Books in the Oxford Historical Monographs series

From the earliest centuries of Christianity, the cult of saintly relics has been an important feature of the worship of the Church. This book explores the way in which church architecture has been shaped by holy bones - the physical remains or 'relics' of those whom the Church venerated as saints.

Who funded the Irish Revolution? In Shadow of a Taxman, R. J. C. Adams investigates how the unrecognised Irish Republic's money was solicited, collected, transmitted, and safeguarded, as well as who the financial backers were and what influenced their decision to contribute from as far afield as New York, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, and Melbourne.

This text is a study of the Black Country in the 19th century, when the area was at the forefront of Britain's industrial development. It aims to enhance the reader's understanding of Victorian society through this researched analysis of the urban elites of the region.

A study of the debate surrounding crime and madness in France from 1840-1914, which argues that the French penal system was undermined by psychiatric theories of human behaviour and sociological interpretations of crime. Case studies are featured on which this discussion was based.

This study of London's foreign community in the 16th century examines the impact of the first major influx of foreign refugees to England: the Protestant exiles of the Reformation era.

Analyses the process of reform that led to the formation of the London County Council, the forces that shaped it, and the role played by local and national politicians in its establishment. This work, an account of the economic, social, and administrative complexities of Victorian London, is for all those interested in the 'metropolitan problem.'

Chronicling the changing fortunes of the aristocratic elite in Victorian Wales, this study explores the extensive influence of this class on the agricultural, political and religious life of one county, Carmarthenshire, and the reasons for its decline by 1895.

This is a pioneering comparative study of the British Labour Party and the German Social Democratic Party. Its controversial conclusions about the degree of similarity between the two will open up a new perspective on old debates.

This examination of the impact of the English Reformation at parish level provides a perceptive exploration of the role of the Catholic priesthood in the church and in the life of the community. Using a range of contemporary sources, it demonstrates the practical consequences of the Reformation.

A scholarly history of the rise of the Townshends, the most famous landowning family in Norfolk, telling the story of individual members of the family and setting the dynasty in its context. Their activities reveal much about the role of the gentry in late medieval and early Tudor England.

This book examines the Reformation from the point of view of an almost forgotten congregation of Benedictine monks in Italy and southern France whose humanist approach to their studies put them in a unique position to understand the reformers.

Tudor York

The Re-establishment of the Church of England 1660-1663

This volume analyzes the process by which class society developed in post-revolutionary France. Focusing on bourgeois men and on their voluntary associations, it addresses the construction of class and gender identities.

This is an account of religious belief and conflict in the strategically important province of Inner Austria between 1580 and 1630. Dr Portner analyzes the aims, achievements, and shortcomings of the Habsburgs' confessional crusade in Styria.

Explores the strengths and weaknesses of the English state in the sixteenth century. This book examines the relationship between monarchy and people in Cornwall and Devon, and the complex interaction between local and national political culture. It also offers a fresh understanding of government at the allegedly dangerous edges of Tudor England.

This study reframes our understanding of the Palestinian and Zionist national movements, arguing that Palestinian and Hebrew pedagogy could only be truly understood through an analysis of the conscious or unconscious dialogue between them, by examining the way Arabs and Zionists thought, taught, and wrote about their past.

This book examines how eleventh-century kings were portrayed in the writing of twelfth-century historians. Winkler employs a modern literary critical approach to demonstrate how much of our understanding of eleventh-century history stems from authorial strategies of later writers rather than from contemporary sources.

German Catholicism at War explores the role Roman Catholicism played in shaping the moral economy of German society during the Second World War. Drawing on previously unused source materials, German Catholicism at War examines the complex relationship between Catholics and Nazi authorities and religious responses to the war.

At a time when Arab revolutionary movements are once again dominating the headlines, Monsoon Revolution offers a fresh reading of the Arab revolutionary tradition, examining one of its foremost case studies: the Dhufar revolution in Oman (1965-1976).

This is a study of the common social characteristics and circumstances of those among the lay society of twelfth-century England who tended to seek assistance in the form of miracles at the shrines of saints. It aims to make sense of their religious experience and motivation, re-evaluating the religious cliches of devotion found in conventional medieval narratives.

Medieval bridges are achievements of civil engineering, which prove the importance of road transport and the sophistication of the medieval economy. This work rewrites their history, from early Anglo-Saxon England right up to the Industrial Revolution offering insights into various aspects of the subject.

Bingham uses the popular press to explore the attitudes and identities of inter-war Britain, and in particular the reshaping of femininity and masculinity. He provides a fresh insight into a period when women and men were coming to terms with rapid social change, and deepens our understanding of the development of the modern media.

Offers an evaluation of the political role of the Church of England in inter-war Britain. This book argues that, at a time of crises such as the General Strike of 1926, the Prayer Book controversy of 1929, the Abdication Crisis of 1936 and the rise of Hitler, religion remained central to political thought and debate.

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa were increasingly drawn together by an imperial press system. This is a scholarly study of the development of that system, challenging earlier nationalist accounts.

Based on research into political, personal, and general correspondences across a period of significant social and political change, this book explores the gendered nature of politics and political life in eighteenth-century England by focusing on the political involvement of female members of the political elite.

With the dawn of Romanticism, be it in the realms of science, religion, or poetry, the interest in physiognomy rekindled. This book interprets the way in which books on physiognomy were read, tracing the wider intellectual, social, and cultural changes that contributed to the metamorphosis of this way of beholding oneself and the natural world.

Combining urban theory with postcolonial methodology, this book argues that modern Beirut is the outcome of persistent social and intellectual struggles over the production of space. Drawing on several Ottoman government documents, Arabic sources, and European archival material, it traces the urban experience of modernity in the Ottoman Empire.

This book explains why governments decided to make trade unions legal, and protect strikers from the criminal law. Drawing on previously unused source material, Curthoys brings to light some of the workings of the ninteenth-century state.