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Alliance of the Colored Peoples CALVIT T CL ARKE I I I 10

Almanach de Gotha 2012 KENNEDY 14

Anglo-Irish Experience, 1680-1730 HAY T ON 5

Archaeology of Post-Medieval Religion KING / SAYER 11

Archaeology, Cultural Property, and the Military RUSH 11

Atheism, Religion and Enlightenment in pre-Revolutionary Europe CURR AN 7

Bacteriology in British India CHAKR ABARTI 13

Birth Control Clinic in a Marketplace World HOLZ 13

British Naval Captains of the Seven Years’ War M CLEOD 12

Burke’s Peerage - Royal Families of Europe B ORTRICK 14

Business of Black Power WARREN HILL / R ABIG 9

Channel Islands, 1370-1640 THORNT ON 5

Church and Literature CL ARKE / METHUEN 9

Collected Letters of Jane Morris MARSH / SHARP 4

Commune, Country and Commonwealth ROLLISON 6

Conquest and Land in Ireland CUNNINGHAM 5

Country Justice and the Case of the Blackamoor’s Head DAVEY / WHEELER 14

Culture of Controversy R AFFE 9

Diary of Thomas Larkham, 1647-1669 MO ORE 4

Dictionary of British Naval Battles GR AINGER 3

East India Company and Religion, 1698-1858 CARSON 7

Elite Women and Polite Society in Eighteenth-Century Scotland GLOVER 7

European Weapons and Armour OAKESHOT T 6

Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade SHUMWAY 10

Fighting for Britain KILLINGR AY / PL AUT 3

‘The Great Trial’ GATES 14

Great Wardrobe Accounts of Henry VII and Henry VIII HAYWARD 5

Heritage, Ideology, and Identity in Central and Eastern Europe R AMPLEY 11

History in Mighty Sounds EICHNER 8

History of Malawi M CCR ACKEN 10

History of the County of Essex THORNT ON / EIDEN 15

History of the County of Oxford T OWNLEY 15

History of the County of York: East Riding KENT / NEAVE / NEAVE 15

Honour, Interest and Power PALEY / SEAWARD 3

How Bedfordshire Voted, 1735-1784 C OLLET T-WHITE 15

How Britain Won the War of 1812 ARTHUR 12

Joanna, George, and Henry BR ADBURY 4

Letters of Theophilus Lindsey (1723-1808) DIT CHFIELD 4

Liberalism and Local Government in Early Victorian London WEINSTEIN 7

Local Church and Generational Change in Birmingham, 1945-2000 JONES 9

London’s News Press and the Thirty Years War B OYS 6

Louis XIV’s Assault on Privilege M CC OLLIM 6

Making Sense of Place C ONVERY / C ORSANE / DAVIS 11

Manhood Enslaved MARSHALL 9

Many Faces of Weimar Cinema RO GOWSKI 8

Midshipmen and Quarterdeck Boys in the British Navy, 1771-1831 CAVELL 13

Militia in Eighteenth-Century Ireland GARNHAM 7

Museums and Biographies HILL 11

Music and Soviet Power, 1917-1932 FROLOVA-WALKER / WALKER 8

Naval Leadership and Management, 1650-1950 D OE / HARDING 12

Naval Mutinies of 1797 C OAT S / MACD OUGALL 12

Nazi Policy on the Eastern Front, 1941 KAY / RUTHERFORD / STAHEL 8

Neurological Patient in History JACYNA / CASPER 13

New History of German Cinema KAPCZYNSKI / RICHARDSON 8

Noble Strategies in an Early Modern Small State LIPP 6

Origins of Organ Transplantation SCHLICH 13

Oxford City Apprentices, 1513-1602 CROSSLEY 15

Perth Kirk Session Book, 1577-1590 T ODD 9

Pinning Down the Past C ORBISHLEY 11

Poet’s Reich L ANE / RUEHL 8

Post-Wall German Cinema and National History O’ BRIEN 8

Proceedings of the Privy Council of Queen Elizabeth I, 1582-83 CR ANKSHAW 5

Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage STEFANO / DAVIS / C ORSANE 11

Short History of Parliament JONES 3

Slaves of Fortune L AMOTHE 10

Social History of English Seamen, 1485-1649 FURY 12

Songs and Travels of a Tudor Minstrel TAYLOR 5

Strategy and War Planning in the British Navy, 1887-1918 GRIMES 13

Thomas More’s Trial by Jury KELLY / KARLIN / WEGEMER 5

Transformation of British Naval Strategy DAVEY 12

Travels in Scotland, 1788-1881 DURIE 7

Uvedale Price (1747-1829) WATKINS / C OWELL 3

Victorian Gentleman and Ethiopian Nationalist GARRET SON 4

Wartime in West Suffolk MALC OLMSON / SEARBY 4

Women and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Cuba FR ANKLIN 10

This catalogue lists new books published between Autumn 2011 and Autumn 2012. For information, including lists of contents and contributors, visit www.boydellandbrewer.com.

Book proposals may be submitted to the relevant editor • Early and modern history and the history of religion: Michael Middeke, [email protected] • The University of Rochester Press Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe and Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora series: Suzanne Guiod,

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Dictionary of British Naval BattlesJOHN D. GRAINGER “A well organised and detailed compilation, written with confidence and authority” PROFESSOR RO GER KNIGHt, UNIvERSIt y OF GREENWICH

This very substantial, comprehensive dictionary contains entries on all the battles fought at sea by British fleets and ships since Anglo-Saxon times. Major battles, such as trafalgar or Jutland, minor actions, often convoy and frigate actions, troop landings, bombardments and single ship actions are all covered. Most accounts of British naval power focus on the big battles and the glorious victories – the picture which emerges from the rich detail in this dictionary, however, is of a busy, dispersed navy, almost constantly engaged in small scale activity. Moreover, the action, which very often takes place not in proximity to Britain, but on a world stage, is not always successful and sometimes disastrous. The dictionary covers all periods comprehensively – medieval, early and late, and early modern as well as modern – and encompasses “Britain” in all its forms – England, Scotland, and British colonies including those in North America. It is an essential reference work for all enthusiasts of maritime history. JOHN GRAINGER has published extensively on maritime history, including books for The Navy Records Society.$165.00/£95.00 April 2012 978 1 84383 704 6 602pp, 23.4 x 15.6, (9 x 6 inches), HB

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Fighting for BritainDAvID KILLINGRAy with MARtIN PLAUt

The first major study of the experiences of the hundreds of thousands of African soldiers who served with the British army during the Second World War.During the Second World War over half-a-million African troops served with the British Army as combatants and non-combatants - the largest single movement of African men overseas since the slave trade. This account, based mainly on oral evidence and soldiers’ letters, tells the story of the African experience of the war. It is a ‘history from below’ that describes how men were recruited for a war about which most knew very little.

DAvID KILLINGRAy is Professor Emeritus of History, Goldsmiths, and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London.This book addresses issues which will not only appeal to African specialists, and military and imperial historians, but should interest many social, political, cultural, transnational and economic historians too in assessing the far-reaching impact of arguably the pivotal event of the 20th century. REvIEWS IN HIStORy

$24.95/£14.99 April 2012 978 1 84701 047 6 16 b/w illus.; 301pp, 23.4 x 15.6, (9 x 6 inches), PB

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Uvedale Price (1747-1829)Decoding the PicturesqueCHARLES WAtKINS & BEN COWELL

The first biography of the hugely influential 18th-century landscape gardener, Uvedale Price, author of Essay on the Picturesque.Uvedale Price achieved most fame as the author of the influential Essay on the Picturesque of 1794 in which he argued that the work of the greatest landscape artists, such as Salvator Rosa, Rubens and Claude, should be used as models for the “improvement of real landscape”. His attack on the smooth certainties of Capability Brown sparked off a public controversy which became a cause célèbre. This first biography of Price brings

out his contradictory character and reveals an astonishing cast of friends and acquaintances, including Gainsborough, voltaire, Wordsworth and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. It shows how he developed his ideas through practical experimentation on his own land and buildings and provides an understanding of the context of Price’s practices and theories.CHARLES WAtKINS is Professor of Rural Geography, University of Nottingham; BEN COWELL is Assistant Director, External Affairs, National trust.$45.00/£25.00 June 2012 978 1 84383 708 4 10 colour & 31 b/w illus.; 268pp, 24.4 x 17.2, (9.4 x 6.7 inches), HB Garden and Landscape History

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A Short History of Parliament England, Great Britain, The United Kingdom, Ireland and ScotlandCLyvE JONES A comprehensive guide to how parliament became what it is today, from earliest origins to modern post-devolution legislatures.A Short History of Parliament is a comprehensive institutional history, not a political history of parliament, though politics is included where, as frequently occurred, institutional changes resulted from particular political events. It outlines how parliament in the British Isles developed as an institution, covering the English, Scottish and Irish parliaments, the post-devolution parliaments and assemblies set up in the 1990s, and the parliaments in the Isle of Man, the Channel islands and the Irish Republic, providing a thorough overview of how parliaments organised themselves and conducted their business.CLyvE JONES is an honorary fellow of the Institute of Historical Research. A scholarly and very informative history, A Short History of Parliament is a top and must have [addition] to any college history collection. B O OKWAtCH

$45.00/£25.00 April 2012 978 1 84383 717 6 400pp, 23.4 x 15.6, (9 x 6 inches), PB

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Honour, Interest and Power: an Illustrated History of the House of Lords, 1660-1715Edited by RUtH PALEy & PAUL SEAWARD

A highly illustrated look at the peers and bishops of the House of Lords at this pivotal time in British history.The book is sumptuous, richly illustrated with the works of the age’s great portrait and landscape artists and no less with the authors’ succinct depictions of its leading peers. HIStORy tODAy

$50.00/£30.00 October 2010 978 1 84383 576 9 180 colour illus.; 416pp, 24 x 17.8, (9.4 x 7 inches), HB History of Parliament

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Joanna, George, and HenryA Pre-Raphaelite tale of Art, Love and FriendshipSUE BRADBURy

