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The Real Lives The Anglo- Tales From the of Roman Britain Saxon World Long Twelfth Guy de la Bédoyère N. J. Higham and Century An innovative, informative M. J. Ryan The Rise and Fall of the and entertaining history of The essential history of Angevin Empire Roman Britain told through Anglo-Saxon England, the lives of individuals in all brought completely up to Richard Huscroft walks of life. date with new discoveries This intriguing book tells ‘Guy de la Bédoyère brings and interpretations. the story of England’s great Roman Britain back to Incorporating the latest medieval Angevin dynasty in life through an engrossing study of those many research in a wide range of disciplines, this definitive an entirely new way. Departing from the usual king- individuals whose lives may escape the grand history casts new light on the crucial Anglo-Saxon centric narrative, Richard Huscroft instead centres narratives of historians but leave their trace in the period, from the exit of the Romans to the arrival of each of his chapters on the experiences of a particular archaeological record … This is an imaginative and William the Conqueror. man or woman who contributed to the broad sweep of events. Whether noble and brave or flawed and fallible, refreshing study which I enjoyed immensely.’ ‘You could hardly have a better, more timely, and each participant was struggling to survive in the face – Matthew Leigh, History Today more attractive demonstration of why the Anglo- of uncontrollable forces. Princes, princesses, priests, ‘The author’s engaging style cannot hide his deep Saxons still matter to us.’ – Michael Wood, author of heroes, relatives, friends and others – some well known knowledge of the past. He puts the people back into In Search of the Dark Ages and others obscure – all were embroiled in the drama Roman Britain to give us a refreshing and welcome ‘Whether you want an accessible introduction to of historic events. take on a familiar history.’ – Edward Biddulph, all things Anglo-Saxon, a thorough refresher of key Under Henry II and his sons Richard I (the Lionheart) Current Archaeology points, or a reliably comprehensive reference tool and John, the empire rose to encompass much of the ‘To redeem the dead and the forgotten from to dip into, this is a wonderful book … It is an British Isles and the greater part of modern France, yet the shadows of obscurity is one of the noblest interdisciplinary work, combining lively analysis it survived a mere fifty years. Huscroft deftly weaves responsibilities that a historian can take on. All of written sources with archaeological discoveries, together the stories of individual lives to illuminate the honour, then, to Guy de la Bédoyère for breathing life linguistic evidence, landscape archaeology, key themes of this exciting and formative era. back into the spectres of Roman Britain.’ palaeobotany, genetics, and more … Complementing – Tom Holland this treasure trove of information is a series of superb ‘An innovative approach that … works very well maps, as well as generous quantities of big, colourful indeed … a good, original book.’ – Marc Morris, Available September 2016 photos that vividly illustrate the masterpieces that BBC History Magazine 264 pp. 32 colour illus. NEW these supposedly Dark Age peoples were able to ‘These stories that Huscroft deploys are wonderful PB ISBN 978-0-300-22349-1 £12.99/$25.00 IN PAPER create.’ – Current Archaeology soil-turners that show these matters afresh … this ‘A beautifully illustrated overview of the foundational is the first time that many of these accounts have Blood and Mistletoe period in British history … It’s a pleasure to peruse, escaped from academia into a more accessible and The History of the Druids in Britain and a mine of fresh insights and new discoveries.’ enjoyable collection.’ – Alex Burghart, Spectator Ronald Hutton – Michael Wood, BBC History Magazine ‘This enthralling series of biographical studies, all skilfully linked to wider themes, opens many Crushed by the Romans in the first century A.D., ‘A magisterial new overview … the Anglo-Saxon windows on to the politics and society of twelfth- the ancient Druids of Britain left almost no reliable worlds in all their violent splendour come alive in century Europe.’ – David Carpenter, author of evidence behind. This captivating book by a world these pages.’ – Steve Donoghue, OpenLettersMonthly The Struggle for Mastery: The Penguin History of Britain expert examines what is known of the Druids, then 2015 496 pp. 100 colour illus., 1066–1284 explores how and why they have been repeatedly 40 line drawings, 60 maps reinvented to play varying roles in English, Scottish PB ISBN 978-0-300-21613-4 £16.99/$30.00 2016 336 pp. 15 b/w illus. and Welsh history. HB ISBN 978-0-300-18725-0 £20.00/$50.00 NEW ‘This book is a tour de force: surely the definitive Æthelred work on our perception of the Druids.’ The Unready Henry the Young – David V. Barrett, Independent King, 1155–1183 2011 492 pp. 32 b/w illus. Levi Roach PB ISBN 978-0-300-17085-6 £18.99/$37.00 An imaginative reassessment of Matthew Strickland Æthelred “the Unready,” one This first modern study of of medieval England’s most Henry the Young King, eldest Pagan Britain maligned kings and a major son of Henry II but the least Ronald Hutton Anglo-Saxon figure. known Plantagenet monarch, In this enthralling account The Anglo-Saxon king explores the brief but eventful of paganism in Britain from Æthelred ‘the Unready’ life of the only English ruler the Paleolithic Age to the (978–1016) has long been considered to be inscrutable, after the Norman Conquest arrival of Christianity, the irrational and poorly advised. Infamous for his to be created co-ruler in his father’s lifetime. Crowned author explores new evidence domestic and international failures, Æthelred was at fifteen to secure an undisputed succession, Henry concerning pagan beliefs and unable to fend off successive Viking raids, leading played a central role in the politics of Henry II’s great rituals and the meanings of to the notorious St. Brice’s Day Massacre in 1002, empire and was hailed as the embodiment of chivalry. such sacred sites as Stonehenge during which Danes in England were slaughtered on Yet, consistently denied direct rule, the Young King and Avebury. his orders. Though Æthelred’s posthumous standing was provoked first into heading a major rebellion ‘[A] magisterial synthesis of archaeology, history, is dominated by his unsuccessful military leadership, against his father, then to waging a bitter war against anthropology and folklore.’ – Jonathan Eaton, his seemingly blind trust in disloyal associates, and his brother Richard for control of Aquitaine, dying Times Higher Education Supplement his harsh treatment of political opponents, Roach before reaching the age of thirty having never assumed actual power. In this remarkable history, Matthew ‘A thoughtful critique of how historians and suggests that Æthelred has been wrongly maligned. Strickland provides a richly coloured portrait of an all- archaeologists often interpret ruins and relics to suit Drawing on extensive research, Roach argues that but-forgotten royal figure tutored by Thomas Becket, changing ideas about religion and nationhood … Æthelred was driven by pious concerns about sin, trained in arms by the great knight William Marshal, [Hutton is] a lovely writer with a keen sense of the society and the anticipated apocalypse. His strategies, and incited to rebellion by his mother Eleanor of spiritual potency of Britain’s ancient landscape.’ in this light, were to honour God and find redemption. Aquitaine, while using his career to explore the nature – The Economist Chronologically charting Æthelred’s life, Roach presents a more accessible character than previously of kingship, succession, dynastic politics and rebellion ‘At last, a balanced, well-written and original review of available, illuminating his place in England and Europe in twelfth-century England and France. Britain’s pre-Christian religions that treats the complex at the turn of the first millennium. 2016 496 pp. 16 b/w illus. and enduring legacy of prehistory with due respect. HB ISBN 978-0-300-21551-9 £30.00/$40.00 NEW It is also full of unexpected insights. A delight.’ Available September 2016 400 pp. 16 b/w illus. – Francis Pryor HB ISBN 978-0-300-19629-0 £30.00/$40.00 NEW 2015 496 pp. 103 b/w illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-20546-6 £12.99/$35.00 1 MEDIEVAL BRITAIN

The Culture of Robert the Bruce Art and Optics Food in England, King of the Scots in the Hereford 1200–1500 Michael Penman Map This fascinating new biography An English Mappa C. M. Woolgar of the great Scottish hero In this revelatory work focuses on his kingship in Mundi, c. 1300 of social history, C. M. the fifteen years that followed Marcia Kupfer Woolgar shows that food in his triumphant victory at A single, monumental late-medieval England was Bannockburn. mappa mundi (world far more complex, varied and ‘Penman’s book is first-class map), made around more culturally significant history: detailed, closely argued and ringing with 1300 for Hereford Cathedral, survives intact from the than we imagine today. Drawing on a vast range of the authority of one steeped in the period … [His] Middle Ages. As Marcia Kupfer reveals in her arresting sources, he charts how emerging technologies as well as scholarship is commendable, his style clear, his new study, this celebrated testament to medieval an influx of new flavours and trends from abroad had contribution to this field a truly original and quietly learning has long been profoundly misunderstood. an impact on eating habits across the social spectrum. groundbreaking addition to the known facts of Features of the coloured and gilded map that baffle From the pauper’s bowl to elite tables, from early fad Robert the Bruce … essential reading.’ modern expectations are typically dismissed as the diets to the perceived moral superiority of certain – Rosemary Goring, The Herald product of careless execution. Kupfer argues that foods, and from regional folk remedies to luxuries such they should rightly be seen as part of the map’s as lampreys, Woolgar illuminates desire, necessity, daily 2014 456 pp. 16 pages of b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-14872-5 £25.00/$45.00 encoded commentary on the nature of vision itself. rituals and pleasure across four centuries. Optical conceits and perspectival games formed part ‘In this meticulously researched study, Christopher of the map’s language of vision, were central to its Woolgar serves up a feast of information about food Bannockburn commission, and shaped its display, formal design in medieval England … By successfully interrogating The Triumph of and allegorical fabric. These discoveries compel a the relationship between communities, institutions Robert the Bruce sweeping revision of the artwork’s intellectual and art- and food, Woolgar provides some fascinating new historical genealogy, as well as its function and aesthetic David Cornell perspectives on medieval life.’ – Louise Wilkinson, significance, shedding new light on the impact of Literary Review In Bannockburn, Robert the scientific discourses in late medieval art. Bruce’s vastly outnumbered ‘Chris Woolgar has an unrivalled knowledge of the Available October 2016 240 pp. variety of sources for medieval eating and drinking, Scottish troops spectacularly defeated the English army 50 colour + 50 b/w illus. and makes excellent use, not just of household HB ISBN 978-0-300-22033-9 £60.00/$85.00 PMC NEW accounts and recipe books, but also of fables, led by Edward II. This proverbs, sermons, coroners’ records and saints’ lives, groundbreaking book brings to reveal previously unknown details of diet in all the battle to life with colourful detail and fresh Durham sections of society, and the wider meaning of meals insights, explaining what happened in the years leading to 1314, how the battle unfolded, and the impact of its Cathedral which served to reinforce connections across the History, Fabric, community.’ – Christopher Dyer, author of Making a legacy in both Scotland and England. and Culture Living in the Middle Ages ‘Excellent analysis of Edward II’s political ineptitude and Robert the Bruce’s strategic skills … Bannockburn 2016 360 pp. 16 pages of b/w illus. Edited by is a terrific story.’ – Magnus Linklater, The Times HB ISBN 978-0-300-18191-3 £30.00/$45.00 David Brown 2014 320 pp. 8 pages of b/w illus. Lavishly illustrated PB ISBN 978-0-300-20794-1 £14.99/$30.00 and meticulously English researched, this Medieval The Invention landmark publication is a celebration of Durham Cathedral’s enormous Embroidery of Scotland historical, spiritual, cultural and architectural Opus Anglicanum Myth and History significance. Edited by Hugh Trevor-Roper ‘This volume draws together a very broad array of recent research. It’s range is progidious, stretching Clare Browne, A characteristically robust from the conception of the physical building … to its Glyn Davies and and controversial account of intellectual, liturgical and spiritual context.’ M. A. Michael Scotch myth and Scottish – Gabriel Byng, Times Literary Supplement In medieval Europe, history by one of Britain’s embroidered textiles were indispensable symbols of greatest historians. 2014 602 pp. 200 colour + 200 b/w illus. wealth and power. Owing to their quality, complexity The entire history of Scotland HB ISBN 978-0-300-20818-4 £75.00/$125.00 PMC and magnificence, English embroideries enjoyed has been coloured by myth, says Hugh Trevor-Roper international demand and can be traced in Continental in this lively and controversial book. He looks at the The English sources as opus anglicanum (English work). This role of myth in history and memory, and analyses the sumptuously illustrated book draws on new research impact of three important myths on Scottish history Castle and detailed photography to offer an introduction to and identity. 1066–1650 their design, production and use. Essays by leading ‘Splendidly engaging.’ – Christopher Hirst, Independent John Goodall experts explore the embroideries’ artistic and social This compellingly context, while catalogue entries examine individual 2014 304 pp. 12 b/w illus. written and masterpieces. Medieval embroiderers lived in a tightly PB ISBN 978-0-300-20858-0 £10.99/$38.00 lavishly illustrated knit community in London, and many were women volume explores who can be identified by name today. Comparisons Julian of Norwich, Theologian the architecture of between their work and contemporary painting Denys Turner England’s castles over challenge modern assumptions about the hierarchy of six centuries. It brings to life their history and describes artistic media. Contributors consider an outstanding Offering a fresh and elegant account of Julian’s the changing role of these buildings in warfare, politics, range of surviving examples, highlighting their thought, Denys Turner argues that her approach to domestic living and governance. exquisite craftsmanship and exploring the world in theological questions places her legitimately within the which they were created. pantheon of great medieval theologians. ‘Majestic in scale and sumptuously produced, it is an authority that scholars will consult for generations.’ Exhibition: Opus Anglicanum, Victoria and Albert ‘Groundbreaking … a bold and utterly compelling – Clive Aslet, Sunday Telegraph Museum, London, October 2016–January 2017 case that her works warrant a place in the higher echelons of rigorous, systematic theology.’ 2011 480 pp. 250 colour + 100 b/w illus. Available October 2016 336 pp. – Jonathan Wright, Catholic Herald HB ISBN 978-0-300-11058-6 £45.00/$75.00 PMC 160 colour + 100 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-22200-5 £40.00/$75.00 VAM NEW 2013 288 pp. PB ISBN 978-0-300-19255-1 £13.99/$29.00

