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British and Irish History
History of Native American Peoples
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Sharks upon the Land
Colonialism, Indigenous Health, and Culture in Hawai’i, 1778–1855 Seth Archer | Utah State University This book is for readers interested in Indigenous responses to European and American colonialism. The study illuminates Hawaiian cultural change - in Native religion, medicine, and gender - amid the incursion of Western diseases and their side effects, including infertility, infant mortality, and chronic ill health. • Proposes a new model for understanding colonialism in indigenous society - the overlap of colonialism, health, and culture • Provides a useful case study for health in the Native American and
Pacific past, with findings that can be tested and applied to other cases • Makes Native voices central in the narrative, providing unique native viewpoints on colonialism, health, and cultural change • Adds indigenous health as a crucial factor in the transformation (and eventual US occupation) of Hawai’i
Studies in North American Indian History
301pp January 2020 9781316626603 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 April 2018 9781107174566 Hardback GBP 34.99 / USD 49.99 eISBN 9781316795934
British and Irish History
20C History of Britain
Amnesty International and Human Rights Activism in Postwar Britain, 1945–1977
Tom Buchanan | University of Oxford Tom Buchanan traces the development of the human rights movement in post-war Britain, examining its origins as a coalition of activists, the birth of Amnesty International in 1961 up to Amnesty’s receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977, and how these activists were able to effect major changes in public and political attitudes. • Contains the broadest survey of human rights activism to date, allowing for greater insight into the careers of individual activists and the interconnections between different campaigns • Sheds new light on the development of human rights activism over time and how groups such as Amnesty International were able to emerge from a wider activist milieu • Highlights how events in post-war Britain were crucial in influencing the future development of human rights activism
Human Rights in History
358pp April 2020 9781107127517 Hardback GBP 64.99 / USD 84.99 April 2020 9781107566552 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 28.99 eISBN 9781316422397 NEW IN PAPERBACK
Chris Moores | University of Birmingham A history of civil liberties activism in twentiethcentury Britain, focusing primarily on the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL). This study traces the NCCL’s development over the past eighty years. It accounts for the emergence of human rights in political discourse and offers insights into Britain’s changing political culture. • Presents a new history of civil liberties activism in the United Kingdom • Offers a longitudinal analysis of the National Council for Civil Liberties • Places the emergence of human rights on a global scale within a
British context 346pp 2 b/w illus. 2 tables April 2020 9781107459700 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 February 2017 9781107088610 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781316105085
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Dublin’s Great Wars
The First World War, the Easter Rising and the Irish Revolution Richard S. Grayson | Goldsmiths, University of London The first integrated history of the Dubliners who served in the British military and in republican forces during the First World War and Irish Revolution. Richard S. Grayson reveals the importance of First World War experiences to the Easter Rising as well as to the War of Independence and the Civil War. • The first study of Dubliners’ military service in the First World War • Puts a strong focus on the British army veterans who joined the IRA • Highlights the lost narrative of Dublin loyalism through the history of the 36th (Ulster) Division 484pp 27 b/w illus. 13 maps 26 tables October 2020 9781108930628 Paperback GBP 14.99 / USD 19.95 August 2018 9781107029255 Hardback GBP 20.00 / USD 34.95 eISBN 9781139248877
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Feminism and the Servant Problem
Class and Domestic Labour in the Women’s Suffrage Movement Laura Schwartz | University of Warwick With this first history of suffrage to look at contributions by domestic servants, Laura Schwartz brings a feminist perspective to labour history. Feminism and the Servant Problem offers a new understanding of the class politics of the suffrage movement, and challenges traditional notions of who made up the British working class. • The first history of suffrage that looks at the contributions of domestic servants and that movement’s debates on the ‘servant problem’ • Will appeal to readers interested in ‘history from below’, placing primary importance on servants’ voices and perspectives • Brings a feminist perspective to labour history, offering a welcome alternative to labour movement histories that focus on men 245pp June 2020 9781108457743 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 31.99 July 2019 9781108471336 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108603263
Irish Women and the Great War
Fionnuala Walsh | University College Dublin The first full-length study to explore the impact of the Great War on the lives of women in Ireland. Fionnuala Walsh examines women’s mobilisation for the war effort, and the impact of the war on their employment opportunities, family and domestic life, social morality and politicisation. • Provides the first complete overview of the experiences of Irish women in the First World War • Places Irish women’s war experience within its international context • Draws on a wide range of diverse archival sources and accounts of individual women’s war experiences
Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
277pp July 2020 9781108491204 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108867924
Many Mouths
