Modern History 1750-1945

A valuable guide to current work in the social and cultural history of insanity. It provides a comprehensive summary of the debates on the growth of institutional care during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...

Focusing on the city of Rouen between the years 1800 and 1815, this book studies the relationship between the representatives of central government and the regional elites. Taking Rouen as a case study it raises wider questions regarding the nature of the Napoleonic state and its short and longer-t..

International Banking in an Age of Transition..

International Banking in an Age of Transition..

Ireland and Anglo-Irish Relations since 1800: Critical Essays..

Ireland’s Great Famine of 1845–52 was among the most devastating food crises in modern history. A country of some eight-and-a-half-million people lost one million to hunger and disease and another million to emigration. The essays collected here examine the full range of resistance in the Great Fami..

This interdisciplinary anthology explores the impact of current globalization processes on Jewish communities across the globe._x005F_x000D_ This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Review of History...

Jewish Workers and the Labour Movement explores the relationship between Jewish workers and the general labour movement in the years between 1870 and 1914. Taking a comparative approach, it looks at the different approaches and fortunes of Jewish workers in three of the world's major industrial cit..

Jewish Workers and the Labour Movement explores the relationship between Jewish workers and the general labour movement in the years between 1870 and 1914. Taking a comparative approach, it looks at the different approaches and fortunes of Jewish workers in three of the world's major industrial cit..

This title was first published in 2000. With the advent of the Second World War, fascism became inextricably associated with anti-Semitism. It is hardly surprising, therefore, to find that a significant number of Jewish people were politically inclined towards the left and were actively involved in ..

John Phillips and the Business of Victorian Science..

Journeys in Ireland..