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British Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War: The British Battalion in the International Brigades, 1936-1939

by Richard Baxell

During the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 almost 2,500 men and women left Britain to fight for the Spanish Republic. This book examines the role, experiences and contribution of the volunteers who fought in...

Ireland in Transition, 1867-1921

by D. George Boyce & Alan O'Day

This wide-ranging collection brings together multiple perspectives on a key period in Irish history, from the Fenian Rising in 1867 to the creation of the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland in 1921, with...

Voices of the Old Sea

by Norman Lewis

After World War II, Norman Lewis returned to Spain and settled in the remote fishing village of Farol, on what is now Costa Brava. Voices of the Old Sea describes his three successive summers in that almost...

The Historiographic Perversion

by Marc Nichanian & Gil Anidjar

Genocide is a matter of law. It is also a matter of history. Engaging some of the most disturbing responses to the Armenian genocide, Marc Nichanian strikingly reveals the complex role played by law and history...

In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century

by Geert Mak

From the First World War to the waning days of the Cold War, a poignant exploration on what it means to be European at the end of the twentieth-century. Geert Mak crisscrosses Europe from Verdun to Berlin, Saint...

The European Jews, Patriotism and the Liberal State 1789-1939: A Study of Literature and Social Psychology

by David Aberbach

The fragility of the liberal democratic state after 1789 is illustrated in the history of the European Jews from the French Revolution to the Holocaust. Emancipation and hope of emancipation amongst the European...

The Great Shame: And the Triumph of the Irish in the English-Speaking World

by Thomas Keneally

"Thomas Keneally recounts history with the uncanny skill of a great novelist whose only interest is to lay bare the human heart in all its hope and pain. As he was able to do in Schindler's List, he shows us...

German Film after Germany: Toward a Transnational Aesthetic

by Randall Halle

What is the work of film in the age of transnational production? To answer that question, Randall Halle focuses on the film industry of Germany, one of Europe's largest film markets and one of the world's largest...

New German Dance Studies

by Susan Manning & Lucia Ruprecht

New German Dance Studies offers fresh histories and theoretical inquiries that resonate across fields of the humanities. Sixteen essays range from eighteenth-century theater dance to popular contemporary dances...

Beauvoir and Her Sisters: The Politics of Women's Bodies in France

by Sandra Reineke

Beauvoir and Her Sisters investigates how women's experiences, as represented in print culture, led to a political identity of an "imagined sisterhood" through which political activism developed and thrived...

Reflections on the Revolution In Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West

by Christopher Caldwell

This provocative and unflinching analysis of Europe’s unexpected demographic revolution focuses on the increasingly assertive Muslim populations shaping the continent’s future.

Europe’s half century of...

Furies: War in Europe, 1450-1700

by Lauro Martines

During the European Renaissance, an age marked equally by revolutionary thought and constant warfare, it was armies, rather than philosophers, who shaped the modern European nation state. "Mobile cities" of...

Mayhem: Post-War Crime and Violence in Britain, 1748-53

by Nicholas Rogers

After the end of the War of Austrian Succession in 1748, thousands of unemployed and sometimes unemployable soldiers and seamen found themselves on the streets of London ready to roister the town and steal when...

American Influence in Greece, 1917-1929

by Louis P. Cassimatis

The diplomatic relations between Greece and the United States in the interwar period have received scant attention from historians, primarily because of the non-political and non-military role of the United...

State-Nationalisms in the Ottoman Empire, Greece and Turkey: Orthodox and Muslims, 1830-1945

by Benjamin C. Fortna, Stefanos Katsikas & Dimitris Kamouzis

Tracing the emergence of minorities and their institutions from the late nineteenth century to the eve of the Second World War, this book provides a comparative study of government policies and ideologies of...

The Evolution of EU Counter-Terrorism: European Security Policy after 9/11

by Raphael Bossong

This book traces the evolution of the EU's fight against terrorism from the late 1970s until the end of the first decade after 9/11.

This historical analysis covers both EU-internal and international counterterrorism...

The Honeywood Settlement

by H.B. Creswell

A sequal to The Honeywood File (originally published in 1929, and reissued by Academy Chicago in 2000 - ISBN 0-89733-473-6), it takes the form of an epistolary novel. Some of the great comic characters inhabit...

Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity

by Marion Gibson, Shelley Trower & Garry Tregidga

Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity explores how the mythical and mystical past informs national imaginations. Building on notions of invented tradition and myths of the nation, it looks at the power of narrative...

Blood on the Wave: Scottish Sea Battles

by John Sadler

Scotland's long coastline runs from the waters of Galloway and the Solway, through the Irish Sea to the long sea lochs and myriad islands of the Celtic west, around grim Cape Wrath, the coast of Caithness, Pentland...

The Way of the Wanderers: The Story of Travellers in Scotland

by Jess Smith

‘Jess reveals a way of life that leaves the reader full of admiration’ – Mary Horner Scottish Gypsies, known as Travellers or Tinkers, have wandered Scotland’s roads and byways for centuries. Their turbulent...