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Delhi as an urban space was re-made in the late-colonial period, not purely because of the new architecture, but also because of crucial social transformations. Possessing the City poses the question: who owned property, and what did they do with it, with answers rooted in the South Asian state, housing, finance, and religious conflict.

During and after World War One, Britain's blockade of Germany prevented foodstuffs from being exported to Germany, leading to outcries from German civic leaders and an outpouring of generosity from across the world. This study examines the detailed height and weight data of children in this period to show the measures of deprivation and recovery.

The politics of fifteenth-century England have been studied traditionally by examining the relationships between the king, nobility, and gentry. This study argues that English towns-though quite small individually-formed a collective 'urban sector' that had a significant influence on the language, policies, and events in English 'high politics'.

This volume recovers the Victorian relationship between historical thought and religious debate to provide a new interpretation of intellectual life in nineteenth-century Britain. It argues that the rise of ideas of historical progress transformed religious culture, while theological controversy profoundly shaped how Victorians understood the past.

Before the advent of television, reading was among the most popular of leisure activities. In this lively and scholarly study, Joseph McAleer draws on a wide variety of resources to examine the size and complexion of the reading public and the development of an increasingly commercialized publishing industry in the early twentieth century.

Julian Davies's detailed analysis of the religious policy and ecclesiastical practice of the Church of England in the reign of Charles I offers a bold new interpretation of the Caroline Church, firmly based on the documentary evidence.

Focuses on the way in which the Palestine Mandate was part of British imperial administration. This book also presents an argument that land officials' views on sound land management were derived from their own experiences of rural England, and this was more influential on the shaping of land policies than the promise of a Jewish National Home.

Political Community in Revolutionary Pennsylvania challenges prevailing histories of the American Revolution, which place undue focus on political elites, and argues that it was ordinary citizens who cared most about the establishment of a proper, representative, publicly legitimate political process.

Associative Political Culture in the Holy Roman Empire offers a new and more coherent exploration of the Holy Roman Empire, depicting it as a sprawling community of interdependent elites who interacted within the framework of a shared political culture.

German Catholicism at War explores the role Roman Catholicism played in shaping the moral economy of German society during the Second World War. Drawing on previously unused source materials, German Catholicism at War examines the complex relationship between Catholics and Nazi authorities and religious responses to the war.

This study shows that Britain's 1960s moral revolution was importantly influenced by currents within British Christianity - not that the Sixties were a popular revolt against the churches, but that revolts against convention within the churches were highly significant in allowing Britain's 'secular revolution' to gain its own momentum.

The Life of St Martin by Sulpicius Severus was one of the formative works of Latin hagiography. Yet although written by a contemporary who knew Martin, it attracted immediate criticism. Why? This study seeks an explanation by placing Sulpicius works both in their intellectual context, and in the context of a church that was then undergoing radical transformation. It is thus both a study of Sulpicius, Martin, and their world, and at the same time an essay inthe interpretation of hagiography.

This book examines how eleventh-century kings were portrayed in the writing of twelfth-century historians. Winkler employs a modern literary critical approach to demonstrate how much of our understanding of eleventh-century history stems from authorial strategies of later writers rather than from contemporary sources.

How and why did social democracy give way to neoliberalism in Britain in the late twentieth century? Aled Davies asks these questions in this exploration of the City of London and its relationship with the post-war social democratic State.

Reaching back to the arrival of the British in the 1780s, Britain, China, and Colonial Australia explores the early history of Australian engagement with China and traces the development of colonial Australia into an important point of contact between the British and Chinese Empires.

A study of Rene of Anjou, a French prince and exiled king of Naples, and how he engaged his Italian network in a programme of cultural politics conducted with an eye towards a return to power in the peninsula, this volume seeks to understand the politics of culture in early Renaissance Europe through the lens of Italian humanism and art.

Explores the vital relationship between the Church of England and the development of historical scholarship in the Victorian and Edwardian era, showing that the Church of England remained a 'learned church', concerned not just with narrowly religious functions but also scholarly and cultural ones, into the early twentieth century.

How did intellectuals in France, England, and Italy in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries seek to understand and resolve competing claims of divine inspiration or prophecy? Conflicts between secular and theological intellectuals reveal a world struggling to define the contours of religious authority, sanctity, and sacred texts.

The first biographical study in English of an important French baron and crusader, Simon of Montfort, who began his career as a mid-level baron in northern France, but cultivated independent political power and achieved the position of count of Toulouse following his conquests as leader of the Albigensian Crusade.

In the late seventeenth century, Pierre Bayle was as famous as any philosopher in Europe. This volume provides an important new study of Bayle and his notoriously complicated Dictionnaire Historique et Critique, focussing on how his writing was influenced by his heated theological-political conflict with Pierre Jurieu.

A chronological and thematic analysis of the Spanish government during the mid-seventeenth century, focussing on Philip IV's bestowal of favour on his favourite, don Luis Mendez de Haro. Alistair Malcolm shows the insecurity of Haro's position as he sought to justify his regime by managing a prestigious and expensive foreign policy.

Antoninus Samy explores the accessibility of the early building society movement to working-class households before World War II, drawing on extensive archival records to reconstruct the mortgage portfolios of building societies and investigate the kinds of people that were buying houses with the help of building society finance during this period.

During the 1970s, hundreds of thousands of people across Western Europe protested against civil nuclear energy. This volume uses a mix of oral and archival history to explore how citizens from disparate walks of life in France and West Germany united to oppose nuclear power, transcending national borders and political and social differences.

The first comprehensive account of the beginnings of Irish foreign policy as Ireland asserted its independence by pushing the boundaries of Commonwealth membership, contributed at the League of Nations, and forged ties in Europe and America, led by a desire to escape from the shadow of British rule.

Details an unprecedented attempt by the government of Russia's Tsar Nicholas I (1825-1855) to eradicate what was seen as one of the greatest threats to its political security: the religious dissent of the Old Believers. The history of this religious persecution throws new light on the religious and political identity of the autocratic regime.

A volume which seeks to understand the numerous pilgrimage writings of the Dominican Felix Fabri (1437/8-1502), not only as rich descriptions of the Holy Land, Egypt, and Palestine, but also as sources for the religious attitudes and social assumptions that went into their creation

Examines the governance of British America in the period prior to the American Revolution, focusing on the career of the Second Earl of Halifax who was First Lord of the Board of Trade & Plantations (1716-1771).

Explores the reception, generation, and use of economic ideas in the British Liberal Party in the early twentieth century, analysing the intellectual influences which shaped their economic thought and highlighting how the party sought to reconcile its progressive identity with its longstanding commitment to free trade and competitive markets

A religious and political history of transnational Catholic activism in Latin America during the 1920s and 1930s.

The first study of how women from different backgrounds encountered the Counter-Reformation in early modern Munster.