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Eleanor of Aquitaine Queen of France, Queen of England Henry V – Vale revises understandings of Henry V and the matters that concerned him most as he conducted Ralph V. Turner The Conscience the everyday business of England. Untangling the myths and legends of many centuries, of a King ‘By giving greater authority to the archival record this biography gives us the real Eleanor – tenacious, Malcolm Vale than most previous historians have done, and by defiant and powerful. Shakespeare’s centuries adopting a thematic rather than a chronological ‘Eleanor’s remarkable career is done full justice in -old portrayal of Henry V approach to his subject, Malcolm Vale has this life, which is readable, lively and convincing. It established the king’s succeeded in penetrating, as never before, the provides insights into many aspects of the twelfth reputation as a mind and intentions of Henry V. As this highly century as well as a radically new assessment of the warmongering monarch, recommended study develops, the reader is queen herself.’ – Michael Prestwich, University of a perception that has presented with a king no longer primarily a Durham persisted ever since. But in this exciting, thoroughly soldier but a much more rounded, multifaceted 2011 416 pp. 16 b/w illus. researched volume a different view of Henry figure who leads his country through a time PB ISBN 978-0-300-17820-3 £30.50/$39.00 emerges: a multidimensional ruler of great piety, a of uncertainties social, political, military and hands-on governor who introduced a radically new religious, justifying the author’s claim to have conception of England’s European role in secular revealed ‘another Henry V’ in the process.’ Louis and ecclesiastical affairs, a lover of music and art, – Christopher Allmand, author of Henry V The French Prince Who and a dutiful king who fully appreciated his duties ‘A highly original study of Henry V. It is difficult Invaded England towards those he ruled. these days to say anything new about the king: Catherine Hanley Historian Malcolm Vale draws on extensive primary Malcolm Vale manages it.’ – Nigel Saul, author In 1215 a group of English archival evidence that includes many documents of For Honour and Fame: Chivalry in England, barons, dissatisfied with the annotated or endorsed in Henry’s own hand. 1066–1500 weak and despicable King John, Focusing on a series of themes – the interaction Available August 2016 328 pp. 16 b/w illus. decided that they needed a between king and Church, the rise of the English HB ISBN 978-0-300-14873-2 £20.00/$35.00 NEW new monarch. They wanted language as a medium of government and politics, NEW a strong, experienced man, the role of ceremony in Henry’s kingship, and more of royal blood, and they found him on the other side of the Channel: astonishingly, the most attractive candidate for the crown of England was Louis, eldest son and heir of the king of France. The Battle of The Wars In this fascinating biography of England’s least-known Agincourt of the Roses ‘king’ – and the first to be written in English – Edited by Michael Hicks Catherine Hanley explores the life and times of ‘Louis Anne Curry and Written by a renowned the Lion’ before, during and beyond his quest for Malcolm Mercer historian, this magisterial the English throne. She illuminates the national and account of the Wars of the international context of his 1216 invasion, and explains In a remarkable work Roses explains, for the first why and how after sixteen fruitless months he failed commemorating the time, why they began, why to make himself King Louis I of England. Hanley also 600th anniversary of they kept recurring and why explores Louis’s subsequent reign over France until his arguably the most iconic they ceased. Combining a untimely death on the Albigensian Crusade. Published military engagement meticulous dissection of competing dynamics with a eight centuries after the creation of Magna Carta and of the medieval era, a wide range of experts examine clear account of the course of events, this is a definitive on the 800th anniversary of Louis’s proclamation as the battle in its political, cultural, and geographical and indispensable history of a compelling, complex king, this fascinating story is a colourful tale of national contexts, detailing strategies, tactics, armour, weapons period. culture, power and politics that brings a long-forgotten and fighting techniques while exploring the battlefield life out of the shadows of history. experiences of commanders and ordinary soldiers alike. ‘This book will be required reading for all serious In addition, this all-encompassing study offers deep students of the late-medieval English polity.’ ‘Those who enjoy Plantagenet history or merely royal analyses of many artifacts and aspects of the battle and – David Grummitt, English Historical Review curiosities will find it an exciting and elegantly told its aftermath that have rarely been covered in other tale.’ – Dan Jones, The Times ‘Well-judged, vigorous and vivid … For anyone histories, including medicine and hygiene, the roles interested in the personalities and controversies 2016 296 pp. 12 pages of b/w illus. of faith and chivalry, the music of the times, and the that surrounded the reigns of Henry VI, Edward HB ISBN 978-0-300-21745-2 £25.00/$40.00 NEW experiences of women. IV, Richard III and Henry VII, [it] will make vital ‘Agincourt is a battle of totemic importance. and compulsive reading.’ – Mark Ormrod, author of The Hundred This book is not only a worthy contribution to a Political Life in Medieval England Years War significant anniversary in its own right, but also an 2012 352 pp. 24 b/w illus. essential addition to scholarship on medieval military PB ISBN 978-0-300-18157-9 £12.99/$38.00 A People’s History history.’ – Jeremy Black David Green 2015 352 pp. 120 colour + 80 b/w illus. The Late Medieval The Hundred Years War HB ISBN 978-0-300-21430-7 £30.00/$50.00 (1337–1453) dominated English Church life in England and France Chivalry Vitality and for well over a century. It Maurice Keen Vulnerability Before the became the defining feature Break with Rome of existence for generations. ‘Keen writes very well and This sweeping book is an exploration of what life with immense enthusiasm … G. W. Bernard was like for ordinary and extraordinary French and Scholarly, original, beguiling.’ Historian George English people, embroiled in a devastating conflict that – Fiona MacCarthy, Bernard presents a bold, changed their world. The Times provocative challenge to our ‘Green’s brilliant evocation of the period, his eye for ‘A most readable and understanding of the late telling detail, and his powerful narrative voice serve comprehensive survey: medieval church and the Protestant Reformation. to transform the history of war and nationhood in stimulating, informative, a ‘Superbly researched and coherently argued.’ later medieval England and France.’ – Mark Ormrod, splendid creation of context.’ – Nicholas Orme, – Peter Marshall, Literary Review author of Edward III Times Higher Education Supplement 2013 320 pp. 12 b/w illus. ‘Green writes with sensitivity, intelligence and an eye ‘All historians of Western society … will do well to PB ISBN 978-0-300-19712-9 £14.99/$35.00 for detail.’ – Nick Vincent, BBC History Magazine refer to this book.’ – Georges Duby, 2015 360 pp. 23 b/w illus. + 5 maps Times Literary Supplement PB ISBN 978-0-300-21610-3 £14.99/$25.00 2005 352 pp. 18 colour + 35 b/w illus. 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A Feast for Medieval medieval states, and the appalling devastation of the Black Death. He provides illuminating vignettes the Senses Europe that underscore how shifting social, economic and Art and Chris Wickham political circumstances affected individual lives Experience in and international events. Wickham offers both a A spirited and thought- Medieval Europe new conception of Europe’s medieval period and provoking history of Edited by a provocative revision of exactly how and why the the vast changes that Middle Ages matter. Martina Bagnoli transformed Europe during ‘This is tremendously good. Chris Wickham has The late medieval world was marked by a culture of the 1,000-year span of the refinement and sophistication. The period’s media Middle Ages. an outstandingly keen and understanding eye for the diversities of life across a broadly-framed of choice – paintings, manuscripts, prints, tapestries, The millennium between Europe, and for changes over time. Impressive embroideries, ivory sculpture, metalwork and enamels the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the geographic reach is combined wth nuance, and – speak volumes about the pleasures of sensory Reformation was a long and hugely transformative a keen sense of the particularities of different engagement. Art objects were touched, smelled and period – one not easily chronicled within the scope historical landscapes. The author continually heard, as well as seen. of a few hundred pages. Yet distinguished historian makes illuminating connections and comparisons, This sumptuous new book brings together sacred and Chris Wickham has taken up the challenge in this and does not flinch from offering clear judgments secular art to reveal the shared intellectual culture landmark book, and he succeeds in producing the or nailing his own colours to the mast. Indeed, that governed perception in Europe in the 13th most riveting account of medieval Europe in a he has a consistently refreshing ability to get the through the 16th centuries. A focused exploration generation. reader away from predictable or ingrained ways of of the performative and multifaceted nature of Tracking the entire sweep of the Middle Ages thinging about and judging things.’ – Len Scales, medieval art underscores its direct appeal to the senses, across Europe, Wickham focuses on important author of The Shaping of German Identity revealing the rich experiential world that informed changes century by century, including such pivotal its interpretation. Nine essays explore these themes Available October 2016 crises and moments as the fall of the western through representations of religious practices, royal 352 pp. 30 b/w illus. Roman Empire, Charlemagne’s reforms, the feudal rituals, feasts and celebrations, music and literature. revolution, the challenge of heresy, the destruction HB ISBN 978-0-300-20834-4 £25.00/$35.00 NEW Available October 2016 400 pp. 200 colour illus. of the Byzantine Empire, the rebuilding of late HB ISBN 978-0-300-22295-1 £45.00/$65.00 WAM NEW The Conversion Blanche of Castile, Frederick of Scandinavia Queen of France Barbarossa Vikings, Merchants, Lindy Grant The Prince and the and Missionaries This is the first modern Myth in the Remaking of scholarly biography of Blanche John Freed Northern Europe of Castile, whose identity has Frederick Barbarossa, born Anders Winroth until now been subsumed in of two of Germany’s most Through a painstaking that of her son, the saintly powerful families, swept to analysis and historical Louis IX. A central figure the imperial throne in a coup reconstruction of in the politics of medieval d’état in 1152. A leading archaeological and literary sources, Anders Europe, Blanche was a sophisticated patron of religion monarch of the Middle Ages, he legalised the dualism Winroth presents a radically new interpretation of and culture. From her marriage as an Angevin princess between the crown and the princes that endured until the conversion of Scandinavia from paganism to to the future LouisVIII of France, she was at the centre the end of the Holy Roman Empire. Christianity in the early Middle Ages. of French diplomacy. Twice, she ruled France as regent. ‘A fascinating description of the distinctive political Lindy Grant’s account is based on a close analysis of This new biography, the first in English in four dynamics that characterised all of Western Europe Blanche’s household accounts and of the social and decades, paints a rich picture of a consummate after the barbarian invasions.’ – Patrick Madigan, religious networks on which her power and agency, as diplomat and effective warrior. John Freed mines Heythrop Journal ruler and patron, depended. Blanche is revealed as a Barbarossa’s recently published charters and other vibrant and intellectually questioning personality, the sources to illuminate the monarch’s remarkable ability 2014 256 pp. 24 b/w illus. granddaughter of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine as to rule an empire that stretched from the Baltic to PB ISBN 978-0-300-20553-4 £16.99/$32.00 much as the mother of Saint Louis; and as an effective, Rome, and from France to Poland. Offering a fresh wide-ranging and innovative ruler with an acute sense assessment of the role of Barbarossa’s extensive familial network in his success, the author also considers the Thomas Aquinas of the authority open to a woman at the highest reaches A Portrait of medieval society – a woman whom the English impact of Frederick’s death in the Third Crusade as the monk, Matthew Paris, recognised as ‘the greatest of all key to his lasting heroic reputation. In an intriguing Denys Turner epilogue, Freed explains how Hitler’s audacious the ladies on the earth.’ A concise and illuminating attack on the Soviet Union in 1941 came to be called introduction to the elusive Available September 2016 ‘Operation Barbarossa’. 400 pp. 10 colour + 20 b/w illus. Thomas Aquinas, the man and HB ISBN 978-0-300-21926-5 £30.00/$50.00 NEW 2016 712 pp. 20 b/w illus. the saint. HB ISBN 978-0-300-12276-3 £30.00/$45.00 NEW ‘A marvellous introduction The Virgin Warrior to the thought of the most Meister Eckhart daring and most important The Life and Death of Joan of Arc Philosopher of Christianity thinker of the Christian Middle Ages … the best Larissa Juliet Taylor single-volume introduction to St Thomas.’ – Eamon Kurt Flasch A vivid portrait of the charismatic and resolute Joan Duffy, Tablet Translated by Anne Schindel and Aaron Vanides of Arc, from her early years to the myths and fantasies ‘One of the finest analyses of the great man’s work, that surround her today. Renowned philosopher Kurt Flasch offers a full-scale Turner’s account is rich, provocative and sophisticated, reappraisal of the life and legacy of medieval German ‘An utterly convincing portrait.’ – Michael Kerrigan, a work of both passion and serious scholarship. It is a theologian, philosopher and alleged mystic Meister Scotsman triumph.’ – Jonathan Wright, Catholic Herald Eckhart, effectively arguing for the need to understand ‘An admirably nuanced, critical biography, which, in Eckhart’s ideas as a ‘philosophy of Christianity’ rather 2014 312 pp. its straightforward approach to the sources, serves as than as a theology or a way into mysticism. PB ISBN 978-0-300-20594-7 £14.99/$20.00 a necessary corrective to much current scholarship.’ – 2015 344 pp. Brenda Bolton, Church Times HB ISBN 978-0-300-20486-5 £25.00/$38.00 2010 280 pp. 16 pages of b/w illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-16895-2 £11.99/$25.00

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Postcards on The Lost World The Crusader Parchment of Byzantium States The Social Lives of Jonathan Harris Malcolm Barber Medieval Books A concise, accessible and The only full account of life Kathryn M. Rudy action-packed history of and culture in the twelfth- Medieval prayer one of the medieval world’s century crusader states, where books held not greatest empires by a leading religious battles raged and only the devotions scholar who eschews the usual civilisations collided. run-through of emperors and meditations of ‘With its highly readable and battles, illuminating the Christianity, but prose, numerous maps, very heart of Byzantine civilisation and its remarkable also housed, slipped between pages, sundry notes, plans and illustrations of objects and places, Malcolm influence on its neighbours and on the modern world. reminders and ephemera, such as pilgrims’ badges, Barber’s study of the crusader states is an enriching sworn oaths and small painted images. Many of ‘Harris has succeeded triumphantly in producing account of the expansion of the political and cultural these last items have been classified as manuscript a fresh and highly readable account of this frontiers of the Latin West in the central Middle Ages. illumination, but Kathryn M. Rudy argues that these extraordinary institution … Harris never fails to find It will doubtless be of value to scholars, students and pictures should be called, instead, parchment paintings, the best story to focus readers’ attention on each a much wider audience, intrigued by the challenges similar to postcards. In a delightful study identifying chapter’s central subject … [He takes] the reader to and possibilities of state building in the medieval this group of images for the first time, Rudy shows how the heart of what it meant to be Byzantine.’ world.’ – William Purkis, History Today these intriguing pictures were traded and cherished, – Peter Heather, BBC History 2014 496 pp. shedding light on medieval everyday life. ‘Harris’ aim is to present a more nuanced account of 15 b/w illus., 2 figs and 21 maps ‘Postcards on Parchment is a cornucopia of deeply Byzantine history, which emphasises the vibrancy of PB ISBN 978-0-300-20888-7 £18.99/$32.50 researched case studies and images.’ the empire’s culture, the extent of its influence, and, – Nicolette Zeeman, Times Literary Supplement above all, the empire’s remarkable adaptability … [the book] strikes a good balance between succinct Fighting 2015 362 pp. 80 colour + 140 b/w illus. exposition and elucidation of broader themes in HB ISBN 978-0-300-20989-1 £45.00/$85.00 for the Cross political, military, social, religious and cultural history, thereby providing an excellent and engaging Crusading Holy Bones, introduction to Byzantine history.’ – Doug Lee, to the Holy Land Holy Dust History Today Norman Housley How Relics Shaped the Available September 2016 This vividly written book recreates for the first time History of Medieval 280 pp. 16 pages of b/w illus. 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Christendom is at flashpoint in this 2012 324 pp. 16 pages of b/w illus. Barbara Drake PB ISBN 978-0-300-18430-3 £16.99/$25.00 scholarly journey into a barbaric age.’ – Colin Gardner, Oxford Times Boehm and Melanie Holcomb Medieval 2012 320 pp. 16 b/w illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-18791-5 £14.99/$40.00 A comprehensive and Christianity timely exploration of A New History the key role Jerusalem Court and played in shaping the art and culture of the Middle Kevin Madigan Cosmos Ages. Dazzling illustrations featuring new photography This new narrative history The Great Age of the complement this unprecedented, panoptic story of of medieval Christianity, Jerusalem in the Middle Ages. Seljuqs spanning from A.D. 500 to Medieval Jerusalem was a vibrant international 1500, combines both what is Sheila R. Canby, centre and home to multiple cultures, faiths and unfamiliar and what is familiar Deniz Beyazit, languages. 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Henry IV William Rufus Edward IV Chris Given-Wilson Frank Barlow Charles Ross Henry IV, the son of John 2000 512 pp. With a new Foreword by Ralph A. Griffiths of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, PB ISBN 978-0-300-08291-3 £20.00/$35.00 1998 510 pp. 37 b/w illus. seized the English throne at PB ISBN 978-0-300-07372-0 £20.00/$33.00 the age of 32 from his cousin Richard II and held it until Henry I his death, aged 45, when he C. Warren Hollister Richard III was succeeded by his son, Edited and Completed by Amanda Clark Frost Charles Ross Henry V. This comprehensive 2003 588 pp. 16 b/w illus. 2011 268 pp. 36 b/w illus. and nuanced biography PB ISBN 978-0-300-09829-7 £20.00/$40.00 PB ISBN 978-0-300-07979-1 £18.99/$29.00 restores to his rightful place a king often overlooked in favour of his illustrious progeny. King Stephen Henry VII Henry faced the usual problems of usurpers: foreign wars, rebellions and plots, as well as the ambitions Edmund King S. B. Chrimes and demands of the Lancastrian retainers who had 2012 384 pp. 16 b/w illus. 1999 400 pp. 42 b/w illus. helped him win the throne. By 1406 his rule was PB ISBN 978-0-300-18195-1 £18.99/$45.00 PB ISBN 978-0-300-07883-1 £18.99/$32.00 broadly established, and although he became ill shortly after this and never fully recovered, he retained Henry II Henry VIII ultimate power until his death. Using a wide variety of previously untapped archival materials, Chris Given- W. L. Warren J. J. Scarisbrick Wilson reveals a cultured, extravagant and sceptical With a new foreword by Judith A. Green 2009 560 pp. 23 b/w illus. monarch who crushed opposition ruthlessly but never 2000 600 pp. 20 b/w illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-07158-0 £20.00/$30.00 quite succeeded in satisfying the expectations of his PB ISBN 978-0-300-08474-0 £20.00/$22.50 own supporters. Edward VI ‘Scholarly and readable … fills an important gap … Richard I an impressive achievement.’ – Jonathan Sumption, Jennifer Loach Literary Review John Gillingham Edited by George Bernard and Penry Williams 2016 608 pp. 16 pages of b/w illus. 2002 400 pp. 22 b/w illus. 2002 256 pp. 12 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-15419-1 £30.00/$45.00 NEW PB ISBN 978-0-300-09404-6 £18.99/$37.00 PB ISBN 978-0-300-09409-1 £16.99/$26.00 William the King John Mary I Conqueror W. L. Warren England’s Catholic Queen With a new foreword by D. A. Carpenter John Edwards David Bates 1998 376 pp. 8 b/w illus. 2013 408 pp. 16 pages of b/w illus. In this magisterial addition PB ISBN 978-0-300-07374-4 £18.99/$23.00 PB ISBN 978-0-300-19416-6 £16.99/$28.00 to the Yale English Monarchs series, David Bates re-examines the prevailing idea of England’s Edward I James II first Norman king as a Michael Prestwich John Miller conqueror who spearheaded 1997 640 pp. 25 b/w illus. 2000 304 pp. 20 b/w illus. revolutionary change, showing PB ISBN 978-0-300-07157-3 £20.00/$38.50 PB ISBN 978-0-300-08728-4 £16.99/$26.00 how William’s rule was buffeted by volatile kinships and regional problems born of establishing a new aristocracy. Edward II Queen Anne A leading historian of the period, Bates has combed Seymour Phillips Edward Gregg Norman archives and discovered hundreds of 2011 704 pp. 20 b/w illus. With a new Preface by the author eleventh- and twelfth-century charters that had gone PB ISBN 978-0-300-17802-9 £20.00/$35.00 2001 512 pp. 20 b/w illus. largely unnoticed by English scholars. Offering a PB ISBN 978-0-300-09024-6 £20.00/$32.00 truly European perspective, Bates argues that post- Carolingian Normandy was not unlike England at the Edward III time, making the Conquest less a clash of cultures than W. Mark Ormrod George I an evolutionary process uniting similar societies. From 2013 752 pp. Ragnhild Hatton the Battle of Hastings to the Domesday Book – and PB ISBN 978-0-300-19408-1 £20.00/$35.00 With a new Foreword by Jeremy Black highlighting the significant role played by women 2001 432 pp. 40 b/w illus. during the era – this deeply researched volume is the PB ISBN 978-0-300-08883-0 £31.00/$42.00 scholarly biography for our generation. Richard II Available November 2016 576 pp. 16 b/w illus. Nigel Saul HB ISBN 978-0-300-11875-9 £30.00/$40.00 NEW 1999 416 pp. 20 b/w illus. George II PB ISBN 978-0-300-07875-6 £20.00/$30.00 King and Elector Also available in this series: Andrew C. Thompson Henry V 2012 328 pp. 24 b/w illus. Æthelstan Christopher Allmand PB ISBN 978-0-300-18777-9 £18.99/$35.00 The First King of England 2011 480 pp. 30 b/w illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-07370-6 £20.00/$32.00 George III Sarah Foot America’s Last King 2012 304 pp. 16 pages of b/w illus. + 3 maps Henry VI Jeremy Black PB ISBN 978-0-300-18771-7 £16.99/$32.00 Bertram Wolffe 2008 448 pp. Edward the Confessor With a new foreword by John L. Watts PB ISBN 978-0-300-13621-0 £18.99/$28.00 2001 432 pp. 48 b/w illus. Frank Barlow PB ISBN 978-0-300-08926-4 £20.00/$30.00 George IV 2011 373 pp. 16 b/w illus. E. A. Smith PB ISBN 978-0-300-07156-6 £18.99/$30.00 2001 320 pp. 25 b/w illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-08802-1 £25.00/$32.00 6 Books by Eamon Duffy EARLY MODERN BRITAIN

