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Reassessing Foucault
Though Foucault is now widely taught in universities, his writings are notoriously difficult. Reassessing Foucault critically examines the implications of his work for students and …
The Secular City
Central to the Enlightenment is the ideal of the Secular City, in militant reply to the Civitas Dei of St Augustine. The essays in this volume, all by distinguished eighteenth …
Roy Porter's Model Buildings Masterclass
The National Question in Europe in Historical Context
Leading historians discuss European nationalism in its historical context.
Nature and Society in Historical Context
In general terms, one way of describing the world we live in is to say that it is made up of nature and society, and that human beings belong to both. This was the first volume to …
Drugs and Narcotics in History
A collection of essays exploring the complex and contested histories of drugs and narcotics in societies.
George Cheyne: The English Malady (1733)
‘Nerves’ became a highly eligible illness in early Georgian London and Bath. What Freud was for Vienna at the end of the nineteenth-century, George Cheyne was for …
The Social History of Language
This volume of essays brings together work by social historians of Britain, France and Italy.
The Cambridge History of Medicine
The Cambridge History of Medicine, first published in 2006, surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to the present. Covering both the social and scientific …
The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 4, Eighteenth-Century Science
This volume offers to general and specialist readers alike the fullest and most complete survey of the development of science in the eighteenth century, exploring the implications …
Handbook of British Chronology
The Handbook of British Chronology is acknowledged as the authoritative and indispensable record of all holders of major offices in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland from the …