The Politics of Food in Britain from the Workhouse to the Welfare State Nadja Durbach | University of Utah This compelling study of two centuries of British government food programs explores the political, economic and cultural factors behind them, challenging assumptions that they were progressive and based primarily on scientific advances in nutrition, and asks why the State chose to feed some of its subjects, but not others. • Provides the first account of British government food programs over the entire 19th and 20th centuries, to offer a long-term view of British food policy • Uses the crucial relationship between the state and food - the most critical scarce resource -to explore how government works both ideologically and in practice • Demonstrates how the government’s policies actually worked in practice and how people shaped and experienced food policy in their everyday lives 440pp 15 b/w illus. March 2020 9781108483834 Hardback GBP 34.99 / USD 44.99 eISBN 9781108594189
Popular Conservatism and the Culture of National Government in Inter-War Britain
Geraint Thomas Exploring how British Conservatives adapted to the challenges of mass democracy after 1918, this is the first study to explain how and why, despite their suspicion of coalitions, the Conservatives championed the cross-party National Government of 1931–40. • Shows for the first time how the fortunes and character of popular
Conservatism differed by region and locality, and explains how and why – despite their suspicion of coalitions – the Conservatives championed the cross-party National Government of 1931-40 • Places the work of government on domestic policy and economic management at the centre of inter-war popular politics and the study of political culture • Explores the contributions of important Conservative figures, including
Neville Chamberlain, Walter Elliot, Oliver Stanley, and Kingsley Wood 320pp November 2020 9781108483124 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108672849
Sounds of War
Music in the British Armed Forces during the Great War Emma Hanna | University of Kent, Canterbury This groundbreaking study, sitting at the intersection of cultural and military history, examines the formal and informal uses of music in all three British forces during the Great War. Emma Hanna argues that music was omnipresent in servicemen’s wartime existence and was a vital element for the maintenance of morale. • Provides new insights into the cultures of Britain’s armed forces from 1914 to 1918 • Extensive research uncovers previously unheard voices of both men and women who served in the Great War • Provides an unprecedented survey of music and musical activities in the British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Flying Corps/Royal Air Force
Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
320pp 29 b/w illus. March 2020 9781108480086 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108609449
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The British End of the British Empire
Sarah Stockwell | King’s College London How did decolonization impact on Britain? And how did Britain manage its transition from colonial power to postcolonial nation? These questions are explored in an account of the ways in which domestic institutions reconfigured their activities for a postcolonial world, and continued to assert influence after the end of empire. • Students and scholars of development in the postcolonial era will benefit from a new and original perspective illuminating the early development of British technical and military assistance to new
Commonwealth states • Shows how British institutions evolved their own versions of
‘imperialism’ at the end of empire, as they sought to substitute new roles for their established ones within the imperial system • Proposes a new model of the British imperial system by showing how domestic institutions on the margins of the imperial state had become stakeholders in it
Cambridge Library Collection - Egyptology
351pp 22 b/w illus. 9 tables January 2020 9781107680883 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 August 2018 9781107070318 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781107707382
The Case for Scottish Independence
A History of Nationalist Political Thought in Modern Scotland Ben Jackson | University of Oxford Scottish nationalism is a powerful movement in contemporary politics, yet the goal of Scottish independence emerged surprisingly recently into public debate. This engaging and accessible study investigates the development of the ideology of modern Scottish nationalism from the 1960s to the Scottish independence referendum in 2014. • Connects present-day debates on Scottish independence with their historical predecessors • Draws on a wide range of published and unpublished sources largely untapped by other treatments of the topic • Accessible to non-specialists and to readers who are not experts on
Scottish history or politics. 220pp July 2020 9781108835350 Hardback GBP 59.99 / USD 79.99 July 2020 9781108793186 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 28.99 eISBN 9781108883733
The Intelligence War against the IRA
Thomas Leahy | Cardiff University Thomas Leahy investigates whether British intelligence and their informers forced the IRA into peace by 1998. The book is ideal for those who want to know more about the IRA, explore why peace emerged in Northern Ireland, and understand British intelligence’s role against the IRA. • The first extended book evaluating the effectiveness and failures of the
British intelligence campaign against the IRA during the Troubles • Provides the first in-depth regional study of the IRA’s campaign across the entire conflict • Uses the example of the IRA’s campaign to shed new light on broader questions in intelligence and security studies 350pp March 2020 9781108487504 Hardback GBP 54.99 / USD 69.99 March 2020 9781108720403 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.99 eISBN 9781108767033
History of Britain - 1066 - 1450
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Church Building and Society in the Later Middle Ages
Gabriel Byng | University of Cambridge Almost every English town and village has a parish church, but how was its construction financed and managed? This original and authoritative study explains how economic change, local politics and architectural creation combined in late-medieval England to complete one of the most demanding tasks that any parish could undertake. • Offers fascinating insights into the human story behind the construction of England’s parish churches, and shows how profoundly political it was • Explores who financed the construction of parish churches and how this changed during the medieval period • Sets medieval architecture in the context of contemporary society, economics and local politics
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
