American History

Based on the Communist Party archives at Manchester, this book examines the decline of Marxism in Britain over the last sixty years...

This book returns to the facts of one of the greatest maritime and historical mysteries. This book returns to the facts. Accompanied by photos of the people involved and maps of the area, this is an accessibly written, intelligent and thorough history, including the historical background of the ship..

Mary Delany (1700–1788) and the Court of George III..

Mary Wollstonecraft is a writer whose work continues to provoke scholarly debate. Halldenius explores Wollstonecraft’s political philosophy, focusing on her treatment of republicanism and independence, to propose a new way of reading her work – that of a ‘feminist republican’...

Objects and places were at the centre of struggles that defined the history of slavery and its abolition in the British Caribbean. This book brings together work by historians and archaeologists, focusing on material culture to offer new interpretations of these themes. This book was originally publ..

Marshall McLuhan was one of the leading media theorists of the twentieth century. This collection of essays explores the many facets of McLuhan’s work from a transatlantic perspective, balancing applied case studies with theoretical discussions...

This collection of essays explores some of the complex relations between meat and health in the twentieth century. It highlights a complicated array of contradictory attitudes towards meat and human health. They show how meat came to be regarded as a central part of a modern healthy diet and trace c..

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

This volume offers a broad perspective on the relationship between charity and medicine in Western Europe up to the advent of welfare states in the twentieth century...

This volume shows how the study of medicine can provide new insights into colonial identity, and the possibility of accomodating multiple perspectives on identity within a single narrative...

Focusing on India and South Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the essays in this collection address power and enforced modernity as applied to medicine. Clashes between traditional methods of healing and the practices brought in by colonizers are explored across both territories...

This volume of thirteen essays focuses on the health and treatment of the peoples of northern Europe and North America over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...