The Rise of The Stripping The Voices Thomas Cromwell of the Altars of Morebath Power and Politics in Traditional Reformation and the Reign of Henry VIII, Religion in Rebellion in an 1485–1534 England, English Village Michael Everett 1400–1580 Eamon Duffy How much does the Thomas Second Edition This delightful book Cromwell of popular novels Eamon Duffy offers a rare glimpse of and television series resemble This prize-winning life in a remote sixteenth- the real Cromwell? This account of the century English village unique and penetrating study of Thomas Cromwell’s pre-Reformation church recreates lay people’s during the dramatic changes of the Reformation. early political career expands and revises what has experience of religion in fifteenth-century England. Through vividly detailed parish records kept been understood concerning the life and talents of Eamon Duffy shows that late medieval Catholicism from 1520 to 1574 by Sir Christopher Trychay, Henry VIII’s chief minister. Michael Everett provides was neither decadent nor decayed, but was a strong the garrulous priest of Morebath, we see how a an enlighteningly fresh account of Cromwell’s rise and vigorous tradition, and that the Reformation tiny Catholic community rebelled, was punished to power, his influence on the king, his role in the represented a violent rupture from a popular and and reluctantly accepted Protestantism under the Reformation, and his impact on the nation. theologically respectable religious system. demands of the Elizabethan state. ‘This is revisionist history at its best, with Everett ‘With the publication of this book, a kind of ‘Duffy’s scholarship is meticulous and exact … ready to challenge and dispel long-held beliefs … map or illustrated atlas of late medieval English A book to be read by enthusiasts and general his fresh approach provides new insight into a man Christianity, English Reformation studies will readers alike … Significant and striking.’ whose greatness seems to have been overestimated.’ never be the same again.’ – Patrick Collinson, – Peter Ackroyd, The Times – Chris Skidmore, BBC History Magazine, A Book of the Year 2015 Times Higher Education 2003 260 pp. 16 colour + 26 b/w illus. ‘A magnificent scholarly achievement [and] a PB ISBN 978-0-300-09825-9 £14.99/$20.00 ‘Everett depicts a most gifted administrator and top- compelling read.’ – Patricia Morrison, level civil servant … [a] meticulous, well-researched Financial Times and above all very readable book.’ Fires of Faith – Rev. Ed Standhaft, Methodist Recorder Winner of the Longman/History Today Catholic England Book of the Year Award Available September 2016 376 pp. 16 b/w illus. NEW under Mary Tudor PB ISBN 978-0-300-22351-4 £12.99/$30.00 IN PAPER 2005 700 pp. 141 b/w illus. Eamon Duffy PB ISBN 978-0-300-10828-6 £16.99/$25.00 A controversial reassessment John Knox of Mary Tudor’s efforts to Jane Dawson Marking eradicate Protestantism and the Hours restore Catholicism in mid- In this definitive new sixteenth-century England. biography of British preacher, English People prophet and reformer John ‘A dazzling exercise in and Their Knox, Jane Dawson shatters historical reappraisal, after which the reign of Prayers, the myths, misconceptions Mary Tudor will never look quite the same again.’ and stereotypes surrounding 1240–1570 – Peter Marshall, Times Literary Supplement the controversial leader of the Eamon Duffy 2010 280 pp. 30 colour illus. Protestant Reformation in Surviving copies of PB ISBN 978-0-300-16889-1 £12.99/$20.00 sixteenth-century Scotland. the Book of Hours, ‘This life of John Knox renders all his previous the most personal See page 33 for other titles by Eamon Duffy biographies obsolete. Enriched by new manuscript and widely used book of the later Middle Ages, discoveries, it is surprising, fascinating and a major offer precious clues to the lives of their owners and achievement of scholarship.’ – Diarmaid MacCulloch, the times in which they lived. Religious historian author of A History of Christianity: The First Three Eamon Duffy examines these prayer books and the Thousand Years messages and jottings in their margins for insights ‘This is an exceptionally fine biography – lucid, into an era of great religious and social change. packed with evidence, and so deeply engaged with ‘A fascinating book, full of insights into medieval Knox’s writings that it seems as if Dawson talked with spirituality and religion … a book to treasure.’ her subject only yesterday.’ – Lucy Wooding, – Juliet Barker, Literary Review Times Higher Education 2011 208 pp. 120 colour illus. ‘This book … is the very model of what academic PB ISBN 978-0-300-17058-0 £16.99/$27.50 biography can achieve. It displays all the virtues of the academy in that it is judicious and even-handed without being hobbled by caution. It brings to bear new source and archive material on its subject and is Anne Boleyn Thomas Cranmer suffused with deep reading on the period.’ Fatal Attractions A Life – Stuart Kelly, Scotsman G. W. Bernard Diarmaid MacCulloch ‘Dawson has brought nuance and peerless scholarly In this groundbreaking biography, G. W. Bernard offers ‘Marvellous – extremely good rigour to a cautionary but also rather inspiring tale.’ a fresh portrait of one of England’s most captivating to read as well as being a – Jonathan Wright, Glasgow Sunday Herald queens. Through a wide-ranging forensic examination definitive biography.’ 2016 384 pp. 11 b/w illus. NEW of sixteenth-century sources, Bernard reconsiders – Robert Harris, The Times PB ISBN 978-0-300-21970-8 £14.99/$32.50 IN PAPER Boleyn’s girlhood, her experience at the French court, ‘The best biography of the nature of her relationship with Henry and the Cranmer, sympathetic and authenticity of her evangelical sympathies. candid about Cranmer’s ‘Here at long last is a historian of great skill and shortcomings.’ – A. L. Rowse, Evening Standard persuasive power … who cuts through the fog of Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for speculation to get to the woman herself.’ Biography, The Duff Cooper Prize and the – Alexander Lucie-Smith, Catholic Herald Whitbread Biography Award 2011 256 pp. 16 b/w illus. 1998 704 pp. 40 b/w illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-17089-4 £12.99/$24.00 PB ISBN 978-0-300-07448-2 £18.99/$35.00

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Apethorpe Sleep in Early Robert Dudley, The Story of an Modern England Earl of Leicester, English Country Sasha Handley House and the World of Sleep – or the lack of it –is Edited by Kathryn important to everyone. Yet its Elizabethan Art A. Morrison history has barely been told. Painting and With contributions by In this fascinating book, Sasha Patronage at the Court Kathryn A. Morrison, Handley traces the changing of Elizabeth I Emily Cole, Nick Hill, nature and practice of sleep John Cattell Elizabeth Goldring in early modern Britain, and Pete Smith The first in-depth look at Robert Dudley, Earl of revealing that the way we sleep is as dependent on Dating from the mid-15th century, Apethorpe in Leicester, whose patronage and art-collecting activities culture as it is on biological and environmental factors. Northamptonshire was home to a succession of made him a powerful influence on Elizabethan taste. From the late seventeenth century, the widely accepted leading courtiers and politicians. At the command of notion that sleepers lay at the mercy of natural forces ‘This beautifully produced study of the patronage King James I, the house was refurbished with a richly and supernatural agents was confronted by new of Elizabeth I’s favourite … sets his collecting and decorated state apartment. The suite, with its series medical thinking about sleep’s relationship to the architectural patronage in the context of Dudley’s of rare plaster ceilings and carved chimneypieces, body’s nervous system. This breakthrough coincided remarkable career.’ – John Goodall, Country Life unquestionably ranks as one of the finest in Britain. In with radical changes throughout society, eventually 2014 380 pp. 100 colour + 111 b/w illus. 2004, English Heritage rescued the house from ruin shaping everything from sleeping hours to bedtime HB ISBN 978-0-300-19224-7 £40.00/$75.00 PMC and has since restored it to much of its glory. routines and bedchambers. Drawing on a rich host of This book places Apethorpe in its wider historical and archival sources and material artifacts, and peopled The Murder of architectural context, comparing it with other Tudor and with figures such as Samuel Pepys and the Romantics, Jacobean houses. It sheds new light on the furnishing, this illuminating cultural history documents a major King James I decoration and circulation patterns of state suites in evolution in our conscious understanding of the Alastair Bellany and country homes. Written by architectural and archaeological unconscious. experts from Historic England, this monograph, the Thomas Cogswell first on Apethorpe, is illustrated with new and historical Available August 2016 304 pp. 26 b/w illus. A year after the death of photographs, paintings, maps, engravings and specially HB ISBN 978-0-300-22039-1 £25.00/$65.00 NEW James I in 1625, a sensational commissioned interpretive drawings that reveal how the pamphlet accused the Duke house looked at key moments in its history. The Arch Conjuror of England of Buckingham of murdering 2016 500 pp. John Dee the king. Arguing that the allegation played a significant 250 colour + 50 b/w illus. Glyn Parry HB ISBN 978-0-300-14870-1 £60.00/$125.00 PMCHE role in the crises that produced England’s civil war and Based on primary documents, this new biography of revolution, this is a major exploration of the political John Dee, the great magus of the Elizabethan world, forces that would destroy the Stuart monarchy. Hardwick Hall challenges many of our beliefs about his occult, ‘Cogswell and Bellany are both accomplished story- A Great Old religious and political involvements. tellers, and their collaboration is much more than Castle of Romance ‘Parry has rescued Dee from the shadows of his the sum of their considerable parts … This is an Edited by own secrecy and restored him as a glittering light in astonishing detective work. It is also a magnificent the magical Elizabethan firmament.’ – Nigel Jones, David Adshead piece of political reconstruction, locating each twist Sunday Telegraph and turn in the plot within a fully international and David Taylor ‘An important contribution to our understanding of context … This book does more than anything Originally constructed how magic became science.’ – Philip Ball, Nature published in the last 20 years to explain why Charles I in the late 16th century never had a chance and why there was a civil war.’ 2013 352 pp. 14 b/w illus. for the notorious – John Morril, History Today Bess of Hardwick, PB ISBN 978-0-300-19409-8 £12.99/$40.00 ‘The richness of the material unearthed is compelling. Countess of Shrewsbury, Hardwick Hall is now among By the end of this exhaustively researched and the National Trust’s greatest architectural landmarks, How Shakespeare elegantly written study, Bellany and Cogswell have with much of its original interior and ornamentation made the strongest case imaginable for their thesis.’ – still intact. This splendid publication is the definitive Put Politics on the Anne Somerset, Literary Review source of scholarship on the remarkably well-preserved Stage 2015 656 pp. 4 pages of colour + 97 b/w illus. exemplar of late-Elizabethan style. Composed Power and Succession in of extensive research and newly commissioned HB ISBN 978-0-300-21496-3 £30.00/$65.00 the History Plays photography, this beautifully illustrated book traces the history of the house and its inhabitants through Peter Lake On Display the centuries, showcasing a remarkable collection of With an ageing, childless Henrietta Maria portraiture, tapestries, furniture and gardens, and monarch, lingering divisions and the Materials of providing readers with a genuine sense of the house’s due to the Reformation, and environment. the threat of foreign enemies, Shakespeare’s England Magnificence at the Stuart Court Available November 2016 432 pp. NEW was fraught with unparalleled anxiety and complicated 225 colour + 75 b/w illus. problems. In this monumental work, Peter Lake Erin Griffey HB ISBN 978-0-300-21890-9 £75.00/$150.00 PMCNT reveals, more than any previous critic, the extent to In the early modern which Shakespeare’s plays speak to the depth and period, rulers Burghley sophistication of Elizabethan political culture and the demonstrated their Elizabethan imagination. Lake reveals the complex power and influence William Cecil at the Court of Elizabeth I ways in which Shakespeare’s major plays engaged through carefully curated ‘display’ – their presence Stephen Alford with the events of his day, particularly regarding the in court ceremonies, their palaces and their contents, uncertain royal succession, theological and doctrinal The first modern biography of the most powerful and their portraits. Henrietta Maria of France, queen debates, and virtue and virtù in politics. Through his politician in late Tudor England. consort of King Charles I of England, embraced these plays, Lake demonstrates, Shakespeare was boldly opportunities for display with particular flair. This ‘Written by a master of the source material who has in conversation with his audience about a range of a feel for the nature of the Tudor Court and writes richly illustrated book follows Henrietta Maria through contemporary issues. This remarkable literary and and beyond the Bourbon and Stuart courts to chart with balance and sympathy.’ – Diarmaid MacCulloch, historical analysis pulls the curtain back on what University of Oxford her patronage and engagement with the visual arts, Shakespeare was really telling his audience and what his building works and the luxury trade. ‘An excellent biography.’ – Times Literary Supplement plays tell us today about the times in which they were 2015 384 pp. 84 colour + 46 b/w illus. written. 2011 432 pp. 16 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-21400-0 £40.00/$85.00 PMC PB ISBN 978-0-300-17088-7 £18.99/$32.00 Available November 2016 696 pp. HB ISBN 978-0-300-22271-5 £25.00/$37.50 NEW 8 EARLY MODERN BRITAIN