336pp 31 b/w illus. 19 tables June 2020 9781108827454 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 December 2017 9781107157095 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781316661765 NEW IN PAPERBACK
Cultural Exchange and Identity in Late Medieval Ireland
The English and Irish of the Four Obedient Shires Sparky Booker | Queen’s University Belfast Cultural exchange between English and Irish neighbours in the ‘four obedient shires’ went both ways. Sparky Booker examines the nature of these complex interactions, the tensions that existed between assimilation and the preservation of distinct cultural identities, and the impact this had on English identity in Ireland. • Places Ireland in a broad context and avoids the specialist language that separates Irish historiography from the historiography of the medieval world more generally • Integrates the experiences of non-elite groups into its analysis to help readers get a more accurate understanding of colonial society, at all levels, in Ireland • Incorporates both ecclesiastical and secular developments and institutions to reveal the close and complex relationships between the secular and religious in medieval society
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
314pp 2 maps March 2020 9781107567375 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 33.99 March 2018 9781107128088 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781316422519
England’s Northern Frontier
Conflict and Local Society in the FifteenthCentury Scottish Marches Jackson Armstrong | University of Aberdeen This first book-length study of England’s northern borderlands in the fifteenth century addresses issues of conflict, kinship, lordship, law, justice, and governance. Examining the region at different social levels, this book expands our understanding of late medieval English political society, within its broader chronological and European context. • The first book-length study of England’s far north and the Anglo-
Scottish borderlands in the fifteenth century • Frames the region in a broad English, European and chronological context, c.1300–c.1600 • Integrates the study of conflict in late medieval England into the wider
European historiography of feud, contrary to the view of England’s development as exceptional and distinct
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
414pp November 2020 9781108472999 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108561686
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Famine and Scarcity in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
The Regulation of Grain Marketing, 1256–1631 Buchanan Sharp | University of California, Santa Cruz Buchanan Sharp examines governmental and crowd responses to famine, from the late Middle Ages through to the early modern era. This wide-ranging book will be of interest to academic researchers and graduate students studying the social, economic, cultural and political make-up of medieval and early modern England. • Charts governmental and crowd responses to famine, from the late
Middle Ages through to the early modern era • Analyses some of the oldest surviving archival evidence of public response to famine • Provides a detailed account of poor relief in the late Middle Ages and links it to the development of the Poor Law in the sixteenth century 276pp June 2020 9781107551787 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 31.99 September 2016 9781107121829 Hardback GBP 70.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781316401200
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Felony and the Guilty Mind in Medieval England
Elizabeth Papp Kamali | Harvard Law School, Massachusetts Drawing on a wide array of sources, including plea rolls, guides for confessors, and popular literature of the era, this book argues that issues of mind were central to jurors’ determinations of whether a particular defendant should be convicted, pardoned, or acquitted outright in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century England. • Examines what factors juries weighed in sorting the guilty from the innocent in the first two centuries of the criminal trial jury • Situates the medieval English law of felony in a broader cultural, social, and religious setting • Speaks to current controversies in the field of criminal law, such as the role of intentionality in determining the bounds of criminal responsibility
Studies in Legal History
352pp July 2020 9781108712743 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 August 2019 9781108498791 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108670890
The House of Commons 1422–1461 7 Volume Hardback Set
Linda Clark These volumes provide a comprehensive guide to Parliament in a period of defeat overseas and encroaching civil war. A detailed analysis of the composition of the Commons, based on biographies of the MPs in 22 Parliaments and surveys of their constituencies, leads to an exploration of its role alongside that of the Crown and the Lords. • An authoritative guide to Parliament during the reign of Henry VI containing the biographies of over 2000 Members of the Commons set alongside surveys of their constituencies • Features notable figures including many prominent military leaders of the final phase of the Hundred Years’ War and literary figures such as
Sir Thomas Mallory • An invaluable resource capable of transforming the study not only of parliaments and politics, but of the social, economic and cultural history of late medieval England
The History of Parliament
6256pp April 2020 9781108882002 7 Hardback books GBP 550.00 / USD 715.00 eISBN 9781108894432
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The Medieval Gift and the Classical Tradition
Ideals and the Performance of Generosity in Medieval England, 1100–1300 Lars Kjær This interdisciplinary study explores how classical ideals of generosity influenced the writing and practice of gift giving in medieval Europe. Focusing on classical texts, such as those by Seneca the Younger and Cicero, Lars Kjær reveals how historians have underestimated the influence of classical literature and philosophy on medieval culture. • The interdisciplinary approach enables a new understanding of the role of generosity in medieval culture and political life • Explores the connections between ritualised communication in medieval Europe and that culture’s intellectual traditions • Provides a strong foundation for comparing the culture of gift giving in medieval Europe with those studied by social anthropologists in other parts of the world