A biography of three artists closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelites.Joanna, George and Henry tells the story of the intertwined lives of three young artists associated with the Pre-Raphaelites in the 1850s, framing the narrative around their

previously unpublished letters. Joanna Boyce was one of the most distinguished women painters of the time, praised by Rossetti and Ruskin, who, like her husband, the portrait painter Henry Wells, studied in Paris in the 1850s. Her brother, George Price Boyce, was one of the best watercoloursists of the period and a close friend of Rossetti. The letters are remarkably frank, particularly during the protracted engagement of Joanna and Henry, and give a comprehensive picture of what it was like to be an artist in the mid-19th century.$50.00/£25.00 May 2012 978 1 84383 617 9 62 colour & 28 b/w illus.; 320pp, 24.4 x 17.2, (9.6 x 6.7 inches), HB

A Victorian Gentleman and Ethiopian NationalistThe Life and times of Hakim Wärqenäh, Dr Charles MartinPEtER P. GARREtSON First biography of Hakim Wärqenäh Eshätu (Dr Charles Martin), Ethiopia’s first western trained physician as well as a statesman, administrator, diplomat, author.Hakim Wärqenäh Eshätu (Dr Charles Martin), was a man of overlapping identities as a world citizen, a citizen of the British empire and an Ethiopian nationalist. He was a major progressive force in Ethiopia, played a significant role as a spokesman for the African diaspora during the 1930s, became an elder statesman in Ethiopia in the 1940s, and his extended family (and many of those he mentored) had a major impact on modern Ethiopian history. This biography focuses especially on his work as an educator, governor of a model province and, finally, the climax of his career when, as Ethiopian ambassador to England, he was a key international figure in protesting the Italian invasion of Ethiopia and mobilizing world opinion against Italy and for Ethiopia.PEtER GARREtSON is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Middle East Center, Florida State University.$95.00/£55.00(s) April 2012 978 1 84701 044 5 336pp, 23.4 x 15.6, (9 x 6 inches), HB

Wartime in West SuffolkThe Diary of Winifred Challis, 1942-1943Edited by ROBERt MALCOLMSON & PEtER SEARBy

Detailed and engaging diary entries throw new light on what it was really like to live in wartime Suffolk.During the Second World War, Winifred Challis (1896-1990) was working in Bury St Edmunds for the Public Assistance Committee and was one

of nearly 500 people who at some point during the war kept a diary for the social research organization, Mass Observation. From November 1942 she wrote at length about her everyday life, her feelings, and the social and political attitudes of both herself and others. A close observer of the world around her, a free thinker, and an accomplished and penetrating writer, she immersed herself in her diary-writing, producing on some days at least a couple of thousand words of perceptive commentary on the wartime scene – rationing, shortages, the often bleak texture of daily life, the sometimes disconcerting presence of outsiders in Bury, but with various moments of satisfaction and pleasure. Her diaries provide an unusual and fascinating record of a critical period of Suffolk’s history.$60.00/£35.00(s) July 2012 978 1 84383 702 2 8 b/w illus.; 212pp, 23.4 x 15.6, (9 x 6 inches), HB Suffolk Records Society

The Diary of Thomas Larkham, 1647-1669Edited by SUSAN HARDMAN MO ORE This volume provides a rich new resource for exploring religion and daily life in Interregnum and Restoration England.Thomas Larkham kept his ‘diary’ – an account book with spiritual musings and autobiographical notes – throughout his time as vicar of tavistock, Devon, and on into his days as a nonconformist apothecary in the town. Only fragments have appeared in print before. The diary illuminates the private side of a turbulent public life. The edition also includes two rare tracts – Naboth and Judas hanging himselfe – from the vociferous debate his activities provoked. A substantial introduction sets Larkham and his diary in context.$115.00/£65.00(s) November 2011 978 1 84383 705 3 12 b/w illus.; 440pp, 23.4 x 15.6, (9 x 6 inches), HB Church of England Record Society

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The Collected Letters of Jane MorrisEdited by JAN MARSH & FRANK C. SHARP Presents 500 newly discovered letters from Jane Morris to diverse correspondents, which radically revise the popular view of a silent, discontented invalid and instead portray her as an independent thinker following her own causes. Jane Morris (1839-1914) was a famous Pre-Raphaelite model and one of the victorian age’s most enigmatic figures. She married William Morris and transformed herself into a cultured member of the art world. Her long love affair with Dante Gabriel Rossetti has become the stuff of legend. Later she had a romantic relationship with the adventurer Scawen Blunt and a prickly one with Bernard Shaw. The greater fame of husband and lovers caused her to be overlooked. The editors of this volume have discovered over 500 letters from Janey to diverse correspondents, which radically revise the popular view of a silent, discontented invalid and instead portray her as an independent thinker following her own causes. The vast majority of the letters are unpublished, and are fully annotated. $165.00/£95.00(s) October 2012 978 1 84383 676 6 8 colour & 24 b/w illus.; 528pp, 24.4 x 17.2, (9.6 x 6.7 inches), HB

The Letters of Theophilus Lindsey (1723-1808)volume II: 1789-1808Edited by G.M. DItCHFIELD Letters of an important clergyman that provide a well-informed and lively commentary upon the religion, politics and society of the time.The letters of Theophilus Lindsey (1723-1808) illuminate the career and opinions of one of the most prominent and controversial clergymen of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The second and final volume of this edition covers the period from the regency crisis and the early stages of the French Revolution to Lindsey’s death nineteen years later, at the height of the Napoleonic War. From his vantage point in London, Lindsey was a well-informed and well-connected observer of the responses in Britain to the French Revolution and the war of the 1790s, and he provides a lucid commentary on the political, literary and theological scene. As with volume I, the letters are fully annotated and are accompanied by a full contextual introduction. $170.00/£100.00(s) August 2012 978 1 84383 742 8 744pp, 23.4 x 15.6, (9 x 6 inches), HB Church of England Record Society


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Proceedings of the Privy Council of Queen Elizabeth I, 1582-83two volume SetEdited by DAvID CRANKSHAW Important edition of central government records for Elizabeth I makes vital information available to historians.Under the later tudors, the Privy Council governed England on the sovereign’s behalf. The Elizabethan registers are lost for almost a third of the reign. The collected Proceedings will fill the gaps among the registers and within them. This first volume presents the text of a newly discovered original Privy Council register. Areas covered are foreign affairs, religious matters, and social and economic policy. $295.00/£175.00(s) October 2012 978 1 84383 653 7 736pp, 23.4 x 15.6, (9 x 6 inches), HB Proceedings of the Privy Council of Elizabeth I

The Great Wardrobe Accounts of Henry VII and Henry VIIIEdited by MARIA HAyWARD Accounts providing details of the quantities and cost of clothing and other items manufactured for the first Tudor kings.By the late fifteenth century the Great Wardrobe, the section of the royal household that supplied the king and his household with clothing and furnishings, was well established in the London parish of St Andrew by the Wardrobe. This volume provides an edition and calendar of the accounts for 1498-99 and 1510-11, as well as the section of the 1544 account relating to Henry vIII’s campaign in France.$45.00/£25.00(s) July 2012 978 0 90095 252 4 256pp, 24.4 x 15, (9.6 x 5.9 inches), HB London Record Society

The Songs and Travels of a Tudor MinstrelRichard Sheale of tamworthANDREW tAyLOR A reconstruction of the life and works of a sixteenth-century minstrel, showing the tradition to be flourishing well into the Tudor period. Richard Sheale, a harper and balladeer from tamworth, is virtually the only English minstrel whose life story is known to us in any detail. It had been thought that by the sixteenth century minstrels had generally been downgraded to the role of mere jesters. However, through a careful examination of the manuscript which Sheale almost certainly “wrote” (Bodleian Ashmole 48) and other records, the author argues that the oral tradition remained vibrant at this period, contrary to the common idea that print had by this stage destroyed traditional minstrelsy. ANDREW tAyLOR lectures in the Department of English, University of Ottawa.$99.00/£60.00(s) April 2012 978 1 90315 339 0; eISBN 978 1 84615 863 6 210pp, 23.4 x 15.6, (9 x 6 inches), HB York Medieval Press

The Channel Islands, 1370-1640Between England and NormandytIM tHORNtON Charts the history of Jersey and Guernsey, showing their crucial importance for England in the period.This book surveys the history of the bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey in the late medieval and early modern periods, focusing on political, social and religious history. It argues that the islands’ regular tangential appearance in the mainstream historiography of England and the British Isles demonstrates the need for a more systematic history. During the Wars of the Roses and the early tudor period the islands were frequently the refuge for claimants and plotters. During the Reformation period they were a leading centre of Presbyterianism and, later, were strategically important during the continental wars of Elizabeth’s reign. Thornton shows how the islands’ relationship with central power in England kept changing in interesting ways, how they maintained links with Normandy, Brittany and France more widely, and how politics, religion, society and culture developed in the islands themselves.tIM tHORNtON is Professor of History and Pro vice-chancellor at the University of Huddersfield. He is the author of Cheshire and the Tudor State and Prophecy, Politics and the People in Early Modern England, both of which are published by Boydell and Brewer.$80.00/£45.00(s) May 2012 978 1 84383 711 4 192pp, 23.4 x 15.6, (9 x 6 inches), HB

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Thomas More’s Trial by JuryA Procedural and Legal Review with a Collection of DocumentsEdited by HENRy ANSGAR KELLy, LOUIS W. KARLIN & GERARD B. WEGEMER

Challenges the recently established consensus that the trial was a carefully prepared and executed judicial process in which the judges were amenable to reasonable arguments. In recent times the 1535 trial of Thomas More has been taken seriously as a

carefully prepared and executed judicial process. The contributions in this book disagree with this consensus assembling surviving testimonies to the trial for a re-examination. The book concludes with an edition and translation of the pertinent documents of the trial. An appendix gives a dramatic reconstruction of the trial in light of the above analyses.$95.00/£55.00(s) September 2011 978 1 84383 629 2 260pp, 23.4 x 15.6, (9 x 6 inches), HB

Conquest and Land in IrelandThe transplantation to Connacht, 1649-1680JOHN CUNNINGHAM

