Anchored in contemporary debates over identity politics in the study of international relations, this book reconsiders the origins of the United State's "special relationships" with Australia, Britain, Canada and New Zealand.

America's leading expert on men and masculinity explains why, with the demographics of the nation rapidly changing and the levers of political power ostensibly slipping from their hands, white men are angrier than ever before in our recent history.

Looks at all the practical ways in which animals were essential to the war effort, but is equally interested in their roles as companions, mascots and morale boosters - on land, in the air and at sea.

The remarkable story of Mohammed Helmy, the Egyptian doctor who risked his life to save Jewish Berliners from the Nazis. One of the people he saved was a Jewish girl called Anna. This book tells their story.

This collection of essays is concerned with the impact of social and economic change upon the rural labouring poor and artisans in England, and combines an understanding of their social priorities with quantitative analysis. A significant resource is the use of settlement records.

One of the longest reigns in British history, George's rule coincided with some of the important events in world history, namely the American and French Revolutions and the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. Covering events up to the British victory over Napoleon, this work by a contemporary biographer, catalogues in detail the events of this reign.

These essays are concerned with the impact of social and economic change upon the rural labouring poor and artisans in England, and combines an understanding of their social priorities with innovative quantitative analysis. Annals of the Labouring Poor, first published in 1985, won the Royal Historical Society's Whitfield Prize for that year.

Anne Clifford describes the dramatic and tragic events of her life in the seventeenth century. Of how she danced in the masques of Inigo Jones, experienced both joy and abuse in her two marriages, lost and gained an inheritance, and successfully defended her rights against kings and armies. All told in rich detail amidst the backdrop of daily life. -- .

An unusual approach to the Victorian phenomenon of virtual travel and realism through the lens of contemporary conceptualizations of media and its effects

The definitive history of the Spanish Armada, lavishly illustrated and fully revised

How did we end up living in a terrifying reality of potential nuclear annihilation?

Reveals the shocking threats of violence to Black women across America

'The art of poverty' is the first book in English to analyse depictions of beggars in sixteenth-century European art. It develops a striking thesis, arguing that such images largely conformed to two paradoxical, though complimentary, traditions: the one ironising, the other idealising.

The authoritative sequel to Female Fortune, continuing the diaries of Anne Lister up to 1838, when she was at her most powerful. -- .