Launches! Irish women in medicine, c.1880s−1920s - 15th April AND 24th April!

Prizewinner: Destination Australia

Eric Richards, author of Destination Australia, has won the
has won the Community Relations Commission Award at the 2009 NSW Premiers Literary Awards.

The awards were presented on Monday May 18 at the 2009 NSW Premiers Literary Awards.

The judges commended the book as a fascinating, detailed account of the many waves of nationalities whose arrival into Australia was central to a grand plan of immigration that has led us to our multicultural present.'

More information about the Community Relations Commission can be found here.

THES Book of the Week

A wonderful biography of Evelyn Sharp by Angela John has been chosen as THES Book of the Week this week!

Here's what they said about it:-

'This compelling, poignant biography paints a sensitive portrait of a modest "new woman" of the 1890s, who eagerly embraced the expanding opportunities for a generation that would see momentous changes in the decades up to the mid-20th century. Well researched and clearly expressed, John's book deserves a wide readership.'
June Purvis, THES

Click here to read the full article...

Click here for more info on the book...

Buy the book from Amazon, Blackwell or NBN International.

Or Google search the ISBN (9780719080159) to bring up a huge number of places to buy from.

Reviews of Artisans of the body

Sandra Cavallo, author of Artisans of the body in early modern Italy, has had some wonderful reviews of the book, both in the latest issue of Gender in History and at the enormous Reviews in History website.


Click here to go to our web page and learn a little more about it. It also has a sample chapter there which is completely free for you to read.



Reviews in History has this to say about the book:-

'The book is a meticulous study… and has the merit of interweaving several lines of inquiry into one coherent picture.'

Guido Giglioni, Warburg Institute



Gender in History says:-

'The wealth of the archival evidence, together with Cavallo's continuous attempts to make sense of a wide range of issues from the artisans' own point of view makes this an exceptionally valuable source, and a highly important contribution to the scholarship on the social, cultural and medical history of early modern Italy.'

Paula Hohti, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies



Judge for yourself - order the book online from Blackwell, Amazon or direct from our distributors, NBN International.

Sample chapters

A lot of our titles have a sample chapter attached to them so you can get a great free preview of the book. Simply browse our catalogue and individual pages for titles will have a sample chapter that you can view as a pdf online.



Jukebox Britain, which has just been published with us, has the introduction up for you now. Simply click here to be taken to the webpage where you can read it for free.







We'll be showcasing titles with sample chapters available online on the blog from time to time. Meanwhile, keep checking titles that you're interested in at our website for free chapters.

Upcoming conferences

AAH Conference

We're at the AAH conference tomorrow; come and visit our stand and browse our titles. We'll be located in the Geoffrey Manton building, on the Manchester Metropolitan University campus.

Everything on the stand will be discounted - take this opportunity to get hold of titles at juicily reduced prices! We'll be there until Saturday.

SHS/EHS Conference

Friday and Saturday of this week, we'll also be here at the University of Warwick. Our book stand will be located in Warwick Arts Centre, at the heart of the campus. We'll have numerous discounted books on display and available to buy.

Then on Saturday evening starting at 6:30pm, we'll be launching The secret battle by Michael Roper in the Scarman building bar. Come and join us - the book will be available half price!

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We'll be at many more conferences over the Summer - keep checking back here for updated news.

Meanwhile, here are some of the titles we've published recently, grouped by subject. Click on the title links to find out more about each book, including how to order.

POLITICS

Identities, discourses and experiences

The international dimension of the failed Algerian transition

Global justice networks

Full participation

IRISH INTEREST

Michael Logue and the Catholic Church in Ireland, 1879–1925

Women, marriage and property in wealthy landed families in Ireland, 1750–1850

The making of the Irish poor law, 1815-43

NEW TITLE

The family tree detective

Fourth edition

Colin Rogers

The long-awaited fourth edition of this best-selling manual continues to offer up-to-date guidance both to newcomers and to the more experienced, on how to make best use of the labyrinth of genealogical sources in England and Wales. It takes into account recent, and even some future, changes to the civil registration system, and incorporates many of the vast sources newly available on the internet. There is also a substantial bibliography for those who discover that their ancestors migrated from other countries. New appendices provide research into underregistration of birth and death, and hitherto unpublished details from the 1915 and 1939 National Registers.

The family tree detective remains an indispensible source of information on how to locate births, marriages and deaths, and alternative strategies if those searches fail.

Dr Colin D. Rogers is a Fellow of the Society of Genealogists, a member of AGRA (the Association of Genealogists and Researchers in Archives), and was for thirty years the Hon. General Editor of the Lancashire Parish Register Society. He runs a consultancy helping banks and solicitors to identify and locate beneficiaries.

NEW TITLE

The empire in one city?