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
235pp August 2020 9781108439329 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 August 2019 9781108424028 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108539579
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The Political Bible in Early Modern England
Kevin Killeen | University of York This illuminating new study considers the Bible as a political document in seventeenth-century England, revealing how the religious text provided a key language of political debate and played a critical role in shaping early modern political thinking. • Explores the Bible as an important source of political thought throughout the seventeenth century • Sheds new light on political discourse across classes that is wholly distinct from the classical languages of political thought • Draws on a large cross-section of little-known writing from the seventeenth century to help readers make sense of the large amount and strangeness of early modern biblical writing
Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
322pp March 2020 9781107518421 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 December 2016 9781107107977 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 114.95 eISBN 9781316257388
History of Britain (General)
Parnell and his Times
Technology, Lifeways and Cuisine Joep Leerssen | Universiteit van Amsterdam Marked by names such as W. B. Yeats, James Joyce and Patrick Pearse, the decade 1910–1920 was a period of revolutionary change in Ireland. Leading experts in Irish history, literature and culture address Ireland’s entrance into modernity as a response to the lingering memory of the national leader Charles Stewart Parnell. • Examines the modernization of Ireland from a new perspective • Integrates literary, culture-historical, and political-historical perspectives, providing examples from different fields of how Ireland negotiated its entrance into modernity • Reassesses Parnell in terms of the void he left behind 300pp 17 b/w illus. October 2020 9781108495264 Hardback GBP 31.99 / USD 45.00 eISBN 9781108861786
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The Cambridge History of Ireland
Volume 1 600–1550 Brendan Smith | University of Bristol The thousand years explored in this book witnessed developments in the history of Ireland that resonate to this day. Interspersing narrative with detailed analysis of key themes, the first volume in the Cambridge History of Ireland presents the latest thinking on key aspects of the medieval Irish experience. • Places the Irish experience in the broader context of medieval
European developments, allowing for comparisons and contrasts with other countries to emerge • Contains new and original perspectives from the leading scholars in the field • Written in an accessible style and supported by full scholarly apparatus and carefully selected maps, tables and illustrations
The Cambridge History of Ireland
680pp 36 b/w illus. 4 maps 2 tables March 2020 9781107527560 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 April 2018 9781107110670 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781316275399 NEW IN PAPERBACK
The Cambridge History of Ireland
Volume 4 1880 to the Present Thomas Bartlett | University of Aberdeen Copiously illustrated, this volume situates the Irish story, or stories - for much of these decades two Irelands are in play - in a variety of contexts, Irish and Anglo-Irish, of course, but also European, Atlantic and, latterly, global. A landmark publication by the most recent generation of historians of Ireland. • Places the Irish experience in the broader context of modern European and global developments, allowing for comparisons and contrasts with other countries to emerge • Contains new and original perspectives from the leading scholars in the field • Written in an accessible style and supported by full scholarly apparatus and carefully selected maps, tables and illustrations
The Cambridge History of Ireland
1000pp March 2020 9781107534155 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 April 2018 9781107113541 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130 eISBN 9781316286470
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The Cambridge History of Ireland
Volume 3 1730–1880 James Kelly | Dublin City University Provides new and original interpretations of a crucial phase in the history of Ireland that, while focused firmly on the island and its traditions, transcends and moves beyond the nationalist narrative of the twentieth century to provide a history of late early modern Ireland for the twentyfirst century. • Offers new perspectives on Ireland during the era of Protestant
Ascendancy, a complex phase of historical change, and presents what can be perceived as a necessary ‘post-revisionist’ narrative of Irish history • Places the Irish experience in the broader context of late early modern
European and global developments, allowing for comparisons and contrasts with other countries to emerge • Written in an accessible style and supported by full scholarly apparatus and carefully selected maps, tables and illustrations
The Cambridge History of Ireland
874pp 54 b/w illus. 2 maps March 2020 9781107535596 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 April 2018 9781107115200 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781316335680
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The Cambridge History of Ireland
Volume 2 1550–1730 Jane Ohlmeyer | Trinity College Dublin Offers fresh perspectives on the political, military, religious, social, cultural, intellectual, economic, and environmental history of early modern Ireland, within their global and comparative contexts, to explain in an accessible manner how and why people acted as they did in the transformative and tumultuous years between 1550 and 1730. • Places the Irish experience in the broader context of early modern
European and global developments, allowing for comparisons and contrasts with other countries to emerge • Contains new and original perspectives from the leading scholars in the field • Written in an accessible style and supported by full scholarly apparatus and carefully selected maps, tables and illustrations
The Cambridge History of Ireland
796pp 33 b/w illus. 4 maps 10 tables March 2020 9781107540460 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 April 2018 9781107117631 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130 eISBN 9781316338773
