Studies In Modern History
About the Book Series
General editors: John Morrill and David Cannadine
This series, intended primarily for students, will tackle significant historical issues in concise volumes which are both stimulating and scholarly. The authors combine a broad approach, explaining the current state of our knowledge in the area, with their own research and judgements. The topics chosen range widely in subject, period and place.
Children and Childhood in Western Society Since 1500
3rd Edition
By Hugh Cunningham
July 09, 2020
Updated to incorporate recent scholarship on the subject, this new edition of Hugh Cunningham’s classic text investigates the relationship between ideas about childhood and the actual experience of being a child, and assesses how it has changed over the span of 500 years. Through his engaging ...
A History of African-American Leadership
3rd Edition
By John White, Bruce J. Dierenfield
April 26, 2012
The story of black emancipation is one of the most dramatic themes of American history, covering racism, murder, poverty and extreme heroism. Figures such as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King are the demigods of the freedom movements, both film and household figures. This major text explores the ...
The British Working Class 1832-1940
1st Edition
By Andrew August
March 29, 2007
In this insightful new study, Andrew August examines the British working class in the period when Britain became a mature industrial power, working men and women dominated massive new urban populations, and the extension of suffrage brought them into the political nation for the first time. ...
The European Colonial Empires: 1815-1919
1st Edition
By H. L. Wesseling
June 03, 2004
The nineteenth century was Europe's colonial century. At the beginning of the period, the only colonial empire that existed was the British Empire. By the end of the century the situation was completely different and Europe's colonial possessions had come to constitute a large part of the world. ...
The Rule of Law, 1603-1660: Crowns, Courts and Judges
1st Edition
By James S. Hart
November 20, 2003
This book measures contemporary attitudes to the law - within and outside of the legal profession – to see how c17th century Englishmen defined the role of law in their society, to see what their expectations were of the law and how these expectations helped shape political debate – and ultimately ...
Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England 1558-1689
1st Edition
By John Coffey
November 06, 2000
This fascinating work is the first overview of its subject to be published in over half a century. The issues it deals with are key to early modern political, religious and cultural history.The seventeenth century is traditionally regarded as a period of expanding and extended liberalism, when ...
Britannia Overruled: British Policy and World Power in the Twentieth Century
2nd Edition
By David Reynolds
July 24, 2000
This book brings together the often separated histories of diplomacy, defence, economics and empire in a provocative reinterpretation of British 'decline'. It also offers a broader reflection on the nature of international power and the mechanisms of policymaking. For this Second Edition,...
The American Irish: A History
1st Edition
By Kevin Kenny
July 03, 2000
The American Irish: A History, is the first concise, general history of its subject in a generation. It provides a long-overdue synthesis of Irish-American history from the beginnings of emigration in the early eighteenth century to the present day. While most previous accounts of the subject...
Ireland since 1800: Conflict and Conformity
2nd Edition
By K.Theodore Hoppen
October 15, 1998
The second edition of this bestselling survey of modern Irish history covers social, religious as well as political history and offers a distinctive combination of chronological and thematic approaches....
Sweet Land of Liberty?: The African-American Struggle for Civil Rights in the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
By Robert Cook
October 08, 1997
A powerful and moving account of the campaign for civil rights in modern America. Robert Cook is concerned less with charismatic leaders like Martin Luther King, and more with the ordinary men and women who were mobilised by the grass-roots activities of civil-rights workers and community leaders. ...
France in the Age of Henri IV: The Struggle for Stability
2nd Edition
By Mark Greengrass
April 04, 1995
This study was the first systematic attempt to reach behind the myth of Henri IV - famous for having brought order to France after long civil war - and explores the reality of his achievement. This Second Edition has been substantially updated....
British in the Americas 1480-1815, The
1st Edition
By Anthony Mcfarlane
December 12, 1994
Of northern European nations, the British had the greatest impact on the Americas. Their history there embraces far more than the colonies that became the United States: England had been in the New World for a century before those colonies were established, and the British presence long outlived ...