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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.

Being Soviet adopts a refreshing and innovative approach to the crucial years between 1939 and 1953 in the USSR. It examines how the language of Soviet identity evolved in this period, and how ordinary citizens responded to that shift.

In the years after the First World War both Ulster and Upper Silesia saw violent conflicts over self-determination. Examining the nature of communal boundaries, such as religion and language, Timothy Wilson explains the profound contrasts in these experiences of plebeian violence.

After 1945, state patriotism of communist regimes in Eastern Europe was characterized by the use of national symbols. In communist Hungary, the party (MKP) widely celebrated national holidays, and national heroes. This work examines the origins of this socialist patriotism, and how it had become the self image of party and state by 1953.

Offers an analysis of migration in Germany within the demographic and socio-economic contexts of the period studied. Focusing on the rural labour market and the factors affecting it, this work also examines the 'pull' factor to cities, and offers interpretations of German industrialization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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.

This study of the political and social structure of late medieval England examines the wealth and political influence of a dozen Nottinghamshire families who dominated their county during the first half of the 15th century. It reassesses the nature of baronial-gentry relations, and establishes the true extent of the influence of the greater gentry.

This study explores the nature and meaning of violence in 15th-century England in order to uncover the attitudes and beliefs of the inhabitants of medieval East Anglia. It examines the way their moral code was reflected in the procedures and punishments of the courts and assesses the success of the legal system in maintaining authority and order.

This study relates the work of Clausewitz and other military thinkers to their cultural background, and demonstrates how the main currents of modern military thought have evolved from the cultural frameworks of the German Movement and the Enlightenment.

Explores the role of the episcopate in national and provincial politics in the last years of the ancien regime and the part played by the bishops in the early, critical stages of the Revolution.

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.

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.

Provides new insights into the troubled development of the Weimar Welfare State and the crisis into which it was plunged by the Great Depression. Elizabeth Harvey examines a wide range of policies implemented by central and local government, and assesses responses to them.

This is a study of the major landholders of England and their estates during the reign of Edward the Confessor. It contains a comprehensive analysis of the lay landholders recorded in Domesday Book, and compares conditions under Edward the Confessor with those of the Norman regime which followed

A study of government publicity activities in Britain between the wars. Mariel Grant focuses on the development of public relations bureaux and information services in Whitehall. She shows, how during the inter-war period, publicity came to be regarded as a legitimate and necessary task.

This is the first comprehensive study of the economic relations between Nazi Germany and Franco's Spain (1936-1945). It demonstrates how, during the Spanish Civil War, Germany helped General Franco to victory and at the same time attempted to turn Spain into an economic colony.

Built between 1921 and 1934, the London County Council's Becontree Estate was the largest public housing scheme ever undertaken in Britain. Using interviews with surviving tenants from the inter-war period, the author discusses the early years of the estate.

An account of the influence of evangelicalism upon eminent Victorians. Recording family life was an important ritual in Victorian households and the author uses documents from the archives of four families to analyze the biographical tradition and its lasting effects upon "family values".

Organized Jewish welfare was a vital element in the formation and maintenance of British and German Jewish subcultures. The analysis of this important sphere of everyday life highlights the relevance of comparative history for an understanding of Jewish integration and identity formation in nineteenth-century Europe.

Studies Botswana during World War II. The book offers an Africanist and an imperial perspective, exploring the impact of the war on the home front and Botswana's military contribution. Events and personalities are examined, along with Botswana's interaction with Whitehall and the British Army.

This book is a study of Paris during the period in the 15th century when it fell under English rule. Paris was the headquarters of the Lancastrian government in northern France, established by the victories of Henry V. Its history thus forms a key chapter in the story of the rule of Henry VI on both sides of the Channel.

Stephan E. C. Wendehorst explores the relationship between British Jewry and Zionism from 1936 to 1956, a crucial period in modern Jewish history, encompassing both the shoah and the establishment of the State of Israel.

In East Germany, during the 1950s and 1960s young people were a constant problem for the communist authorities - and in particular for the communist youth organization, the Free German Youth (FDJ). This book provides a study of the often troubled relationship between the FDJ and East German youth during this important period.

An examination of Pierre Laroque's contribution to the rise of the French welfare state, and the shape of post-war social security.

Taxation was one of the most contentious aspects of British colonial rule in Africa, shaping relationships between Africans, colonial governments, and European settlers. This is the first detailed comparative study of both taxation and public spending in British colonies in Africa.

Reconstructs the events surrounding the prosecution of Pope Paul IV's nephews by his successor Pius IV and the impact this had on Counter-Reformation Rome. Offers a substantial reappraisal of how contemporaries viewed the ideas of nepotism and papal authority and demonstrates Pius' importance in shaping their development.

A detailed study of Isaiah Berlin: historian, philosopher, and political theorist. Situates his evolving ideas in the context of British society and world politics. Offers a new interpretation of Berlin's influential writings on liberty and his debts to philosophy, and makes clear his relationship to the political debates of his times.

Focuses on a number of peace movements in Britain and West Germany from the end of Second World War in 1945 to the early 1970s to understand how European societies experienced and reacted to the Cold War.

Provides a new history of the capital of Ireland during the 1960s, examining how an aging eighteenth-century city was rapidly transformed by speculative office construction and suburban development, and exploring how this impacted on the lives of the city's ordinary inhabitants

In colonial-era Egypt, a new social category of "modern men" emerged, the efendiyya, who represented the new middle class elite. This volume explores how they assumed a key political role in the anti-colonial movement and in the building of a modern state both before and after the revolution of 1952.