American History

Strikes have been part of American labor relations since the colonial days, reflecting the widespread class conflict that has run throughout the nation's history. This book presents a collection of historical research on strikes in America...

This work provides a landmark in early twentieth century publishing summarizing the most up-to-date findings in all branches of the social sciences at a formative time and during a period of decisive historical discovery...

Daniels strives to put "perestroika" in its long-term historical perspective by placing it in a broad theory of revolutionary process, within the context of Leninism, Stalinism and Brezshnevism...

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

The Church was absolutely central to medieval and especially early medieval life. This rich account of its history and development in a turbulent age covers a vast range of subjects in addition to the spiritual dimension. Surveying the late Anglo-Saxon period through the Norman Conquest and right ac..

The Church was absolutely central to medieval and especially early medieval life. This rich account of its history and development in a turbulent age covers a vast range of subjects in addition to the spiritual dimension. Surveying the late Anglo-Saxon period through the Norman Conquest and right ac..

Interprets the works of an important group of writers known as 'the English deists'. This title argues that this interpretation reads Romantic conceptions of religious identity into a period in which it was lacking. It contextualizes these writers within the early Enlightenment, which was multivocal..

This study situates the colonization of Virginia, the centrepiece of early English overseas settlement activity, in the social and political landscape of the early seventeenth century...

Royer examines the changing ritual of execution across five centuries and discovers a shift both in practice and in the message that was sent to the population at large. She argues that what began as a show of retribution and revenge became a ceremonial portrayal of redemption as the political, reli..

The English Jacobins..

First published in 1987, this is a comprehensive analysis of the rise of the British Press in the eighteenth century, as a component of the understanding of eighteenth century political and social history...

First published in 1987, this is a comprehensive analysis of the rise of the British Press in the eighteenth century, as a component of the understanding of eighteenth century political and social history...