Books in the Oxford Historical Monographs series

Challenges the construction of tractarianism as an episode in church history, and the convention that tractarians had little interest in social questions. Making use of periodical and fictional material, this work demonstrates that tractarians directed a commentary against the iniquities of commercialism, of political economy and the new poor law.

Orientalism in Louis XIV's France presents a history of Oriental studies in seventeenth-century France, mapping the place within the intellectual culture of the period that was given to studies of Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Chinese texts, as well as writings on Mughal India.

Placing Hong Kong at the heart of the Anglo-American relationship in the context of the Cold War in Asia, this book explores dynamic interactions of how the two allies perceived, responded to, and attempted to influence each other's policies. It also provides a reinterpretation of Hong Kong's involvement in the containment of China.

In this first scholarly history of the Labour Party during the Second World War, Stephen Brooke examines the effect of the war upon the party's ideology and policy.

This study explores the role of art in medieval society, focusing on Anglo-Saxon England from the reign of Alfred the Great to the Norman Conquest. Combining visual and documentary evidence, it sheds new light on many magnificent art works, and offers fresh perspectives on the history of tenth- and eleventh-century England.

This is a scholarly reassessment of English Roman Catholic piety at grass-roots level in Victorian England. Dr Heimann's study offers a controversial analysis of the influence of long-established recusant practices and attitudes in the new context of the re-establishment of Roman Catholicism in England from the mid-nineteenth century.

The Second Spanish Republic survived unchallenged for a mere five years, its fall plunging Spain into a bitter civil war. Mary Vincent examines this crucial period in Spanish history, exploring the origins of the Spanish Civil War and the influence of religion on the conflict.

Much work on the history of colonial medicine is concerned with demonstrating that medicine was an arm of colonial power and of capitalism. This text challenges this interpretation through investigation of the complicated relationship between medicine, politics and capital in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.

This text challenges the domination of the institutional church as the overriding concern of 19th-century religious history. It takes as its starting point the nature and expression of religious ideas outside the immediate sphere of the church within the wider arena of popular culture.

Richard Brent argues that the Whig party in the "decade of reform" was dominated by a new generation of politicians: liberal Anglicans, who welcomed the inclusion of both Protestant and Catholic nonconformists in the political nation.

This volume explores the formation of working-class identities in the period 1880-1930, as reflected in changes in work and industrial relations, family life, patterns of saving, and changing political allegiances. The picture emerges of a working class for whom ties of work and neighbourhood counted for less than those of religion and nationality.

Presents a study of intellectual life - teaching, preaching, the production of books, and the pursuit of scholarship - at one of England's greatest monasteries at the end of the Middle Ages. This study demonstrates the vitality of education and learning in English cloisters.

This book breaks new ground in its analysis of how people both create and adapt to the process of industrialization. Its exploration of family relationships in the context of the workplace and of the local community offers valuable insights for both social historians and historical demographers.

The concept of 'economic planning' was a central theme of the popular economic policy debate in the 1930s. Dr Ritschel traces the many interpretations of planning, and examines the process of ideological construction and dissemination of economic ideas.

Sir Richard Morison (c.1513-1556) is best known as Henry VIII's most prolific propagandist. Yet he was also an accomplished scholar, politician, theologian and diplomat who was linked to the leading political and religious figures of his day. This is the first full historical treatment of Morison that places each of his careers in context.

Chronicles the ways in which the Irish revolution was remembered in the first two decades of independence by significant nationalist intellectuals: Eimar O'Duffy, P. S. O'Hegarty, George Russell, and Desmond Ryan. It provides a lively account of their controversial critiques of the revolution, and an intimate portrait of their lives and times.

Deals with the historically neglected Anabaptist movement in Reformation Germany, exploring how ordinary Anabaptists interpreted and interacted with Lutheran theology and how their beliefs shaped religious identity in the Reformation era.

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.

Discusses the role the Holocaust came to play in French and Italian political culture in the period after the end of the Cold War by charting the development of official, national Holocaust commemorations in France and Italy

After Ruskin is the first book to explore the social and political influence of the leading Victorian art and social critic, John Ruskin (1819-1900), and explains how he inspired a range of individuals to reform Britain's social and political culture in the period between 1870 and 1920.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

In the years after the First World War both Ulster and Upper Silesia saw violent conflicts over self-determination. Examining the nature of communal boundaries, such as religion and language, Timothy Wilson explains the profound contrasts in these experiences of plebeian violence.

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.