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Aftermath
Springer 2009; US$ 31.99Conflict and Battlefield Archaeology is a growing and important field in archaeology, with implications on the state of the world: how humanity has prepared for, reacted to, and dealt with the consequences of conflict at a national and international level. This title offers an important overview to research in this field. more...
Cromwell to Cromwell
The History Press 2011; US$ 18.94The English reformers of the 1530s, with Thomas Cromwell at their head, continued to have a strong belief in kingly rule and authority, in contrast to their radical approach to the power of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church. Resisting the king was tantamount to resisting God in their eyes, and even on a matter of conscience the will of the king... more...
The Rise and Fall of Thomas Cromwell
The History Press 2011; US$ 18.94Thomas Cromwell rose from very humble beginnings to become Henry VIII's chief minister, his right-hand man during the English Reformation. He wielded enormous power while he retained the king's favour, but the failure of Henry's marriage to Anne of Cleves, which Cromwell had arranged, led to his swift downfall and execution. John Schofield's biography... more...
Martin Luther
The History Press 2011; US$ 23.32Martin Luther was so troubled by the sale of indulgences (pardons for sins granted by the Pope) that, in 1517, he nailed ninety-five theses to the doors of the church and the castle at Wittenberg. This act began one of the most momentous periods of change in history: the Reformation. So much has been written on Luther that anyone with no prior knowledge... more...
Great Excavations
Oxbow Books 2011; US$ 36.00Great excavations inspire and capture the imagination of both the public and archaeologists alike; sites like Danebury, Sutton Hoo, Maiden Castle, Mucking and York conjure images of great discoveries and leaps in knowledge. But what was it like to participate in these excavations? What is the story of these projects, and what made them great? This... more...
London, 1100-1600
Equinox Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 45.00This book, written by an archaeologist who has been at the centre of this study since 1974, will summarise the main findings and new suggestions about the development of the City, its ups and downs through the Black Death and the Dissolution of the Monasteries; its place in Europe as a capital city with great architecture and relations with many other... more...
After Modernity
OUP Oxford 2010; US$ 35.99This book summarizes archaeological approaches to the contemporary past, and suggests a new agenda for the archaeology of late modern societies. The principal focus is the archaeology of developed, de-industrialized societies during the second half of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first. This period encompasses the end of the... more...
A Fearsome Heritage
Left Coast Press 2010; US$ 46.95From massive nuclear test sites to the more subtle material realities of everyday life, the influence of the Cold War on modern culture has been profound and global. Fearsome Legacies unites innovative work on the interpretation and management of Cold War heritage from fields including archaeology, history, art and architecture, and cultural studies.... more...
Famine, Disease and the Social Order in Early Modern Society
Cambridge University Press 1989; US$ 55.00Although Western societies cannot escape from images of famine in the present world, their direct experience of widespread hunger has receded into the past. England was one of the very first countries to escape from the shadow of famine; in this volume a more...









