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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.

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.

Based on research into political, personal, and general correspondences across a period of significant social and political change, this book explores the gendered nature of politics and political life in eighteenth-century England by focusing on the political involvement of female members of the political elite.

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.

With the dawn of Romanticism, be it in the realms of science, religion, or poetry, the interest in physiognomy rekindled. This book interprets the way in which books on physiognomy were read, tracing the wider intellectual, social, and cultural changes that contributed to the metamorphosis of this way of beholding oneself and the natural world.

This book explores the relationship between Conservative Party politics and British colonial policy in tropical Africa during the unbroken period of Conservative government from 1951 to 1964. It makes an important contribution to the debate on decolonization.

This study of the books of Reading Abbey covers not only the whole history of the Abbey from its foundation, but also charts the subsequent dispersal of its book collection. In doing so, the author illustrates intellectual life in a medieval English monastery and, in particular, valuable insights into the fate of monastic books after the Dissolution of the monasteries.

This book provides three case studies of British foreign policy in Vienna, Budapest, and Prague in the interwar period. It focuses on British diplomatic initiatives aimed at promoting political and economic integration in central Europe.

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.

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.

This book explains why governments decided to make trade unions legal, and protect strikers from the criminal law. Drawing on previously unused source material, Curthoys brings to light some of the workings of the ninteenth-century state.

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.

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 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.

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.

Men Versus the State is a study of the political philosophy of Herbert Spencer and of the ideas of the Individualists, a group of thinkers inspired by Spencer to uphold the policy of laissez-faire during the 1880s and 1890s, whose important contribution to nineteenth-century political debate has been hitherto neglected by historians.

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.

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

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.

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 work considers the ideological development of English Catholicism in the 16th century, from the complementary perspectives of history, theology, and literature. It shows that Catholicism was neither a defunct tradition, nor one merely reacting to Protestantism, but a strong intellectual movement responding to the reformist impulse of the age.

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.

The seventeenth-century witnessed a radical and far-reaching transformation of English architecture as new forms of classical design swept away earlier fashions. Paul Hunneyball's ground-breaking interdisciplinary study reveals how this dramatic change came about, by reconstructing for the first time a complete cross-section of building activity in a single county.

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.

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

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 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.

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 is the first legal and financial history of bankruptcy in nineteenth-century England. V. Markham Lester offers a full statistical analysis and detailed account of bankruptcy, imprisonment for debt, and company winding-up, and is able to demonstrate the validity of the Victorians' notion that financial failure was a significant problem for English society.