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The Making of the Citizen-Worker
Over the course of the 19th century, European societies started thinking of themselves as “civilisations of work.” In the wake of the political and industrial revolutions, labour …
The Making of Dignity and Human Rights in the Western Tradition
The book describes in a retrospective way how dignity and human rights evolved. In doing so, the book is divided in three parts: human rights from present to early modern age, …
A Companion to Italian Constitutional History (1804-1938): The House of Savoy and the Making of the Nation-State
'This is the first account in English of the making of Italian nationhood from the perspective of constitutional history. It is also the first to consider the role that the House …
Monumental Shadows: On Museums, Memory and the Making of History
A critical investigation into the material heritage and entangled histories of Western encyclopedic museumsThis volume gathers commissioned essays, interviews and visual …
Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485–1547
The dawn of the Tudor regime is one of most recognisable periods of English history. Yet the focus on its monarchs' private lives and ministers' constitutional reforms creates the …
The Making of a World Order
Why does 1919 deserve further study and debate a hundred years later? What lessons for global history may we learn from the world order created at the end of the Great War? Drawing …
The Making of the 20th Century City: Towards a Transnational Urban History of Japan and Europe
Broadening the global perspective is high on the agenda for the current study of urban history. It is widely accepted in contemporary Japanese urban history that the prototype of …
Raymond Mauny and the making of medieval African history
Albertino Mussato: The Making of a Poet Laureate
This book examines the life and political career of Albertino Mussato (1261–1329), a Paduan poet, historian and politician. Mussato was one of the first writers of the late …
Making National Diasporas
This Element explains the historical conditions for the seemingly anomalous presence of people outside of 'their own' Soviet republic and the sometimes-fraught consequences for …
Transcending the Nostalgic
Even as the global economy of the twenty-first century continues its dramatic and unpredictable transformations, the landscapes it leaves in its wake bear the indelible marks of …