A reassessment of one of the most devastating episodes in Irish history.In the aftermath of the Cromwellian conquest, Ireland experienced a revolution in landholding with the distribution of land and power from Irish Catholics to English Protestants, a development

which would play a major role in shaping the history of the country. One of the most notorious elements of the Irish land settlement was the scheme of the transplantation to Connacht, which aimed to expel the Catholic population from three of the country’s four provinces and replace them with a wave of Protestant settlers from England and further afield. The transplantation is one of the best-known but least understood episodes in Irish history, relatively neglected by recent historians. This book situates the origins of the transplantation in the heat of conquest, reconstructs its implementation in the turbulent 1650s and explores its far-reaching outcomes. It thus enables the significance of the transplantation, and its relevance to wider themes such as colonialism, state formation and ethnic cleansing, to be better understood.JOHN CUNNINGHAM is IRCHSS Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Mobility Fellow in the Humanities and Social Sciences, trinity College Dublin/Albert-Ludswigs-Universität Freiburg.$90.00/£50.00(s) November 2011 978 0 86193 315 0 192pp, 23.4 x 15.6, (9 x 6 inches), HB Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series Royal Historical Society

The Anglo-Irish Experience, 1680-1730Religion, Identity and PatriotismDAvID HAy tON Outlines the complex nature of the Anglo-Irish ruling class, showing how its multi-faceted identity was formed and how it evolved. This book examines the political culture of the Anglo-Irish. It considers changing views of identity, provides detailed case studies of different kinds of Anglo-Irish families, discusses the nature of Anglo-Irish “patriotism”, in a context of limited legislative autonomy and the strategic demands of the emerging British empire, and considers issues of social reform and “improvement”, showing how these enthusiasms arose from, and maintained an intimate connexion with, the evangelical Protestantism which was another defining feature of the political culture of the period. DAvID HAytON is Professor of Early Modern Irish and British History at Queen’s University, Belfast.$115.00/£65.00(s) October 2012 978 1 84383 746 6 1 b/w illus.; 272pp, 23.4 x 15.6, (9 x 6 inches), HB Irish Historical Monographs


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Louis XIV’s Assault on Privilege Nicolas Desmaretz and the tax on WealthGARy B. MCCOLLIM A study of two taxes which revolutionized the relationship of French elites to the Crown.McCollim’s book is a study of one of the most important finance ministers of the Bourbon Monarchy, Nicolas Desmaretz, who became one of the chief financial officials early in the War of the Spanish Succession and took full charge of French finances from 1708-1715. In that time, he introduced one of the two most radical financial measures ever taken by the Bourbon monarchy: the dixième, a tax on income which revolutionized the relationship of French elites to the Crown because it eliminated the issue of status that affected all other forms of taxation. The dixième fell on all income, no matter the recipient. In his rich analysis, McCollim lays out for historians precisely how the royal financial council actually made policy and establishes that from the perspective of state finance, and state taxation, the post-1710 French monarchy had left far behind the institutional framework of the seventeenth century.GARy McCOLLIM received his doctoral degree in history from The Ohio State University, and is a retired federal employee.$99.00/£65.00(s) June 2012 978 1 58046 414 7 2 b/w illus.; 388pp, 9 x 6 inches, HB Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe

Noble Strategies in an Early Modern Small StateThe Mahuet of LorraineCHARLES t. LIPP Explores a crucial issue of early modern Europe: the development of the social elites of the hundreds of small states that comprised the majority of political entities.Noble Strategies in an Early Modern Small State addresses a subject few other scholars of early modern Europe attempt: the hundreds of small states that made up the overwhelming majority of Europe’s political entities before the nineteenth century. Charles Lipp studies the elite of the duchy of Lorraine, a territory strategically placed geographically and culturally along the frontiers dividing France and Germany, and a region contested for centuries by the Habsburgs of the Holy Roman Empire and the valois and Bourbons of the kingdom of France. He analyzes a family belonging to the lower nobility, the Mahuet, over several generations from the late-sixteenth through the early-eighteenth centuries, and explores how this family rose to social prominence during a chaotic period in their homeland’s history.CHARLES LIPP is assistant professor of history, University of West Georgia.$85.00/£55.00(s) November 2011 978 1 58046 396 6 6 b/w illus.; 262pp, 9 x 6, HB Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe

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European Weapons and ArmourFrom the Renaissance to the Industrial RevolutionEWARt OAKESHOt t

The story of arms in Western Europe from the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution.Both a work of scholarship and a treasury of information for anyone seeking a factual and vivid account of the story of arms from the Renaissance period to

the Industrial Revolution. The author chooses as his starting-point the invasion of Italy by France in 1494, which sowed the dragon’s teeth of all the successive European wars; the French invasion was to accelerate the trend towards new armaments and new methods of warfare. The author describes the development of the handgun and the pike, the use and style of staff-weapons, mace and axe and war-hammer, dagger and dirk and bayonet. He shows how armour attained its full Renaissance splendour and then suffered its sorry and inevitable decline, culminating in the Industrial Revolution, with its far-reaching effects on military armaments. Above all, he follows the long history of the sword, queen of weapons, to the late eighteenth century, when it finally ceased to form a part of a gentleman’s everyday wear. Lavishly illustrated.EWARt OAKESHOtt was one of the world’s leading authorities on the arms and armour of medieval Europe. $29.95/£17.99 April 2012 978 1 84383 720 6 24 b/w illus.; 312pp, 24.4 x 17.2, (9.4 x 6.7 inches), PB

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London’s News Press and the Thirty Years WarJAyNE E.E. B OyS Offers interesting parallels between the news revolution in the age of James I and Charles I and our internet age.London’s News Press shows that seventeenth-century England was very much part of a European-wide news community. The book provides for a new print history that looks across Europe and the interconnecting political and religious groups with international networks. These were the earliest printed periodical news publications. Periodicity and its implications for trade and customers are explored as well as the roles of publishers and editors. JAyNE E. E. BOyS is an independent scholar who lives in Suffolk.$99.00/£60.00(s) November 2011 978 1 84383 677 3 6 b/w illus.; 348pp, 23.4 x 15.6, (9 x 6 inches), HB Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History

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Commune, Country and CommonwealthThe People of Cirencester, 1117-1643DAvID ROLLISON

Makes original contributions to late medieval and early modern historiography, including detailed, contextualized studies of the ‘Lancastrian revolution’, the Reformation and the English Revolution.Commune, Country

and Commonwealth suggests that towns like Cirencester are a missing link connecting local and national history, in the immensely formative centuries from Magna Carta to the English Revolution. Focused on a town that made highly significant interventions in national constitutional development, it describes recurring struggles to achieve communal solidarity and independence in a society continuously and prescriptively divided by gross inequalities of class and status. The result is a social and political history of a great trans-generational epic in which local and national influences constantly interacted. From the generation of Magna Carta to the regicides of Edward II and Richard II, through the vernacular revolution of the ‘long fifteenth century’ and the chaos of state reformations to the great revival that ended in the constitutional wars of the 1640s, the epic was united by strategic location and by systemic, ‘structural’ inequalities that were sometimes mitigated but never resolved. Individual and group personalities emerge from every chapter, but the ‘personality’ that dominates them all, Rollison argues, is a commune with ‘a mind of its own’, continuously regenerated by enduring, strategic realities. An afterword describes the birth and development of a new, ‘rural’ myth and identity and suggests some archival pathways for the exploration of a legendary English town in the modern and postmodern, industrial and post-industrial epochs. DAvE ROLLISON is Honorary Research Associate in History, University of Sydney.$99.00/£60.00(s) October 2011 978 1 84383 671 1 2 b/w illus.; 296pp, 23.4 x 15.3, (9 x 6 inches), HB Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History

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Atheism, Religion and Enlightenment in pre-Revolutionary EuropeMARK CURRAN An investigation into the influence of, and reaction to, the atheistic writings of the baron d’Holbach.The baron d’Holbach’s prolific campaign of atheism and anti-clericalism, waged from the printing presses of Amsterdam in the years around 1770, was so radical that it provoked an unprecedented public response. For the baron’s enemies, it suggested the end of an era: proof that the likes of voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau were simply a cabal of atheists hell-bent on the destruction of all that was to be cherished about religion and society. Instead, the voice of reason came from an unlikely source – independent Christian apologists, Catholic and Protestant, who attacked the baron on his own terms and, in the process, irrevocably changed the nature of Christian writing. This book examines the reception of the works of the baron d’Holbach throughout francophone Europe. It insists that d’Holbach’s historical importance has been understated, argues the case for the existence of a significant “Christian Enlightenment” and raises questions about existing secular models of the francophone public sphere.MARK CURRAN is a Munby Fellow, Cambridge University Library.$90.00/£50.00(s) June 2012 978 0 86193 316 7 2 b/w illus.; 222pp, 23.4 x 15.6, (9 x 6 inches) HB Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series Royal Historical Society

The Militia in Eighteenth-Century IrelandIn Defence of the Protestant InterestNEAL GARNHAM Shows how the development of the militia in eighteenth-century Ireland was closely bound with politics and the changing nature of the Protestant Ascendancy. This book traces the militia in Ireland from early Protestant militia forces in the sixteenth century, through formal establishment in 1716, to demise in 1776 and re-formation in 1793. It shows how the militia played a larger role in the defence of Ireland than has hitherto been realised, and how its reliability was therefore a key point for government. It discusses how political debates about the militia reflected changing views about the nature of the Irish establishment and how these changing views were incorporated in legislation. It examines how the militia operated as an institution; considers how the militia reflected social and political divisions; and compares the militia in Ireland with similar bodies in England, Scotland and Europe.NEAL GARNHAM is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Ulster.$115.00/£65.00(s) June 2012 978 1 84383 724 4 256pp, 23.4 x 15.6, (9 x 6 inches), HB Irish Historical Monographs

