This book revisits Britain's much-studied 'age of reform', before and after the Great Reform Act of 1832, showing that 'reformers' hoped to reform not only parliament, government, the law and the Church but also, for example, medicine and the theatre. A substantial introduction provides an overview of the period.

Offers a portrait of rural English society at a time of great change. This work talks about the nature of farming in an age of computerization and encroaching supermarkets; discusses the realities behind the rural idyll; and describes the daily pleasures and tribulations of village life.

'A compelling and illuminating account of a great drama in the history of our times which showed once again that ordinary men and women really can change the world' Jonathan Dimbleby, MAIL ON SUNDAY

In The Revolution Has Come Robyn C. Spencer traces the Black Panther Party's organizational evolution in Oakland, California, examining how its internal politics along with external forces such as COINTELPRO shaped the Party's efforts at fostering self-determination in Oakland's black communities.

From the author of Map of a Nation, a captivating history of the dramatic collapse of the Enlightenment and the emotional revolution it incorporated, told through the lives of those who lived through the turbulent 1790s.

Accompanied by a range of arresting images, this book is a compilation of some of Lenin's most famous sayings, taken from speeches, tracts, letters and recorded conversations. These proclamations offer an insight into the atmosphere of Revolutionary Russia and the mind of one of the twentieth century's most defining political figures.

The fourth instalment in Peter Ackroyd's History of England series.

Following the overthrow of the absolutist monarchy in France in 1789, European history was punctuated by political upheavals until in 1848 the continent was swept by revolutionary fervour. Britain alone of the major western powers seemed exempt. This text examines this apparent difference.

This book presents a series of cutting-edge studies by established and rising authorities in the field, providing a powerful discourse on the events, crises, and changes that electrified mid-seventeenth-century England. Compiled in honour of one of the most respected scholars of early modern England, Clive Holmes, this volume consi

Presents major writings on the revolution and its context, bringing together key texts to illustrate interpretive approaches and covering the central topics and themes. This volume forms a coherent representation of both the events and the theories and debates that relate to them.

A remarkable, eyewitness-based, narrative on what actually occurred in the first year of the Great War around the globe.

For the empires of Germany and Austria-Hungary the Great War - which had begun with such high hopes for a fast, dramatic outcome - rapidly degenerated as invasions of both France and Serbia ended in catastrophe. This book shows the history of the Great War and the major events from the perspective of Berlin and Vienna.

In The Ring of Truth, Wendy Doniger expertly unfolds the cultural and historical significance of rings and other kinds of circular jewelry through timeless stories taken from mythology, religious traditions, and literature.

The Irish experience of Christianity has never been simple or uncomplicated. Here, Crawford Gribben describes the ancient emergence, long dominance, sudden division, and recent decline of Ireland's most important religion, as a way of telling the history of the island and its peoples, from earliest times to the present day.

The relentless rise of Communism was the most momentous political development of the first half of the twentieth century. This book explains how and why Communists came to power; how they were able, in a variety of countries on different continents to hold on to power for so long; and, what brought about the downfall of so many Communist systems.

Explains the astonishing growth of Middlesbrough from a hamlet to a very substantial town in the space of a few decades in the middle of the nineteenth century.

Originally published in 1969, this work deals with the politics of the southern states' resistance to public school integration. The text documents the opposition to de-segregation in each southern state and clarifies the attitudes underlying the massive resistance to integration.

Offers an informative overview of the evolution of American foreign policy from 1938 to the present, focusing on such pivotal events as World War II, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, and 9/11. This title examines how American economic aggressiveness, racism, and fear of Communism have shaped the nation's evolving foreign policy.