John (Fellow and Prelector in Modern History, Fellow and Prelector in Modern History, The Queen's College, Oxford) Blair

First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Blair's Very Short Introduction to the Anglo-Saxon Age cov

'A nation without a national government is an awful spectacle.' In the winter of 1787-8 a series of eighty-five essays appeared in the New York pre

A collection of the writings of Sallust, renowned in the latter half of the first century BC for his prose. The volume contains the text of two of his

In this new edition of Herodotus' Histories, Nigel Wilson has revised the original Oxford Classical Text by the Danish scholar C. Hude, published in 1

A volume which examines twelfth and thirteenth century officers and the practices used to regulate them in England, placing them not only within a Bri

This book is about anonymity, emotion, and detection. Gathering surviving anonymous letters penned in England between 1760-1939 together, it identifie

Law in Common draws on a large body of unpublished archival material from local archives and libraries across the country, to show how ordinary people

In Demons, Virginia Berridge explores the factors that have affected social attitudes to tobacco, alcohol, and a variety of drugs, through history. Ge

Byzantium linked the ancient and modern worlds, shaping traditions and handing down to both Eastern and Western civilization a vibrant legacy. 'The Ox

Gender exists in almost every society as a way of organizing its people. Gender is used to assign certain responsibilities, obligations, and privilege

Byzantine princess Anna Komnene is known for writing history and plotting to become empress by murdering her brother. This book explains how Anna brok

In the decade after 1945, as the Cold War freeze set in, a new Europe slowly began to emerge from the ruins of the Second World War, based on a broad

The Enlightenment shaped modernity. Western values of representative democracy and basic human rights, gender and racial equality, individual liberty,

Teaching and learning MLA style is about to get easier.For nearly seventy years, the Modern Language Association has helped student writers choose tru

Rethinking Political Islam offers a fine-grained and definitive overview of the changing world of political Islam in the post-Arab Uprising era.

This is a history of Russia from the age of Catherine the Great to Lenin's death told through the history of the Russian ruble that traces the story o

Over the last decade (and indeed ever since the Cold War), the rise of insurgents and non-state actors in war, and their readiness to use terror and o

This first book-length study of Nikephoros Bryennios' history of the Byzantine Empire examines his use of classical Roman constructions of masculinity

This study analyzes the changing roles of German-Jewish women as members of an economically mobile but socially spurned minority.

Global Politics: Myths and Mysteries is an innovative introduction to key concepts in international relations, exposing the myths of the discipline, a