Elite Women and Polite Society in Eighteenth-Century ScotlandKAtHARINE GLOvER Women are shown to have played an important and very visible role in society at the time.Fashionable “polite” society of this period emphasised mixed-gender sociability and encouraged the visible participation of elite women in a series of urban, often public settings. Using a variety of sources (both men’s and women’s correspondence, accounts, bills, memoirs and other family papers), this book investigates the ways in which polite social practices and expectations influenced the experience of elite femininity in Scotland in the eighteenth century. It explores women’s education and upbringing; their reading practices; the meanings of the social spaces and activities in which they engaged and how this fed over into the realm of politics; and the fashion for tourism at home and abroad. It also asks how elite women used polite social spaces and practices to extend their mental horizons and to form a sense of belonging to a public at a time when Scotland was among the most intellectually vibrant societies in Europe. $95.00/£55.00(s) August 2011 978 1 84383 681 0; eISBN 978 1 84615 850 6 228pp, 23.4 x 15.6, (9 x 6 inches), HB St Andrews Studies in Scottish History

Travels in Scotland, 1788-1881A Selection from Contemporary tourist JournalsEdited by ALAStAIR J. DURIE Journals from early “tourists” in Scotland provide a vivid record of the joys (and otherwise) of travel.tourist travelling changed remarkably between 1780 and 1880, and the six accounts collected here help us to see how and why. Whether by a well-off and intrepid lady, a self-important youth, a young man and his parents, or an overweight middle-aged lawyer, what they have in common is a relish for the pleasures of discovery, of holidaymaking, of finding a Scotland for themselves. The writers travel, they see, they listen, enjoy good weather (and endure the frequently bad), take in the scenery and sights, and talk with other visitors and locals. Theirs are intimate voices – they were writing for themselves, or friends or family, not for the public – but as we eavesdrop on them a larger picture unfolds. travelling conditions vary: the first account shows to a world of elite travel, the private coach, and the privileges enjoyed by the well-heeled, while the last is the homely and charming description of a one-week holiday taken with relatives in the country. In between comes the new world of travel: the steamer, the railway and the guidebook.$45.00/£25.00 May 2012 978 0 90624 530 9 42 b/w illus.; 266pp, 23.4 x 15.6, HB Scottish History Society

The East India Company and Religion, 1698-1858PENELOPE CARSON An overview of the East India Company’s policy towards religion throughout its period of rule in India.This wide-ranging book charts how the East India Company grappled with religious issues in its multi-faith empire, putting them into the context of pressures exerted both in Britain and on the subcontinent, from the Company’s early mercantile beginnings to the bloody end of its rule in 1858. The story of how the Company dealt with the fact that it was a Christian Company, trying to be equitable to the different faiths it found in India, has resonances for Britain today as it attempts to accommodate the religions of all its peoples within the Christian heritage and structure of the state.PENELOPE CARSON completed her doctorate at King’s College, London.$115.00/£65.00(s) September 2012 978 1 84383 732 9 288pp, 23.4 x 15.6, (9 x 6 inches), HB Worlds of the East India Company

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Liberalism and Local Government in Early Victorian LondonBENJAMIN WEINStEIN A fresh interpretation of London’s early Victorian political culture, devoting particular attention to the relationship which existed between Whigs and vestry-based radicals.This book shows Whiggery to have been an especially potent force in the early victorian capital where continual conflict between Whigs and radicals gave the metropolitan constituencies a singularly contested and particularly vibrant liberal political culture. Metropolitan radicals active in local governing structures began to espouse an anti-Whig programme. It drove metropolitan radicalism away from its earlier associations and towards a retrenchment-obsessed and anti-aristocratic liberalism.BENJAMIN WEINStEIN is assistant professor of history at Central Michigan University.$90.00/£50.00(s) November 2011 978 0 86193 312 9; eISBN 978 1 84615 849 0 216pp, 23.4 x 15.6, (9 x 6 inches), HB Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series Royal Historical Society

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Nazi Policy on the Eastern Front, 1941total War, Genocide, and RadicalizationEdited by ALEX J. KAy, JEFF RUtHERFORD & DAvID StAHEL Essays provide current interpretations of Germany’s military, economic, racial, and diplomatic policies in 1941.It was during 1941, the year of Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union, that the radicalization of Nazi policy – through both an all-encompassing approach to warfare and the application of genocidal practices – became most obvious. Germany’s military aggression and overtly ideological conduct distinguished Operation Barbarossa from all previous military campaigns in modern European history. This collection of essays provides readers with the most current interpretations of Germany’s military, economic, racial, and diplomatic policies in 1941. With its breadth and its thematic focus on total war, genocide, and radicalization, this volume fills a considerable gap in English-language literature on Germany’s war of annihilation against the Soviet Union and the radicalization of World War II during this critical year.$85.00/£55.00(s) February 2012 978 1 58046 407 9 9 b/w illus.; 370pp, 9 x 6, HB Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe

Post-Wall German Cinema and National HistoryUtopianism and DissentMARy-ELIZABEtH O’BRIEN How German history films have focused on utopianism and political dissent and their effect on German identity since 1989.Since unification, a radical shift has occurred in Germans’ view of their country’s past, with 1989 replacing 1945 as the primary caesura. Events of the cold-war period are seen as decisive in a history that unites yet divides East and West. Establishing foundational myths and finding common experience is pivotal in constructing national identity, and the cinema provides a forum for consumption, negotiation, and contestation of such notions. This book looks at history films made since 1989, exploring how utopianism and political dissent have shaped German identity. At issue is the extent to which these films contribute to a narrative that legitimizes the German nation-state.MARy-ELIZABEtH O’BRIEN is Professor of German and The Courtney and Steven Ross Chair in Interdisciplinary Studies at Skidmore College.$85.00/£55.00(s) May 2012 978 1 57113 522 3 16 b/w illus.; 352pp, 9 x 6, HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

A New History of German CinemaEdited by JENNIFER M. KAPCZyNSKI & MICHAEL D. RICHARDSON An “eventalized” and dynamic set of approaches to the hundred-year history of German film.This collection of nearly ninety essays offers a new understanding of the hundred-year history of German film, eschewing traditional approaches for a kaleidoscopic view of pivotal moments, texts, and figures. Each essay takes a particular date as its starting point and expounds on its significance for German film history. Challenging conceptions of the German film canon as monolithic, the volume offers a more dynamic model that pursues multiple, intersecting narratives. Canonical films, directors, and events are all covered, but other, less famous yet crucial moments receive equal attention. $115.00/£60.00(s) September 2012 978 1 57113 490 5 54 b/w illus.; 652pp, 9 x 6, HB Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual

A Poet’s ReichPolitics and Culture in the George CircleEdited by MELISSA S. LANE & MARtIN A. RUEHL A re-examination of the George Circle in the cultural and political contexts of Wilhelmine, Weimar, and Nazi Germany.The ideas of the George Circle profoundly affected Germany’s educated middle class, especially in the aftermath of the First World War, when their critique of bourgeois liberalism, materialism, and scholarship (Wissenschaft) as well as their call for new forms of leadership (Herrschaft) and a new Reich found wider resonance. The essays critically re-examine these ideas, their contexts, and their influence. See its webpage at www.boydellandbrewer.com for the full list of contributors$75.00/£40.00(s) December 2011 978 1 57113 462 2 23 b/w illus.; 378pp, 9 x 6, HB Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

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The Many Faces of Weimar Cinema Rediscovering Germany’s Filmic LegacyEdited by CHRIStIAN RO GOWSKI New essays re-evaluating Weimar cinema from a broadened, up-to-date perspective.See its webpage at www.boydellandbrewer.com for the full list of contributorsRogowski’s outstanding collection moves beyond the familiar canon to reevaluate the diverse legacy of Weimar film. […] Essential. CHOICE

$39.95/£19.99 December 2011 978 1 57113 532 2 61 b/w illus.; 368pp, 9 x 6, PB Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual

History in Mighty SoundsMusical Constructions of German National Identity, 1848-1914BARBARA EICHNER Indispensable reading for anyone interested in nineteenth-century German music, history and nationalism.Music played a central role in the self-conception of many Germans between the 1848 Revolution and the First World War. Although German music was widely held to be ‘universal’ and thus apolitical, it participated in the historicist project of shaping the nation’s future by calling on the national heritage. A wide variety of musical genres, ranging from pre- and post-Wagnerian opera to popular choruses to symphonic poems, provides for a new perspective on how national identities were constructed, shaped and celebrated in and through music. BARBARA EICHNER is Lecturer in Music at Oxford Brookes University.$95.00/£55.00(s) September 2012 978 1 84383 754 1 15 b/w illus.; 288pp, 23.4 x 15.6, (9 x 6 inches), HB Music in Society and Culture

Music and Soviet Power, 1917-1932MARINA FROLOvA-WALKER & JONAtHAN WALKER Cultural history told through documents with an extensive commentary and annotation throughout.This book not only provides a detailed and nuanced depiction of the early Soviet musical landscape, but brings it to life by giving voice to the leading actors and commentators of the day. The vibrant public discourse on music is presented through a selection of press articles, reviews and manifestos, all supplied with ample commentary and translated for the first time. These myriad sources offer a new context for our understanding of Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Myaskovsky, while also showing how Western music was received in the USSR.MARINA FROLOvA-WALKER is Reader in Music History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. JONAtHAN WALKER, who has a PhD in Musicology, is a freelance writer, teacher and pianist.$99.00/£60.00(s) June 2012 978 1 84383 703 9 384pp, 23.4 x 15.6, (9 x 6 inches), HB


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The Culture of ControversyReligious Arguments in Scotland, 1660-1714ALASDAIR RAFFE Illuminates the development and character of Scottish Protestantism and proposes new ways of understanding religion and politics in early modern Scotland. The Culture of Controversy investigates arguments about religion in Scotland from the Restoration to the death of Queen Anne and outlines a new model for thinking about collective disagreement in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century societies. Rejecting teleological concepts of the ‘public sphere’, the book instead analyses religious debates in terms of a distinctively early modern ‘culture of controversy’. This culture was less rational and less urbanised than the public sphere. traditional means of communication such as preaching and manuscript circulation were more important than newspapers and coffeehouses. As well as verbal forms of discourse, controversial culture was characterised by actions, rituals and gestures. People from all social ranks and all regions of Scotland were involved in religious arguments, but popular participation remained of questionable legitimacy.ALASDAIR RAFFE is Lecturer in History at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon tyne.$95.00/£55.00(s) August 2012 978 1 84383 729 9 4 b/w illus.; 272pp, 23.4 x 15.6, (9 x 6 inches), HB Studies in Modern British Religious History