Ill Composed 1688 Making Ireland English Sickness, Gender, and The First Modern The Irish Aristocracy Belief in Early Modern Revolution in the Seventeenth Century England Steve Pincus Jane Ohlmeyer Olivia Weisser In this bold narrative history This groundbreaking book explores the remaking of A unique cultural history Steve Pincus argues that Ireland’s aristocracy during the tumultuous seventeenth of illness, Olivia Weisser’s England’s Glorious Revolution century and offers a major new interpretation of the groundbreaking study bridges was a fundamental turning role of aristocrats in establishing English control over the fields of patient history and point in the making of the Ireland. gender history. 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It’s as though Weisser wrote this ‘Recast[s] the origins of modern England as well as thoughtful and moving book with Samuel Pepys the history of the revolution of 1688.’ sitting on one shoulder and Roy Porter on the other.’ – Bernard Bailyn, New York Review of Books Life in the – Lauren Kassell, University of Cambridge 2011 664 pp. 72 b/w illus. Country Available October 2016 296 pp. 15 b/w illus. NEW PB ISBN 978-0-300-17143-3 £16.99/$27.50 House in PB ISBN 978-0-300-22430-6 £25.00/$35.00 IN PAPER Georgian Hubbub Rebranding Rule Filth, Noise and Stench Ireland The Restoration and in England, 1600–1770 Patricia McCarthy Revolution Monarchy, Emily Cockayne Based on new research 1660–1714 from Irish national A not-for-the-squeamish tour collections and correspondence culled from papers in Kevin Sharpe of pre-Industrial Revolution private keeping, this vivid and engaging book illustrates This is the definitive study England. Focusing on offences the many ways in which the residences of aristocratic of how successive British to the eyes, ears, nose, taste and gentry families in eighteenth-century Ireland were monarchs attempted to buds and skin, Hubbub paints specifically designed to accommodate their lifestyles. culturally justify their rule a nuanced and highly detailed in the years following the portrait of everyday English city life. ‘Opens the door on a gilded Irish age … a magisterial, beautifully-illustrated and elegantly-written examination restoration of Charles II. ‘This book inhabits a grubby and squalid world … It’s of the Irish of the big house in the decades before and ‘A fitting monument to one of the foremost a veritable feast of filth and foulness, and I loved every after the Act of Union.’ – Des Breen, Irish Examiner historians of the early modern world … It will be the minute of it.’ – Christopher Hart, Literary Review 2016 272 pp. 132 colour + 65 b/w illus. starting point for any consideration of the cultural 2008 352 pp. 50 b/w illus. 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Serious history is rarely this fun.’ England wonderful details about Georgian home life.’ – Amanda Foreman, The Times – Dan Cruickshank, Country Life ‘A major contribution to the study of women in Kevin Sharpe ‘If until now the Georgian home has been like a eighteenth-century England and a delight to read.’ ‘The book will stand as the first point of reference monochrome engraving, Vickery has made it three – Jeremy Black, History Today on its subject … [Sharpe’s] achievement demands dimensional and vibrantly colored.’ Winner of the Wolfson History Prize, attention and respect.’ – Anthony Fletcher, – Andrea Wulf, New York Times Book Review The Whitfield Prize and the Longman/ Times Literary Supplement Accompanied the BBC TV series History Today Book of the Year Prize 2009 588 pp. 66 b/w illus. ‘At Home with the Georgians’ 2003 448 pp. 66 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-14098-9 £45.00/$75.00 2010 368 pp. 25 colour + 80 b/w illus. 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The Fortunes of Sex, Money Indigenous London Francis Barber and Personal Native Travellers at the Heart of Empire The True Story of Character in Coll Thrush the Jamaican Slave Historian Coll Thrush offers a new and compelling Who Became Samuel Eighteenth- view of London’s history through the lived experiences Johnson’s Heir Century British of Indigenous women, children and men who have travelled to the city, willingly or otherwise, since the Michael Bundock Politics beginning of the sixteenth century. They included This compelling book Marilyn Morris captives and diplomats, missionaries and shamans, chronicles a young boy’s How, and why, did the poets and performers, athletes and sovereigns. Together, journey from the horrors Anglo-American world become so obsessed with the their stories illuminate a London that has until now of Jamaican slavery to the heart of London’s literary private lives and public character of its political leaders? largely been ignored: an imperial capital shaped in world, and tells the story of the unlikely friendship Marilyn Morris finds answers in eighteenth-century profound ways by its entanglements with Indigenous with Dr. Samuel Johnson that changed both their lives. Britain, when a long tradition of court intrigue and peoples and places. ‘One of the great pleasures of reading Bundock’s gossip spread into a much broader and more public Available January 2017 336 pp. 40 b/w illus. completely captivating book is to watch him gathering political arena with the growth of political parties, HB ISBN 978-0-300-20630-2 £25.00/$38.00 NEW all the evidence and teasing out the truth … one of the extra-parliamentary political activities, and a partisan very few books about Johnson worthy to stand beside print culture. Analysing the changing views of Art in Britain that classic.’ – John Carey, The Sunday Times political virtue in eighteenth-century Britain, Marilyn ‘Bundock weaves into the absorbing tale of Barber’s Morris explores the origins of the modern dilemma 1660–1815 life a wealth of material relating to black people in over private lives, public character and suitability for David H. Solkin England, especially in London, throughout the 18th leadership. The first social history century … He writes with clarity, sympathy and tact.’ 2014 272 pp. 16 colour illus. of British art of the – Freya Johnston, Literary Review HB ISBN 978-0-300-20845-0 £35.00/$85.00 long eighteenth 2015 296 pp. 30 b/w illus. century, this volume HB ISBN 978-0-300-20710-1 £20.00/$35.00 History and the analyses the role of visual culture in Queen Enlightenment Britain’s emergence as Caroline Hugh Trevor-Roper a modern commercial society at the centre of a global Arguably the leading British empire. More than 300 artworks, accompanied by Cultural Politics historian of his generation, detailed analysis, beautifully illustrate how Britain’s at the Early Hugh Trevor-Roper is most transformation into the world’s foremost commercial Eighteenth-Century celebrated and admired as the and imperial power found expression in the visual arts, Court author of essays. This volume and how the arts shaped the nation in return. Joanna Marschner brings together some of his Yale University Press Pelican History of Art Series most original and radical 2015 378 pp. 320 colour illus. This beautifully writings – many hitherto inaccessible, one never before HB ISBN 978-0-300-21556-4 £55.00/$80.00 PMC illustrated and published – focusing on the writing and understanding meticulously researched of history in the eighteenth century. volume surveys Caroline of Ansbach’s significant Liberty’s Dawn contributions to English arts and culture. ‘Trevor-Roper treats abstruse clues and motives as A People’s History of the matters for detection and clarification, and there is ‘An admirable tribute to an admirable woman.’ Industrial Revolution never a phrase of self-mystifying jargon. History and – Lucy Worsley, Country Life the Enlightenment is a rallying cry for those who Emma Griffin Shortlisted for the Longman-History Today Book of the cherish history. The reading of it left me exultant.’ This remarkable book looks at Year 2015 – Richard Davenport-Hines, Literary Review hundreds of autobiographies 2014 232 pp. 120 colour + 40 b/w illus. 2010 352 pp. penned between 1760 and HB ISBN 978-0-300-19777-8 £40.00/$75.00 PMC HB ISBN 978-0-300-13934-1 £30.00/$85.00 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working class. The Industrial Britons ‘Controversial, entertaining and alarmingly Revolution brought not simply misery and poverty. topical … Not only scholarly, but witty, lively and Forging the Nation On the contrary, Griffin shows how it raised incomes, a delight to read. A book that could hardly present improved literacy, and offered exciting opportunities 1707–1837 complex and challenging argument with greater for political action. For many, this was a period of new, Revised Edition lucidity and grace.’ – Philip Ziegler, and much valued, sexual and cultural freedom. Daily Telegraph Linda Colley ‘Liberty’s Dawn is a triumph … gracefully written How was Great Britain ‘Challenging, fascinating, enormously well pages … persuasively purvey Griffin’s historical made? And what does it informed, ambitious in its scope … The conviction. She is intimate with her audience, wooing mean to be British? This argument develops by means of a wonderful it and teasing it along the way.’ – Anthony Fletcher, brilliant and seminal book narrative invention … so that the very different Times Literary Supplement components of Britishness are understood examines how a more ‘This is a brave book that challenges accepted wisdom as an increasingly complex and developing cohesive British nation was invented after 1707 by offering a decidedly optimistic view of the impact configuration.’ – John Barrell, and how this new national identity was nurtured of the Industrial Revolution on the opportunities, London Review of Books through war, religion, trade and empire. This freedoms and choices available to the working class.’ edition contains an extensive new preface by the ‘[A] penetrating account of the rise of British – Pat Hudson, Times Higher Education author. Lavishly illustrated and powerful, Britons national consciousness … Using sharp analysis, ‘Through the ‘messy tales’ of more than 350 remains a major contribution to our understanding pungent prose and choice examples, Colley probes working-class lives, Emma Griffin arrives at an upbeat of Britain’s past, and continues to influence beneath the skin and lays bare the anatomy of interpretation of the Industrial Revolution most of us ongoing controversies about this polity’s survival nationhood.’ – Roy Porter, New Statesman would hardly recognise. It is quite enthralling.’ and future. ‘The general reader cannot fail to enjoy it and the – Elizabeth Grice, Oldie Magazine ‘It was [Colley’s] clinical analysis of the political professional historian will be stimulated by it.’ 2014 320 pp. and cultural construction of 18th-century Britain – J. H. Plumb, Financial Times PB ISBN 978-0-300-20525-1 £12.99/$35.00 which did so much to kick-start our debate about Winner of the Wolfson History Prize national identity. The clarity of her prose and 2009 469 pp. 81 illus. cohesiveness of her argument remain bewitching.’ PB ISBN 978-0-300-15280-7 £14.99/$25.00 – Tristram Hunt, BBC History Magazine

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In Nelson’s Wake Wellington Wellington The Navy and the Waterloo and the The Path to Victory Napoleonic Wars Fortunes of Peace 1769–1814 James Davey 1814–1852 Rory Muir From Nelson’s victory at Rory Muir This masterly new biography Trafalgar through Napoleon’s In this richly detailed provides an authoritative final surrender, the British work, the second and re-evaluation of Wellington’s Royal Navy sailed at the centre concluding volume of career, as both a soldier and of historical events. This Rory Muir’s definitive a politician, while giving original history reappraises biography, the author new and unexpected insights the Navy’s contributions and the experiences of offers a substantial reassessment of Wellington’s into this talented, complex and often difficult man. seamen, politicians and civilians when the nation’s very significance as a politician and a nuanced view of ‘The Wellington biography for our time.’ existence was in the balance. the private man behind the legend of the selfless – Gary Sheffield,BBC History Magazine ‘For all the tragic glory of Trafalgar it would take hero. Muir presents new insights into Wellington’s ‘Extensively researched and anchored in fact, another ten years before Napoleon was finally determination to keep peace at home and abroad, [Muir] gives an invaluable picture of the duke in defeated. James Davey’s elegant analysis demonstrates achieved by maintaining good relations with his early years that will be unfamiliar to many the importance of the Royal Navy’s last great war the Continental powers and resisting radical who know only of his military exploits. Muir has under sail, the skill with which it was fought, and the agitation while granting political equality to the researched his subject for thirty years and it shows quintessential character that made the British sailor Catholics in Ireland rather than risk civil war. And … [The] second volume – to judge by his first – into a national hero.’ – Andrew Lambert, author of countering one-dimensional pictures of Wellington cannot come soon enough.’ – Simon Heffer, The Challenge: Britain Against America in the Naval as a national hero, Muir paints a portrait of a New Statesman War of 1812 well-rounded man whose austere demeanour on ‘This deeply researched and brilliantly written ‘James Davey, a curator at the National Maritime the public stage belied his entertaining, gossipy, book supersedes all previous work on the subject. Museum, leads us into the world of Hornblower and generous and unpretentious private self. A masterpiece.’ – Tim Blanning, author of Jack Aubrey, and he is a conscientious guide with an eye for arcane details.’ – Lawrence James, ‘[A] superb biography, which is as provocative as it The Pursuit of Glory: Europe, 1648–1815 The Times is thorough, and as attractive as it is scrupulous.’ ‘Muir’s mastery of his subject is certain to make ‘In Nelson’s Wake is another truly masterly piece of – Ferdinand Mount, Times Literary Supplement the second volume of Wellington’s life an equally work.’ – Navy News ‘This splendid biography makes substantial claims fascinating read.’ – Jules Stewart, Military History 2015 440 pp. 42 colour illus. + maps for Wellington … but it backs up these claims HB ISBN 978-0-300-20065-2 £25.00/$40.00 vigorously and convincingly. It is revisionist 2015 744 pp. biography in the best sense.’ – Andrew Roberts, 32 pages of illus., maps + plans Mail on Sunday PB ISBN 978-0-300-20548-0 £16.99/£25.00 Nelson Love and Fame ‘A monumental achievement that will not be An accompanying commentary by bettered for a generation.’ – Saul David, Edgar Vincent Literary Review Rory Muir is available online at: www.lifeofwellington.co.uk Legendary for his exploits in 2015 728 pp. 32 pages of colour illus. war and love, Admiral Horatio HB ISBN 978-0-300-18786-1 £30.00/$40.00 Nelson comes into clear view in this captivating new biography. ‘This is a wonderful book, the best modern biography Heroic Failure Wellington’s Wars of Britain’s greatest admiral and the British The Making of a Military … [Nelson] deserves his place on the highest public Genius monument in Britain. Edgar Vincent explains why.’ Stephanie Barczewski – John Keegan, Huw J. Davies Daily Telegraph From the Charge of the ‘Riveting, revisionist … one of the best biographies A provocative reappraisal of Light Brigade to Scott of I have read in point of clarity, breadth and penetration.’ Wellington’s military career, the Antarctic and beyond, it – Hilary Spurling, Daily Telegraph seems as if glorious disaster his victory at Waterloo and and valiant defeat have been the source of his genius as a ‘Offers a profusion of detail about Nelson’s health and essential aspects of the British general. finances, his way with the welfare and discipline of his men and how his battles were fought and usually won national character for the ‘Huw J. Davies should … A true portrait of an extraordinary man.’ past two centuries. In this fascinating book, historian be congratulated on producing such an original – Tom Pocock, Spectator Stephanie Barczewski argues that Britain’s embrace of treatment of Wellington’s development.’ heroic failure initially helped to gloss over the moral – Jonathan Eaton, Military History Shortlisted for the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize ambiguities of imperial expansion. Later, it became ‘Well written, with a strong human interest 2005 656 pp. 70 b/w illus. + 12 maps & battle diagrams a strategy for coming to terms with diminishment dimension … Deserves a wide readership.’ PB ISBN 978-0-300-10861-3 £12.99 /$19.95 and loss. Filled with compelling, moving and often – Gary Sheffield,BBC History Magazine humorous stories from history, Barczewski’s survey ‘Highly original, audaciously irreverent and yet offers a fresh way of thinking about the continuing Livingstone admirably scrupulous.’ – Michael Kerrigan, Scotsman legacy of empire in British culture today. Revised and Expanded Edition ‘The author has hit on a rich and fascinating subject 2014 320 pp. 13 b/w illus. + 12 maps Tim Jeal PB ISBN 978-0-300-20865-8 £12.99/$30.00 … Heroic Failure has some sharp truths to tell about Jeal’s masterful biography draws on fresh sources Victorian Britain.’ – John Carey, The Sunday Times and archival discoveries to provide the most accurate ‘A psychological history. Barczewski maps out trends Captain Cook portrait yet of the celebrated explorer/missionary who in British thought and intertwines conjecture about Master of the Seas was first to cross Africa from coast to coast. where they have come from … I enjoyed the quest Frank McLynn ‘This lip-smacking biography inspires as well as of it; and something about Barczewski’s evident and thrills.’ – Jake Kerridge, Sunday Telegraph A vivid reappraisal of the fervent anglophilia almost left me feeling quite proud 2013 456 pp. 16 pages of b/w illus. of being British.’ – Hugo Rifkind, The Times legendary Captain Cook, from bestselling biographer Frank PB ISBN 978-0-300-19100-4 £16.99/$28.00 2016 280 pp. 54 b/w illus. McLynn. HB ISBN 978-0-300-18006-0 £20.00/$40.00 NEW ‘A great biography of a fascinating and important life.’ – Joe Cushnan, Tribune 2012 512 pp. 45 colour illus. + 4 maps PB ISBN 978-0-300-18431-0 £12.99/$22.00 11 MODERN BRITAIN