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Thomas Bartlett | University of Aberdeen This authoritative and engaging four-volume history vividly presents the Irish story - or stories - from c.600 to the present, within its broader Atlantic, European, imperial and global contexts. Written by an international team of experts, this landmark history reflects recent developments in the field and sets the agenda for future study. • A landmark survey of Irish history from c.600 to the present day, which will be an essential reference set for anyone seeking to understand
Ireland’s tangled history • Written by a team of more than 120 leading historians from around the world, this is the most comprehensive and authoritative history of
Ireland yet attempted • Combines narrative and thematic chapters to provide a fresh and upto-date view of 1500 years of Irish history
The Cambridge History of Ireland
2800pp March 2020 9781316617830 4 Paperback books GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00 April 2018 9781107167292 4 Hardback books GBP 350.00 / USD 450.00 eISBN 9781316711668
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
Volume 29 Andrew Spicer | Oxford Brookes University Transactions of the Royal Historical Society is an annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world’s most distinguished historians. This volume includes articles on Saladin’s ‘spin doctors’, Wales and nuclear power during the 1980s, and self-help for women in post-war Britain. • Provides an annual collection of major articles that represents some of the best historical research by some of the world’s most distinguished historians • Covers a wide range of topics including Saladin, the response to
Chernobyl in 1980s Wales, and the 1918–19 influenza epidemic in
India • Presents a diverse range of historical, geographical and social contexts
Royal Historical Society Transactions
316pp January 2020 9781108490696 Hardback GBP 40.00 / USD 75.00 eISBN 9781108854627
History of Britain after 1450
Armed with Sword and Scales
Law, Culture, and Local Courtrooms in London, 1860–1913 Sascha Auerbach | University of Nottingham Examines the relationship between the creation of modern courtrooms and their widespread portrayal in journalism, literature, and popular culture. Sascha Auerbach argues that London’s municipal courtrooms shaped the social experience and cultural meanings of law, contested moral norms, and helped determine boundaries of government authority. • The first book to focus specifically on the courtroom as a distinct feature of modern life • Introduces the courtroom as a discrete subject of analysis in historical, legal, and cultural scholarship • Illuminates why the courtroom is portrayed so ubiquitously in newspapers, novels, plays, movies, and television
Studies in Legal History
336pp February 2021 9781108491556 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108863711
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Beyond Slavery and Abolition
Black British Writing, c.1770–1830 Ryan Hanley | University College London By extending our view of early black British writing beyond traditional questions of slavery and abolition, Ryan Hanley places black agency at the heart of a new social and cultural history of Georgian Britain. Combining historical research and literary analysis, he shows how black writers helped to make British society. • Places the contribution of black intellectuals at the heart of a broad range of movements • Links histories of slavery and abolition to other aspects of British
‘domestic’ history • Provides new biographical information on eight key figures of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century black Atlantic 281pp June 2020 9781108468756 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 31.99 November 2018 9781108475655 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108616997
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Broken Idols of the English Reformation
Margaret Aston Why were so many religious images and objects broken and damaged in the course of the Reformation? Margaret Aston’s magisterial new book charts the conflicting imperatives of destruction and rebuilding throughout the English Reformation from the desecration of images, rails and screens to bells, organs and stained glass windows. • A major new contribution to our understanding of the English
Reformation • Analyses the causes and effects of iconoclasm and illuminates why certain types of images were particularly targeted • Sets iconoclasm within a wider process of religious revolution designed to create new generations of believers and new ways of belief 1109pp 99 b/w illus. June 2020 9781108744201 Paperback GBP 34.99 / USD 44.99 November 2015 9780521770187 Hardback GBP 145.00 / USD 204.95 eISBN 9781139032834
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Empire of Sentiment
The Death of Livingstone and the Myth of Victorian Imperialism Joanna Lewis | London School of Economics and Political Science Empire of Sentiment opens up a new area of the emotional history of imperialism, showing why a history of the emotions is crucial to understanding how an empire was built, run and understood. It offers new perspectives on the Victorians, imperial culture, the role of humanitarianism, heroic exploration and death. • Proposes a new understanding of the role of emotion in the history of colonial rule in Africa and its legacy • Highlights the role of myth and memory for Europeans and Africans in their understanding of colonial rule • Explains why the British Empire was seen as a liberating and humanitarian empire for so long 304pp 16 b/w illus. 3 maps October 2020 9781316648230 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 36.99 January 2018 9781107198517 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108182591
England Re-Oriented
How Central and South Asian Travelers Imagined the West, 1750–1857 Humberto Garcia Examines how Central and South Asian travelers provincialized Britishness between 1750 and 1857 and how, by appropriating metropolitan media, they recalibrated Eurasian ways of behaving and knowing to counter a chauvinistic British imperialism with Indo-Persian masculine gentility. • Demonstrates how Persian knowledges and behaviours intersected with British culture, art, news media, and literature to give rise to
British orientalism. • Introduces a queer methodology based on examples of British-Asian sociability. • Proposes alternatives to the West-East binary in Postcolonial theory and criticism.
