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Explores popular music between the wars, the era of Noel Coward and Ivor Novello, Gracie Fields and George Formby. This book tells the story from the days of the jazz mania of the 1920s to the outbreak of WWII. It also examines the popularity of dance halls such as the Hammersmith Palais, concluding with a checklist of the most popular songs.

Presents an original and important study of the significance of witchcraft in English public life in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The author explores contemporary beliefs about witchcraft and shows how it remained a serious concern across the spectrum of political opinion.

In this study, R. Rogers explores siege warfare and the role it played in the First Crusade and the establishment of the Crusader States, in Italy, Spain, and Portugal, and in the seaborne expeditions of the Italian maritime states.

This history of the city of Wells in the Middle Ages traces its growth from a rural manor into the prosperous borough of the late-12th century and beyond. David Shaw makes use of archives of the city to present the medieval borough in detail.

Simon Forman (1552-1611) is one of London's most infamous astrologers. Whilst he was consulted thousands of times a year for medical and other questions he stood apart from the medical elite as he boldly asserted medical ideas that were at odds with most learned physicians. In this fascinating book, Lauren Kassell vividly recovers the world of medicine and magic in Elizabethan London.

Joseph Redlich (1869-1936) and Lewis Namier (1888-1960) were both politically active historians from assimilated Habsburg Jewish backgrounds. Both devoted their lives to understanding the relationship between political liberty, nationalism, and nationality conflict and in this book Ng undertakes a comparative analysis of these two influential men.

Presents a scholarly history of Britain's dominant fine art institution from its foundation in 1768 to the beginning of the Victorian age. This book places the Royal Academy of Arts in the contexts of the metropolitan, British, and European art worlds and explores its influence on the notion of a national school of art.

A study of Theophylact's narration of the fate of the post-Justinianic Roman empire (582-602), which reveals his "History" as an example of Greek classical literature and historiography under the influence of Christianity.

This book challenges the accepted view of the Reformation as taking different courses in England and Scotland. Instead Clare Kellar illuminates the dynamic religious interplay between the neighbouring realms, and explores the impact of the Reformation not only on the churches of each country, but on their longer-term political relationship.

Examines the agricultural settlement of a great number of refugees in Greek Macedonia against the background of forced migration and refugee studies more generally.

This book examines a period of particular importance in the formation of the modern French state. The revolutionary strife and international was of the 1790s had important and far-reaching consequences for the development of democracy and bureaucracy in France. Howard G. Brown's study if a fruitful analysis of the relationship between army administration and politics.

The West German Communist Party was banned only 11 years after it had emerged from Nazi persecution. Using material available only since the end of the Cold War, Patrick Major shows how the once-powerful KPD foundered on the unrealistic aims of its East German masters, as well as the anti-communism of the Anglo-American occupiers and the Adenauer government.

Through an analysis of the eighteenth-century debate about luxury, this book traces the shaping of a language of political economy. By charting the development of political economy in Italy, and the methods of transmission of the ideas, it argues that the focus on economic thought is characteristic of the Italian enlightenment.

This is a social and political history of the Argentine landowners, Latin America's most affluent propertied class. Roy Hora explores the making and evolution of a new landowning class in the period c.1860-1945, and examines the peculiarities of the relationships between landowners, political power, and the state during this period.

A Byzantine Government in Exile Government and Society under the Laskarids of Nicaea (1204-1261)

The United States was a debtor nation in the mid-nineteenth century, with half of its debt held overseas. Drawing on the unused archives of London banks and the papers of statesmen on both sides of the Atlantic, this work explores a central theme of mid-nineteenth-century foreign relations and a crucial aspect of the Civil War.

The early Quakers denounced the clergy and social elite, but how did that affect Friends' relationships with others? Drawing upon the insights of sociologists and anthropologists, this study sets out to discover the social consequences of religious belief.

Jane Whittle's examination of rural England in the 15th and 16th centuries asks how capitalist it was, and how and why it changed over 150 years. She relates ideas of peasant society and capitalism to a local study of north-east Norfolk, one of the crucibles of the agrarian revolution.

This account challenges the view that anti-Semitism was imposed on moderate Germans following Hitler's rise to power. The book argues that the Weimar Republic was instrumental in changing people's attitudes towards the Jews and uses the examples of Dusseldorf and Nuremburg to illustrate this.

This book challenges a central assumption in the history of imperial Germany, of unworldly German liberals surrendering their ideals to an authoritarian German state.

Johann Heinrich Alsted, professor of philosophy and theology at the Calvinist academy of Herborn was a man of many parts. This biography explores the perspective his life throws onto the central European Reformed tradition as a whole.

This work explores the role of canon law in the ecclesiastical reform movement of the eleventh century, commonly known as the Gregorian Reform. Focusing on the Collectio canonum of Bishop Anselm of Lucca, it explores how the reformers came to value and employ law as as means of achieving desired ends in a time of social upheaval and revolution.

This is a study of the impact of liberal academic ideas on the concept of civil society in Russia in the years following the revolution of 1905. David Wartenweiler shows how, in its efforts to further the cause of civil society, the academic community combined liberal notions of the individual and the citizen with their own professional claim to cultural leadership.

Examines the history of Holocaust testimony, from the chroniclers confined to Nazi-enforced ghettos to survivors writing as part of collective memory. This book shows how the conditions and motivations for bearing witness changed immeasurably. It demonstrates that what survivors remember is determined by the context in which they are remembering.

Explores how Britons perceived and represented American Indians during a time when the empire and its constituent peoples began to capture the nation's attention. Considering an array of contexts, this book reveals the prevailing pragmatism with which Britons of all ranks approached the empire as well as its impact on British culture.

Provides the critical account of the role of music amongst communities imprisoned under Nazism. This book documents a scope of musical activities, ranging from orchestras and chamber groups to choirs, theatres, communal sing-songs, and cabarets, in some of the most important internment centres in Nazi-occupied Europe.

Contributes to the debate regarding the origins, institutionalization, and politics of the sciences and systems of knowledge underlying colonial frameworks of environmental management. This work argues that tropical forestry in the nineteenth century consisted of at least two distinct approaches towards nature, resource, and people.

Examines the consequences in Madrid of General Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War. This work argues that the post-war repression instituted by the victors was based on the irony that Republicans, and not the military rebels of July 1936, were responsible for the Civil War. It also demonstrates that Francoist repression was not genocidal.

Heresy was the most feared crime in the medieval moral universe. This work offers a study of inquisition into heresy in medieval England. It argues that in order to understand who the heretics were, we first need to understand how they were defined in their own day.

The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj tells the story behind one of the British Indian Empire's most forbidding frontiers: Eastern Arabia. Taking the shaikhdom of Bahrain as a case study, James Onley reveals how heavily Britain's informal empire in the Gulf, and other regions surrounding British India, depended upon the assistance and support of local elites.