Disraeli Dirty Old London The Great Charles The Novel Politician The Victorian Fight Dickens Scandal Against Filth David Cesarani Michael Slater Lauded as a ‘great Jew’, Lee Jackson Was Charles Dickens the secret excoriated by antisemites, Lee Jackson guides us through lover of young actress Nelly and one of Britain’s most the muddy streets, squalid Ternan? How would a man of renowned prime ministers, slums and decrepit graveyards his renown have hidden such Benjamin Disraeli has been of the Victorian metropolis, an affair? This engaging book widely celebrated for his wading through stinking is the first complete account role in Jewish history. But is sewers and soot-drenched fog, of the scandal that threatened the perception of him as a Jewish hero accurate? In introducing us to the men and women who bravely to ruin Dickens and of the cover-up that continued for what ways did he contribute to Jewish causes? In this struggled to stem a rising tide of filth in nineteenth- generations. groundbreaking, lucid investigation of Disraeli’s life century London. ‘[An] elegant little history of how the truth came out, and accomplishments, David Cesarani draws a new ‘This is a tightly argued, meticulously researched drop by scandalous drop.’ – John Bowen, portrait of one of Europe’s leading nineteenth-century history of sanitation that reads like a novel.’ Times Literary Supplement statesmen, a complicated, driven, opportunistic man. – Paula Byrne, The Times ‘Impeccably sourced and dashingly narrated.’ While acknowledging that Disraeli never denied his ‘Lee Jackson considers in fascinating, sometimes – Miranda Seymour, Sunday Telegraph Jewish lineage, boasted of Jewish achievements, and gruesome detail, the filth and nuisances of the time 2014 232 pp. 16 b/w illus. argued for Jewish civil rights while serving as MP, … Utterly engrossing in its own right, Dirty Old PB ISBN 978-0-300-20528-2 £9.99/$28.00 Cesarani challenges the assumption that Disraeli truly London also serves as an illuminating companion to cared about Jewish issues. Instead, his driving personal Victorian literature.’ – Jo Baker, New York Times Book ambition required him to confront his Jewishness Review Oscar Wilde’s at the same time as he acted opportunistically. By ‘This is a fascinating work that will engage both creating a myth of aristocratic Jewish origins for Chatterton those interested in Victorian history in general and himself, and by arguing that Jews were a superior race, Literary History, London in particular.’ – Stephen Halliday, Disraeli boosted his own career but also contributed Romanticism, and the Art BBC History Magazine to the consolidation of some of the most fundamental of Forgery stereotypes of modern antisemitism. ‘Rich in wonderful contemporary details gleaned from newspapers and archives, Jackson’s study is a Joseph Bristow and ‘An absorbing study.’ – Daniel Finkelstein, The Times vivid account of the enormous challenges faced by a Rebecca N. Mitchell ‘Superb.’ – Benjamin Balint, Wall Street Journal city expanding at an unprecedented rate.’ This innovative study combines Yale Jewish Lives Series – P. D. Smith, Guardian. a scholarly monograph with a 2016 304 pp. 1 b/w illus. 2015 304 pp. 40 b/w illus. textual edition of the extensive notes that Wilde took HB ISBN 978-0-300-13751-4 £16.99/$25.00 NEW PB ISBN 978-0-300-21611-0 £9.99/$22.00 on the brilliant forger who inspired not only Coleridge, Wordsworth and Keats but also Victorian artists and The Secret The Old Boys authors. ‘Bristow and Mitchell argue persuasively that Poisoner The Decline and Rise Chatterton’s life and works permeate Wilde’s career.’ A Century of Murder of the Public School – Nick Groom, Times Literary Supplement Linda Stratmann David Turner 2015 488 pp. 16 b/w illus. Murder by poison alarmed, David Turner’s colourful HB ISBN 978-0-300-20830-6 £25.00/$50.00 enthralled and in many ways history of Britain’s public encapsulated the Victorian schools, from the foundation Engines of Truth age. Linda Stratmann’s dark of Winchester College in 1382 and splendid social history to the present day, offers a fresh Producing Veracity in the Victorian reveals the 19th century and mostly positive reappraisal Courtroom as a gruesome battleground where poisoners went of a controversial educational system that is still Wendie Ellen Schneider head-to-head with authorities who strove to detect considered the embodiment of privilege and elitism by ‘This is one of the most important contributions to poisons, control their availability and bring the guilty many in the United Kingdom. the study of the Victorian legal system in a very long to justice. She corrects many misconceptions about ‘Well-researched and pleasingly written … The long- time, but its significance goes far wider than that. particular poisons and documents how the evolution run story that Turner tells is a fascinating one and, I The author has fashioned a rich cultural history that of issues such as marital rights and the legal protection suspect, surprisingly little known.’ – David Kynaston, is authoritative and transnational.’ of children impacted poisonings. Combining archival Observer – Rohan McWilliam, author of The Tichborne research with a novelist’s eye, Stratmann charts the era’s ‘Turner combines a good eye for an anecdote with an Claimant: A Victorian Sensation inexorable rise of poison cases both gruesome and sad. impressive knowledge of facts and figures.’ 2016 288 pp. 4 b/w illus. ‘Poisoning, Linda Stratmann makes clear in this – Eric Anderson, Spectator HB ISBN 978-0-300-12566-5 £60.00/$85.00 extravagantly detailed history, was one of the great 2016 352 pp. 32 b/w illus. fears of the 19th century … Filling her pages with NEW PB ISBN 978-0-300-21938-8 £10.99/$35.00 IN PAPER case after case, she pursues her subject with the Palmerston dogged persistence of a laboratory analyst.’ A Biography – Andrew Holgate, The Sunday Times The Marquess of Queensberry David Brown ‘Linda Stratmann makes a fine job of chronicling the Wilde’s Nemesis The first comprehensive cat-and-mouse contest between poisoners on the one Linda Stratmann biography of Lord Palmerston, hand and science and law on the other … ghoulishly Stratmann paints a riveting, complex picture of the a grand and fascinating figure in fascinating.’ – Jacqueline Banerjie, Times Literary man who is as famous for his role in the downfall Victorian politics who became Supplement of one of our greatest literary geniuses as he was for foreign secretary, prime minister ‘The Secret Poisoner chronicles an amazing array helping establish the rules for modern-day boxing. and one of the defining figures of poisonings … Stratmann is highly skilled at ‘More than just a biography, this is a brilliant portrait of his age. combining brevity with colour, her rapid succession of an age in which homosexuality was beyond the ‘Rich, thoughtful … always rewarding … the surely of poisonings soon coalesces into an overall pattern.’ pale, yet public fisticuffs and violent assaults in the definitive biography.’ – Ferdinand Mount, – Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday streets were part and parcel of normal life … An Times Literary Supplement 2016 344 pp. 32 b/w illus. irresistible page-turner, this biography combines high ‘Brown is a superb writer and his Palmerston ought to HB ISBN 978-0-300-20473-5 £20.00/$40.00 NEW passion, violence, tragedy and farce.’ – Robert Carver, be required reading for all students of 19th-century The Tablet political history.’ – Amanda Foreman, Financial Times 2014 336 pp. 16 pages of b/w illus. 2012 584 pp. 30 b/w illus. 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Isaac and Isaiah The Covert Punishment The Maisky ‘These diaries throw new light from a fresh angle on the lead-up to 1939 and the subsequent course of a Cold War Heretic Diaries of the war … this is an exceptionally readable, as David Caute The Wartime well as important, story.’ – John Joliffe, Spectator In this gripping account of the Revelations of ‘Maisky’s diaries make a significant new ideological clash between two Stalin’s Ambassador contribution to the historiography of his time, for of the most influential scholars in London which their editor deserves congratulations.’ of the Cold War years – Isaiah – Max Hastings, The Sunday Times Berlin and Isaac Deutscher – Edited by Gabriel Gorodetsky ‘Gorodetsky compares Maisky’s diaries to Pepys’s the author uncovers a hidden in their astute observations of the British political act that cost one man a university chair while the other As Soviet ambassador to and social scene, spiced with anecdotes and gossip continued to be honoured. London from 1932–43, … The detailed and lively reports in Maisky’s ‘As a picture of the intellectual life of half a century, Ivan Maisky witnessed Britain’s drift to war at close diaries of his many meetings with Churchill are Isaac and Isaiah is a beguiling guide, superbly written quarters. Acutely observed and intensely readable, particularly valuable.’ – Sheila Fitzpatrick, and never less than absorbing.’ – Ferdinand Mount, his recently discovered diaries reflect the diplomat’s London Review of Books remarkable access to the leading political and Spectator ‘Anyone interested in this country’s attempts to intellectual figures of the time, and their fateful ‘A wide-ranging discussion of some of the major appease then defeat Nazi Germany now has a decisions. ideological disputes of the 20th century – Marxism, treasure trove in the secret diaries of Ivan Maisky, Zionism, liberalism and the significance of the ‘[Maisky’s] vast diary is a fascinating and Stalin’s ambassador to London … Maisky was Russian revolution.’ – The Economist invaluable source on wartime relations between brilliantly effective in forming relationships ‘An important book … a fascinating account of the Moscow and London … A triumph of meticulous with leading British politicians, such as Winston ideological conflicts that scarred the 20th century’ scholarship and enlightened publishing.’ Churchill and David Lloyd George, so the diaries – David Reynolds, – Vernon Bogdanor, Jewish Chronicle Times Literary Supplement are full of unforgettable personal insights into ‘A gripping mixture of scholarship and gossip, 2015 352 pp. these giants.’ – Dominic Lawson, Daily Mail filled with uncensored sketches of Churchill, PB ISBN 978-0-300-21232-7 £10.99/$27.50 2016 632 pp. 72 b/w illus. NEW Eden, Chamberlain and Lloyd George.’ PB ISBN 978-0-300-22170-1 £12.99/$25.00 IN PAPER – Nicholas Shakespeare, Daily Telegraph The Gardens of the British Working Class The Literary The Intellectual Margaret Willes Churchill Life of the British Spanning four centuries, Author, Reader, Actor Margaret Willes’s vibrant Working Classes people’s history examines Jonathan Rose Second Edition the myriad ways that This remarkable portrait Jonathan Rose the cultivation of plants, of Churchill reveals the Now in its second edition, vegetables and flowers has profound influence of this landmark book provides played a crucial role in the lives of ordinary British literature and theatre on the an intellectual history of the people over more than four centuries. life he composed for himself, British working classes from his own writings, his political ‘Margaret Willes’s overview of working-class the preindustrial era to the twentieth century. Drawing agenda and the critical decisions he made during World gardens … provides a great introduction to an often on workers’ memoirs, social surveys, library registers War II. overlooked history … Thanks to books such as this, and more, Jonathan Rose discovers which books people historians can no longer ignore the stories of these ‘This excellent, thorough, and enjoyable biography read, how they educated themselves and what they other gardens, created outside of the estate boundary.’ … adds a fresh and fascinating dimension to a great knew. A new preface uncovers the author’s journey into – Clare Hickman, BBC History Magazine statesman.’ – Lawrence James, The Times labour history, and its rewarding link to intellectual ‘A marvellously illuminating book … Fascinating as a ‘One of the most remarkable books ever written about history. work of history.’ – Miranda Seymour, Literary Review Winston Churchill.’ – Piers Brendon, Literary Review ‘Rose’s account represents a historical triumph … 2015 424 pp. ‘[Rose] assembles a mass of fascinating information fascinatingly and passionately told.’ – A. C. Grayling, 16 pages of colour + 87 b/w illus. about Churchill’s writings, readings and politicking, Independent on Sunday PB ISBN 978-0-300-21235-8 £12.99/$35.00 much of it until now available only in the archives 2010 544 pp. at Churchill College.’ – Cita Stelzer, Times Literary PB ISBN 978-0-300-15365-1 £14.99/$45.00 The People’s Supplement 2015 528 pp. 13 b/w illus. Galleries PB ISBN 978-0-300-21234-1 £12.99/$25.00 Beyond the Art Museums and Tower Exhibitions in Men from A History of Britain, 1800– East London 1914 the Ministry John Marriott Giles Waterfield How Britain Saved Its Heritage ‘He has done a brilliant job This wide-ranging of gazing past the theme- examination of the Simon Thurley park standbys (from Jack phenomenon of the This engaging book details the Ripper to the Krays) to art museum in Britain, from its early days to the onset and explains the British give us a portrait of an area of the First World War, focuses on the majority of the government’s efforts to that once more – as in the seventeenth and eighteenth country’s public art galleries outside of London. collect and open to the public centuries – contains pockets of wealth, as well as steep ‘A sophisticated work of scholarship that tells a detailed over 800 historic buildings, poverty.’ – Sinclair Mckay, Daily Telegraph and fascinating story. As instructive and entertaining as monuments and sites in the years between 1900 and ‘Erudite but readable, this history of East London the Victorian museums with which it is concerned, it 1950. in its mutinous variety traces the flow of change in will be an invaluable resource for many years to come.’ ‘This is a timely book documenting the long and glorious detail.’ – Boyd Tonkin, Independent – Susan Owens, Times Literary Supplement passionate struggle for preserving historic buildings 2012 440 pp. 50 b/w illus. ‘A fascinating history of Britian’s first popular and sites.’ – R. C. Richardson, Times Higher Education PB ISBN 978-0-300-18775-5 £12.99/$40.00 museums.’ – Marcus Waithe, Apollo 2014 224 pp. 100 b/w illus. 2015 372 pp. 70 colour + 215 b/w illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-20524-4 £10.99/$30.00 HB ISBN 978-0-300-20984-6 £45.00/$85.00 PMC 13 EARLY MODERN EUROPE

