Books in the Oxford Historical Monographs series

A comparative study of Nationalist Army and Republican Popular Army conscripts during the Spanish Civil War. Draws extensively on unpublished archival material to analyse the conflict from the perspective of those who were involved against their will.

This book discusses the relationship between religion and medicine around 1300. Ziegler analyses the spiritual writings of two physicians in the light of their medical background. He examines the use of medical knowledge for non-medical purposes, and by clerics who did not engage in medical practice.

As Algeria became connected to international news networks during French colonial rule in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this study examines how news spread through communities and across social divides, how new media changed the communication landscape, and how surveillance by the French government played a role.

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.

In colonial-era Egypt, a new social category of "modern men" emerged, the efendiyya, who represented the new middle class elite. This volume explores how they assumed a key political role in the anti-colonial movement and in the building of a modern state both before and after the revolution of 1952.

Highlights the importance of language in the social theory, epistemology, and aesthetics of the Enlightenment. Argues that awareness of the historicity and linguistic rootedness of all forms of life was a mainstream Enlightenment notion rather than a feature of the so-called 'Counter-Enlightenment'.

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).

Moving away from conventional theories about Victorian attitudes towards race, Salesa focuses on an array of equally influential, yet seemingly opposite, ideas where racial crossing was seen as a means of improvement, a way to manage racial conflict or create new societies, or even a way to promote the rule of law.

Describes and analyses brutality in the later Middle Ages, focusing on a thriving region of Northern France. Explores experiences of, and attitudes towards, violence. Offers fresh ways of thinking about violence in societies, and throws new light on the social life of villages and towns in a transitional period.

Monika Baar examines the work of five prominent East-Central European historians in the nineteenth century, analyzing and contrasting their body of work, their promotion of a national culture, and the contributions they made to European historiography.

Hindenburg: Power, Myth, and the Rise of the Nazis reveals how a previously little-known general, whose career to normal retirement age had provided no real foretaste of his heroic status, became a national icon and living myth in Germany after the First World War, capturing the imagination of millions.

Richard II has long suffered from an effeminate reputation, but the real king was very different. This book argues that the king sought to assert his authority by acting in accordance with prevailing ideas of manhood, first through a military campaign, and then, fatally, through revenge against those who attempted to restrain him.

Provides the critical account of the role of music amongst communities imprisoned under Nazism. This book documents a scope of musical activities, ranging from orchestras and chamber groups to choirs, theatres, communal sing-songs, and cabarets, in some of the most important internment centres in Nazi-occupied Europe.

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.

Examines the history of Holocaust testimony, from the chroniclers confined to Nazi-enforced ghettos to survivors writing as part of collective memory. This book shows how the conditions and motivations for bearing witness changed immeasurably. It demonstrates that what survivors remember is determined by the context in which they are remembering.

Edmund Burke, eighteenth-century Irishman and politician, was no 'C/conservative', yet 'Burkean conservatism' is seen as the core of modern C/conservatism. For the first time, this volume shows how Burke's legacy was transformed over the course of the nineteenth century to create one of our most significant theories of modern politics and thought.

Simon Forman (1552-1611) is one of London's most infamous astrologers. Whilst he was consulted thousands of times a year for medical and other questions he stood apart from the medical elite as he boldly asserted medical ideas that were at odds with most learned physicians. In this fascinating book, Lauren Kassell vividly recovers the world of medicine and magic in Elizabethan London.

Presents a scholarly history of Britain's dominant fine art institution from its foundation in 1768 to the beginning of the Victorian age. This book places the Royal Academy of Arts in the contexts of the metropolitan, British, and European art worlds and explores its influence on the notion of a national school of art.

This is a scholarly study of the collision of Goths and Romans in the fourth and fifth centuries. Dr Heather explores the development of Visigothic and Ostrogothic societies, their rise to power, and the complicated interactions with the Romans which helped bring about the fall of the Roman Empire.

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 first biography of Richard, third Duke of York, examines the political opposition of a great lord to Henry VI's regime. Although at one stage an active member of government, the main interest in his career lies in the increasing isolation of a once loyal subject.

Few statesmen in history have inspired the imagination of generations of Germans more than the founder of the Kaiserreich, Otto von Bismarck. This book provides an analysis of Bismarck's legacy as a political myth that undermined parliamentary democracy in Germany and contributed to the rise of Hitler.

Gabriela A. Frei examines how sea powers used international law as an instrument in foreign policy in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, illuminating key developments of international maritime law surrounding state practice, custom, and codification, and outlining the complex relationship between international law and maritime strategy.

Delhi as an urban space was re-made in the late-colonial period, not purely because of the new architecture, but also because of crucial social transformations. Possessing the City poses the question: who owned property, and what did they do with it, with answers rooted in the South Asian state, housing, finance, and religious conflict.

During and after World War One, Britain's blockade of Germany prevented foodstuffs from being exported to Germany, leading to outcries from German civic leaders and an outpouring of generosity from across the world. This study examines the detailed height and weight data of children in this period to show the measures of deprivation and recovery.

This volume recovers the Victorian relationship between historical thought and religious debate to provide a new interpretation of intellectual life in nineteenth-century Britain. It argues that the rise of ideas of historical progress transformed religious culture, while theological controversy profoundly shaped how Victorians understood the past.

Before the advent of television, reading was among the most popular of leisure activities. In this lively and scholarly study, Joseph McAleer draws on a wide variety of resources to examine the size and complexion of the reading public and the development of an increasingly commercialized publishing industry in the early twentieth century.

Julian Davies's detailed analysis of the religious policy and ecclesiastical practice of the Church of England in the reign of Charles I offers a bold new interpretation of the Caroline Church, firmly based on the documentary evidence.

Focuses on the way in which the Palestine Mandate was part of British imperial administration. This book also presents an argument that land officials' views on sound land management were derived from their own experiences of rural England, and this was more influential on the shaping of land policies than the promise of a Jewish National Home.

Political Community in Revolutionary Pennsylvania challenges prevailing histories of the American Revolution, which place undue focus on political elites, and argues that it was ordinary citizens who cared most about the establishment of a proper, representative, publicly legitimate political process.