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British and Irish history
4 The Cambridge History of America and the World
1820–1900 Kristin Hoganson | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign This volume examines how the United States became an imperial power in the nineteenth century and how the rest of the world shaped the United States in this pivotal era. It places the United States, Indigenous nations, and their peoples in the context of a rapidly integrating world.
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The Cambridge History of America and the World
784pp Mar. 2022 9781108419239 Hardback GBP 120 / USD 150 eISBN 9781108297479
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The Deviant Prison
Philadelphia’s Eastern State Penitentiary and the Origins of America’s Modern Penal System, 1829–1913 Ashley T. Rubin | University of Hawaii, Manoa Using Philadelphia’s Eastern State Penitentiary as a case study, The Deviant Prison supplements the dominant narrative by looking at what an atypical prison tells us about prison reform more generally, bringing to light the challenges of nineteenthcentury prison administration that helped embed our prison system as we know it today.
Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
412pp Nov. 2022 9781108718882 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Feb. 2021 9781108484947 Hardback GBP 39.99 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781108754095
20C history of Britain
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 | University of Liverpool This book contains the diary of Frederic Harmer, aide to John Maynard Keynes, and the reports and evaluations from Washington of Robert Brand, encompassing the British debates on how to secure US and Canadian financial assistance, the American loan talks in 1945 and the pursuit of a Canadian loan in 1946.
Camden Fifth Series
256pp Jan. 2022 9781316512357 Hardback GBP 45 / USD 80 eISBN 9781009064088
Churchill, Chamberlain and Appeasement
G. C. Peden | University of Stirling A major new account of appeasement and the question of whether the Second World War could have been prevented. G. C. Peden provides a comparative analysis of Chamberlain and Churchill’s view on foreign policy, how best to deter Germany and explores what deterrence and appeasement meant in the context of the 1930s.
395pp Oct. 2022 9781009201988 Hardback GBP 25.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009201995
Practical Utopia
The Many Lives of Dartington Hall Anna Neima Dartington Hall was a social experiment of kaleidoscopic vitality, founded in Devon in 1925, where ambitious ideals were turned into a reality. Practical Utopia explores its compelling history, through the lives of its founders and participants, and opens a window onto British and international social reform between the wars.
Modern British Histories
340pp Apr. 2022 9781316517970 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009049269
The Age of the Gas Mask
How British civilians Faced the Terrors of Total War Susan R. Grayzel | Utah State University This vivid and accessible history of the civilian gas mask from the years 1915–1945 reveals the shocking consequences of modern, total war and how ordinary civilians learned to face its terrors. It demonstrates the profound impact of new technologies of warfare on imperial Britain’s culture, politics, and society.
Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
288pp Aug. 2022 9781108491273 Hardback GBP 25 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108868068
The Life and Death of the Shopping City
Public Planning and Private Redevelopment in Britain since 1945r Alistair Kefford | Universiteit Leiden This innovative new history of the modern British city traces the story of urban redevelopment from the 1940s era of reconstruction up to the present-day crisis of town centre retailing and property markets, showing how planners, property developers, councils, and retailers and worked together to create the modern shopping city.
Modern British Histories
340pp Apr. 2022 9781108836692 Hardback GBP 90 / USD 120 eISBN 9781108874502
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The Quest for Security
Sovereignty, Race, and the Defense of the British Empire, 1898–1931 Jesse Tumblin | Boston College, Massachusetts Colonial hierarchy and race fueled rapid militarization in the British Empire that shaped the violent course of the twentieth century. This innovative study reveals the colonial backstory of a century that witnessed total war, resulting in new political norms that enthrone ‘national security’ as the dominating feature of contemporary politics.
314pp 3 b/w illus. 1 table Sep. 2022 9781108712545 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Oct. 2019 9781108498746 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108595742
Untied Kingdom
A Global History of the End of Britain Stuart Ward | University of Copenhagen A panoramic history of the end of Britain as a global civic idea from the Second World War to the present day. Stuart Ward uncovers the ways in which Britishness has been imagined, experienced and ultimately discarded as the British empire unravelled and the ‘four nations’ of the United Kingdom drew steadily apart.
550pp Jan. 2023 9781107145993 Hardback GBP 25 / USD 35 eISBN 9781316536322
War of Words
Britain, France and Discourses of Empire during the Second World War Rachel Chin | University of Glasgow War of Words analyses Franco-British relations during the Second World War through the lens of rhetoric and empire. Through a comparative and transnational perspective, Rachel Chin shows how conflicts over French colonial territory between 1940 and 1945 were central to British, Vichy and Free French wartime policy-making.
290pp Jul. 2022 9781009181013 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009180993
History of Britain-1066-1450
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of William the Conqueror
Benjamin Pohl | University of Bristol This Cambridge Companion offers a comparative cultural history of north-western Europe in the crucial period of the eleventh century. With contributions by leading international experts, it provides its readers with a wide-ranging and innovative study companion that is both authoritative and timely.
Cambridge Companions to Culture
350pp Jun. 2022 9781108728478 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Jun. 2022 9781108482974 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 eISBN 9781108628884
The Witches of St Osyth
Marion Gibson | University of Exeter The first complete history of the neglected St Osyth witch-trial, this book tells the compelling, revelatory story of a community ripped asunder. It hauntingly reveals the lost worlds of Elizabethan villagers caught up in persecution, the magistrate who investigated their accusations of witchcraft and the writer who published their story.
