Books in the Oxford Historical Monographs series

This scholarly study of six prominent theorists of the late nineteenth century - Herbert Spencer, Hugh Cecil, Bernard Bosanquet, L.T. Hobhouse, J.A. Hobson, and Ramsay MacDonald - explores the ways in which the notion of the state was invoked in political discourse, and analyses the varying conceptualizations found in their work.

This study of the books of Reading Abbey covers not only the whole history of the Abbey from its foundation, but also charts the subsequent dispersal of its book collection. In doing so, the author illustrates intellectual life in a medieval English monastery and, in particular, valuable insights into the fate of monastic books after the Dissolution of the monasteries.

A study of the Order of Fontevraud's English monastic houses: Amesbury, Nuneaton, and Westwood (Grovebury, the Order's fourth foundation, was never more than an administrative centre). The text seeks to open up a range of insights about monasticism and religious life for women in the Middle Ages.

This is the first full-scale scholarly study of a fourteenth-century English confessor's manual. It contributes significantly to the European-wide research on pre-Reformation confessional practice and clerical training. On another level, the Memoriale Presbiterorum's peculiarly intense concern with social morality affords pungent commentary on contemporary English society.

In mid-20th-century Britain, an archaeological vision of the British landscape reassured and enchanted a number of writers, artists, photographers, and film-makers. From John Piper and Eric Ravilious to photographs of bomb damage, this book delves into these evocative interpretations and looks at how they affected the way the landscape was seen.

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.

Examines US non-intervention in Nicaragua's affairs, and how it could be detrimental to both countries. This book analyses the relations between the US and Nicaragua during the Depression and the WWII and challenges theories about the role of the US in the creation and consolidation of one of Latin America's most enduring authoritarian regimes.

This is the most detailed and up-to-date study of the division of Germany after the Second World War. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished documents, Dirk Spilker reveals the political realities of the situation in post-war Germany, and reassesses the motivations and actions of the Western Allies and the Soviet bloc as they manoeuvred to achieve their ends.

During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the Crown of Aragon was a rapidly expanding and powerful political unit. Throughout this period, a series of rulers sought to maintain royal authority and to govern their realms effectively. This book examines the ways in which they used the art of rhetoric to uphold royal power.

This work examines one of Europe's largest Protestant communities - in Hungary and Transylvania. It highlights the place of the Hungarian Reformed church in the international Calvinist world, and reveals the impact of Calvinism on Hungarian politics and society.

The Macedonian Question-the struggle over a territory with historically ill-defined borders and conflicting national identities-is one of the most intractable issues in Balkan history. Dimitris Livanios explores the British dimension to the problem, from the outbreak of the Second World War to the aftermath of the Tito-Stalin split.

Exploring the phenomenon of mass conversion to Christianity amongst oppressed rural peoples in late colonial India, Religious Transformation in South Asia looks at what lay behind the social and religious aspirations of converts and mission personnel.

The attempt by Stanislaw August Poniatowski (1764-95) 'to create anew the Polish world' was one of the most audacious enterprises of reform undertaken in the 18th century. With new perspectives on the successes and limitations of the Polish Enlightenment, this book presents a dynamic interpretation of European culture in the eighteenth century.

This title explores the relationship between the British Liberal party and the rural working-class voters enfranchised by the Reform Act of 1884.

Based on extensive archival research in Russia, India, and Uzbekistan, and containing much source material translated from Russian, Russian Rule in Samarkand uses a comparative approach to examine the structures, personnel, and ideologies of Russian rule in Turkestan, taking Samarkand and the surrounding region as a case-study.

Katrina Navickas provides a lively and detailed account of popular politics in Lancashire in this period. She offers fresh insights into the complicated dynamics between radicalism, loyalism, and patriotism, explaining how this heady mix created a politically charged region where both local and national affairs played their part.

Michael Clark explores the dilemmas of identity and inter-faith relations that confronted Jews in late Victorian Britain, following their successful campaign for equal rights. This was a crucial period in which the Anglo-Jewish community shaped the basis of its modern existence, whilst the British state explored the limits of its toleration.

This work contains the results of an investigation of naming practices in early modern England. It sets out to show which names were most commonly used, how children came to be given these names, why they were named after parents, siblings, or saints, and how social status affected naming patterns.

This book uses the genre of urban histories to examine aspects of culture, society, and politics in eighteenth-century towns in England, and deals with questions of civic pride and the creation of urban identity. Urban history and antiquarian scholarship were popular pursuits amongst polite society, and their study offers a unique insight into the cultural history of the period.

This is the first scholarly study of the political role of the Order of the Garter during the late middle ages. Hugh Collins's examination of the Garter's pragmatic considerations and knightly ideas reveals the extent to which political society in the late middle ages founded its ambitions and aspirations on the cult of chivalry.

The first detailed scholarly study of this evocative period in Irish history, Cromwellian Ireland is now reissued in paperback with a new historiographical essay.

When barbarians invaded the Roman Empire in the years around 400 AD, Christian monks hid in their cloisters - or so it is often assumed. Conrad Leyser shows is that monks in the early medieval West were, in fact, pioneers in the creation of a new language of moral authority. He describes the making of this tradition over two centuries from St Augustine to St Benedict and Gregory the Great.

The Theatre of Nation is a study of the development of the theatre movement and its relationship to political change in Ireland during the pre-revolutionary period. Ben Levitas traces the connections between Irish drama and Irish politics, and concludes that Ireland's theatre had a pivotal role to play in the controversies of its time and in the coming revolution.

This volume provides a comprehensive view of the social, political and military aspects of the volunteer movement of the French Wars: the volunteer infantry, yeomanry cavalry and the armed associations in England, Scotland and Wales from 1794 to 1814 and in some cases beyond.

Using hitherto neglected sources, this work offers a dramatic reinterpretation of the Lancastrian revolution, and the establishment of Henry IV's kingship. It is also the first work for thirty years to re-examine the reigns of Richard II and Henry IV together, charting the shifting balance of power between the crown and the nobility across the turn of the fifteenth century.

Provides an interpretation of the medieval theological controversy over the poverty of Christ, popularized by Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose", important for intellectual, political, and legal history. This book focuses on the early fourteenth-century cardinal, Bertrand de la Tour.

AntiFascism and Memory in East Germany sheds new light on the legacy of the Spanish Civil War, the way in which societies remember, and the nature of state socialism. It combines cultural, social, and political history to examine the ways in which the legacy of the International Brigades was commemorated in the German Democratic Republic.

The effects of the great Evangelical Revival in 18th-century England were felt throughout the world, not least in America. This volume examines the role and importance of the Moravian church in this process, arguing that it gave the movement much of its initial impetus.

Creator of the famous pear as a symbol for King Louis-Philippe, Charles Philipon was also the most influential editor of illustrated newspapers in nineteenth-century France. This book examines the role and influence of political caricature under the July Monarchy through a study of his two principal newspapers, La Caricature and Le Charivari.

Victorian 'East-Enders' were not as poor, jingoistic, anti-immigrant or politically Conservative as they are usually considered to be.This book shows that it was local networks and links, often of better-off workers with their local churches, which instead provided the basis for most of the support for this apparent 'Conservatism of the slums'.