British History Books

New and Published Books – Page 1

1. Medieval England

   A Social History and Archaeology from the Conquest to 1600 AD, 2nd Edition

   Edited by Paul E. Szarmach, Teresa M. Tavormina, Joel T. Rosenthal

   By drawing equally on the work of historians and archaeologists, Colin Platt puts forward a view of English medieval society in which there is much that is new and unexpected. Medieval England brings together a wide range of themes, from castle and palace to peasant hovel, from the great cathedrals...

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
2. Contested Objects

   Material Memories of the Great War

   Edited by Nicholas J. Saunders, Paul Cornish

   Contested Objects breaks new ground in the interdisciplinary study of material culture. Its focus is on the rich and varied legacy of objects from the First World War as the global conflict that defined the twentieth century. From the iconic German steel helmet to practice trenches on Salisbury...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
3. ‘Manufactured’ Masculinity

   Making Imperial Manliness, Morality and Militarism

   By J. A. Mangan

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   'Manufactured' Masculinity should be considered essential reading for scholars in the humanities and social sciences at every level and in all parts of the academic world. It weaves together brilliantly the elements of the 'manufacture' of masculinity in the period world-famous 'public' school...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Pleasures of the Imagination

   English Culture in the Eighteenth Century

   By John Brewer

   The Pleasures of the Imagination examines the birth and development of English "high culture" in the eighteenth century. It charts the growth of a literary and artistic world fostered by publishers, theatrical and musical impresarios, picture dealers and auctioneers, and presented to th public in...

   Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
5. Suffer and Be Still (Routledge Revivals)

   Women in the Victorian Age

   Edited by Martha Vicinus

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1972, this book contains a collection of ten essays that document the feminine stereotypes that women fought against, and only partially erased, a hundred years ago. In an introductory essay, Martha Vicinus describes the perfect Victorian lady, showing that the ideal was a...

   Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge
6. A Widening Sphere (Routledge Revivals)

   Changing Roles of Victorian Women

   Edited by Martha Vicinus

   Series: QSAR in Environmental and Health Sciences

   First published in 1977, this book is a companion volume to Suffer and Be Still. It looks at the widening sphere of women’s activities in the Victorian age and testifies to the dual nature of the legal and social constraints of the period: on the one hand, the ideal of the perfect lady and the...

   Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge
7. Leisure and the Changing City 1870 - 1914 (Routledge Revivals)

   By Helen Meller

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   By the late nineteenth century, the city had become the dominant social environment of Britain, with the majority of the population living in large cities, often with over 100, 000 inhabitants. The central concern of this book, first published in 1976, is to assess how successful the late...

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
8. The Women's Movement and Women's Employment in Nineteenth Century Britain

   By Ellen Jordan

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History

   In the first half of the nineteenth century the main employments open to young women in Britain were in teaching, dressmaking, textile manufacture and domestic service. After 1850, however, young women began to enter previously all-male areas like medicine, pharmacy, librarianship, the civil...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
9. Britain's Revival and Fall in the Gulf

   Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and the Trucial States, 1950-71

   By Simon C. Smith

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of the Middle East

   Britain's relationship with the Gulf region remains one of the few unexplored episodes in the study of British decolonization. The decision, announced in 1968, to leave the Gulf within three years represented an explicit recognition by Britain that its 'East of Suez' role was at an end. This book...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
10. Japan and Britain at War and Peace

    Edited by Hugo Dobson, Nobuko Kosuge

    Series: Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series

    Since the events of the Second World War the relationship between Japan and Britain has undergone an extraordinary transformation, from bitter conflict to peaceful alliance. Japan and Britain at War and Peace is a multilayered examination of this bilateral relationship with an emphasis on the issue...

    Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge