History : Great Britain

Lord D'Abernon was the first British ambassador to Berlin after World War I. This study, which challenges his positive historical reputation, assesses all the key aspects of Anglo-German relations in the early 1920s. more...

Price: $90.50

Explores the role of the British Empire in developing transnational ideas, institutions and social movements of increasing scope and influence in the eras of imperialism and the two world wars. This book features chapters that follow transnational dynamics and debates over sovereignty in the domains of sexuality, law, politics, culture and more. more...

Price: $100.00

Centered on practices of the body—human bodies, the “body politic”—Bodies and Disciplines considers a fascinating and largely uncanonical group of texts, as well as public dramas, rituals, and spectacles, from multidisciplinary perspectives. The result is a volume that incorporates insights from history, literature, medieval studies, and critical theory, drawing from the strengths of each discipline to illuminate a relatively little-studied period. more...

Price: $72.00

Boys at Sea is a study of homoerotic life in the Royal Navy during the age of sail. The book traces every feature of sexual life at sea, including seduction, rape, prostitution, courts martial, and the punishments meted out to those convicted of violating the stern moral code set down in the Articles of War . more...

Price: $69.95

Disraeli claimed that no country suffered more from the foundation of the German Reich than England. Bismarck's empire of 1871 did not, however, strike like a bolt from the blue. The question of German unity had been brewing for decades. Britain and the Germany Question reconstructs the way Victorians pictured the pre-history of the Reich from the July Revolution of 1830 until the eve of the 'Wars of German Unification'. It scrutinises how Britain's foreign political establishment - the diplomats, journalists and politicians who informed, determined and executed British foreign policy - analysed and responded to the Germans' search for a reformed, united and powerful nation state. more...

Price: $99.00