Books in the Oxford Historical Monographs series

Offers an analysis of migration in Germany within the demographic and socio-economic contexts of the period studied. Focusing on the rural labour market and the factors affecting it, this work also examines the 'pull' factor to cities, and offers interpretations of German industrialization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

After 1945, state patriotism of communist regimes in Eastern Europe was characterized by the use of national symbols. In communist Hungary, the party (MKP) widely celebrated national holidays, and national heroes. This work examines the origins of this socialist patriotism, and how it had become the self image of party and state by 1953.

Being Soviet adopts a refreshing and innovative approach to the crucial years between 1939 and 1953 in the USSR. It examines how the language of Soviet identity evolved in this period, and how ordinary citizens responded to that shift.

Stephan E. C. Wendehorst explores the relationship between British Jewry and Zionism from 1936 to 1956, a crucial period in modern Jewish history, encompassing both the shoah and the establishment of the State of Israel.

This book is a study of Paris during the period in the 15th century when it fell under English rule. Paris was the headquarters of the Lancastrian government in northern France, established by the victories of Henry V. Its history thus forms a key chapter in the story of the rule of Henry VI on both sides of the Channel.

Studies Botswana during World War II. The book offers an Africanist and an imperial perspective, exploring the impact of the war on the home front and Botswana's military contribution. Events and personalities are examined, along with Botswana's interaction with Whitehall and the British Army.

Organized Jewish welfare was a vital element in the formation and maintenance of British and German Jewish subcultures. The analysis of this important sphere of everyday life highlights the relevance of comparative history for an understanding of Jewish integration and identity formation in nineteenth-century Europe.

An account of the influence of evangelicalism upon eminent Victorians. Recording family life was an important ritual in Victorian households and the author uses documents from the archives of four families to analyze the biographical tradition and its lasting effects upon "family values".

Built between 1921 and 1934, the London County Council's Becontree Estate was the largest public housing scheme ever undertaken in Britain. Using interviews with surviving tenants from the inter-war period, the author discusses the early years of the estate.

This is the first comprehensive study of the economic relations between Nazi Germany and Franco's Spain (1936-1945). It demonstrates how, during the Spanish Civil War, Germany helped General Franco to victory and at the same time attempted to turn Spain into an economic colony.

In France, women did not get the vote until 1945. In this study, the author assesses why French women were repeatedly refused the rights of citizenship and examines the political relationships established by French feminists in order to achieve their goal of one woman, one vote.

A study of government publicity activities in Britain between the wars. Mariel Grant focuses on the development of public relations bureaux and information services in Whitehall. She shows, how during the inter-war period, publicity came to be regarded as a legitimate and necessary task.

This is a study of the major landholders of England and their estates during the reign of Edward the Confessor. It contains a comprehensive analysis of the lay landholders recorded in Domesday Book, and compares conditions under Edward the Confessor with those of the Norman regime which followed

Provides new insights into the troubled development of the Weimar Welfare State and the crisis into which it was plunged by the Great Depression. Elizabeth Harvey examines a wide range of policies implemented by central and local government, and assesses responses to them.

Explores the role of the episcopate in national and provincial politics in the last years of the ancien regime and the part played by the bishops in the early, critical stages of the Revolution.

This study relates the work of Clausewitz and other military thinkers to their cultural background, and demonstrates how the main currents of modern military thought have evolved from the cultural frameworks of the German Movement and the Enlightenment.

The first scholarly examination of education in current affairs and citizenship within the British Army in the 20th century. It analyses the thinking which lay behind the establishment of army education schemes, their function and their effects and explores the controversial question of the part it may have played in Labour's 1945 election victory.

This study explores the nature and meaning of violence in 15th-century England in order to uncover the attitudes and beliefs of the inhabitants of medieval East Anglia. It examines the way their moral code was reflected in the procedures and punishments of the courts and assesses the success of the legal system in maintaining authority and order.

This study of the political and social structure of late medieval England examines the wealth and political influence of a dozen Nottinghamshire families who dominated their county during the first half of the 15th century. It reassesses the nature of baronial-gentry relations, and establishes the true extent of the influence of the greater gentry.

A study of the anti-Catholic movement in 19th-century Britain. Catholic emancipation in 1829 was followed by a Protestant backlash, stimulated by the growth of the evangelical movement and of Catholicism, and the political endeavours of Irish and British Tories.

The first full-length study of essayist and controversialist Hubert Butler offers a comprehensive account of a literary and social figure whose importance in twentieth-century Irish culture is increasingly recognised.

A study of how the 'whiteness' of Europeans was constructed in the colonial situation, using British India of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a case study.

A study of the material world of English ambassadors at the end of the seventeenth century, illustrating the way in which architecture and the arts played an important role in diplomatic life. Luxury and Power is an important contribution to the cultural history of Baroque England.

From the late 1880s to the onset of World War II, organizations in Europe forged an informal international network to fight the continued existence of slavery and slave trading in Africa. Humanitarian Imperialism explores the scope and outreach of these antislavery groups, as well as their development alongside Fascist imperialism.

Reconstructs the history of Britain's presence in the deserts of the interwar Middle East, using a wealth of original archival research to lead the shift in historians' attentions from the familiar, urban seats of power to the desert 'hinterlands' that state-centric approaches have long obscured.

A new and holistic interpretation of one of the non-fiction sensations of the nineteenth century, Ernest Renan's Life of Jesus, this volume demonstrates how Renan's controversial work intervened in a remarkable range of debates in nineteenth-century French cultural life: not merely religious, but also social, intellectual, and cultural.

Analyses the attitudes of Essex and his followers towards war, religion, and domestic politics; examines Essex's impact on Elizabethan political culture

This work examines the relationship between Spain and the US in the 17th century through the life and thought of Juan de Palafox, a protege of the count-duke of Olivares who became Visitor General of New Spain. It explores the failed attempt made by Palafox to reform overseas government on constitutional lines.

Offers an innovative and original reinterpretation of state formation in eighteenth-century Britain, reconceptualising it as a political and fundamentally partisan process.

Traces the logic of urban political conflict in late medieval Europe's most heavily urbanized regions, Italy and the Southern Low Countries, revealing how conflict in these regions gave rise to a distinct form of political organization.