Martin Luther The Politics of The Voynich Visionary Reformer Religion in Early Manuscript Scott H. Hendrix Modern France Edited by A new, definitive biography of Joseph Bergin Raymond Clemens Martin Luther provides a fresh, With an Introduction by bold and insightful perspective This majestic book explores Deborah Harkness in full detail the interactions on the man most responsible The fifteenth-century between politics and religion for the Protestant Reformation codex known as the in France during the crucial of the sixteenth century, ‘Voynich Manuscript’ years following the Wars focusing on Luther’s entire life, is often considered the of Religion, when many his personal relationships and political motivations, world’s most mysterious book. With its enigmatic unresolved problems – both practical and ideological – rather than on his theology alone. drawings and undeciphered script, the manuscript has challenged the leaders of church and state. ‘One of the best things about this humane and baffled and fascinated generations. This one-of-a-kind sensitive biography is that it sets Luther in context. ‘A refreshing, rich and rewarding synthesis.’ reproduction is the first facsimile of the beautiful and Rather than the tormented hero of romantic myth, – Mark Greengrass, Times Literary Supplement bewildering manuscript and provides exclusive access we have a busy scholar, teacher, preacher and writer ‘This is a magisterial, comprehensive treatment to the most recent research on this puzzle. surrounded by colleagues, friends and family, of Church, religion and the royal state through a Available December 2016 304 pp. 268 colour illus. responding to the myriad unforeseen challenges that detailed examination of theory and practice across HB ISBN 978-0-300-21723-0 £35.00/$50.00 NEW his epoch-changing insights had brought down on time … [It] will be the reference work in English on him. Enlivening circumstantial details ensure that this subject for many years to come and compulsory Scott Hendrix’s Luther truly inhabits his cultural, reading for everyone with an interest in this period.’ The Painted political and spiritual world.’ – Euan Cameron, author – Elizabeth Tingle, European History Quarterly Book in of The European Reformation 2014 392 pp. ‘[A] richly detailed portrait.’ – D. G. Hart, Wall Street HB ISBN 978-0-300-20769-9 £40.00/$85.00 Renaissance Journal Italy 2015 368 pp. 16 pages of b/w illus. Calvin 1450–1600 HB ISBN 978-0-300-16669-9 £25.00/$35.00 Bruce Gordon Jonathan J. G. This brilliant portrait of Alexander Reformations Protestant reformer John This comprehensive The Early Modern Calvin reveals his human survey examines World, 1450–1650 complexity, the sources of the vibrant and sumptuous art of illumination, as Carlos M. N. Eire his convictions, and how he it appeared in both manuscript and printed books, inspired and transformed during a period of profound intellectual and cultural This fast-paced survey the sixteenth-century world. transformation. Jonathan J. G. Alexander describes key of Western civilisation’s The book captures a man at illuminated manuscripts and printed books from the transition from the Middle once arrogant, charismatic, period and explores the social and material worlds in Ages to modernity brings unforgiving, generous and shrewd. which they were produced. that tumultuous period vividly to life. Carlos ‘Outstanding.’ – David A. Robertson, Prospect 2016 400 pp. 100 colour + 150 b/w illus. Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles ‘Masterful … [this] biography succeeds spectacularly HB ISBN 978-0-300-20398-1 £50.00/$75.00 NEW the two-hundred-year era of the Renaissance and by allowing a vivid insight into the life and world Reformation with particular attention to issues that of Calvin, using generous quotations from his The Book in the correspondence.’ – Hilmar Pabel, persist as concerns in the present day. 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The Huguenots Liberty or McPhee’s deeply researched book investigates the Geoffrey Treasure changing personal, social and cultural world of An unprecedented history Death the eighteenth century. His startling conclusions of the entire Huguenot The French redefine and illuminate both the experience and the experience in France, from Revolution legacy of France’s transformative age of revolution. hopeful beginnings to tragic ‘Richly detailed … finds ways to both revivify and diaspora. 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Hitler’s Soldiers Browned Off and France 1940 The German Army in the Bloody-Minded Defending the Republic Third Reich The British Soldier goes Philip Nord Ben H. Shepherd to War 1939–1945 A prominent historian argues For decades after 1945, it was Alan Allport that the Nazis’ humiliating generally believed that the defeat of the French in Viewing World War Two German army, professional 1940 was not the fault of from the ordinary British and morally decent, had military feebleness or national serviceman’s perspective, Alan largely stood apart from the decadence, as is commonly Allport’s colourful, deeply SS, Gestapo and other corps understood, but instead was moving and unique social of the Nazi machine. 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A hastily Monty’s Men events in 1940 when Britain, formed British-led force, never larger than 70,000 The British Army and the unsupported by any other strong, advanced along two fronts to defeat nearly Liberation of Europe nation, faced near-certain 300,000 Italian and colonial troops. This compelling book draws on an array of previously unseen John Buckley defeat at the hands of Nazi Germany, and the fate of Western civilisation hung in the balance. documents to provide both a detailed campaign history Historian John Buckley offers a ‘Elegant, well marshalled and powerful … Prior’s and a fresh appreciation of the first significant Allied radical re-examination of Great success of the war. Britain’s military prowess in the authoritative, no-nonsense coverage underlines the Andrew Stewart investigates such topics as Britain’s last years of World War Two, period’s momentousness.’ – Ashley Jackson, African wartime strategy; how the fighting forces were suggesting that the oft-maligned BBC History Magazine assembled (most from British colonies, none from the British Army was, in fact, more ‘If the country had failed, suggests Robin Prior in this U.S.); General Archibald Wavell’s command abilities than a match for the Nazi war machine. meticulously researched book, the ideals of the West would have failed with it. 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Family Politics The Age of Hitler at Home Domestic Life, Catastrophe Despina Stratigakos Devastation and A History of the West This revelatory history looks Survival, 1900–1950 1914–1945 at the residences of Adolf Paul Ginsborg Hitler, illuminating their Heinrich August powerful role in constructing This masterly history explores Winkler and promoting the dictator’s the effects of political upheaval As Germany takes its place at private persona both within on family life in five nation- the helm of a unified Europe, Germany and abroad. states during key moments of a leading German historian transition and, in turn, the ‘Combines meticulous looks back at the years impact of families on revolutionary change itself. research with elegance and wit: not qualities normally between 1914 and 1945, examining how and why that associated with biographers of Adolf Hitler … ‘In the vast literature on the Soviet Union, Weimar nation so radically broke with the normative project of Original, perceptive and immaculately edited, Hitler and Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and the Spanish and the West and unleashed disaster around the world. at Home offers a splendidly unexpected angle.’ Turkish Republics, most scholars all but ignore the ‘An extraordinary tour de force … An equally – Miranda Seymour, Daily Telegraph crucial role of the family. Paul Ginsborg explains powerful and knowledgeable panorama of the western this anomaly, and his innovative approach provides a ‘A fascinating read, which reminds us that in Nazi world in the era of its greatest disaster.’ – Ian Kershaw, wealth of other surprises.’ – Robert Gellately, Germany the architectural and the political can author of Hitler Times Higher Education never be disentangled. Like his own confected image, ‘Winkler’s monumental and remarkably accessible Hitler’s buildings cannot be divorced from their ‘Examining that smaller world, Ginsborg account of the years from 1914 to 1945 combines odious political hinterland.’ – Roger Moorhouse, paradoxically enlarges our understanding of the narrative with an astute analysis of military, political The Times greater one, looking beyond the contingencies and social history … Winkler’s judgement is always of massacre and oppression to the fundamental 2015 384 pp. 13 colour + 71 b/w illus. sound, his narrative analysis always gripping and experiences of human life.’ – Lucy Hughes-Hallett, HB ISBN 978-0-300-18381-8 £25.00/$40.00 insightful.’ – Robert Gerwarth, Irish Times Guardian ‘A splendid translation of his magisterial study of the 2016 544 pp. 15 colour + 59 b/w illus. NEW ‘West’.’ Richard Overy, Literary Review Hitler’s PB ISBN 978-0-300-21947-0 £14.99/$25.00 IN PAPER 2015 1016 pp. Compromises HB ISBN 978-0-300-20489-6 £35.00/$50.00 Coercion and Weimar Consensus in Nazi From Enlightenment Hitler’s Berlin Germany to the Present Abused City Nathan Stoltzfus Michael H. Kater Thomas Friedrich History has focused on In this fascinating and Hitler’s use of charisma and In this fresh and penetrating surprisingly provocative history terror, asserting that the account of Hitler’s relationship of Weimar, author Michael dictator made few concessions with Berlin, the author H. Kater chronicles the rise to maintain power. 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When widespread public dissent occurred at – Contemporary Review time’s studying, and readers interested in any aspect home – which most often happened when policies of the Weimar legacy will come away from his book ‘A fascinating study of the politics, culture and conflicted with popular traditions or encroached on with new nuggets of information.’ – Julian Preece, architecture of Berlin.’ – Washington Times private life – Hitler made careful calculations and acted Times Literary Supplement 2016 496 pp. 33 b/w illus. NEW strategically to maintain his popular image. Extending 2014 480 pp. 29 b/w illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-21973-9 £12.99/$30.00 IN PAPER from the 1920s to the regime’s collapse, this revealing HB ISBN 978-0-300-17056-6 £25.00/$45.00 history makes a powerful and original argument that Artists Under will inspire a major rethinking of Hitler’s rule. 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Bonelli era, the author examines the With translations from ‘A powerful portrait the German by Natasche of collaboration, and choices of prominent artists – Leni Riefenstahl, Paul Bodemann Hindemith, Albert Speer and others – who sought corruption.’ – John Cornwell, Financial Times This remarkable collection of accommodation with the Nazi regime. ‘Sherratt has done a superb job in showing how letters between German Jews significant philosophers … betrayed their duty ‘Anyone interested in a humane account of the trapped in Nazi Germany and their relatives in the to humanity, and how scores of insignificant dilemmas facing artists in Nazi Germany will gain a United States offers rare insights into the challenges of philosophers sold their souls for professorial chairs.’ new level of understanding from this book.’ an average American family responding to desperate – Andrew Roberts, Commentary Magazine – Richard J. 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Speer Hitler’s Hangman Hitler, Hitler’s Architect The Life of Heydrich the Germans, Martin Kitchen Robert Gerwarth and the A fascinating new life of This chilling biography tells Albert Speer, Germany’s the full story of the ‘Butcher of Final Solution chief architect and Minister Prague’ for the first time. One Ian Kershaw of Armaments during World of the most dangerous men A deeply insightful social War II, reveals Adolf Hitler’s in the Third Reich, Heydrich history of Hitler’s rise to trusted confidant to have been commanded the SS Security power and the attitudes of the far more devoted to National Service, the Gestapo and the German people during the era Socialist regime ideologies and complicit in its crimes Nazi Criminal Police; organised the SS killing squads; of the Third Reich. than previously believed. and helped plan the ‘Final Solution’. ‘This short book goes to the heart of the great debates ‘Kitchen’s in-depth, deeply researched biography ‘The outstanding definitive scholarly and over Nazism, then examines the progress of the challenges Speer’s self-serving version, and presents heartbreakingly horrible biography of the repellent debates themselves … An important contribution to a great deal of new material that was not available at mastermind of the Holocaust.’ the historiography of the Second World War. Plus it’s Nuremberg or during most of Speer’s life … This is a – Simon Sebag Montefiore,BBC History Magazine a page-turner.’ – Andrew Roberts, Mail on Sunday dark, Faustian tale of a knowing pact with the devil.’ ‘At the subsequent grand public funeral, Nazi ‘An excellent chance to acquire, in a single volume, – Robert Carver, Military History leaders eulogised Heydrich as the perfect Nazi. This Kershaw’s writings on the Holocaust … The classic ‘Kitchen has taken a wrecking ball to Speer’s intelligent and readable biography shows how he essays in the first two sections of the book will remain mendacious and meticulously created self-image. And had made himself into one, and Gerwarth explains required reading for students of Nazi Germany and about time, too.’ – Roger Moorhouse, History Today persuasively what motivated Heydrich to do so.’ the Holocaust for years to come.’ – Dan Stone, ‘Kitchen’s book systematically destroys the myth that – Richard J. Evans, Times Higher Education BBC History Magazine Speer was somehow a ‘good Nazi’, and in doing so ‘Drawing on profound research, Robert Gerwarth ‘To a field that is increasingly fragmented, faddish rips the mask of respectability from this legacy. Part presents a penetrating, authoritative analysis of the and cursed by jargon, Kershaw brings a grounded, history, part criminal investigation, part biography, ruthless personality and murderous career of the unified perspective that is conveyed with precision Kitchen’s book is as captivating as it is significant. man who directed the Third Reich’s police state and clarity. His unflashy style, personal reticence Speer: Hitler’s Architect is a vital work.’ – History of War and became a driving-force in the programme to and sheer decency are, sadly, too often absent among 2015 456 pp. 16 b/w illus. exterminate Europe’s Jews.’ – Ian Kershaw, ‘celebrity historians’.’ – David Cesarani, Literary Review author of Hitler HB ISBN 978-0-300-19044-1 £20.00/$37.50 2009 400 pp. 2012 416 pp. 16 pages of b/w illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-15127-5 £12.99/$26.00 Anatomy PB ISBN 978-0-300-18772-4 £12.99/$20.00 The Némirovsky of Malice Léon Blum The Enigma of the Nazi Prime Minister, Question War Criminals Socialist, Zionist The Life, Death and Joel E. Dimsdale Legacy of a Jewish Pierre Birnbaum An eminent psychiatrist offers Writer in Twentieth- A new appreciation of the an eye-opening study of the Century France extraordinary life and legacy psychology of evil based on of Léon Blum, the first Jewish Susan Rubin Suleiman the extensive psychological prime minister of France. 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A World The Liberation Contesting Without Jews of the Camps Democracy The Nazi Imagination The End of the Political Ideas in from Persecution to Holocaust and Its Twentieth-Century Genocide Aftermath Europe Alon Confino Dan Stone Jan-Werner Müller In this gripping new analysis, Seventy years have passed This brilliant guide to Alon Confino draws on an since the tortured inmates European political ideas and array of archives across three of Hitler’s concentration thinkers spans the twentieth continents to propose a and extermination camps century. With special focus penetrating new assessment of one of the central moral were liberated. When the horror of the atrocities on Fascism and Stalinism and their legacies, the author problems of the twentieth century. To a surprising came fully to light, it was easy for others to imagine illuminates both the century’s ideological extremes and extent, Confino demonstrates, the mass murder of Jews the joyful relief of freed prisoners. 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The Danube The Ukrainians Black Wind, A Journey Upriver Unexpected Nation White Snow from the Black Sea Fourth Edition The Rise of Russia’s to the Black Forest Andrew Wilson New Nationalism Nick Thorpe The most acute, informed and Charles Clover In this engaging and up-to-date account available Charles Clover, award- entertaining book the author today of Ukraine and its winning journalist and former takes an unexpected journey people, now in its fourth Moscow bureau chief for the up the entire length of the edition, with a new chapter on Financial Times, here analyses Danube River and provides a Yanukovych’s presidency, the the idea of ‘Eurasianism’, a vivid record of the people he encounters, the recent and Russian invasion and the challenges ahead. theory of Russian national identity based on ethnicity ancient history of the region, and the lands through ‘An interesting and provocative read, which will, one and geography. 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Atlas of the Empires of the have been as fully nuanced or fully realised as this. A masterpiece by one of the English-speaking Transatlantic Atlantic World world’s most accomplished historians.’ Slave Trade Britain and Spain – David Weber, author of Bárbaros: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment David Eltis and in America David Richardson 1492–1830 ‘As with all Elliott’s books, the architecture and the scope are breathtaking. In this extraordinary J. H. Elliott Empires of the Atlantic World covers almost every imaginable aspect book featuring nearly In this enthralling of the imperial experience, from politics and 200 specially drawn account of the entwined economics to art and law, religion and literature, maps, two leading histories of Britain, science and technology: all encompassed within historians have created Spain and their empires a single narrative which takes us from discovery the first comprehensive, up-to-date atlas on the 350- in the Americas, distinguished historian J. H. in 1492 to the eve of final independence of the year history of African slave traffic to the New World. Elliott offers us history on a grand scale. He Spanish-American colonies in 1830.’ ‘This marvellous book will change how people think interweaves the histories of the two great Atlantic – Anthony Pagden, London Review of Books of the slave trade. It deserves every accolade it is likely civilisations, providing rich insights into both while ‘Elliott writes wonderfully readable history and in to get.’ – Nicolas van de Walle, Foreign Affairs revealing aspects of their dual history that influence Empires he offers a rattling good tale describing ‘A ground-breaking project: the Atlas will be the Americas to this day. European expansion to the New World that will indispensable for all those interested in the slave ‘[A] magnificent book … Seldom can comparative captivate readers for years to come.’ trade.’ – Jane Webster, Times Literary Supplement history have been done so thoroughly, and – Simon Middleton, BBC History Magazine ‘Beautifully produced, with period images and presented with such flair, authority and aplomb.’ contemporary quotations, this is a work of – Fernando Cervantes, Times Literary Supplement 2007 608 pp. 43 b/w illus. 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Drawing on multilingual years between the American and French revolutions, context.’ – T. H. Breen, Times Literary Supplement research, Leonardo Marques sheds new light on the when new visions of human rights and liberty freely changing behaviour of American slave traders and crossed oceans and borders. 2013 608 pp. 11 colour + 25 b/w illus. their networks, particularly to Brazil and Cuba, amid HB ISBN 978-0-300-17859-3 £29.95/$100.00 ‘Instead of telling the usual heroic national changing legislation and international relations. story, [Polasky] ranges wherever her wayfaring Available November 2016 336 pp. 3 b/w illus. revolutionaries take her – to Paris and Washington, The Slave’s Cause HB ISBN 978-0-300-21241-9 £30.00/$40.00 NEW but also to Poland, Sierra Leone and the Caribbean. A History of Abolition Instead of confining herself to the deeds of valiant Manisha Sinha men, she also gives the stage to women and slaves. 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HB ISBN 978-0-300-18137-1 £25.00/$37.50 NEW Hidden Histories of the Available January 2017 272 pp. 12 b/w illus. British Atlantic World Architecture HB ISBN 978-0-300-22136-7 £25.00/$35.00 NEW Zara Anishanslin Through the story of a and Empire in A Path in the portrait of a woman in a Jamaica silk dress, historian Zara Mighty Waters Anishanslin embarks on a Louis P. Nelson Shipboard Life and fascinating journey, exploring This important and original Atlantic Crossings and refining debates about the cultural history of study of 18th-century to the New World Jamaican architecture, the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world. While Stephen R. 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Amistad’s Orphans A History of New Worlds An Atlantic Story of Children, Slavery, South Africa A Religious History and Smuggling Fourth Edition of Latin America Benjamin N. Lawrance Leonard Thompson John Lynch In this fascinating revisionist history, Benjamin Revised and updated by Historian John Lynch presents Lawrance casts new light on transatlantic slave Lynn Berat a brilliant capstone work smuggling in the nineteenth century by reconstructing A magisterial history of South encompassing the Latin six African childrens’ lives that were irrevocably Africa, from the earliest American people’s reception of changed when the Cuban schooner La Amistad was known human inhabitation Christianity from the Spanish seized by its African ‘cargo’ in 1839. of the region to the present. 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Homintern Culture Global Crisis How Gay Culture Terry Eagleton War, Climate Change Liberated the Modern Culture is a defining aspect and Catastrophe in the World of what it means to be Seventeenth Century Gregory Woods human. Defining culture Geoffrey Parker and pinpointing its role in In this landmark international A master historian uncovers our lives is not, however, history, stretching from the the disturbing connection so straightforward. Terry Oscar Wilde scandal to the gay between the worldwide Eagleton, one of our foremost liberation movement, Gregory tumult of the mid-seventeenth literary and cultural critics, Woods explores how informal century and weather changes is uniquely poised to take gay and lesbian networks effected seismic changes in during the same period. on the challenge. In this keenly analytical and twentieth-century culture. acerbically funny book, he explores how culture and ‘Sets out to examine a century in which weather Woods shines a revealing light on the diverse, informal our conceptualisations of it have evolved over the patterns radically altered and political, social and networks of gay people in the arts and other creative last two centuries – from rarified sphere to humble economic crises seemed to engulf every part of the fields. Uneasily called ‘the Homintern’ by those suspicious practices, and from a bulwark against industrialism’s world. What relationship does a changing climate of an international homosexual conspiracy, such networks encroaches to present-day capitalism’s most profitable bear to global stability? There could scarcely be a connected gay writers, actors, artists, musicians, dancers, export. Ranging over art and literature as well as more timely question to ask. Parker deploys a dazzling filmmakers, politicians and spies. While providing some philosophy and anthropology, and major but somewhat breadth of scholarship in answering it.’ – Dan Jones, defence against dominant heterosexual exclusion, the ‘unfashionable’ thinkers like Johann Gottfried Herder The Times grouping brought solidarity, celebrated talent and, in and Edmund Burke as well as T. S. Eliot, Matthew ‘A magnum opus that will remain a touchstone … for doing so, invigorated the majority culture. Arnold, Raymond Williams and Oscar Wilde, Eagleton at least a generation … Wide-ranging, monumental Woods introduces an enormous cast of gifted and provides a cogent overview of culture set firmly in its works of history are rare; this is one of them.’ extraordinary characters, most of them operating with historical and theoretical contexts, illuminating its – Theodore K. Rabb, Times Literary Supplement surprising openness; but also explores such issues as collusion with colonialism, nationalism, the decline of Named the History Book of 2013 by The Sunday Times artistic influence, the coping strategies of minorities, religion, and the rise of and rule over the ‘uncultured’ 2014 904 pp. 28 colour illus. + 55 figs. the hypocrisies of conservatism, and the effects of masses. Eagleton also examines culture today, PB ISBN 978-0-300-20863-4 £16.99/$30.00 positive and negative discrimination. Travelling from lambasting the commodification and co-option of a Harlem in the 1910s to 1920s Paris, 1930s Berlin, force that, properly understood, is a vital means for us 1950s New York and beyond, this sharply observed, to cultivate and enrich our social lives, and can even Possession warm-spirited book presents a surpassing portrait of provide the impetus to transform civil society. The Curious History of Private Collectors twentieth-century gay culture and the men and women ‘Eagleton is a clear, combative writer whom it is from Antiquity to the Present who both redefined themselves and changed history. always a pleasure to read, even – or especially – for Erin L. Thompson ‘In turn hilarious and horrifying … documents those who disagree with him. Culture exhibits his Filled with fascinating personalities and peppered by shocking levels of persecution. Homophobia was virtues to the full.’ – Theodore Dalrymple, author of scandalous events, this book explores the dark history pervasive and vicious … But this is not a gloomy Our Culture, What’s Left of It book. Woods lovingly presents a range of gloriously of looting, smuggling and forgery that lies at the heart 2016 192 pp. of modern private art collections and many of the outrageous gay and lesbian individuals and couples.’ HB ISBN 978-0-300-21879-4 £16.99/$25.00 NEW – Joanna Bourke, BBC History Magazine world’s most renowned museums. 2016 440 pp. 24 b/w illus. 2016 232 pp. 17 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-21803-9 £25.00/$35.00 NEW HB ISBN 978-0-300-20852-8 £20.00/$30.00 NEW