The Perth Kirk Session Book, 1577-1590Edited by MARGO tODD Sixteenth-century documents from the parochial church court reveal huge detail about the daily lives of ordinary Scottish townspeople of the time.The Calvinist Reformation in Scottish towns was a radically transformative movement. It incorporated into urban ecclesiastical governance a group of laymen – the elders of the kirk session – drawn heavily from the crafts guilds as well as wealthy merchants. These men met at least weekly with the minister and comprised a parochial church court that exercised an unprecedented discipline of the lives of the ordinary citizenry. The minute books of Perth’s session, established in the 1560s and surviving most fully from 1577, open a window on this religious discipline, the men who administered it, and the lay people who both resisted and facilitated it, negotiating its terms to meet their own agendas. They are presented here with full introduction and explanatory notes.$70.00/£40.00(s) June 2012 978 0 90624 531 6 506pp, 21.6 x 13.8, (8.5 x 5.4 inches), HB Scottish History Society 6th Series Scottish History Society

The Local Church and Generational Change in Birmingham, 1945-2000IAN JONES An examination of how religious identity changed in twentieth-century England, using Birmingham as a case-study to illuminate wider trends.The ongoing debate about secularisation and religious change in twentieth-century Britain has paid little attention to the experience of those who swam against the cultural tide and continued to attend church. This study, based on extensive original archive and oral history research, redresses this imbalance with an exploration of church-based Christianity in post-war Birmingham, examining how churchgoers interpreted and responded to the changes that they saw in family, congregation, neighbourhood and wider society. One important theme is the significance of age and generational identity to patterns of religiosity amidst profound change in attitudes to youth, age and parenting and growing evidence of a widening “generation gap” in Christian belief and practice. In addition to offering a new and distinctive perspective on the changing religious identity of late twentieth-century English society, the book also provides a rare case-study in the significance of age and generation in the social and cultural history of modern Britain.IAN JONES is the Director of the Saltley trust, Birmingham.$90.00/£50.00(s) August 2012 978 0 86193 317 4 240pp, 23.4 x 15.6, (9 x 6 inches), HB Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series Royal Historical Society

The Church and LiteratureEdited by PEtER CLARKE & CHARLOt tE MEtHUEN A wide-ranging and impressive collection which illuminates the enduring relationship between the Church and literary creation.This volume explores some of the ways in which the Church has both shaped and featured in the literature of different periods, with a particular emphasis on British literature in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The understanding of literature invoked here is a catholic one, reflecting the universality of Christianity itself, and allowing the exploration of a range of forms of writing emerging in the course of the Church’s history. Among the authors discussed are Thomas More, John Milton, Isaac Williams, W. E. Heygate, Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, Edna Lyall, Silas and Joseph Hocking, Robert Browning, Charles Williams, Canon Patrick Augustine Sheehan, Dame Rose Macauley, D. H. Lawrence, W. H. Auden and Ellis Peters. Through this wide-ranging and impressive collection, The Church and Literature illuminates the enduring relationship between the Church and literary creation. $80.00/£45.00(s) May 2012 978 0 95468 099 2 4 b/w illus.; 432pp, 21.6 x 13.8, (8.5 x 5.4 inches), HB Studies in Church History Ecclesiastical History Society

Manhood EnslavedBondmen in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century New JerseyKENNEtH E. MARSHALL

Brings greater intellectual and historical clarity to the muted lives of enslaved peoples in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century central New Jersey.This book contributes to an evolving body of historical scholarship

arguing that the lives of bondpeople in America were shaped not only by the powerful forces of racial oppression, but also by their own notions of gender. The book uses previously understudied, white-authored, nineteenth-century literature about central New Jersey slaves as a point of departure. Reading beyond the racist assumptions of the authors, it contends that the precarious day-to-day existence of the three protagonists – yombo Melick, Dick Melick, and Quamino Buccau (Smock) – provides revealing evidence about the various elements of “slave manhood” that gave real meaning to their oppressed lives. KENNEtH E. MARSHALL is assistant professor of history at the State University of New york at Oswego.$75.00/£40.00(s) November 2011 978 1 58046 393 5 2 b/w illus.; 222pp, 9 x 6, HB Gender and Race in American History

The Business of Black PowerCommunity Development, Capitalism, and Corporate Responsibility in Postwar AmericaEdited by LAURA WARREN HILL & JULIA RABIG Essays that analyze the intersection of business and African American history.The Business of Black Power emphasizes the centrality of economic goals to the larger black freedom movement and explores the myriad forms of business development in the Black Power era. It charts a new course for Black Power Studies and business history, exploring both the business ventures that Black Power fostered and the impact of Black Power on the nation’s business world. The seven scholars in this collection bring fresh analysis to this complex intersection of African American and business history to reveal how Black Power advocates, or those purporting a Black Power agenda, engaged business to advance their economic, political, and social goals. They show the business of Black Power taking place in the streets, boardrooms, journals and periodicals, corporations, courts, and housing projects of America. In short, few were left untouched by the influence of this movement.$85.00/£55.00(s) June 2012 978 1 58046 403 1 16 b/w illus.; 336pp, 9 x 6, HB


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A History of Malawi1855-1966JOHN MCCRACKEN A history of Malawi, focusing mainly on the colonial period but placing that period in the context of the pre-colonial past.This is a general history of Malawi from the year of David Livingstone’s first visit to the region to the year of Britain’s formal withdrawal and the establishment of the republic of Malawi under the Banda regime. In this time British people – Scottish Presbyterian missionaries, soldiers, speculators, colonial officials and politicians – played a crucial role in shaping the territory. A central theme is how Britain as a state and the British as people shaped Malawi, but an even more important theme is how Malawian people have shaped their own history, often in overt defiance of the colonial order, but sometimes also through communal activities unrelated to the colonial presence. There is much here on armed resistance to colonial occupation, religious-inspired revolt, the rise and fall of a fragile labour movement, the growth of popular nationalism, as well as on the creation of dance societies, the eruption of witchcraft eradication movements and the emergence of football as a popular national sport. The book seeks to reconstruct the life stories of a variety of Malawians, some well-known, some not, in ways that throw light on specific themes.JOHN MCCRACKEN is Emeritus Professor of History, Stirling University. He was awarded the ASAUK’s Distinguished Africanist Award in 2008.$99.00/£60.00(s) September 2012 978 1 84701 050 6 10 b/w illus.; 496pp, 23.4 x 15.6, (9 x 6 inches), HB

Slaves of FortuneSudanese Soldiers and the River War, 1896-1898RONALD M. LAMOtHE Exposes the ‘blind spot’ in popular and academic histories about the role of African soldiers in the creation of Britain’s empire, through a re-telling of one of the best known episodes in British imperial military history.The Anglo-Egyptian re-conquest of Sudan – Churchill’s ‘River War’ – has been well chronicled from the British point of view, but we still know little about its front line troops, the Sudanese soldiers of the Egyptian Army. Making use of unpublished primary sources and published material located in the United Kingdom and Sudan, Slaves of Fortune provides an historiographic correction. It argues that nineteenth-century Sudanese slave soldiers were social beings and historical actors, shaping both European and African destinies, just as their own lives were being transformed by imperial forces.RONALD M. LAMOtHE is Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.$80.00/£45.00(s) December 2011 978 1 84701 042 1 28 b/w illus.; 245pp, 23.4 x 15.6, (9 x 6 inches), HB

Alliance of the Colored Peoples Ethiopia and Japan before World War IIJ. CALvIt t CLARKE III

A detailed examination of Ethiopian-Japanese relations from their beginnings in the interwar period through the Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935-6.With the Japanese posing as the leader of the world’s colored peoples before World War II,

many Ethiopians turned to Japan for inspiration. By offering them commercial opportunities, by seeking their military support, and by reaching out to popular Japanese opinion, Ethiopians tried to soften the stark reality of a stronger Italy encroaching on their country. Europeans feared Japan’s growing economic and political influence in the colonial world. Jealously guarding its claimed rights in Ethiopia against all comers, among Italy’s reasons for going to war was the perceived need to blunt Japan’s commercial and military advances into Northeast Africa. Meanwhile, throughout 1934 and the summer of 1935, Moscow worked hard and in ways contrary to its claimed ideological imperatives to make Collective Security work. Ethiopia was a small price to pay Italy for cooperation against Nazi Germany in Austria and Imperial Japan in China. ‘yellow’ Japanese and ‘black’ Ethiopian collaboration before the war illuminates the pernicious and flexible use of race in international diplomacy. In odious terms, Italians used race to justify their actions as defending western and ‘white’ civilization. The Japanese used race to explain their tilt toward Ethiopia. The Soviets used race to justify their support for Italy until late 1935. Ethiopia used race to attract help, and ‘colored’ peoples worldwide rallied to Ethiopia’s call.J. CALvItt CLARKE III is Professor Emeritus of History at Jacksonville University, Florida.$90.00/£50.00(s) December 2011 978 1 84701 043 8 216pp, 23.4 x 15.6, (9 x 6 inches), HB

Women and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Colonial CubaSARAH L. FRANKLIN The importance of gender and hierarchy in colonial Cuban society.Cuban elites recognized that the creation and perpetuation of the Cuban slave society required a rigid social hierarchy based on race, gender, and legal status. Given the dramatic changes that came to Cuba in the wake of the Haitian Revolution and the growth of the enslaved population, the maintenance of order required a patriarchy that placed both women and slaves among the lower ranks. This book examines how patriarchy functioned outside the confines of the family unit by scrutinizing the foundation on which nineteenth-century Cuban patriarchy rested. It investigates how patriarchy operated in the lives of the women of Cuba, from elite women to slaves. Through chapters focusing on examination of motherhood, marriage, education, public charity, and the sale of slaves, insight into the role of patriarchy both as a guiding ideology and lived history in the Caribbean’s longest lasting slave society is gained. SARAH L. FRANKLIN is assistant professor of history at the University of North Alabama. $90.00/£60.00(s) June 2012 978 1 58046 402 4 3 b/w illus.; 277pp, 9 x 6, HB Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora

