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Empires of the Mind
'The empires of the future would be the empires of the mind' declared Churchill in 1943, envisaging universal empires living in peaceful harmony. Robert Gildea exposes instead the …
The Natural and the Supernatural in the Middle Ages
How did people of the medieval period explain physical phenomena, such as eclipses or the distribution of land and water on the globe? What creatures did they think they might …
The Egalitarian Moment
General histories of the twentieth century will have much to say about the establishment, spread, maintenance and sudden collapse of Soviet Communism. This book outlines a major …
Cities of Strangers
Cities of Strangers illuminates life in European towns and cities as it was for the settled, and for the 'strangers' or newcomers who joined them between 1000 and 1500. Some …
The Italian Renaissance in its Historical Background
A fresh and readable account of one of the great epochs in European history.
The Social Interpretation of the French Revolution
Alfred Cobban’s The Social Interpretation of the French Revolution is one of the acknowledged classics of post-war historiography. This ‘revisionist’ analysis of the French …
The History Written on the Classical Greek Body
This book challenges historians to come to terms with the distortions that they systematically introduce into their work by their reliance on what has been written on paper without …
Politics in the Ancient World
The business of politics - conducting government through the dynamics of argument, conflict and decision-making - offers us one of the most revealing areas of insight into any …
Poetry and Politics 1900–1960
Politics are not alien to poetry and in his Wiles Lectures Sir Maurice Bowra covered the main lines of European poetry during the first sixty years of the twentieth century in so …
War and Society in the Seventeenth Century
Sir George Clark discusses war as a factor for good and ill in European society in the seventeenth century. In particular, he shows how war helped to determine the emergence of …