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The Cambridge Companion to the Age of William the Conqueror

Benjamin Pohl

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Offers a comparative cultural history of north-western Europe in the crucial period of the eleventh century.

Cambridge Companions to Culture

June 2022 229 x 152 mm c.350pp 9781108728478 Paperback c. £18.99 / c. US$31.99 P

Colonising Disability

Impairment and Otherness Across Britain and Its Empire, c. 1800–1914 Esme Cleall

The first monograph on the construction and treatment of disability across Britain and its Empire from 1800 to 1914.

Critical Perspectives on Empire

May 2022 229 x 152 mm c.310pp 9781108833912 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

The Age of the Gas Mask

How British Civilians Faced the Terrors of Total War Susan R. Grayzel

Uncovers how a material object – the civilian gas mask – can reveal the power and limits of the modern state facing total war.

Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare

June 2022 228 x 152 mm c.285pp 9781108491273 Hardback £25.00 / US$34.99 G

British Financial Diplomacy with North America 1944–1946

The Diary of Frederick Harmer and the Washington Reports of Robert Brand

Volume 62

Michael F. Hopkins

The diary of Frederic Harmer, aide to John Maynard Keynes, and reports and evaluations from Washington by Robert Brand.

Camden Fifth Series, 62

January 2022 216 x 138 mm 256pp 9781316512357 Hardback £45.00 / US$80.00 C

Practical Utopia

The Many Lives of Dartington Hall Anna Neima

Tells the compelling story of Dartington Hall – a far-reaching social, cultural and education experiment in Devon in the interwar years.

Modern British Histories

April 2022 229 x 152 mm c.340pp 9781316517970 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society

Volume 31

Andrew Spicer

This volume is a collection of articles representing the best current historical research by some of the world’s leading historians.

Royal Historical Society Transactions

January 2022 216 x 140 mm 126pp 9781009177344 Hardback £40.00 / US$75.00 C

The Life and Death of the Shopping City

Public Planning and Private Redevelopment in Britain since 1945 Alistair Kefford

Traces the transformation redevelopment of Britain’s cities from post-war reconstruction and modernist urban renewal to the present day.

Modern British Histories

April 2022 229 x 152 mm c.340pp 9781108836692 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 C

AMERICAN HISTORY

The Dreadful Word

Speech Crime and Polite Gentlemen in Massachusetts, 1690–1776 Kristin A. Olbertson

A fascinating study of how elite white men in eighteenthcentury Massachusetts incorporated the ethos of politeness into the law of criminal speech.

Studies in Legal History

March 2022 229 x 152 mm c.258pp 9781009098908 Hardback £47.99 / US$59.99 C

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