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The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave TradeREBECCA SHUMWAy The history of the Fante people of Southern Ghana during the transatlantic slave trade.The history of Ghana attracts popular interest out of proportion to its small size and marginal importance to the global economy. It is the land of Kwame Nkrumah and the Pan-Africanist movement of the 1960s; it has been a temporary home to famous African Americans like W. E. B. DuBois and Maya Angelou; and its Asante Kingdom and signature kente cloth are well known. Ghana also attracts a continuous flow of international tourists because of two historical sites that are among the most notorious monuments of the transatlantic slave trade: Cape Coast and Elmina Castles. These looming structures are a vivid reminder of the horrific trade that gave birth to the black population of the Americas. As the first book-length history of the Fante people during the Atlantic slave trade, it provides a historical framework for the relationship between Ghana’s coastal forts and castles and local African societies during this complex period.REBECCA SHUMWAy is assistant professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh.$85.00/£40.00(s) October 2011 978 1 58046 391 1 15 b/w illus.; 244pp, 9 x 6, HB Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora

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Pinning Down the Past Archaeology, Heritage, and Education todayMIKE CORBISHLEy

Both a practical guide to, and a reflection on, best practice in making archaeology available to a wide audience.This book, the first to deal with the subject in such depth, examines the place of education and outreach within the wider

archaeological community. Written by one of Britain’s leading archaeological educationalists, it charts the sometimes difficult and painful growth and development of “education and archaeology”. Packed full of informative and enlightening case studies, from the circus at Colchester to Sutton Hoo and Hadrian’s Wall, this work examines exactly how we have reached the point we are at, where that place is and suggests areas for future development. By drawing upon many decades of experience at the front line of archaeological education, the author has produced a key text that will play a major role in the on-going development of the heritage industry.MIKE CORBISHLEy lectures in heritage education at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.$45.00/£25.00 November 2011 978 1 84383 678 0 73 b/w illus.; 400pp, 24.4 x 17.2, (9.6 x 6.7 inches), HB Heritage Matters

Museums and BiographiesStories, Objects, IdentitiesEdited by KAtE HILL Essays exploring the relationship between museums and biographies.This innovative collection examines for the first time biography – of individuals, objects and institutions – in relationship to the museum, casting new light on the many facets of museum history and theory, from the lives of prominent curators, to the context of museums of biography and autobiography. Separate sections cover individual biography and museum history, problematising individual biographies, institutional biographies, object biographies, and museums as biographies/autobiographies. These articles offer new ways of thinking about museums and museum history, exploring how biography in and of the museum enriches museum stories by stressing the inter-related nature of lives of people, objects and institutions as part of a dense web of relationships.See its webpage at www.boydellandbrewer.com for the full list of contributors$99.00/£60.00(s) July 2012 978 1 84383 727 5 49 b/w illus.; 368pp, 24.4 x 17.2, (9.6 x 6.7 inches), HB Heritage Matters

The Archaeology of Post-Medieval ReligionEdited by CHRIS KING & DUNCAN SAyER Sheds dramatic new light on religious practices and identities between the later sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries.These essays demonstrate the significant contribution that archaeology can make to a deeper understanding of religion. They take a broad interdisciplinary approach to the spatial and material context of religious life, using buildings and landscapes, religious objects and excavated cemeteries, alongside cartographic and documentary sources, to reveal the complexity of religious practices and identities in varied regions of post-medieval Britain, Europe and the wider world. See its webpage at www.boydellandbrewer.com for the full list of contributors$50.00/£30.00(s) December 2011 978 1 84383 693 3 37 b/w illus.; 304pp, 24 x 17.2, (9.4 x 6.7 inches), HB Society for Post Medieval Archaeology Monograph Series

Making Sense of PlaceMultidisciplinary PerspectivesEdited by IAN CONvERy, GERARD CORSANE & PEtER DAvIS How “sense of place” is constructed, in a variety of locations and media.Drawn from a variety of disciplines (including sociology, history, geography, outdoor education, museum and heritage studies, health, and English literature), these essays offer an international perspective on the relationship between people and place, via five interlinked sections (Histories, Landscapes and Identities; Rural Sense of Place; Urban Sense of Place; Cultural Landscapes; Conservation, Biodiversity and tourism).See its webpage at www.boydellandbrewer.com for the full list of contributors$99.00/£60.00(s) April 2012 978 1 84383 707 7; eISBN 978 1 84615 860 5 32 b/w illus.; 348pp, 24.4 x 17.2, (9.6 x 6.7 inches), HB Heritage Matters

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Archaeology, Cultural Property, and the Military Edited by LAURIE RUSH Examines the damage recent conflict has caused to cultural heritage, and how it may best be safeguarded in future.Offers a snapshot of recent efforts to educate and train troops to recognize, protect and preserve cultural heritage during both armed deployments and peacetime. tIMES LItERARy SUPPLEMENt

See its webpage at www.boydellandbrewer.com for the full list of contributors$29.95/£16.99 August 2012 978 1 84383 752 7 39 b/w illus.; 240pp, 24.4 x 17.2, (9.6 x 6.7 inches), PB Heritage Matters

Safeguarding Intangible Cultural HeritageEdited by MICHELLE L. StEFANO, PEtER DAvIS & GERARD CORSANEWide-ranging essays on intangible cultural heritage, with a focus on its negotiation, its value, and how to protect it.Awareness of the significance of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) has recently grown, due to the promotional efforts of UNESCO and its Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003). However, the increased recognition of intangible heritage has brought to light its undervalued status within the museum and heritage sector, and raised questions about safeguarding efforts, ownership, protective legal frameworks, authenticity and how global initiatives can be implemented at a local level, where most ICH is located. This book provides a variety of international perspectives on these issues, exploring how holistic and integrated approaches to safeguarding ICH offer an opportunity to move beyond the rhetoric of UNESCO; in particular, the authors demonstrate that the alternative methods and attitudes that frequently exist at a local level can be the most effective way of safeguarding ICH.See its webpage at www.boydellandbrewer.com for the full list of contributors$99.00/£60.00(s) April 2012 978 1 84383 710 7; eISBN 978 1 84615 862 9 10 b/w illus.; 296pp, 24.4 x 17.2, (9.6 x 6.7 inches), HB Heritage Matters

Heritage, Ideology, and Identity in Central and Eastern EuropeContested Pasts, Contested PresentsEdited by MAt tHEW RAMPLEy Essays looking at heritage practices and the construction of the past, along with how they can be used to build a national identity.The task of maintaining the collective memories and ideas of a shared heritage often focused on the historic built environment as the most visible sign of a link with the past. The meaning of such monuments and sites has, however, often been the subject of keen dispute: whose heritage is being commemorated, by whom and for whom? This volume considers the dilemmas presented by the recent and complex histories of European states such as Germany, Greece, Poland, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. Examining the effect of the destruction of buildings by war, the loss of territories, or the “unwanted” built heritage of the Communist and Nazi regimes, the contributors examine how architectural and urban sites have been created, destroyed, or transformed, in the attempt to make visible a national heritage.See its webpage at www.boydellandbrewer.com for the full list of contributors$95.00/£55.00(s) March 2012 978 1 84383 706 0 46 b/w illus.; 216pp, 24.4 x 17.2, (9.6 x 6.7 inches), HB Heritage Matters


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The Social History of English Seamen, 1485-1649CHERyL A. FURyAn overview of a wide range of aspects of maritime social history in the Tudor and early Stuart period.traditionally, the history of English maritime adventures has focused on the great sea captains and swashbucklers. However, over the past few decades, social historians have begun to examine the less well-known seafarers who were on the dangerous voyages of commerce, exploration, privateering and piracy, as well as naval campaigns. This book brings together some of their findings. There is no comparable work that provides such an overview of our knowledge of English seamen during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the tumultuous world in which they lived. Subjects covered include trade, piracy, wives, widows and the wider maritime community, health and medicine at sea, religion and shipboard culture, how tudor and Stuart ships were manned and provisioned, and what has been learned from the important wreck the Mary Rose.CONtRIBUtORS: J.D. Alsop, John Appleby, Cheryl A. Fury, Geoffrey Hudson, David Loades, vincent Patarino Jr, Ann Stirland$115.00/£65.00(s) January 2012 978 1 84383 689 6 15 b/w illus.; 360pp, 23.4 x 15.6, (9 x 6 inches), HB

Naval Leadership and Management, 1650-1950HELEN D OE & RICHARD HARDING Considers naval leadership and management very widely, moving beyond a focus on leading admirals.Many works on naval history ascribe success to the special qualities of individual leaders, Nelson being the prime example. This book in contrast explores more fully how naval leadership worked in the context of a large, complex, globally-capable institution. It puts forward important original scholarship around four main themes: the place of the hero in naval leadership; organisational friction in matters of command; the role of management capability in the exercise of naval power; and the evolution of management and technical training in the Royal Navy. Besides providing much new, interesting material for naval and maritime historians, the book also offers important insights for management and leadership specialists more generally.CONtRIBUtORS: Gareth Cole, Mike Farquharson-Roberts, Mary Jones, Roger Knight, Roger Morriss, Elinor Romans, David J. Starkey, Peter Ward, Oliver Walton, Britt Zerbe$99.00/£60.00(s) April 2012 978 1 84383 695 7 216pp, 23.4 x 15.6, (9 x 6 inches), HB

British Naval Captains of the Seven Years’ WarA. B. MCLEOD Presents rich detail on captains’ duties and everyday lives.This book, based on extensive original research analysing every letter written by the cohort of men who were promoted to the rank of captain in 1757 at the start of the Seven years’ War, provides a detailed overview of the experiences of these captains. It covers not just important events but also everyday duties. It outlines the careers of captains before their promotion, discusses how they were selected for promotion, and examines the opportunities for making reputations and fortunes. It shows how the Admiralty exercised control over captains, and demonstrates that although connections and interest assisted greatly with promotion, allegations of “corruption” are misplaced – the navy in this period was highly effective: an extremely complex and efficient bureaucracy, exerting tight control over every aspect of the lives of the officers and men who served, with merit being most definitely rewarded.A. B. McLEOD obtained her doctorate in naval history from the University of Exeter.$115.00/£65.00(s) September 2012 978 1 84383 751 0 264pp, 23.4 x 15.6, (9 x 6 inches), HB