Critical Perspectives on Empire
345pp November 2020 9781108495646 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108862486
Faith, Hope and Charity
English Neighbourhoods, 1500–1640 Andy Wood | University of Durham A study of English neighbourhoods based on a rich variety of hitherto largely unstudied sources, engages with the interaction of social ideals and everyday experience in Tudor and early Stuart neighbourhoods with emphasis on popular religion, notions of gender, locality and belonging between 1500 and 1640. • Focuses on key notions of popular religion, gender, locality and belonging in Tudor and early Stuart neighbourhoods • Highlights the particular processes of inclusion and exclusion within the construction and experience of communities • Demonstrates how communities held together in the face of economic hardship, social change, religious conflict, plague and death 400pp October 2020 9781108840668 Hardback GBP 64.99 / USD 84.99 October 2020 9781108814454 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108886765 NEW IN PAPERBACK
Female Friends and the Making of Transatlantic Quakerism, 1650–1750
Naomi Pullin | University of Cambridge This original interpretation of the lives and social interactions of Quaker women in the British Atlantic between 1650 and 1750 highlights the unique ways in which adherence to the movement shaped women’s lives, as well as the ways in which female Friends transformed seventeenth- and eighteenth-century religious and political culture. • The first comprehensive history of early transatlantic Quakerism • Provides historical agency to women traditionally excluded from
Quaker history • Uses rich documentary evidence to reveal women’s relationships within the family, the local Quaker community, as Friends, and with the non-
Quaker world
Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
318pp 5 b/w illus. 5 tables June 2020 9781316649626 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 May 2018 9781316510230 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108225069
History and the Law
A Love Story Carolyn Steedman | University of Warwick Focusing on everyday legal experiences, from that of magistrates, novelists and political philosophers, to maidservants, pauper men and women, downat-heel attorneys and middling-sort wives, History and the Law reveals how people thought about, used, manipulated and resisted the law between the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries. • Describes a period of English history (c.1700–1900) when there appears to have been a high level of law consciousness among `ordinary’ people • Explores the relationship between `history’ and the `law’, particularly within historical writing • Makes historical, legal and narrative theory accessible to students by presenting it within a narrative framework 294pp January 2020 9781108486057 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 January 2020 9781108736985 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108623506
Ireland’s Empire
The Roman Catholic Church in the EnglishSpeaking World, 1829–1914 Colin Barr | University of Aberdeen Ireland’s Empire examines the complex relationship between Roman Catholicism and the global Irish diaspora in the nineteenth century. Tracing the spread of Irish Roman Catholicism across the English-speaking world and drawing on more than 100 archives on five continents, this is the first truly global history of this phenomenon. • Offers the first global, comprehensive examination of the spread of
Catholicism across the English speaking world • Draws on an unparalleled range of archives to reveal the development of the Catholic Church in each country or region in a global context • Explains the endurance of Irish identity in the English-speaking world 580pp January 2020 9781107040922 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781139644327
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Martial Law and English Laws, c.1500–c.1700
John M. Collins John M. Collins presents the first comprehensive history of martial law in the early modern period. Rather than being a state of exception from law, martial law was understood and practiced as one of the King’s laws, and was a vital component of England’s domestic and imperial legal order. • Examines some of the greatest constitutional conflicts of the seventeenth century through the prism of law • Highlights how martial law was transformed by military innovations on the European Continent • Discusses the relationship between law and emergency, rebutting claims that martial law is a form of exception from law
Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
333pp 1 table March 2020 9781107469488 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 May 2016 9781107092877 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 104.95 eISBN 9781316143513
Memory and the English Reformation
Brian Cummings | University of York The Reformation was a battleground over memory. This volume investigates the history and literature of early modern England to reveal how people remembered – and forgot – the religious past, and forged new ways of understanding the present and future. • Presents the Reformation as a complex arena within memory studies, involving ideas of construction, denial, repression, fiction and forgetting • Includes multidisciplinary accounts of the conflicts between Catholicism and Protestantism in Early Modern England • Offers new ways of understanding the cultural history of religion 425pp November 2020 9781108829991 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120 eISBN 9781108900157
Public Opinion in Early Modern Scotland, c.1560–1707
Karin Bowie | University of Glasgow Explores the dynamics of opinion politics in the era of Reformation and Anglo-Scottish union - a period of religious and constitutional tension through protestations, petitions, oaths, oral and written modes of public communication, offering a historicised understanding of public opinion and its rise in prominence. • Uses Scotland as a case study to illustrate a new approach which will be highly relevant to other early modern polities • Provides a new way of thinking about early modern Scottish history • Moves away from an overfocus on printed communications to consider how other tools and forms of communication were reinvented in this period
Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
320pp December 2020 9781108843478 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108918787
Ruling the World
Freedom, Civilisation and Liberalism in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire Alan Lester | University of Sussex Provides a more balanced understanding of the British Empire and reveals how the men in charge of the most diverse empire in history enforced their ideas of freedom, civilization and liberalism around the world as they managed some of the greatest crises of the Victorian period. • Reassesses nineteenth-century colonial governance during a series of key moments in the development of the British Empire • Provides a more complete understanding of the diverse colonies under
British rule • Develops a new perspective on governmentality and offers a new framework for understanding key episodes in British imperial history 510pp January 2021 9781108426206 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 January 2021 9781108444897 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108584227
The Letters of Paul de Foix, French Ambassador at the Court of Elizabeth I, 1562–66
