Historical Connections
About the Book Series
Historical Connections books provide a succinct introduction to important historical topics and debates, for students and teachers.
Each book encourages students to compare and discuss their historical findings by presenting:
* Original and challenging arguments
* Summaries of previous historical debates
* Comparisons between different chronological periods
Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany: The 'Fascist' Style of Rule
2nd Edition
By Alexander J. De Grand
December 20, 2004
Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany provides a succinct and provocative introduction to Italian fascism and German nazism. Incorporating recent historical research together with original and challenging arguments, Alexander J. De Grand examines:* the similarities and differences in the early development...
Monarchy, Aristocracy and State in Europe 1300-1800
1st Edition
By Hillay Zmora
October 17, 2000
Monarchy, Aristocracy and the State in Europe 1300 - 1800 is an important survey of the relationship between monarchy and state in early modern European history. Spanning five centuries and covering England, France, Spain, Germany and Austria, this book considers the key themes in the formation of ...
Absolutism in Central Europe
1st Edition
By Peter Wilson
August 21, 2000
Absolutism in Central Europe is about the form of European monarchy known as absolutism, how it was defined by contemporaries, how it emerged and developed, and how it has been interpreted by historians, political and social scientists. This book investigates how scholars from a variety of ...
Impressionists and Politics: Art and Democracy in the Nineteenth Century
1st Edition
By Philip Nord
June 01, 2000
Impressionists and Politics is an accessible introduction to the current debates about Impressionism. Was the artistic movement really radical and innovative? Is the term "Impressionism" itself an adequate characterization of the movement of painters and critics that took the mid-nineteenth century...
Urban Politics in Early Modern Europe
1st Edition
By Christopher R. Friedrichs
April 26, 2000
Urban Politics in Early Modern Europe is an important survey of the complex relationships between urban politics and regional and national politics in Europe from 1500 to 1789. In an era when the national state was far less developed than today, crucial decisions about economic, religious and ...
Popular Politics in Nineteenth Century England
1st Edition
By Rohan McWilliam
June 05, 1998
Popular Politics in Nineteenth Century England provides an accessible introduction to the culture of English popular politics between 1815 and 1900, the period from Luddism to the New Liberalism. This is an area that has attracted great historical interest and has undergone fundamental revision in ...
Catholic Politics in Europe, 1918-1945
1st Edition
By Martin Conway
June 27, 1997
The history of Catholic political movements has long been a missing dimension of the history of Europe during the twentieth century. Martin Conway explores the fascinating history of Catholic political movements in Europe between 1918 and 1945, demonstrating the crucial role which Catholics played ...
Politics and the Rise of the Press: Britain and France 1620-1800
1st Edition
By Bob Harris
October 04, 1996
Politics and the Rise of the Press compares the rise of the newspaper press in Britain and France, and assesses how it influenced political life and political culture. From its social, economic and political sources, to its importance for the middling ranks in eighteenth-century British society, ...
Population Politics in Twentieth Century Europe: Fascist Dictatorships and Liberal Democracies
1st Edition
By Maria-Sophia Quine
December 06, 1995
Maria Sophia Quine demystifies the population policies of fascist regimes by looking at them in the wider context of how societies in general reacted to the profound economic changes brought by industrialization. Population Politics in Twentieth Century Europe: * provides an original, comparative ...
Environment and History: The taming of nature in the USA and South Africa
1st Edition
By William Beinart, Peter Coates
August 10, 1995
The influence of human economies and cultures on ecosystems is particularly striking in the new worlds into which Europeans have expanded over the past five hundred years. Using a comparative and multidisciplinary approach, Beinart and Coates examine this neglected aspect of the history of settler ...
Medicine in the Making of Modern Britain, 1700-1920
1st Edition
By Christopher Lawrence
August 16, 1994
Christopher Lawrence's critical overview of medicine's place in the development of modern Britain examines the significance of the clinical encounter in contemporary society. * first short synoptic study of its kind * breaks new ground by bringing together specialised scholarship into a broad ...
The Remaking of the British Working Class, 1840-1940
1st Edition
By Andrew Miles, Mike Savage
July 29, 1994
Mike Savage and Andrew Miles provide a comprehensive introduction to the working class in Britain in the years after 1840. This textbook: * Includes a provocative, timely and clear defence of class analysis * Breaks new ground in showing how social mobility and urban change affected working class ...