The Naval Mutinies of 1797Unity and PerseveranceEdited by ANN vERONICA COAtS & PHILIP MACD OUGALL A reassessment of the naval mutinies of 1797, arguing that the mutinies were more industrial dispute than expression of French revolution inspired political radicalism.The naval mutinies of 1797 were unprecedented in scale and impressive in their level of organisation. Under threat of French invasion, crews in the Royal Navy’s home fleet, after making clear demands, refused to sail until their demands were met. Subsequent mutinies affected the crews of more than one hundred ships in at least five home anchorages, replicated in the Mediterranean, Atlantic and Indian Ocean. The most extensive approach since Conrad Gill’s seminal and eponymous volume of 1913, The Naval Mutinies of 1797 focuses on new research, re-evaluating the causes, events, interpretations, discipline, relationships between officers and men, political inputs and affiliations and crucially, the rôle of the Irish and quota men. It poses new answers to old questions and suggests a new synthesis – self-determination – the seamen on their own terms. $99.00/£60.00(s) November 2011 978 1 84383 669 8 15 b/w illus.; 336pp, 23.4 x 15.6, (9 x 6 inches), HB

How Britain Won the War of 1812The Royal Navy’s Blockades of the United States, 1812-1815BRIAN ARtHUR Overturns established thinking about the Anglo-American War of 1812-15.The War of 1812 between Britain and the United States is usually seen as a draw. However, as this book demonstrates, it was in fact a British victory. The United States achieved none of its war aims, and the peace, concluded in December 1814, met Britain’s long-term maritime needs. This book shows how the British achieved success through an effective commercial maritime blockade which had devastating consequences on the vulnerable, undeveloped US economy. Neutral vessels were included – one of the causes of the war had been the United States’ objection to British interference with US ships in Britain’s war with Napoleonic France – and Britain’s refusal to concede this point enabled the strategy of commercial maritime blockades to be reused by Britain to good effect in subsequent wars.BRIAN ARtHUR gained a PhD at the University of Greenwich.$99.00/£60.00(s) November 2011 978 1 84383 665 0 8 b/w illus.; 352pp, 23.4 x 15.6, (9 x 6 inches), HB

The Transformation of British Naval StrategySeapower and Supply in Northern Europe, 1808-1812JAMES DAvEy Shows how the system of supply was perfected during the later part of the Napoleonic Wars, enabling fleets to stay at sea on a permanent basis. This book shows how during the period 1808-1812 wide-ranging reforms in naval administration were implemented which established a highly-effective logistical system, transforming an ineffective supply system into one which successfully enabled a fleet to remain on station for as long as was required, unfettered by concerns over supplies. The book also discusses how this new supply system successfully transformed naval operations, showing how it enabled a fleet in the Baltic to protect British trade, securing vital resources, and weaken the economies of Denmark and Russia, eventually forcing them out of Napoleon’s Coalition, and also how the new system enabled squadrons in the North Sea to contain the new fleet that Napoleon was building in Antwerp.JAMES DAvEy is a Research Curator at the National Maritime Museum, and a visiting Lecturer at the University of Greenwich.$99.00/£60.00(s) November 2012 978 1 84383 748 0 3 b/w illus.; 256pp, 23.4 x 15.6, (9 x 6 inches), HB


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Strategy and War Planning in the British Navy, 1887-1918SHAWN t. GRIMES Overturns existing thinking to show that the Royal Navy engaged professionally in war planning in the years before the First World War. It has been widely accepted that British naval war planning from the late nineteenth century to the First World War was amateur and driven by personal political agenda. But Shawn t. Grimes argues that this was far from the case. His extensive original research shows that, in fact, the Royal Navy had a definitive war strategy, which was well thought-through and formulated in a professional manner. Faced by a perceived Franco-Russian naval threat, the Admiralty adopted an offensive strategy from 1888 to 1905 based on observational blockade and combined operations. This strategy was modified after 1905 for war with Wilhelmine Germany. The book argues that the Naval Intelligence Department, which took a lead in devising these plans, was the Navy’s de facto staff. SHAWN GRIMES received his PhD in history from the University of London and has been a Lecturer in European History at the University of Saskatchewan.$115.00/£65.00(s) February 2012 978 1 84383 698 8 278pp, 23.4 x 15.6, (9 x 6 inches), HB

Midshipmen and Quarterdeck Boys in the British Navy, 1771-1831S.A. CAvELL A fascinating study of midshipmen and other “young gentlemen”, outlining their social background, career paths and what life was like for them.Recent scholarship has argued that during the wars of 1793-1815 there was greater social diversity among naval officers, with promotion increasingly related to professional competence. This book, based on extensive original research, examines the social background of around 4,000 “young gentlemen”, a term which includes midshipmen and various other categories. It concludes that in fact high birth became an increasingly important factor in the selection of officer candidates, and that aristocratic presence in the ranks of young officers increased significantly as a result of deliberate Admiralty policy. The book also discusses the assertion that the increase in elite sons led to a dramatic rise in cases of indiscipline and insubordination.S.A. CAvELL is a graduate of Queensland and Louisiana State Universities, and completed her doctorate at the University of Exeter.$99.00/£60.00(s) June 2012 978 1 84383 719 0 4 b/w illus.; 246pp, 23.4 x 15.6, (9 x 6 inches), HB

The Neurological Patient in HistoryEdited by L . StEPHEN JACyNA & StEPHEN t. CASPER

Essays trace the evolution of the neurological patient’s role, treatment, and place in the history of medicine.Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries countless stories about neurological patients appeared in

newspapers, books, medical papers, and films. Often the patients were romanticized; indeed, it was common for physicians to cast neurological patients in a grand performance, allegedly giving audiences access to deep philosophical insights about the meaning of life and being. Beyond these romanticized images, however, the neurological patient was difficult to diagnose. Experiments often approached unethical realms, and treatment created challenges for patients, courts, caregivers, and even for patient advocacy organizations. In this kaleidoscopic study, the contributors illustrate how the neurological patient was constructed in history and came to occupy its role in Western culture. $75.00/£40.00(s) February 2012 978 1 58046 412 3 6 b/w illus.; 274pp, 9 x 6, HB Rochester Studies in Medical History

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The Origins of Organ TransplantationSurgery and Laboratory Science, 1880-1930tHOMAS SCHLICH A history of the little-known or forgotten academic origins of modern organ transplant surgery.This detailed history puts modern organ transplantation into its historical context by unraveling its forgotten technical, conceptual, and social origins between the 1880s and 1930s. Specifically, it analyses the emergence of the idea of surgical organ replacement within the context of nineteenth-century academic surgery and physiology. Ultimately it tells the story of the unsuccessful attempts to develop transplantation into a viable therapeutic option. tHOMAS SCHLICH is professor and Canada Research Chair in the History of Medicine at McGill University.$80.00/£45.00(s) December 2010 978 1 58046 353 9 365pp, 9 x 6, HB Rochester Studies in Medical History

Bacteriology in British IndiaLaboratory Medicine and the tropicsPRAtIK CHAKRABARtI The first book to provide a social and cultural history of bacteriology in colonial India, situating it at the confluence of colonial medical practices, institutionalization, and social movements.Bacteriology was established in India through a complex process of conflict and alignment between Pasteurism and British imperial medicine. This led to divergences and tensions within bacteriology as practiced in Europe and the tropical colonies: in ideas of climate and potency of vaccines, in laboratory methods, in the ethical principles of experimentations, and in the discourses of racial immunity and endemicity of diseases. The book describes how India became a vast experimental field for bacteriology. By investigating a vast array of laboratory notes, medical literature, and literary sources, the book links colonial medical research with issues of poverty, race, nationalism, and attitudes towards tropical climate and wildlife. PRAtIK CHAKRABARtI is senior lecturer in history at the University of Kent.$90.00/£60.00(s) October 2012 978 1 58046 408 6 20 b/w illus.; 358pp, 9 x 6, HB Rochester Studies in Medical History

The Birth Control Clinic in a Marketplace WorldROSE HOLZ An examination of the complex interrelationship between charity birth control clinics and the commercial marketplace in the United States through the 1970s.Challenging more than thirty years of historiography on birth control, Holz sheds new light on battles over reproductive rights today through her dissection of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America within the context of the commercial birth control world. Revealing that it would be Planned Parenthood’s engagement to charity that would put precisely those women it hoped to assist in dangerous situations, she asks such probing questions as: what were the meanings attached to the provision of birth control and its commercial distribution? How were these meanings used as sources of power? The project draws on rich primary documents and oral histories to answer these questions and to examine the historical role of the local birth control clinic in the modern marketplace.ROSE HOLZ is the associate director of Women’s and Gender Studies and an associate professor of Practice in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.$80.00/£45.00(s) June 2012 978 1 58046 399 7 238pp, 9 x 6, HB Rochester Studies in Medical History


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Almanach de Gotha 2012volume I Parts I & IIEdited by JOHN KENNEDy The 2012 edition of this legendary reference work has been completely revised and updated with many new features.With the Almanach de Gotha’s return in 1998, after a hiatus of more than 50 years, Sir Stephen Runciman wrote in the Spectator “In this present age, which we are often told sees the twilight of royalty, it is comforting to be able to welcome the reappearance of the most distinguished of genealogical almanacs.” The 2012 edition follows the successful format of previous editions with families listed by rank in their corresponding parts. Births, marriages and deaths of all living members of the Gotha have been updated and it remains the only publication to list all the members of all the imperial, royal, princely and ducal houses and the counts of the Holy Roman Empire. Even family disputes are handled by the careful noting of competing claims. This new edition also sees a full list of the households of the courts of Europe, diplomatic listings and a full entry for the Holy See. The most comprehensive listing of its kind, with an impeccable pedigree, the book remains an essential reference for genealogists, libraries and scholars. There is and never has been a comparable source, a book once described as “the second most important ever published”.$130.00/£75.00 February 2012 978 0 95321 427 3 1000pp, 15 x 10.5, (6.1 x 4.1 inches), HB Almanach de Gotha

