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A study of the anti-Catholic movement in 19th-century Britain. Catholic emancipation in 1829 was followed by a Protestant backlash, stimulated by the growth of the evangelical movement and of Catholicism, and the political endeavours of Irish and British Tories.

The first full-length study of essayist and controversialist Hubert Butler offers a comprehensive account of a literary and social figure whose importance in twentieth-century Irish culture is increasingly recognised.

A study of how the 'whiteness' of Europeans was constructed in the colonial situation, using British India of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a case study.

A study of the material world of English ambassadors at the end of the seventeenth century, illustrating the way in which architecture and the arts played an important role in diplomatic life. Luxury and Power is an important contribution to the cultural history of Baroque England.

From the late 1880s to the onset of World War II, organizations in Europe forged an informal international network to fight the continued existence of slavery and slave trading in Africa. Humanitarian Imperialism explores the scope and outreach of these antislavery groups, as well as their development alongside Fascist imperialism.

Reconstructs the history of Britain's presence in the deserts of the interwar Middle East, using a wealth of original archival research to lead the shift in historians' attentions from the familiar, urban seats of power to the desert 'hinterlands' that state-centric approaches have long obscured.

A new and holistic interpretation of one of the non-fiction sensations of the nineteenth century, Ernest Renan's Life of Jesus, this volume demonstrates how Renan's controversial work intervened in a remarkable range of debates in nineteenth-century French cultural life: not merely religious, but also social, intellectual, and cultural.

Analyses the attitudes of Essex and his followers towards war, religion, and domestic politics; examines Essex's impact on Elizabethan political culture

This work examines the relationship between Spain and the US in the 17th century through the life and thought of Juan de Palafox, a protege of the count-duke of Olivares who became Visitor General of New Spain. It explores the failed attempt made by Palafox to reform overseas government on constitutional lines.

Offers an innovative and original reinterpretation of state formation in eighteenth-century Britain, reconceptualising it as a political and fundamentally partisan process.

Traces the logic of urban political conflict in late medieval Europe's most heavily urbanized regions, Italy and the Southern Low Countries, revealing how conflict in these regions gave rise to a distinct form of political organization.

Deals with the historically neglected Anabaptist movement in Reformation Germany, exploring how ordinary Anabaptists interpreted and interacted with Lutheran theology and how their beliefs shaped religious identity in the Reformation era.

Chronicles the ways in which the Irish revolution was remembered in the first two decades of independence by significant nationalist intellectuals: Eimar O'Duffy, P. S. O'Hegarty, George Russell, and Desmond Ryan. It provides a lively account of their controversial critiques of the revolution, and an intimate portrait of their lives and times.

Discusses the role the Holocaust came to play in French and Italian political culture in the period after the end of the Cold War by charting the development of official, national Holocaust commemorations in France and Italy

A volume which offers new insights into the nature of military conflict and consolidation within European empires in the late nineteenth century.

Common Wealth, Common Good is a study of the political discourse of the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, arguing that Polish-Lithuanian politicians saw their political system primarily in moral terms, setting them apart from the growing tradition of self-interested republican politics.

After Ruskin is the first book to explore the social and political influence of the leading Victorian art and social critic, John Ruskin (1819-1900), and explains how he inspired a range of individuals to reform Britain's social and political culture in the period between 1870 and 1920.

Richard Brent argues that the Whig party in the "decade of reform" was dominated by a new generation of politicians: liberal Anglicans, who welcomed the inclusion of both Protestant and Catholic nonconformists in the political nation.

Addresses the little-studied area of Russian genre painting in the first three-quarters of the nineteenth century. This book demonstrates that, far from being a self-contained movement, Russian genre painting instead engaged in a fluid and complex dialogue with the art of the West.

This text challenges the domination of the institutional church as the overriding concern of 19th-century religious history. It takes as its starting point the nature and expression of religious ideas outside the immediate sphere of the church within the wider arena of popular culture.

Much work on the history of colonial medicine is concerned with demonstrating that medicine was an arm of colonial power and of capitalism. This text challenges this interpretation through investigation of the complicated relationship between medicine, politics and capital in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.

The Second Spanish Republic survived unchallenged for a mere five years, its fall plunging Spain into a bitter civil war. Mary Vincent examines this crucial period in Spanish history, exploring the origins of the Spanish Civil War and the influence of religion on the conflict.

This book examines the political development of a major English town between 1660 and 1722. It analyses the reaction of the provinces to the great upheavals of the age, and relates local experiences to regional and national developments. By concentrating on the ruling town council, it traces the relationship between social and political change at local and national levels.

In this original and stimulating study of Idealism, the dominant philosophical school of thought in late nineteenth-century Britain, Sandra den Otter interweaves philosophical and sociological concerns to make an important contribution to intellectual history.

This is a scholarly reassessment of English Roman Catholic piety at grass-roots level in Victorian England. Dr Heimann's study offers a controversial analysis of the influence of long-established recusant practices and attitudes in the new context of the re-establishment of Roman Catholicism in England from the mid-nineteenth century.

This study explores the role of art in medieval society, focusing on Anglo-Saxon England from the reign of Alfred the Great to the Norman Conquest. Combining visual and documentary evidence, it sheds new light on many magnificent art works, and offers fresh perspectives on the history of tenth- and eleventh-century England.

This book breaks new ground in its analysis of how people both create and adapt to the process of industrialization. Its exploration of family relationships in the context of the workplace and of the local community offers valuable insights for both social historians and historical demographers.

Sir Richard Morison (c.1513-1556) is best known as Henry VIII's most prolific propagandist. Yet he was also an accomplished scholar, politician, theologian and diplomat who was linked to the leading political and religious figures of his day. This is the first full historical treatment of Morison that places each of his careers in context.

P.L. Pham examines the reasons for the Wilson Government's decision to withdraw from 'East of Suez'. Drawing upon previously classified records in the United Kingdom, USA, and Australia, Pham provides a detailed and comprehensive examination of the British policy process leading up to the final decision to withdraw.

The concept of 'economic planning' was a central theme of the popular economic policy debate in the 1930s. Dr Ritschel traces the many interpretations of planning, and examines the process of ideological construction and dissemination of economic ideas.