David Potter | University of Kent, Canterbury This volume presents the surviving correspondence of the French ambassador to the court of Elizabeth I from 1562–66, Paul de Foix. His letters and reports provide insight into the Queen’s demeanour as a negotiator, on the question of her marriage and on the role of an ambassador in a period of extreme instability both in France and England. • Presents the surviving correspondence of the French ambassador to the court of Elizabeth I from 1562–66, Paul de Foix. Correspondence for this volume has been taken from two separate archives, Bibliothèque nationale in Paris and the L’Aubespine archive • De Foix himself was an intriguing figure, a Catholic reformer and scholar who was the trusted agent of Catherine de Medici • Provides valuable insights into Elizabethan politics and society at a time of extreme instability, both in England and France
Camden Fifth Series
300pp January 2020 9781108495493 Hardback GBP 45.00 / USD 80 eISBN 9781108850018
The Making of an Imperial Polity
Civility and America in the Jacobean Metropolis Lauren Working | University of Oxford Bringing to life the interaction between America, its peoples, and statesmen in early seventeenthcentury England, this book offers new perspectives on Jacobean tastes and political culture, confronting the histories of colonialism and domestic political development. This title is also available as Open Access. • Offers a significant reassessment of Jacobean political culture that collapses the divide between early colonial history and metropolitan politics • Provides an interdisciplinary approach to Jacobean political culture, combining archaeological, anthropological and textual approaches • This title is also available as Open Access
Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
266pp 8 b/w illus. January 2020 9781108494069 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108625227
Volume 59 Peter J. Aschenbrenner John Hatsell (1733–1820) was Clerk of the House of Commons from 1768 to 1820. In his letters and Memorabilia entries, Hatsell brought to bear his intimate familiarity with high politics during the reign of George III. His wry humour is often on display as he reveals the lighter side of social and political life in Great Britain. • The collected letter and Memorabilia entries of John Hatsell, Clerk of the House of Commons from 1768 to 1820 • John Hatsell’s position as Clerk of the House of Commons gave him an intimate level of familiarity with high politics during the reign of
George III, a period of great constitutional change • His correspondents include Pitt the Younger, Charles Abbot (speaker 1802–1817), and William Eden (diplomat and President of the Board of Trade in the Ministry of All the Talents, 1806–1807)
Camden Fifth Series
300pp August 2020 9781108842457 Hardback GBP 45.00 / USD 80.00 eISBN 9781108903431
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The Reformation of the Decalogue
Religious Identity and the Ten Commandments in England, c.1485–1625 Jonathan Willis | University of Birmingham Providing new insights into the history of the English Reformation and the role of the Ten Commandments, this book covers topics such as monarchy and law, sin and salvation, and puritanism and popular religion. It will be ideal for anyone with an interest in the history or theology of Tudor England. • The first study to provide a comprehensive view of the entire
Decalogue • Introduces a new genre of source material by identifying and analysing surviving examples of Elizabethan and early Stuart ‘commandment boards’ in parish churches • The book is multi-disciplinary in approach, incorporating sources and methods from art history, musicology, and literary and material culture studies, alongside history and theology
Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
408pp 18 b/w illus. 3 tables March 2020 9781108403993 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 October 2017 9781108416603 Hardback GBP 94.99 / USD 126 eISBN 9781108241526 NEW IN PAPERBACK
The Right to Rule and the Rights of Women
Queen Victoria and the Women’s Movement Arianne Chernock | Boston University Queen Victoria is often cast as a foe of the women’s movement; she famously declared women’s rights to be a ‘mad, wicked folly’. Arianne Chernock analyses the ruler’s surprising role in the women’s movement and reveals Victoria as a ruler who captivated nineteenth-century feminists, with profound cultural and political consequences. • Offers a comprehensive and historical account of Queen Victoria’s role in the women’s movement • Uses a diverse range of key primary sources from the period including
Royal Archive records, suffrage correspondence, flyers, memorabilia and petitions • Places women’s and gender history within its broader social, cultural and political context 261pp August 2020 9781108735377 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 August 2019 9781108484848 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108652384
The Rule of Manhood
Tyranny, Gender, and Classical Republicanism in England, 1603–1660 Jamie A. Gianoutsos Exploring the connection between concepts of power and masculinity in seventeenth-century England, this study shows how stories of ancient tyranny were deployed in dialogues concerning monarchy and rule between 1603 and 1660, and the extent to which these shaped English classical republican thought. • Deepens our understanding of the influence of the classical, and particularly Roman, heritage on the seventeenth century • Attends to ideas of gender, and especially of masculinity, in political discourse before and after the English Revolution • Draws on extensive research in contemporary printed texts to show how classical stories of ancient tyranny were reimagined in dialogues around monarchy and classical republicanism between 1603 and 1660
Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
350pp November 2020 9781108478830 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108778916
History of Britain before 1066
Anglo-Saxon England
Volume 47 Rosalind Love | University of Cambridge The contributions to the forty-seventh volume of Anglo-Saxon England focus on various aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture and history across a period from the sixth to the thirteenth century, from skaldic art at Cnut’s court to the Germanic context of Beowulf. Each article is preceded by a short abstract. • A collection of original research covering various aspects of Anglo-
Saxon culture and history, from the sixth to the thirteenth century • This volume covers a broad range of topics, from the Germanic context of Beowulf to the ‘old books of Glastonbury’ and the Muchelney breviary fragment • Also included is a record of the Eighteenth Conference of the
International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, held in 2017
Anglo-Saxon England
434pp May 2020 9781108830041 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 175.00 eISBN 9781108908634
Crime and Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England
Andrew Rabin | University of Louisville, Kentucky The legal texts of pre-Conquest England reveal the capacities and limits of the king’s regulatory power, and provide key evidence for the process by which disparate kingdoms merged to become a unified English state. They offer unparalleled insight into Anglo-Saxon England’s diverse inhabitants – those who enforced the law and those subject to it.
