This book draws together Black’s expansive reading in Shakespeare’s contexts with extensive knowledge of the canon of his plays...

Reeder delineates the differences between the British and Portuguese empires as they struggled with revolutionary tumult...

Hughes shows how the British Army was so devastatingly effective against colonial rebellion in the mid to late 1930s by the Palestinian Arabs...

Beginning in the mid 19th century, thousands of indentured laborers traveled from India to the Caribbean, and many settled in Trinidad...

Laderman exposes the way that imperial ambitions suffused the ideas and practices of turn-of-century humanitarian intervention...

Not everyone was convinced by the arguments of patriots during the American revolution...

"Habeas Corpus in Wartime" is a comprehensive history of the writ of habeas corpus in Anglo-America...

Arik Moran examines three Rajput kingdoms during the transition to British rule (c. 1790-1840) and their interconnected histories and court intrigues.

Did the Allied bombing plan for the liberation of France follow a carefully orchestrated plan, or was it executed on an ad-hoc basis with little concern or regard for collateral damage?

There are few better guides to the “long eighteenth century” that J. C. D. Clark...

For all of his fame as one of the seminal figures of the Industrial Revolution, James Watt is a person around whom many misconceptions congregate...

Crowcroft's is a tale of relentless intrigue, burning ambition, and the bitter rivalry in British politics during the years preceding the Second World War...

Chico’s new book upends the traditional, modern dichotomies which enforce strict separations between literature and science...

There is no denying that the public remains fascinated with monarchy...

Pack considers the Strait of Gibraltar as an untamed in-between space—from “shatter zone” to borderland...

Bouverie's book is a groundbreaking history of the disastrous years of indecision, failed diplomacy and parliamentary infighting that help to make Hitler’s domination of Europe possible...

A shoe molds to the foot and captures a facet of the physical characteristics of its wearer, as well as, by extension, an element of his or her personal history...

Vallance examines ‘loyal addresses’ as mechanisms for the expression of public opinion, and as links between the local and national contexts of politics...

The year 1453 marked the end of an intermittent yet seemingly endless series of wars between the Kingdom of France and the Kingdom of England that, some four hundred years later, was dubbed the Hundred Years War...

Fennell challenges our understanding of the Second World War and of the relationship between conflict and socio-political change...

Peterson discusses how this self-governing Atlantic trading center began as a refuge from Britain’s Stuart monarchs and how—through its bargain with slavery and ratification of the Constitution—it would tragically lose integrity and autonomy as it became incorporated into the greater United States...

Black focuses on the major developments in the world of print journalism and sets the history of the press in wider currents of English history, political, social, economic and technological...

In 1919 a man named Ohlohr Maigi died of tuberculosis in London, in deep poverty...

MacKenzie re-examines the political and constitutional bonds that were implied by the covenant to which the English and Scottish parliaments had subscribed at the beginning of the first civil war, and considers why so many Presbyterians understood the Cromwellian occupation to represent a breach of the covenant’s obligations...

John Dryden is often regarded as one of the most conservative writers in later seventeenth-century England, a time-serving “trimmer” who abandoned his early commitments to the English Republic to become the poet laureate and historiographer royal of Charles II’s new regime...