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Burke’s Great War PeerageNoble British and Irish Families on the Eve of the First World War First published in 1914, this book covers Royal Family records, archbishops and bishops, the Knightage, Companionage, Privy Council, Precedence and Orders of Knighthood. It is accompanied by a fully searchable CD containing the Peerage and Baronetage family records.$340.00/£195.00 2008 978 0 85011 060 9 26 x 18, (10.5 x 7 inches), HB Burke’s Peerage


Burke’s Peerage – Royal Families of EuropeWILLIAM B ORtRICK A comprehensive dictionary of reigning and non-reigning royal Families in Europe - the definitive guide to royal genealogy.Royal Families of Europe is the first volume on royal genealogy to be published by Burke’s in over thirty years. It is written by William Bortrick, Burke’s Royal Editor. This unique work is a comprehensive dictionary of the European Royal Families, reigning and non-reigning. The volume features individual entries for over 50 Royal Houses, which have reigned in Europe since the eighteenth century. It is also the first Burke’s publication to feature the newly announced editorial policy of listing offspring in order of birth rather than giving precedence to male children as was the case previously.The volume is the definitive up-to-date guide to royal genealogy and will also be of great interest to European historians. Entries comprise a detailed narrative pedigree of the Royal Families, and include Arms and portraits of the reigning sovereigns. Royal Families of Europe also includes a searchable PDF on CD-ROM featuring the full contents of the book.WILLIAM BORtRICK is a specialist in the genealogy of royal, aristocratic and historical families. He is a director and trustee of the Society of Genealogists, Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, and Association of Genealogists and Researchers in Archives. $220.00/£125.00 April 2012 978 0 85011 083 8 600pp, 26 x 18, (10.5 x 7 inches), HB Burke’s Peerage and Gentry Burke’s Peerage

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Burke’s Landed Gentry5th Edition: Burke’s Irish Family Records: Genealogical Histories of Notable Irish FamiliesEdited by HUGH MONtGOMERy-MASSINGBERD

Details the descendents of some 500 important Irish families, whether living in Ireland or settled abroad. It includes a free searchable PDF (on CD-ROM) of the full contents of the book along with comprehensive family records from all current Burke’s Landed Gentry 19th Edition titles – The Kingdom in Scotland, The Ridings of york, The Principality of Wales and The North West. A reprint of the 1976 Edition of Irish Family Records.$270.00/£149.00 2008 978 0 85011 050 0 1,272pp, 26 x 18, (10.5 x 7 inches), HB Burke’s Landed Gentry Burke’s Peerage

The Country Justice and the Case of the Blackamoor’s HeadThe Practice of the Law in Lincolnshire, 1787–1838. Part I: The Justice Books of Thomas Dixon of Riby, 1787–1798; Part II: Papers in the Case of Thorold v. Catton, 1830–1838Edited by BRIAN DAvEy & ROB WHEELER Legal documents from eighteenth and nineteenth-century Lincolnshire provide fascinating insights into life at the time.The legal system in eighteenth-century England has generally been viewed as an instrument of class justice, imposed by magistrates drawn from the gentry and aristocracy, and weighing harshly on the labouring and servant classes. The rare survival of the justicing notebooks (1787-1798) of Thomas Dixon of Riby make it possible to draw a more nuanced picture. As a working farmer, Dixon was an unusual recruit to the magistrates’ bench; but his notebooks provide an illuminating glimpse of the justice system in operation at its lowest level, where stealers of ducks and absconding servants were brought before a country justice. $50.00/£30.00(s) October 2012 978 0 90150 394 7 12 b/w illus.; 192pp, 23.4 x 15.6, (9 x 6 inches), HB Publications of the Lincoln Record Society Lincoln Record Society


‘The Great Trial’A Swaledale Lead Mining Dispute in the Court of Exchequer, 1705–1708Edited by tIM GAtES Fully annotated edition of the records of a notorious eighteenth-century court case - and the first ever full publication of an equity exchequer case.From 1705 to 1709, a legal battle was fought out in the court of exchequer between Thomas, Lord Wharton, and Reginald Marriott Esq. over the lead mines on Grinton moor in Swaledale. In its day this was a cause célèbre due to the high political office occupied by Lord Wharton and because of the vast sums of money that were at stake. The book follows the course of the action, step by step, and contains full transcriptions of all the substantive documents in the case, most of which appear here for the first time; it also raises important questions about the truthfulness of witnesses, the process of taking oral evidence, and the likelihood of jury tampering. The result will be of great value not only to historians of the law but to anyone interested in the history of the yorkshire Dales.$90.00/£50.00(s) March 2012 978 1 90356 456 1 5 b/w illus.; 474pp, 23.4 x 15.6, (9 x 6 inches), HB Yorkshire Archaeological Soc Record Series Yorkshire Archaeological Society

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Oxford City Apprentices, 1513-1602Edited by ALAN CROSSLEy Edition of records of Oxford apprentices provides valuable evidence for historians.Oxford greatly expanded and flourished under the tudors, as the reviving University provided a growing body of consumers and trade for shopkeepers and craftsmen. They needed apprentices - and in huge numbers, as the material in this volume demonstrates. It calendars the enrolments of over two thousand apprenticeship contracts made during this period; they are a familiar source for social and economic history and genealogy, but the Oxford material, in both quantity and detail, is quite exceptional, containing miscellaneous information of great interest, notably lists of working tools, details of journeymen’s wages, and stipulations about apprentices’ behaviour.The calendar provides the genealogist and local historian with the names, parentage, and places of origin of thousands of young men from all over England and Wales - crucial raw material for much-needed further research on the later movements of qualified apprentices. $80.00/£45.00(s) October 2012 978 0 90410 725 8 1 b/w illus.; 320pp, 21.6 x 13.8, (8.5 x 5.4 inches), HB Oxford Historical Society New Series Oxford Historical Society

How Bedfordshire Voted, 1735-1784volume III: The Evidence of Local Documents and Poll BooksEdited by JAMES COLLEt t-WHItE The latest in Bedfordshire Historical Record Society’s series of poll books covers the years from the fall of Walpole to the rise of William Pitt the younger.This volume covers a period when Britain was constantly at war, when it suffered a dangerous Jacobite rebellion and when the American colonies were lost. yet this constant warfare did not produce the revolutionary changes to the national and local economy that the Napoleonic wars subsequently created. The volume also details the political dimension of the legal cases about the appointment of the rector of St John’s, Bedford; the administration of the Harpur trust; and turnpike and enclosure acts.$45.00/£25.00(s) March 2012 978 0 85155 077 0 11 colour & 4 line illus.; 314pp, 23.4 x 15.6, (9 x 6 inches), HB Publications of the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society Bedfordshire Historical Record Society


A History of the County of EssexXI: Clacton, Walton and Frinton: North-East Essex Seaside ResortsEdited by CHRIStOPHER C. tHORNtON, assisted by HERBERt EIDEN An important contribution to the social, cultural and economic history of seaside resorts.From the 1820s the Essex seaside towns of Walton, and later Clacton and Frinton, were promoted as high-class residential and holiday resorts. Growth was stimulated by steam-ship companies which landed visitors on newly built piers in Walton and Clacton and by the arrival of railways. However, working-class excursionists newly attracted to Clacton, and to a lesser extent Walton, then irrevocably changed the social tone of the resorts. By the 1920s and 1930s Clacton was a commercialized holiday destination and the funfair-style facilities of its pier rivalled those of any other resort. Nearby Jaywick was established as a cheap and cheerful chalet development, while Walton remained popular with families and Frinton continued as a “select” resort, with building development and commerce strictly controlled. The increase in overseas holidays in the late 1960s led to a steep decline of the seaside resorts. The economy has, however, since diversified with large dormitory-style housing developments, light industry and new shopping centres, and the coast becoming increasingly popular for retirement homes. This volume presents an authoritative account of the growth and development of these towns on the so-called “Sunshine Coast”.$165.00/£95.00(s) May 2012 978 1 90435 639 4 18 colour & 86 b/w illus.; 400pp, 30.5 x 20.8, (12 x 8.2 inches), HB Victoria County History

A History of the County of OxfordXvII: Broadwell, Langford and Kelmscott: Brampton Hundred, Part 4Edited by SIMON tOWNLEy Authoritative account of the history of villlages in the western parts of Oxfordshire, including Kelmscott, famous for its pre-Raphaelite associations.Located on Oxfordshire’s western fringe between the rivers Leach and Thames, the nine rural settlements covered in this volume are typical Cotswold villages, with their limestone-built farmhouses, their former open fields, and their extensive former sheep pastures. All belonged to a sizeable late Anglo-Saxon estate whose break-up gave rise to the later parish structure: Langford church, with its celebrated late eleventh-century tower, may have begun as a small minster. Excavations at Radcot have revealed much about the settlement’s early character, including the discovery of a twelfth-century castle. The area as a whole is predominantly agricultural, though milling, malting and quarrying have all been significant. Woodland at Bradwell Grove was important from the middle ages. In later years the villages developed in diverse ways, displaying contrasting closed and open characteristics.$165.00/£95.00(s) July 2012 978 1 90435 640 0 12 colour & 72 b/w illus.; 424pp, 30.5 x 20.8, (12 x 8.2 inches), HB Victoria County History

A History of the County of York: East Ridingvolume IX: Harthill Wapentake, Bainton Beacon Division. Great Driffield and its townships.Edited by GRAHAM KENtwith DAvID NEAvE & SUSAN NEAvE An authoritative and comprehensive account of an important area centred upon Great Driffield.Great Driffield, a thriving market town serving an extensive agricultural hinterland, stands at the junction of the yorkshire Wolds and Holderness. The centre of an important Anglo-Saxon manor, in royal hands in the early middle ages, the main settlement was transformed from a large village into a boom town following the opening of a canal in 1770 that linked it to the expanding markets of Hull and the West Riding; its social, religious and political life flourished in the victorian period particularly. This volume covers its history and that of its adjoining rural townships of Little Driffield, Elmswell and Kelleythorpe, from the Neolithic period to the beginning of the twenty-first century; it provides the first detailed account of the town’s trades and industries, as well as exploring landownership, local government, and social, religious and political life. $165.00/£95.00(s) April 2012 978 1 90435 611 0 75 b/w illus.; 352pp, 30.4 x 20.8, (12 x 8.2 inches), HB Victoria County History Prices and details were correct at

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