Elements in England in the Early Medieval World
75pp September 2020 9781108932035 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108943109
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Rory Naismith | King’s College London This book brings together new research that represents current scholarship on the nexus between authority and written sources from AngloSaxon England. Ranging from the seventh to the eleventh century, the chapters in this volume offer fresh approaches to a wide range of linguistic, historical, legal, diplomatic and palaeographical evidence. • A new view of the workings of the royal and ecclesiastical authority in Anglo-Saxon England offers readers new interpretations of various textual sources from the Anglo-Saxon period • Chapters engage with different genres of source and different scholarly disciplines, allowing readers to see how different genres of text constructed view of kingship and ecclesiastical authority • Offers new interpretations of important models of Anglo-Saxon kingship, providing readers with new perspectives of fundamental issues of kingship 1127pp 17 b/w illus. June 2020 9781108744782 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 November 2017 9781107160972 Hardback GBP 94.99 / USD 126 eISBN 9781316676066
Irish History
De Valera and Roosevelt
Irish and American Diplomacy in Times of Crisis, 1932–1939 Bernadette Whelan | University of Limerick This first comprehensive history of American and Irish diplomacy during the 1930s examines how all aspects of formal and informal diplomacy operated between the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Éamon de Valera, focusing on the diplomats based in Washington DC and Dublin respectively. • Analyses formal and informal diplomatic life to revise our current understanding of the relationship between the American and Irish administrations • Details the many ways that Irish issues irritated State Department and
White House officials, and the persistent British influence in official
America’s views of and approaches to Ireland • Explains how diplomats worked on behalf of their governments to implement their foreign policies 350pp November 2020 9781108830171 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108909204
Irish Divorce
A History Diane Urquhart | Queen’s University Belfast Spanning the island of Ireland over three centuries, this first history of Irish divorce places the human experience of marriage breakdown centre stage to explore the impact of a highly restrictive and gendered law, and its reform, on Irish society. • The first history of Irish divorce to use the human experience of marriage breakdown as its primary focus • Explores the impact of highly restrictive and gendered divorce laws and their reform on Irish society • Makes divorce law and legal process accessible to non-specialist readers without the need for prior legal knowledge 294pp 2 b/w illus. February 2020 9781108493093 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 February 2020 9781108717250 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108675536
Marriage in Ireland, 1660–1925
Maria Luddy | University of Warwick This first comprehensive history of marriage in Ireland across three centuries focuses on the middle and lower classes. It offers a multi-faceted exploration of how marriage was perceived, negotiated and controlled by the church and state, as well as by individual men and women within Irish society. • This wide-ranging history of marriage in Ireland looks below the level of elite society for the first time • Revises current understandings of marriage law, courtship, marital relations, desertion, separation and divorce within Ireland • Clarifies complicated marriage laws in the context of the various religious denominations and their relationship with the State 460pp 20 b/w illus. 11 tables June 2020 9781108486170 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 June 2020 9781108731904 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 eISBN 9781108645164
Women, Crime and Punishment in Ireland
Life in the Nineteenth-Century Convict Prison Elaine Farrell | Queen’s University Belfast Focusing on women’s relationships, lifecircumstances and agency, Elaine Farrell reveals the voices, emotions and decisions of incarcerated women and those affected by their imprisonment, offering an intimate insight into their experiences of the criminal justice system across urban and rural post-Famine Ireland. • Enriches our understanding of life in nineteenth-century Ireland with fascinating archival research • Offers a rare and intimate insight into women’s lives before, during and after imprisonment • Demonstrates how individual stories of diverse women at different stages of their lifecycles or criminal careers are revealing of the lives of inhabitants more generally 330pp October 2020 9781108839501 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108884242
