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The American Civil War - A Literary and Historical Anthology, 2nd Edition

2013-05-22T09:16:12Q

"This volume captures a diversity of perspectives on the Civil War, and impresses on us the important role literature, across genres, played during the conflict." - Colleen G. Boggs*

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The Nativist Movement in America - Religious Conflict in the 19th Century

2013-05-22T08:52:14Q

"Katie Oxx wonderfully brings us into an America teeming with religious violence, where convents were burned, riots ravaged cities over Bibles, and stealing stones became an expression of patriotic Protestantism." - Edward J. Blum*

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David Turner & Irina Metzler appearing on BBC4 program!

2013-05-20T18:38:41Q

Author Appearance - Geoff Eley at GHIL’s Ethics of Seeing Conference

2013-05-06T14:36:41Q

Geoff Eley, author of Nazism as Fascism, will be taking part in the German Historical Institute London's upcoming Ethics of Seeing conference.

First World War Nursing

2013-05-06T13:52:28Q

Now Available: Thurgood Marshall

2013-05-03T18:08:31Q

What is Microhistory?

2013-05-03T17:56:32Q

The Cuban Missile Crisis

2013-04-18T19:34:51Q

In the News: British Prime Ministers From Balfour to Brown

2013-04-18T19:26:37Q

Recently Reissued: The Pleasures of the Imagination

2013-04-18T18:58:53Q

Widely praised on first release, John Brewer's The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century has recently been reissued by Routledge. From the garrets of Grub Street to the stages of Covent Garden, the book charts the growth of a literary and artistic world fostered by publishers, theatrical and musical impresarios, picture dealers and auctioneers, and presented to the public in coffee-houses, concert halls, libraries, theatres and pleasure gardens.

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Thoughts on a Passing: Thatcher in context

2013-04-18T09:57:40Q

Was Margaret Thatcher the greatest peacetime Prime Minister of the twentieth century? In his final blog for Routledge History, Eric J. Evans weighs up the evidence …

Thoughts on a Passing: the controversies of Thatcherism

2013-04-17T07:59:58Q

Margaret Thatcher’s most powerful legacy has perhaps come from the economic change she oversaw from 1979 to 1990. Yet she is often most popularly associated with conflict in the Falklands and strikes in mining communities. What all have in common is the controversy they caused, as Eric J. Evans explains today …

Thoughts on a Passing: Thatcher at home and abroad

2013-04-16T08:33:12Q

The second in our series of reflections on Thatcher and Thatcherism, today Eric J. Evans explores the impact and standing of Margaret Thatcher at home and abroad. From the United States to the USSR, from Northern England to successive Conservative Cabinets, she was a political leader who split opinion …

The Transgender Studies Reader 2

2013-04-15T09:12:18Q

Margaret Thatcher: Thoughts on a Passing

2013-04-15T07:25:27Q

As Britain bids farewell this week to its first female Prime Minister, Routledge introduces the first in a special series of blogs by Eric J. Evans, author of Thatcher and Thatcherism. In this first instalment, Professor Evans considers her policies and their long-term impact on British politics …