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This open access book is the first comparative study of public, voluntary and private asylums in nineteenth-century Ireland. Examining nine institutions, it explores whether concepts of social class……続きを見る

This groundbreaking collection explores the convergence of the spatial and digital turns through a suite of smartphone apps (Hidden Cities) that present research-led itineraries in early modern citi……続きを見る

This open access book provides a concise introduction to a critical development in memory studies. A global memory formation has emerged since the 1990s, in which memories of traumatic histories in ……続きを見る

This book is open access under a CC BY license and charts the rise and fall of various self-harming behaviours in twentieth-century Britain. It puts self-cutting and overdosing into historical persp……続きを見る

This open access edited collection brings together established and new perspectives on Cold War civil defence in Western Europe within a common analytical framework that also facilitates comparative……続きを見る

This open access edited collection contributes a new dimension to the study of mental health and psychiatry in the twentieth century. It takes the present literature beyond the ‘asylum and after’ pa……続きを見る

The book examines the growing tension between social movements that embrace egalitarian and inclusivist views of national and global politics, most notably classical liberalism, and those that advan……続きを見る

As climate change becomes an increasingly important part of public discourse, the relationship between time in nature and history is changing. Nature can no longer be considered a slow and immobile ……続きを見る

Volume 3 of Peter Raina’s magisterial history covers the 1960s and draws on newly released documents. In astonishing detail, it traces new plans drawn up during the Macmillan-Wilson era to reform th……続きを見る

One of the peculiarities of British history is the development of a constitution headed by the Crown and the two Houses of Parliament. This system emerged to become a balance of democracy, efficienc……続きを見る

In order to truly understand the emergence, endurance, and legacy of autocracy, this volume of engaging essays explores how autocratic power is acquired, exercised, and transferred or abruptly ended……続きを見る

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This open access book explores how children, parents, and survivors reshaped the politics of child protection in late twentieth-century England. A……続きを見る

Making Sense of the Future integrates the latest thinking in Future Studies with the author’s expertise in world history, economics, interdisciplinary studies, knowledge organization, and political ……続きを見る

This open access book explores the question of who or what ‘the public’ is within ‘public health’ in post-war Britain. Drawing on historical research on the place of the public in public health in B……続きを見る

In this monumental multiple biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin studies Abraham Lincoln's mastery of men. She shows how he saved Civil War-torn America by appointing his……続きを見る

The Eighteen Christian Centuries is the religious history of Great Britain starting from the first century AD. It tells about the most critical events per century, like the Roman conquest, the arriv……続きを見る

Throughout the canon of Canterbury Tales criticism, scholars consistently emphasize the Christian influence that characterized the fourteenth-century intellectual milieu; however, they have failed t……続きを見る

This carefully crafted e-artnow ebook "Pictures of German Life in the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Volume 1: Scenes……続きを見る

Introducing Revolutions & Industrialization, the newest edition in the award-winning History Adventures digital book series, whose accolades include the 2019 Horizon Interactive Gold Medal Award for……続きを見る

Histories of Knowledge in Postwar Scandinavia uses case studies to explore how knowledge circulated in the different public arenas that shaped politics, economics and cultural life in and across pos……続きを見る

" La biographie de Michel Winock marque une étape dans la nécessaire déconstruction de la caricature encore dominante d'un homme d'Etat qui, de héraut de la gauche radicale, se serait mué en assassi……続きを見る

In 2013, a Dutch scientist unveiled the world’s first laboratory-created hamburger. Since then, the idea of producing meat, not from live animals but from carefully cultured tissues, has spread like……続きを見る

Upon explaining to a fellow Royal Marine that my latest project was to try and put together an article about the Royal Marines history. His first response was to tell me that it's been done many man……続きを見る

Scholars have recently begun to study collections of Byzantine historical excerpts as autonomous pieces of literature. This book focuses on a series of minor collections that have received little or……続きを見る

Книга є складовою серії збірників «Майдан від першої особи», що видається Україн〓ським інститутом національної пам’яті в рамках проекту «Майдан: усна історія». У 2017 році вийшла перша частина трет……続きを見る

From one of China’s most acclaimed and decorated writers comes a powerful first-person account of life in Wuhan during the COVID-19 outbreak. On January 25, 2020, after the central government impose……続きを見る

When the Music Man first arrived in River City, the People fell for the propaganda. After a while, the People began to believe their lyin' eyes. The music fell on deaf ears, once the People discover……続きを見る

This book provides a comparative and transnational examination of the complex and multifaceted experiences of anti-labour mobilisation, from the bitter social conflicts of the pre-war period, throug……続きを見る

This collection of twelve essays reviews the history of welfare in Britain over the past 150 years. It focuses on the ideas that have shaped the development of British social policy, and on the thin……続きを見る

George IV spent most of his life waiting to become king: as a pleasure-loving and rebellious Prince of Wales during the sixty-year reign of his father, George III, and for ten years as Prince Regent……続きを見る