History

Louis Wain and the Great Cat ManiaHow cat mania exploded in the early twentieth century, transforming cats from pests into beloved pets. In 1900, B...

The Struggle between Christendom and the CaliphateA powerful new history detailing the most significant military clashes between Islam and Christen...

A Graphic History of Participatory Action ResearchDrawing on archives, oral narrative, and ethnographic fieldwork, this graphic novel uncovers the ...

On the Limits of Human LifeAn exploration of both the reality and the spectre of waste throughout history.This book starts with the premise that wa...

A lively introduction to English spelling.Popularly viewed as eccentric and illogical, dismissed by linguists as fixed and therefore uninteresting,...

Grammars of Law, Poetics of JusticeHow Black Atlantic literature can challenge conventions and redefine literary scholarshipAbolition Time is an in...

Chicago in the History of Country Music and the Folk RevivalThe untold story of Chicago’s pivotal role as a country and folk music capital. Chicago...

How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II

The Future of EuropeA blend of history, politics and map-hopping reporting exploring one of the most important but overlooked theatres of change: t...

Analysing RMS Titanic's Hull FractureThe first comprehensive study into the problem of the break-up of Titanic's hull At 11.40 p.m. on 14 April 191...

Task Force Lion in Iraq In this sharp, challenging memoir, Col Seth Folsom lays bare the complexities of modern military combat advisor missions at...

A History of the Irish FamineA landmark history of work, poverty, land reform and political economy in the era of the Irish Famine.'A vigorous and ...

George S. Patton and the Deception of Operation Fortitude

The Hoax that Duped America and its Sinister LegacyThe true story of The Report from Iron Mountain: a fake government report published in 1967 that...

How Contagion, Class and Captivity Shape Us, from Cholera to Covid-19An original, revolutionary new social and scientific history, examining the ro...

An Alternative History of LiverpoolThe untold history of Liverpool.'Liverpool beguiles, Liverpool bewilders. Swift's superb analysis gets to the sc...

How Policy Sciences Opened Up the Cold War WorldIn The Power of Systems, Eglė Rindzevičiūtė introduces readers to one of the best-kept secrets of t...

A Short History of a Small Island That Will Dictate Our Future

Presents a new way of examining the historical significance and endurance of Mary, Queen of ScotsMary Queen of Scots (1542-1587) was active as mona...

How the Katharine Gibbs School Revolutionized the American Workplace for WomenMad Men meets Code Girls in this fun and fascinating social history o...

The Life of a Restless SaintAn award-winning historian reconstructs the life of Francis of Assisi, uncovering the man behind the myths One of the m...

The Stories Behind the Lines on Our MapsA fascinating and surprising history of the world told through the lines people have drawn on maps, by the ...

A History of Death and the Dead in West AfricaAn in-depth look at how mortuary cultures and issues of death and the dead in Africa have developed o...

Political Ontology in Two ActsMario Blaser proposes a new lens for combatting the momentous challenges the world currently faces, arguing that solu...

The Forgotten Women of British IntelligenceThe first authoritative account of the remarkable women who worked in the back rooms of British intellig...

Ranching Where the Old West and New West CollideUsing multigenerational stories of three ranches in the North Hills region of Missoula, Montana, Do...

A Story of SurvivalThe first book on the Auschwitz women's orchestra by the bestselling historian of twentieth-century women's lives'Superb and tim...

From Ukraine to WashingtonExploring the ebb and flow of European security from the end of the Second World War to the present day, Richard Rose exa...

Industrial Dundee, c. 17001918Describes and reassesses the long-term industrial development of Dundee, emphasising the ever-shifting dynamics of te...

A Photographic JourneyA photographic journey around the latest of the Cunard Queens, Queen Anne, revealing details about her construction, entry in...

A Path to Indigenous African FuturesIn this open access book, Maasai leader and activist Meitamei Dapash teams with historian Mary Poole to offer a...

A revealing biography of Anne Frank, exploring both her life and the impact of her extraordinary diary “With sensitivity and assiduous research, [F...

Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to TodayHeretic and impostor or reformer and statesman? The contradictory Western ...

This title analyses the deeper structures and mindsets of the Second Cold War. This is a relatively short work focusing on the metapolitics – the d...

The only exam-board approved book for OCR's Latin AS and A-Level prescription of Nepos' Life of Hannibal, Tacitus' Annals XIV and Apuleius' Metamor...