A Little History A Little History A Little History of the World of the World of Religion E. H. Gombrich Illustrated Edition Richard Holloway Translated by E. H. Gombrich In an era of hardening Caroline Mustill This illustrated edition religious attitudes and Illustrated by Clifford Harper of the Little History explosive religious violence, E. H. Gombrich’s brings together the this book offers a welcome bestselling history of the pellucid humanity of antidote. Richard Holloway world for the curious Gombrich’s narrative retells the entire history of of all ages tells the story with the images that religion – from the dawn of mankind from the Stone Age to the atomic may well have been in his mind’s eye as he wrote of religious belief to the twenty-first century – with bomb, focusing not on small detail but on the the book. The two hundred illustrations – most of deepest respect and a keen commitment to accuracy. sweep of human experience, the extent of human them in full colour – are not simple embellishments, Writing for those with faith and those without, achievement, and the depth of its frailty. The though they are beautiful. They emerge from the and especially for young readers who might be product of a generous and humane sensibility, this text, enrich the author’s intention, and deepen the making their minds up, he encourages curiosity timeless account makes intelligible the full span of pleasure of reading this remarkable work. and tolerance, accentuates nuance and mystery, and human history. calmly restores a sense of the value of faith. Blending high-grade design, fine paper and classic ‘The book charms, amuses and informs superbly … binding, this is both a sumptuous gift book and an Ranging far beyond the major world religions In A Little History, Gombrich triumphantly proves enhanced edition of a timeless account of human of Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism he is as much a story teller as a professor.’ history. and Hinduism, Holloway also examines where – Andrew Roberts, Daily Express religious belief comes from, the search for meaning ‘Now in a new fully illustrated format, could throughout history, today’s fascinations with ‘His enthusiasm for his subject is irresistible … there be any better book to inspire the historians Scientology and creationism, religiously motivated With Gombrich’s Little History at last available in of tomorrow? … We will all want this elegiac, violence, hostilities between religious people and English there will be many generations of future deceptively simple and elegant history.’ secularists, and more. Holloway proves an empathic historians who will attribute to it their lifelong – Sue Baker, Lovereading passion for history-and for truth.’ – Lisa Jardine, yet discerning guide to the enduring significance of 2013 304 pp. 205 colour illus. The Times faith and its power from ancient times to our own. PB ISBN 978-0-300-19718-1 £15.99/$25.00 ‘Brilliant, irresistible: a wonderful surprise.’ Available August 2016 256 pp. 40 b/w illus. – Philip Pullman HB ISBN 978-0-300-20883-2 £14.99/$25.00 NEW 2008 304 pp. 40 b/w illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-14332-4 £8.99/$15.00 Visit the Little Histories website: www.littlehistory.org

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The Grand Xerxes The Romans and Strategy of A Persian Life Their World Classical Sparta Richard Stoneman A Short Introduction Xerxes, Great King of the The Persian Challenge Brian Campbell Persian Empire from 486–465 This one-volume history of Paul A. Rahe BC, has been largely vilified the Roman world begins with More than 2500 years ago by history. This lively new the early years of the republic a confederation of small biography reappraises his and carries the story nearly a Greek city-states defeated reign, revealing a complicated thousand years forward to 476, the invading armies of man who ruled a vast and when Romulus Augustulus, Persia, the most powerful empire in the world. In multicultural empire which the Greek communities of the last Western Roman emperor, was deposed. Brian this meticulously researched study, historian Paul the West saw as the antithesis of their own values. 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He explores TB Werner Heisenberg and his wife, Elisabeth, during ‘An extraordinary and entertaining catalog of and race in east Africa, in South Africa, and on World War II sheds light on their devoted relationship maritime and scientific endeavor.’ – Michael Fathers, Native American reservations in the first half of the and on his much-debated wartime work as director of Wall Street Journal twentieth century, investigates the unsuccessful search Germany’s Uranium Project. The correspondence offers ‘This fascinating tale is told across time, ships, for a vaccine, uncovers the origins of drug-resistant insight into recurring questions relating to Werner’s captains and crews, and the countries that sent or tuberculosis in Kenya and elsewhere in the decades decision not to emigrate and his attitude toward the received these scientific travelers … Williams … does following World War II, and details the tragic story of atomic bomb. 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Decoding Eureka exploit their practical usage. Filled with fascinating Chomsky stories of struggle, rivalry and the ingenuity of Science and How Invention both famous inventors and hundreds of forgotten Revolutionary Politics Happens people, Weightman’s captivating new work is a Chris Knight Gavin Weightman triumph of research and storytelling that offers a fresh take on the making of our modern world. Occupying a pivotal position What would the modern in postwar thought, Noam world be without the ‘Gavin Weightman’s book is a gem. He takes five Chomsky is both the founder airplane, the television, icons of modern technology – the aeroplane, the of modern linguistics the mobile phone, the television, the bar code, the personal computer and the world’s most bar code and the personal and the mobile phone – and shows that their prominent political dissident. Chris Knight adopts computer? In the popular histories and inventions are wonderfully complex an anthropologist’s perspective on the twin output imagination, each of these now ubiquitous and historically rich. He explains complicated of this intellectual giant, acclaimed as much for his twentieth-century inventions sprang from the science and technology with great facility. Who denunciations of American foreign policy as for his mind of a single visionary genius. Historian Gavin would have thought that the history of the bar theories about language and mind. Knight explores the Weightman, however, proves the inaccuracy of this code could be so fascinating?’ – William Bynum, social and institutional context of Chomsky’s thinking, image, revealing instead the centuries-long series author of A Little History of Science showing how the tension between military funding and of tiny innovations, radical breakthroughs and ‘The book is sweetly written, carried along by his role as linchpin of the political left pressured him to eccentric personalities that actually led up to the unobtrusive good humour, a deep intuition for establish a disconnect between science minus politics moment of discovery. (For example, the microchip the history of ideas and a liberal salting of steam- on the one hand, politics minus science on the other, can be traced back to a printing technique punk esoterica.’ – Oliver Moody, The Times deepening a split between mind and body characteristic developed by an impoverished nineteenth-century ‘Smart technology history that’s as fun and of Western philosophy since the Enlightenment. Bavarian playwright.) readable as it is seriously informative.’ Provocative, fearless, and engaging, this remarkable With all due respect to scientists and professional – Kirkus Reviews engineers, Weightman documents how many study explains the enigma of one of the greatest 2015 280 pp. 12 pages of b/w illus. successful inventions were actually pioneered by intellectuals of our time, revealing a profoundly divided HB ISBN 978-0-300-19208-7 £20.00/$30.00 man who shows disturbing cracks in his genius. amateurs such as the Wright brothers, who spotted Available September 2016 304 pp. a need and built upon existing technologies to HB ISBN 978-0-300-22146-6 £18.99/$30.00 NEW

Black Hole Fake Silk An Empire of Ice How an Idea The Lethal History of Viscose Rayon Scott, Shackleton, and Abandoned by Paul David Blanc the Heroic Age of Newtonians, Hated by When a technological breakthrough also causes human Antarctic Science Einstein, and Gambled illness, how high does the body count have to go before Edward J. Larson on by Hawking Became effective protective steps are taken? This disturbing This riveting account of Loved book explores the century-long history of ‘fake silk’, or the Heroic Age of Antarctic Marcia Bartusiak cellulose viscose, used in the production of products exploration by Pulitzer Prize- For more than half a century, ranging from rayon textiles to cellophane to household winning historian Edward physicists and astronomers sponges. Deeply researched and boldly presented, J. Larson restores these engaged in heated dispute over the possibility of the volume tells a continuing story of hazardous expeditions’ status as grand endeavours of science. It is black holes in the universe. The weirdly alien notion manufacturing on an international scale, involving the first book to place the famed voyages of Norwegian of a space-time abyss from which nothing escapes – poisonous materials, environmental abuses, political explorer Roald Amundsen, his British rivals Robert not even light – seemed to confound all logic. This machinations and false ‘green product’ rhetoric. Scott and Ernest Shackleton, and others in a larger engrossing book tells the story of the fierce black hole Available January 2017 352 pp. scientific, social and geopolitical context. debates and the contributions of Einstein and Hawking HB ISBN 978-0-300-20466-7 £30.00/$40.00 NEW ‘In this fascinating book … Larson’s intriguing and other leading thinkers who completely altered our accounts begin to reveal the bigger picture of early view of the universe. Einstein scientific research in Antarctica and its place in European geopolitics of the time.’ – Michael Bravo, ‘Lively and dramatic … There’s no danger of being His Space and Times bored. Bartusiak does a good job of tracing the New Scientist twisted route that our understanding has followed, Steven Gimbel 2012 344 pp. 54 b/w illus. from Newton to Einstein and to today as we try to A fascinating new biography PB ISBN 978-0-300-18821-9 £10.99/$16.00 extend gravity to quantum scales.’ – Tara Shears, of Albert Einstein presents Times Higher Education the great man of science as a politically engaged individual Database of 2016 256 pp. 27 b/w illus. NEW PB ISBN 978-0-300-21966-1 £10.99/$18.00 IN PAPER of his times, demonstrating Dreams how his theories and The Lost Quest to scientific innovations Catalog Humanity Boyle emerged as a direct result of Between God and Science his life, his principles, and the volatile times in which Rebecca Lemov Michael Hunter he lived. An acclaimed science historian uncovers the fascinating story ‘A comprehensive account of Boyle’s life that Steven Gimbel’s biography offers a fascinating portrait of a Harvard psychologist incorporates all the latest research … Hunter of a remarkable individual who remained actively who – just a few years before meticulously investigates every scrap of evidence.’ engaged in international affairs throughout his life. the dawn of the digital age – – Patricia Fara, BBC History Magazine This revealing work not only explains Einstein’s theories in understandable terms, it demonstrates how assembled a vast, now-lost sociological database that ‘We’ll never know enough about the day-to-day life or they directly emerged from the realities of his times and captured the dreams, stories and innermost thoughts of the inner turmoil of one of the 17th-century’s finest helped create the world we live in today. a varied range of the world’s peoples. natural philosophers, but Hunter brings us as close as ‘Humane, hilarious, and smart.’ – Science we are ever likely to get.’ – Jonathan Wright, ‘What makes Gimbel’s book different is its brevity Catholic Herald and its emphasis on these cultural and political ‘A compelling account.’ – Wall Street Journal aspects of the man … yet at the same time the 2010 384 pp. 2015 368 pp. explanations of the science are exemplary – swift and HB ISBN 978-0-300-20952-5 £25.00/$35.00 PB ISBN 978-0-300-16931-7 £16.99/$30.00 clear.’ – Bryan Appleyard, The Sunday Times Jewish Lives Series 2015 208 pp. 1 b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19671-9 £14.99/$25.00 37 AMERICA