256pp Nov. 2022 9781108494670 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108859608
History of Britain (general)
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
Volume 31 Andrew Spicer Transactions of the Royal Historical Society is an annual collection of articles representing the best current historical research by some of the world’s leading historians. This volume includes articles on British imperialism and the concept of global history, and revisits the RHS’s report on race and equality in UK History.
Royal Historical Society Transactions
126pp Jan. 2022 9781009177344 Hardback GBP 40 / USD 75 eISBN 9781009177351
History of Britain after 1450
Colonising Disability
Impairment and Otherness Across Britain and Its Empire, c. 1800–1914 Esme Cleall | University of Sheffield Colonising Disability explores the construction and treatment of disability across Britain and its Empire. Using a wide range of sources, Esme Cleall sheds important light on identity, othering, representation and experience in the nineteenth and early twentieth-century drawing into question other key concepts such as race and ‘normalcy’.
Critical Perspectives on Empire
310pp Aug. 2022 9781108833912 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108983266
Conspiracy on Cato Street
A Tale of Liberty and Revolution in Regency London Vic Gatrell | University of Cambridge The Cato Street Conspiracy was the most sensational of all plots aimed at the British state since the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. This book tells this dramatic but neglected story with cinematic vividness, episodic range, and a tragic denouement that undermines our romantic fantasies about Regency England.
474pp May. 2022 9781108838481 Hardback GBP 25 / USD 34.95 eISBN 9781108974981
Empire, Kinship and Violence
Family Histories, Indigenous Rights and the Making of Settler colonialism, 1770-1842 Elizabeth Elbourne | McGill University, Montréal Draws on the linked history of three families to illustrate settler-Indigenous relationships in white settler colonies from 1770-1842. Ranging from Britain and northeastern North America to Australia and southern Africa, Elbourne sheds light on the transnational development of settler colonialism and marginalization of Indigenous peoples.
Critical Perspectives on Empire
345pp Sep. 2022 9781108479226 Hardback GBP 90 / USD 120 eISBN 9781108782791
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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.
Critical Perspectives on Empire
366pp Nov. 2022 9781108797252 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Nov. 2020 9781108495646 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108862486
Foreign Jack Tars
The British Navy and Transnational Seafarers during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars Sara Caputo | University of Cambridge The British Royal Navy of the French Wars (1793–1815) is an enduring national symbol, but we often overlook the tens of thousands of foreign seamen who contributed to its success. For the first time, this book explores their role in the Navy during this crucial period, challenging the very notions of ‘Britishness’ and ‘foreignness’.
Modern British Histories
320pp Nov. 2022 9781009199797 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009199841
Friends, Neighbours, Sinners
Religious Difference and English Society, 1689–1750 Carys Brown | University of Cambridge Friends, Neighbours, Sinners shows the crucial role of religious difference in shaping English culture and society after 1689. By throwing into relief the cultural impact of England’s unstable religious settlement, it highlights the centrality of religious difference to understanding social and cultural change after 1689.
Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
330pp Aug. 2022 9781009221382 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009221375
Gambling in Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century
Bob Harris | University of Oxford English society in the eighteenth century was allegedly marked by a ‘gambling mania’. Drawing on a vast range of new empirical evidence, Bob Harris explores the growth and prevalence of gambling across Britain and investigates who gambled, on what, and why.
320pp Mar. 2022 9781316512449 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009067348
Love Spells and Lost Treasure
Service Magic in England from the Later Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era Tabitha Stanmore | University of Exeter Love Spells and Lost Treasure innovatively explores the role of practical magic in everyday life in medieval and early modern England. Both engaging and authoritative, the book sheds fresh light on premodern society and beliefs. Packed with useful examples, it makes an important contribution to historical and magical studies alike.
320pp Dec. 2022 9781009286701 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009286695
Outrage in the Age of Reform
Irish Agrarian Violence, Imperial Insecurity, and British Governing Policy, 1830–1845 Jay R. Roszman | University College Cork During the pivotal 19th-century ‘decade of reform’, British politicians wrestled over the best ways to address Irish agrarian violence – branded as ‘outrages’ – as well as how their decisions might influence wider imperial concerns. This book demonstrates Ireland’s profound influence on British political culture in the 1830s and beyond.
Modern British Histories
330pp Sep. 2022 9781009186780 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009186773
Strolling Players of Empire
Theater and Performances of Power in the British Imperial Provinces, 1656–1833 Kathleen Wilson | State University of New York, Stony Brook A tour across the globe that tracks eighteenthcentury English theatrical and social performance as vital to the establishment of the British Empire and its networks. Kathleen Wilson shows how performances put into circulation embodied social and political values and practices that had worldmaking intentions and effects.
Critical Perspectives on Empire
504pp Nov. 2022 9781108479783 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108786317
The Company’s Sword
The East India company and the Politics of Militarism, 1644–1858 Christina Welsch | College of Wooster, Ohio The Company’s Sword reveals how the British East India Company acquired a private army and how Indian and European soldiers shaped the Company’s expansion. Tracing the institutional development of the Company’s armies alongside the rebellions that challenged its growth, Christina Welsch uncovers the militarism at the heart of colonial India.
Critical Perspectives on Empire
300pp Aug. 2022 9781108833882 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108983112