Liverpool's inconvenient imperial past

Edited by Sheryllynne Haggerty, Anthony Webster & Nicholas J. White

From the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century, Liverpool was frequently referred to as the ‘second city of the empire’. Yet, the role of Liverpool within the British imperial system and the impact on the city of its colonial connections remain underplayed in recent writing on both Liverpool and the empire. However, ‘inconvenient’ this may prove, this specially-commissioned collection of essays demonstrates that the imperial dimension deserves more prevalence in both academic and popular representations of Liverpool’s past.

Indeed, if Liverpool does represent the ‘World in One City’ – the slogan for Liverpool’s status as European Capital of Culture in 2008 – it could be argued that this is largely down to Merseyside’s long-term interactions with the colonial world, and the legacies of that imperial history.

Click on the title above for more information on this book.

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Healthy living in the Alps

The origins of winter tourism in Switzerland 1860–1914

Susan Barton

The first winter visitors to the Swiss Alps began to arrive in the 1860s and were encouraged to take outdoor exercise as part of their cure regime. They also had healthy visitors and companions who sought recreation while the invalids were resting as part of the sanatoria routine.

Demonstrating that this is not just part of the history of Switzerland but of Britain too, biographical backgrounds of British visitors to the resorts give depth and context to a history of health and winter sports tourism by looking at the kind of people who would spend months of the year in the Alps. A discussion of the application of modern technologies creates an overall view of the growth of health and sports tourism in Switzerland.

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Susan Barton is currently promoting the release of the book via a short tour in Switzerland. She is visiting Leysin and signing copies of the book at the Atelier-Boutique, Gare du Feydey. The book is on a special promotional offer of half price at the shop.

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So Clean

Lord Leverhulme, soap and civilisation

Brian Lewis

This book is an unorthodox biography of William Hesketh Lever, 1st Lord Leverhulme (1851-1925), the founder of the Lever Brothers’ Sunlight Soap empire. Unlike previous biographies, which have focused on the man’s life story and eccentricities, or just considered one aspect of his career, So clean places him squarely in his social and cultural context and is fully informed by recent historical scholarship.

Much more than a warts-and-all biography, the book uses Lever as an entry-point for contextualized and comparative essays on the history of advertising; on factory paternalism, town planning, the Garden City movement and their ramifications across the twentieth century; and on colonialism and forced labour in the Belgian Congo and the South Pacific. It concludes with a discussion of his extraordinary attempt, in his final years, to transform crofting and fishing in the Outer Hebrides.

For more information, please click on the title above.

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Piercing the bamboo curtain

Tentative bridge-building to China during the Johnson years

by Michael Lumbers

This new study is the first comprehensive account of U.S. Policy toward China during the presidency of Lyndon Johnson, a critical phase of the Cold War immediately preceding the dramatic Sino-American rapprochement of the early 1970s.

Based on a thorough review of a wide array of recently declassified government documents, this book offers a fresh perspective by challenging the popular view that Johnson’s approach to China was marked by stagnation and sterility.

For more information, click on the title above.

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Victorians and the Virgin Mary

Religion and gender in England 1830 - 1885

by Carol Engelhardt Herringer

this book seeks to revise our understanding of the Victorian religious landscape by retrieving Catholics from the cultural margins to which they are usually relegated. By showing that the Roman Catholics and Anglo-Catholics constituted a significant proportion of Victorian society that was opposed to the Protestant majority, this analysis more accurately evaluates their contributions to Victorian culture.

For more information, click on the title above.

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Eleventh-century Germany

The Swabian chronicles

Translated and selected by I. S. Robinson

In the abbey of Reichenau, in the south-western duchy of Swabia, the great polymath Herman 'the Lame' composed a chronicle that contains the most detailed account of the reign of Emperor Henry III (1039-56). His pupil and biographer, Berthold of Reichenau continued his master's work, composing a rigorous extant account of the years 1076-1079 in Germany.

The Swabian chronicles reveal how between 1049 and 1100 the centripetal attraction of the reform papacy became the dominant fact of intellectual life in German reformed monastic circles.

For more information, click on the title above.

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The civil service and the revolution in Ireland 1912-1938

'Shaking the blood-stained hand of Mr Collins'

by Martin Maguire

The training of the civil service is intended to produce an unquestioning loyalty to the State. What happens when that State is subject to revolutionary struggle and a new regime comes to power? Invited to shake the ‘blood-stained hands’ of the revolutionary leadership and to serve the new State, how does the civil service respond?

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'Martin Maguire's important book is thoroughly anchored in an impressive array of original materials, and bristles with fresh argument and insight. It cogently addresses and challenges the full range of our existing knowledge about the Dublin Castle administration, the reforms of 1920, and the early development of the Free State civil service. The work thereby significantly advances the historiography on early 20th century Ireland.'

Alvin Jackson, Sir Richard Lodge Professor of History, University of Edinburgh

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For more information, including price and ordering details, click here or on the title above.