George A Little History ‘Davidson has written a work that should lead readers to reflect anew on America’s past and Whitefield of the United present … We can all use not just a good refresher America’s Spiritual States course on American history, but also some good Founding Father historical thinking on how we might better realize Thomas S. 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Selected Writings Narrative of the Letters of Thomas Paine Life of Frederick from America Edited by Ian Shapiro and Jane E. Calvert Douglass, An Alexis de Tocqueville With an Introduction by Ian Shapiro Edited, translated With Essays by J. C. D. Clark, Jane E. Calvert American Slave and with an introduction by and Eileen Hunt Botting Written by Himself, Frederick Brown Featuring the most authoritative texts available, this Critical Edition This book presents for the first edition contains Thomas Paine’s essential works Frederick Douglass time the complete translated together with commentary that reflects the best correspondence of Tocqueville John R. McKivigan, Peter P. Hinks historical thinking on this seminal figure in the and Heather L. Kaufman eds on his first journey to America American Revolution. in 1831. 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PB ISBN 978-0-300-18183-8 £16.99/$22.00 2015 720 pp. Available January 2017 256 pp. 7 b/w illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-16745-0 £14.99/$18.00 PB ISBN 978-0-300-20471-1 £7.99/$9.95 NEW The Civil War in Art and The Papers of Benjamin Franklin Louisa Catherine Memory Volume 41: September 16, 1783, through The Other Mrs. Adams February 29, 1784 Edited by Margery M. Heffron Kirk Savage Ellen R. Cohn, Editor, et al. Edited by With his welcome leisure time after the signing of David L. Mitchelmore Reflecting on the the September 3, 1783, peace treaty, Franklin eagerly This definitive biography of sesquicentennial of followed scientific developments (including the first Louisa Catherine, wife and the American Civil balloon ascensions in Paris), advised the French political partner of President War, this notable government on schemes for civic improvement, and John Quincy Adams, reveals book brings together wrote three of his most remarkable pieces about what it her not only as an articulate a range of media and perspectives that show how the meant to be American. and sophisticated woman but also as a shrewd analyst conflict has been recorded and remembered over time. Fifteen essays written by leading scholars in a variety 2014 760 pp. 8 b/w illus. of the politics, personalities and important issues of of disciplines explore visual representations of the war HB ISBN 978-0-300-20374-5 £65.00/$125.00 America’s formative decades. and its remembrance from the mid-19th century to the ‘A sparkling biography: Readers will … be grateful present. My Bondage for this fascinating … portrait of an exceptional woman.’ – Virginia DeJohn Anderson, New York Times 2016 292 pp. 88 colour + 57 b/w illus. and My Freedom Book Review HB ISBN 978-0-300-21468-0 £50.00/$70.00 NGA NEW Frederick Douglass 2015 432 pp.15 b/w illus. Introduction and Notes by PB ISBN 978-0-300-21256-3 £14.99/$25.00 Mourning Lincoln David W. 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An American Wanted The Letters of C. Vann Woodward Genocide The Outlaw Lives of Edited by Michael O’Brien The United States and Billy the Kid and A fascinating and immensely entertaining glimpse into the California Indian Ned Kelly the mind of one of the most prominent and respected Catastrophe, Robert M. Utley historians of the twentieth century. 1846–1873 The oft-told exploits of ‘Woodward was a consistently first-rate correspondent, and these letters offer an eloquent Benjamin Madley Billy the Kid and Ned Kelly survive vividly in the public insight into the writing of history as an ongoing, Between 1846 and 1873, imaginations of their respective collaborative project based around candid exchange.’ California’s Indian population countries, the United States – Tom F. Wright, Times Literary Supplement plunged from perhaps and Australia. But the outlaws’ reputations are so 2013 480 pp. 150,000 to 30,000. 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The Tragedy of Surge of Piety Eslanda U.S. Foreign Policy Norman Vincent Peale The Large and How America’s Civil and the Remaking of Unconventional Life Religion Betrayed the American Religious Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson National Interest Christopher Lane Barbara Ransby Walter A. McDougall Near the height of Cold War This compelling biography hysteria, when the threat tells Essie Robeson’s own story In this provocative book, an of all-out nuclear war felt for the first time – from her acclaimed Pulitzer Prize– real, Presbyterian minister unconventional marriage, to winning historian explores Norman Vincent Peale her influence on her husband’s the role of civil religion in published The Power of Positive Thinking, a bestseller early career and tireless efforts against racism and shaping the domestic and foreign policy of a ‘God preaching a gospel of self-assurance in an age of mass injustice around the globe. blessed America’, from the era of the Founding Fathers anxiety. 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Page Author/Title Page Author/Title Page Author/Title 30 Abbas: The Taliban Revival 38 Davidson: A Little History of the United States 14 Gordon: Calvin 41 Ackerman: The Progressives’ Century 24 Davies & Harris: Stalin’s World 29 Gott: Cuba 8 Adshead & Taylor: Hardwick Hall 11 Davies: Wellington’s Wars 4 Grant: Blanche of Castile 14 Alexander: The Painted Book in Renaissance Italy 7 Dawson: John Knox 3 Green: The Hundred Years War 8 Alford: Burghley 1 De la Bédoyère: The Real Lives of Roman Britain 6 Gregg: Queen Anne 26 Allawi: Faisal I of Iraq 39 De Tocqueville: Letters from America 8 Griffey: On Display 6 Allmand: Henry V 21 Delbo: Auschwitz and After 10 Griffin: Liberty’s Dawn 19 Allport: Browned Off and Bloody-Minded 21 Dimsdale: Anatomy of Malice 21 Haas: Forbidden Music 15 Anderson: The Flemish Merchant of Venice 27 Diner: Roads Taken 24 Hamburg: Russia’s Path Toward Enlightenment 28 Anishanslin: Portrait of a Woman in Silk 40 Dorrien: The New Abolition 8 Handley: Sleep in Early Modern England 25 Applebaum: Gulag Voices 22 Douglas: Orderly and Humane 3 Hanley: Louis 25 Baberowski: Scorched Earth 39 Douglass: My Bondage and My Freedom 16 Hardman: The Life of Louis XVI 4 Bagnoli: A Feast for the Senses 39 Douglass: Narrative of the Life of F. Douglass 5 Harris: The End of Byzantium 5 Barber: The Crusader States 39 Douglass: The Heroic Slave 5 Harris: The Lost World of Byzantium 11 Barczewski: Heroic Failure and the British 40 Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk 24 Hartley: Siberia 6 Barlow: Edward the Confessor 7 Duffy: Fires of Faith 25 Haslam: Russia’s Cold War 6 Barlow: William Rufus 7 Duffy: Marking the Hours 6 Hatton: George I 18 Barthas: Poilu 33 Duffy: Saints and Sinners 30 Hayton: The South China Sea 37 Bartusiak: Black Hole 33 Duffy: Ten Popes Who Shook the World 39 Heffron: Louisa Catherine 17 Bassett: For God and Kaiser 7 Duffy: The Stripping of the Altars 25 Heinzen: The Art of the Bribe 6 Bates: William the Conqueror 7 Duffy: The Voices of Morebath 36 Heisenberg: My Dear Li 23 Becirevic: Genocide on the Drina River 32 Eagleton: Culture 14 Hendrix: Martin Luther 18 Beckett: The Making of the First World War 40 Ebel: G.I. Messiahs 3 Hicks: The Wars of the Roses 8 Bellany & Cogswell: The Murder of King James I 41 Eckstein: Bad Moon Rising 1 Higham & Ryan: The Anglo-Saxon World 36 Bercovici: The Origins of Everything 6 Edwards: Mary I 39 Hodes: Mourning Lincoln 14 Bergin: Politics of Religion in Early Modern France 14 Eire: Reformations 41 Hodgson: JFK and LBJ 7 Bernard: Anne Boleyn 28 Elliott: Empires of the Atlantic World 6 Hollister: Henry I 3 Bernard: The Late Medieval English Church 31 Elliott: History in the Making 32 Holloway: A Little History of Religion 28 Berry: A Path in the Mighty Waters 15 Elliott: Spain, Europe and the Wider World 5 Housley: Fighting for the Cross 25 Bidlack & Lomagin: The Leningrad Blockade 28 Eltis: Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade 37 Hunter: Boyle 17 Binding: Hans Christian Andersen 25 Evans: Between Truth and Time 15 Hurlburt: Daughter of Venice 21 Birnbaum: Léon Blum 7 Everett: The Rise of Thomas Cromwell 1 Huscroft: Tales From the Long Twelfth Century 6 Black: George III 24 Fairclough: Classics for the Masses 1 Hutton: Blood and Mistletoe 33 Black: The Power of Knowledge 39 Fairhead: The Captain and ‘The Cannibal’ 1 Hutton: Pagan Britain 37 Blanc: Fake Silk 31 Farge: The Allure of the Archives 12 Jackson: Dirty Old London 5 Boehm: Jerusalem, 1000–1400 26 Faulkner: Lawrence of Arabia’s War 39 Jacoby: The Great Agnostic 35 Bolman: The Red Monastery Church 25 Firsov: Secret Cables of the Comintern 18 Jasper: Lusitania 20 Bonelli: Exit Berlin 4 Flasch: Meister Eckhart 11 Jeal: Livingstone 17 Bosworth: Italian Venice 18 Fletcher: Life, Death and Growing Up 35 Jones & McFadden: Art of Empire 17 Bosworth: Whispering City 29 Folsom: The Yaquis and the Empire 24 Jones: Myth, Memory, Trauma 12 Bristow & Mitchell: Oscar Wilde’s Chatterton 6 Foot: Æthelstan 23 Judah: The Serbs 2 Brown: Durham Cathedral 26 Fraihat: Unfinished Revolutions 14 Jütte: The Age of Secrecy 12 Brown: Palmerston 39 Franklin: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin vol 41 15 Kamen: Philip of Spain 2 Browne: English Medieval Embroidery 4 Freed: Frederick Barbarossa 15 Kamen: The Spanish Inquisition 19 Buckley: Monty’s Men 33 Freeman: A New History of Early Christianity 16 Kaplan: Cunegonde’s Kidnapping 10 Bundock: The Fortunes of Francis Barber 5 Freeman: Holy Bones, Holy Dust 26 Karsh: Islamic Imperialism 36 Bynum: A Little History of Science 27 Friedländer: Franz Kafka 20 Kater: Weimar 18 Cabanes: August 1914 20 Friedrich: Hitler’s Berlin 26 Katouzian: The Persians 33 Calderisi: Earthly Mission 25 Frierson: Silence Was Salvation 26 Keddie: Modern Iran 35 Campbell: The Romans and Their World 27 Frieze: Totally Unofficial 3 Keen: Chivalry 5 Canby: Court and Cosmos 24 Frolova-Walker: Stalin’s Music Prize 24 Kelly: St Petersburg 38 Carp: Defiance of the Patriots 22 Fulbrook: The People’s State 15 Kelsey: The First Circumnavigators 13 Caute: Isaac and Isaiah 27 Gabler: Barbra Streisand 21 Kershaw: Hitler, the Germans, and Final Solution 12 Cesarani: Disraeli 34 Galor & Bloedhorn: Archaeology of Jerusalem 30 Khan: The Great Partition 40 Chamberlin: On the Trail 17 Gay: Why the Romantics Matter 24 Khlevniuk: Stalin 6 Chrimes: Henry VII 33 Geffert: Eastern Orthodox Christianity 38 Kidd: American Colonial History 14 Clemens: The Voynich Manuscript 41 Gellman: The President and the Apprentice 38 Kidd: George Whitefield 23 Clover: Black Wind, White Snow 22 Gerolymatos: An International Civil War 6 King: King Stephen 9 Cockayne: Hubbub 21 Gerwarth: Hitler’s Hangman 21 Kitchen: Speer 30 Cockett: Blood, Dreams and Gold 27 Gilbert: In Ishmael’s House 31 Klaus: Forging Capitalism 29 Cockett: Sudan 6 Gillingham: Richard I 37 Knight: Decoding Chomsky 38 Cogliano: Emperor of Liberty 37 Gimbel: Einstein 36 Knight: Voyaging in Strange Seas 10 Colley: Britons 20 Ginsborg: Family Politics 2 Kupfer: Art and Optics in the Hereford Map 22 Confino: A World Without Jews 6 Given-Wilson: Henry IV 29 Laband: Zulu Warriors 2 Cornell: Bannockburn 38 Glover: Founders as Fathers 29 LaGamma: Kongo 29 Cronin: Global Rules 8 Goldring: Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester 8 Lake: How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage 34 Cunliffe: Europe Between the Oceans 32 Gombrich: A Little History of the World 41 Lane: Surge of Piety 3 Curry & Mercer: The Battle of Agincourt 2 Goodall: The English Castle 41 Laney: German Rocketeers in the Heart of Dixie 11 Davey: In Nelson’s Wake 25 Goodman: The Power of Pictures 21 Lang: Primo Levi 42 INDEX

Page Author/Title Page Author/Title Page Author/Title 37 Larson: An Empire of Ice 6 Phillips: Edward II 1 Strickland: Henry the Young King 29 Lawrance: Amistad’s Orphans 31 Phillips: On Historical Distance 21 Suleiman: The Némirovsky Question 37 Lemov: Database of Dreams 35 Picón: Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms 31 Summerhill: Inglorious Revolution 30 Lintner: Great Game East 9 Pincus: 1688 22 Sutnik: Memory Unearthed 38 Lipman: The Saltwater Frontier 38 Pincus: The Heart of the Declaration 30 Talbot: A History of Modern South Asia 38 Little: Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright 25 Pleshakov: The Crimean Nexus 23 Tanner: Croatia 6 Loach: Edward VI 28 Polasky: Revolutions Without Borders 27 Taylor: Proust 29 Lynch: New Worlds 6 Prestwich: Edward I 4 Taylor: The Virgin Warrior 29 Lynch: Simón Bolívar 18 Prior: Gallipoli 29 Thompson: A History of South Africa 7 MacCulloch: Thomas Cranmer 19 Prior: When Britain Saved the West 6 Thompson: George II 35 MacDonald: Hannibal 18 Prior & Wilson: Passchendaele 32 Thompson: Possession 5 Madigan: Medieval Christianity 18 Prior & Wilson: The Somme 23 Thorpe: The Danube 40 Madley: An American Genocide 27 Prose: Peggy Guggenheim 10 Thrush: Indigenous London 40 Magliocca: Tragedy of William Jennings Bryan 41 Pugh: America Dancing 13 Thurley: Men from the Ministry 13 Maisky: The Maisky Diaries 35 Rahe: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta 16 Treasure: The Huguenots 26 Marglin: Across Legal Lines 35 Rahe: The Spartan Regime 10 Trevor-Roper: History and the Enlightenment 28 Marques: US and the Transatlantic Slave Trade 41 Ransby: Eslanda 2 Trevor-Roper: The Invention of Scotland 13 Marriott: Beyond the Tower 14 Richardson: The Field of Cloth of Gold 31 Tripathi: The Colonel Who Would Not Repent 10 Marschner: Queen Caroline 1 Roach: Æthelred 3 Turner: Eleanor of Aquitaine 34 Martin: Ancient Greece 24 Roberts: Stalin’s Wars 17 Turner: European Intellectual History 35 Martin: Ancient Rome 16 Robertson: An Atlas of the Peninsular War 2 Turner: Julian of Norwich, Theologian 26 Mather: Pashas 13 Rose: Intellectual Life of British Working Classes 12 Turner: The Old Boys 23 Matynia: An Uncanny Era 13 Rose: The Literary Churchill 4 Turner: Thomas Aquinas 19 Mazower: Inside Hitler’s Greece 40 Rosen: Louis D. Brandeis 40 Utley: Wanted 9 McCarthy: Life in the Country House 6 Ross: Edward IV 3 Vale: Henry V 41 McDougall: The Tragedy of US Foreign Policy 6 Ross: Richard III 23 Van Middelaar: The Passage to Europe 36 McGrayne: The Theory That Would Not Die 25 Rubenstein: The Last Days of Stalin 30 Van Schaik: Tibet 34 McGregor: Back to the Garden 24 Rubenstein: Leon Trotsky 34 Vandenbeusch: Pharaoh 28 McKee: The Exile’s Song 26 Rubin & Schwanitz: Nazis, Islamists and Making 9 Vickery: Behind Closed Doors 11 McLynn: Captain Cook 5 Rudy: Postcards on Parchment 9 Vickery: The Gentleman’s Daughter 36 McMillen: Discovering Tuberculosis 25 Rutten: Sincerity after Communism 11 Vincent: Nelson 16 McPhee: Liberty or Death 26 Sanbar: The Palestinians 17 Vushko: The Politics of Cultural Retreat 16 McPhee: Robespierre 25 Satter: It Was a Long Time Ago 6 Warren: Henry II 40 Melillo: Strangers on Familiar Soil 23 Satter: The Less You Know, The Better You Sleep 6 Warren: King John 17 Merriman: The Dynamite Club 6 Saul: Richard II 13 Waterfield: The People’s Galleries 17 Merriman: Massacre 39 Savage: The Civil War in Art and Memory 28 Webb: Marlborough’s America 23 Michnik: The Trouble with History 6 Scarisbrick: Henry VIII 37 Weightman: Eureka 26 Miller: Desert Kingdoms to Global Powers 31 Schlund-Vials: Asian America 9 Weisser: Ill Composed 6 Miller: James II 12 Schneider: Engines of Truth 31 Wemheuer: Famine Politics in Maoist China 34 Mitchell: Democracy’s Beginning 19 Schrijvers: Those Who Hold Bastogne 4 Wickham: Medieval Europe 24 Mitchell: Nietzsche’s Orphans 30 Scott: The Art of Not Being Governed 33 Wilken: The First Thousand Years 16 Monod: Solomon’s Secret Arts 15 Seal: The Savage Shore 13 Willes: The Gardens of the British Working Class 10 Morris: Sex, Money and Personal Character 27 Shapira: Ben-Gurion 36 Williams: Naturalists at Sea 8 Morrison: Apethorpe 30 Sharma: Gandhi 23 Wilson: The Ukrainians 11 Muir: Wellington, Vols I and II 9 Sharpe: Image Wars 20 Winkler: The Age of Catastrophe 22 Müller: Contesting Democracy 9 Sharpe: Rebranding Rule 4 Winroth: The Conversion of Scandinavia 18 Mulligan: The Great War for Peace 9 Sharpe: Selling the Tudor Monarchy 38 Winterer: American Enlightenments 19 Murphy: The Art of Survival 25 Shearer: Stalin and the Lubianka 6 Wolffe: Henry VI 40 Nash: Wilderness and the American Mind 19 Shepherd: Hitler’s Soldiers 27 Wolpe: David 28 Nelson: Architecture and Empire in Jamaica 20 Sherratt: Hitler’s Philosophers 32 Woods: Homintern 33 Nongbri: Before Religion 33 Shoemaker: Mary in Early Christian Faith 40 Woodward: The Letters of C. Vann Woodward 19 Nord: France 1940 28 Sinha: The Slave’s Cause 2 Woolgar: The Culture of Food in England 9 Ohlmeyer: Making Ireland English 12 Slater: The Great Charles Dickens Scandal 36 Wootton: Galileo 31 Oosterlinck: Hope Springs Eternal 6 Smith: George IV 31 Wu: From Christ to Confucius 34 Oppenheim: Ancient Egypt Transformed 38 Smith: Robert Morris’s Folly 15 You: Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate 22 Opoczynski: In Those Nightmarish Days 40 Smithers: The Cherokee Diaspora 22 Zapruder: Salvaged Pages 6 Ormrod: Edward III 10 Solkin: Art in Britain 1660–1815 27 Zornberg: Moses 14 Ozment: The Serpent and the Lamb 27 Stern: The Genius 41 Paget: Patriotic Betrayal 19 Stewart: The First Victory 39 Paine: Selected Writings of Thomas Paine 18 Stichelbaut: The Great War Seen from the Air 32 Parker: Global Crisis 20 Stoltzfus: Hitler’s Compromises 15 Parker: Imprudent King 22 Stone: The Liberation of the Camps 8 Parry: The Arch Conjuror of England 35 Stoneman: Xerxes 2 Penman: Robert the Bruce 15 Storrs: The Spanish Resurgence, 1713–1748 34 Peppard: The World’s Oldest Church 16 Stow: Anna and Tranquillo 20 Petropoulos: Artists under Hitler 30 Strangio: Hun Sen’s Cambodia 14 Pettegree: The Book in the Renaissance 20 Stratigakos: Hitler at Home 33 Pettegree: The Invention of News 12 Stratmann: The Marquess of Queensberry 27 Phillips: Becoming Freud 12 Stratmann: The Secret Poisoner 43 ORDER FORM

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