schools their legitimacy was never seriously …