Ferdinand Gregorovius 
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In this survey of the Dutch political culture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Piet de Rooy reveals that the ”polder model” often used to describe economic and social policymaking based o …

Jacob Gorender”s (1923–2013) 1978 book, Colonial Slavery (O Escravismo Colonial), comes alive for English language readers thanks to Bernd Reiter and Alejandro Reyes”s brilliant translation. Gorend …

Out of the House of Bondage, first published in 1986, focuses not on slave rebellions, which were of crucial importance but not common occurrences, but on the day-to-day patterns of resistance that d …

Examining the issue of  ”British decline” after the war, this fascinating text describes the evolution of cooperation in Britain and France, and argues that the relationship between these two …

First Published in 2006. This book attempts a new interpretation of the Holy Roman Empire in Germany from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. It makes use of regional printed materials and of un …

This profile looks at how Stalin, despite being regarded as intellectually inferior by his rivals, managed to rise to power and rule the largest country in the world, achievieving divine-like status …

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the British Government spent a vast amount of money measuring the distance between the earth and the sun using observations of the transit of Venus. Hund …

First Published in 2004. The study of these ancient charities calls attention to extent of leprosy in England and the early foundations for strangers linked to the widespread practice of pilgrimage. …

First Published in 1964. This is Volume I of two that forms a collection of select statues documents and reports around the banking industry within Britain from 1832 to 1928. This volume includes up …

This collection explores the relationships of class and state in contemporary African politics. …