History

This study of left-wing puritan and separatist ecclesiology in Elizabethan and Jacobean England explores several...

This pioneering study of Australian, New Zealand, and Pacific Christianity opens up new perspectives on...

This book is the first major and exclusive study of the Christian idea of salvation...

It is well known that the scientific discoveries of the nineteenth century posed problems for...

The modern adversarial criminal trial emerged from the punitive and procedural upheaval in the criminal...

The Oxford Handbook of Public History introduces the major debates within public history; the methods...

States around the world imprison people for their beliefs or politically-motivated actions. Oppositional movements of...

Amid the geopolitical and social turmoil of the 1970s, the United Nations declared 1975 as...

Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for BiographyWinner of the 2018 National Book Award for...

This volume, the first of two, charts the history and emergence of international law in...

Many observers predicted the collapse of the Chinese Communist Party following the Tiananmen Square crackdown...

A "better war." Over the last two decades, this term has become synonymous with US...

What role do pre-modern religious traditions play in the formation of modern secular identities? In...

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. The 2016 elections...

The history of women's political involvement has focused heavily on electoral politics, but throughout the...

All democracies have had to contend with the challenge of tolerating hidden spy services within...

Studies of genocide and mass atrocity most often focus on their causes and consequences, their...

Though a minority religion in Vietnam, Christianity has been a significant presence in the country...

Between the summer of 1937 and November 1938, the Stalinist regime arrested over 1.5 million...

In The Long Hangover, Shaun Walker presents a deeply reported, bottom-up explanation of Russia's resurgence...

Jewish law has a history stretching from the early period to the modern State of...

Central Asia was the sole Muslim region of the former Russian Empire that lacked a...

Communist East Germany's demolition of Leipzig's perfectly intact medieval University Church in May 1968 was...

While the Cold War governments of Eastern Europe operated within the confines of the Soviet...

Red at Heart conjures a tale of cross-cultural romance from a topic that is normally...

On April 22, 1823, a three-year-old boy named Fedor finished his lunch and went to...

Within recent years a new body of literature has emerged within international relations on transnationalism...

The Traffic Systems of Pompeii is the first sustained examination of the development of road...

An interdisciplinary conversation between law and Christian thought exists, but has so far been centered...

The specter of a prison punishment for even slight political offenses became an element of...

Who Should Rule? traces the ambitious imperial reform that empowered new and competing political actors...

For the past decade, Boko Haram has relentlessly terrorised northeastern Nigeria. Few if any explanations...

Arguably no nation is as closely associated with the term morale as Great Britain. Yet...

In the aftermath of the Seven Years' War, when a variety of conquered and ceded...

How did the United States move from a position of nuclear superiority over the Soviet...

In the last twenty years, reception studies have significantly enhanced our understanding of the ways...

This is the untold story of the most celebrated part of the Constitution. Until the...

The centenary of the First World War in 2014-18 offers an opportunity to reflect upon...

Originally published in 1942 and now reprinted for the first time, They Knew Lincoln is...

Early Americans have long been considered "A People of the Book" Because the nickname was...

In 1943, fierce aerial bombardment razed the Berlin zoo and killed most of its animals....

The concept of pharaonic Egypt as a unified, homogeneous, and isolated cultural entity is misleading....

In Un-American Activities, Gary May tells the fascinating story of William Remington-a story of intrigue,...

The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Race in American History brings together a number of...

This book provides a history of some of the main institutions of South African private...