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In this first scholarly history of the Labour Party during the Second World War, Stephen Brooke examines the effect of the war upon the party's ideology and policy.

P.R. Cavill offers a major reinterpretation of early Tudor constitutional history. Parliament was not a fading institution - it was a key force in legitimating Henry VII's rule, and an important medium for subjects to communicate with government. Henry's reign emerges from this study as a constitutionally innovative period.

The miners' lockout of 1926 was a pivotal moment in British twentieth-century history. Investigating issues of collective identity and action, Hester Barron explores the way that the lockout was experienced by Durham's miners and their families, illuminating wider debates about solidarity and fragmentation within working-class communities.

Presents a study of intellectual life - teaching, preaching, the production of books, and the pursuit of scholarship - at one of England's greatest monasteries at the end of the Middle Ages. This study demonstrates the vitality of education and learning in English cloisters.

This volume explores the formation of working-class identities in the period 1880-1930, as reflected in changes in work and industrial relations, family life, patterns of saving, and changing political allegiances. The picture emerges of a working class for whom ties of work and neighbourhood counted for less than those of religion and nationality.

Placing Hong Kong at the heart of the Anglo-American relationship in the context of the Cold War in Asia, this book explores dynamic interactions of how the two allies perceived, responded to, and attempted to influence each other's policies. It also provides a reinterpretation of Hong Kong's involvement in the containment of China.

Exploring the phenomenon of mass conversion to Christianity amongst oppressed rural peoples in late colonial India, Religious Transformation in South Asia looks at what lay behind the social and religious aspirations of converts and mission personnel.

Orientalism in Louis XIV's France presents a history of Oriental studies in seventeenth-century France, mapping the place within the intellectual culture of the period that was given to studies of Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Chinese texts, as well as writings on Mughal India.

The attempt by Stanislaw August Poniatowski (1764-95) 'to create anew the Polish world' was one of the most audacious enterprises of reform undertaken in the 18th century. With new perspectives on the successes and limitations of the Polish Enlightenment, this book presents a dynamic interpretation of European culture in the eighteenth century.

Expelling the Germans examines British involvement in the forced migration of German minorities from Poland and Czechoslovakia. Based on archival research, it focuses on the refugee crisis caused by this mass movement of population, and on subsequent British attempts to offset its worst effects.

During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the Crown of Aragon was a rapidly expanding and powerful political unit. Throughout this period, a series of rulers sought to maintain royal authority and to govern their realms effectively. This book examines the ways in which they used the art of rhetoric to uphold royal power.

Offers an evaluation of the political role of the Church of England in inter-war Britain. This book argues that, at a time of crises such as the General Strike of 1926, the Prayer Book controversy of 1929, the Abdication Crisis of 1936 and the rise of Hitler, religion remained central to political thought and debate.

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa were increasingly drawn together by an imperial press system. This is a scholarly study of the development of that system, challenging earlier nationalist accounts.

Using hitherto neglected sources, this work offers a dramatic reinterpretation of the Lancastrian revolution, and the establishment of Henry IV's kingship. It is also the first work for thirty years to re-examine the reigns of Richard II and Henry IV together, charting the shifting balance of power between the crown and the nobility across the turn of the fifteenth century.

This volume provides a comprehensive view of the social, political and military aspects of the volunteer movement of the French Wars: the volunteer infantry, yeomanry cavalry and the armed associations in England, Scotland and Wales from 1794 to 1814 and in some cases beyond.

This title explores the relationship between the British Liberal party and the rural working-class voters enfranchised by the Reform Act of 1884.

Challenges the construction of tractarianism as an episode in church history, and the convention that tractarians had little interest in social questions. Making use of periodical and fictional material, this work demonstrates that tractarians directed a commentary against the iniquities of commercialism, of political economy and the new poor law.

Victorian 'East-Enders' were not as poor, jingoistic, anti-immigrant or politically Conservative as they are usually considered to be.This book shows that it was local networks and links, often of better-off workers with their local churches, which instead provided the basis for most of the support for this apparent 'Conservatism of the slums'.

The luxurious spending habits of Italians in the Renaissance are well known. This is the first comprehensive study of the sumptuary laws that attempted to regulate the consumption of luxuries. Catherine Kovesi Killerby provides a chronological, geographical, and thematic survey of more than 300 laws enacted in over 40 cities throughout Italy, and sets them in their social context.

Creator of the famous pear as a symbol for King Louis-Philippe, Charles Philipon was also the most influential editor of illustrated newspapers in nineteenth-century France. This book examines the role and influence of political caricature under the July Monarchy through a study of his two principal newspapers, La Caricature and Le Charivari.

The effects of the great Evangelical Revival in 18th-century England were felt throughout the world, not least in America. This volume examines the role and importance of the Moravian church in this process, arguing that it gave the movement much of its initial impetus.

This is the most detailed and up-to-date study of the division of Germany after the Second World War. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished documents, Dirk Spilker reveals the political realities of the situation in post-war Germany, and reassesses the motivations and actions of the Western Allies and the Soviet bloc as they manoeuvred to achieve their ends.

Tracing the complex and troubled relationship between the British Left and the nationalist movement in India in the years before Indian independence, Nicholas Owen's study looks at the failure of British and Indian anti-imperialists to create the kind of powerful alliance that the Empire's governors had always feared.

Focusing on the family of Ealdorman Leofwine, which retained power throughout an extraordinary period of political and dynastic upheaval, Stephen Baxter reassesses fundamental elements of late Anglo-Saxon government and society, offering a fresh interpretation of the structure of the late Anglo-Saxon polity and the origins of the Norman Conquest.

An analysis of the processes by which the West German government negotiated the Moscow Treaty with the Soviet Union in 1970 - the foundation of West German Ostpolitik.

Examines US non-intervention in Nicaragua's affairs, and how it could be detrimental to both countries. This book analyses the relations between the US and Nicaragua during the Depression and the WWII and challenges theories about the role of the US in the creation and consolidation of one of Latin America's most enduring authoritarian regimes.

In mid-20th-century Britain, an archaeological vision of the British landscape reassured and enchanted a number of writers, artists, photographers, and film-makers. From John Piper and Eric Ravilious to photographs of bomb damage, this book delves into these evocative interpretations and looks at how they affected the way the landscape was seen.

This is an interpretation of the development of land law in England during the century after the Norman Conquest, and integrates social, political, administrative, and intellectual history.

This work investigates the emergence of "idiot" asylums in Victorian England. Using the National Asylum for Idiots, Earlswood, as a case-study, it examines the social history of institutionalization and the relationship between the medical institution and the society whence its patients came.

AntiFascism and Memory in East Germany sheds new light on the legacy of the Spanish Civil War, the way in which societies remember, and the nature of state socialism. It combines cultural, social, and political history to examine the ways in which the legacy of the International Brigades was commemorated in the German Democratic Republic.