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The Archaeology of Ancient Greece
The Archaeology of Ancient Greece provides an up-to-date synthesis of current research on the material culture of Greece in the Archaic and Classical...
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The Making of South African Legal Culture 1902–1936
The development of the South African legal system in the early twentieth century was crucial to the establishment and maintenance of the systems...
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Anglo-Saxon England (No. 29)
The editorial policy of Anglo-Saxon England has been to encourage an interdisciplinary approach to the study of all aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture....
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The Cambridge Ancient History
With Volume 14 The Cambridge Ancient History concludes its story. This latest volume embraces the wide range of approaches and scholarship which have...
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Music of Another World
Compassionate yet detached, ironic yet pitilessly honest, Szymon Laks, the kapellmeister of the Auschwitz orchestra, presents a disturbing...
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Mothers and Daughters
The first psychosocial study of the female intelligentsia in Russia, Mothers and Daughters explains how and why women radicals of the nineteenth...
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The Murder of the Jews in Latvia 1941-1945
At the end of June 1941, Latvia fell into the hands of the Germans. This book is an account of life and death during the subsequent Nazi reign of...
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The Ideological Origins of the British Empire
The Ideological Origins of the British Empire presents the first comprehensive history of British conceptions of empire for more than half a century....
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Engendering Rome
Heroism has long been recognised by readers and critics of Roman epic as a central theme of the genre from Virgil and Ovid to Lucan and Statius....
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Den mörka kontinenten
Är det omöjligt för européer från skilda kulturer att leva tillsammans i demokratiska stater? Sedan de mångkulturella imperierna – det...
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England’s Troubles
In this path-breaking study, Jonathan Scott argues that seventeenth-century English history was shaped by three processes. The first was destructive:...
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Language and History in the Early Germanic World
This book offers a distinctive and accessible approach to the earliest encounters of the Germanic tribes of Northern Europe with classical antiquity...
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English Society, 1660–1832
This is a revised and extensively rewritten edition of a work first published in 1985 as English Society 1688–1832. That book arrived at the...
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Constructing Cromwell
Constructing Cromwell traces the complex and shifting popular images of Oliver Cromwell from his first appearance as a public figure in the mid-1640s...
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Renaissance Civic Humanism
Civic humanism has been one of the most influential of all concepts in the history of ideas. In this volume, an eminent team of political theorists...
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Pappus of Alexandria and the Mathematics of Late Antiquity
This book is at once an analytical study of one of the most important mathematical texts of antiquity, the Mathematical Collection of the...
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The Cultural Politics of Sugar
With the expansion of trade and empire in the early modern period, the status of sugar changed from expensive rarity to popular consumer commodity,...
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The Writing of Royalism 1628–1660
In The Writing of Royalism, Robert Wilcher charts the political and ideological development of royalism between 1628 and 1660. His study of the...
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Irony and Misreading in the Annals of Tacitus
This book examines Tacitus’ Annals as an ironic portrayal of Julio-Claudian Rome, through close analysis of passages in which characters engage in...
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The Victorians and the Visual Imagination
The Victorians and the Visual Imagination is an exciting and innovative exploration of the Victorians’ attitudes towards sight. Tantalised by...
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The Early History of Greed
The history of avarice as the deadliest vice in western Europe has been said to begin in earnest only with the rise of capitalism or, earlier, the...
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England’s Troubles
In this path-breaking study, Jonathan Scott argues that seventeenth-century English history was shaped by three processes. The first was destructive:...
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Florentine Tuscany
Florence has often been studied in the past for its distinctive urban culture and society, while insufficient attention has been paid to the...
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English Society, 1660–1832
This is a revised and extensively rewritten edition of a work first published in 1985 as English Society 1688–1832. That book arrived at the...
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