Modern History 1750-1945

The Congress of Vienna offers a readable introduction to this difficult topic, providing a background to the negotiations summary of the agreements reached and assessment of the longer term consequences...

This title was first published in 2000:  Coventry is synonymous with both the creation and relative decline of the British motor car industry...

This new edition of Andrew Lambert's ground-breaking study The Crimean War: British Grand Strategy against Russia, 1853-1856, focuses on British grand strategy, the development and implementation of national policy and strategy. With a revised introduction contextualising the 1990 text, and the addi..

In this anthology, N.H. Keeble illustrates both the historical circumstances of women's lives in the seventeenth century and the cultural notions of 'woman' which prevailed then. Includes over 200 extracts from books, diaries, letters, pamphlets...

This book, originally published in 1952, describes and explains the stage of the decline of the Russian Empire between the Crimean and First World Wars. The book is divided into three sections: the structure of state and society, political movements and foreign relations...

The Defence of Terrorism, originally written in 1920 on a military train during the Russian Civil War, represents one of Trotsky’s most wide-ranging and original contributions to the debates that dominated the 1920s and ‘30s. Trotsky’s intention is "far away from any thought of defending terrorism i..

The Diary of A.J. Mounteney Jephson..

With concepts of 'austerity' very much in the news, this book takes a fresh look at attitudes to consumption, consumerism and personal finance in Britain during the middle decades of the twentieth century. It argues that the pre-War fear of debt and social disdain for conspicuous consumption was rep..

With concepts of 'austerity' very much in the news, this book takes a fresh look at attitudes to consumption, consumerism and personal finance in Britain during the middle decades of the twentieth century. It argues that the pre-War fear of debt and social disdain for conspicuous consumption was rep..

This book, originally published in 1926 but updated in 1967 analyses Russia’s economy in the decade preceding the outbreak of the First World War. It covers trade, finance, transport and industry and each chapter is supported by statistics drawn from Russian and international sources...

The Emergence of European Trade Unionism..

The Emergence of Modern Central Banking from 1918 to the Present..