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After the Ruins

"Sur ces bases et dans ces contextes, Hugh Clout a construit une passionnante analyse historique, parfaitement documentée et maîtrisée et judicieusement illustrée."
L'Espace Geographique, 1998, No 1

"The story told by Clout is full of detail, yet never loses sight of the main themes. It is the product of considerable research in national and departemental archives, and fills a notable hole in the history of rural France. It should be added that the quality of both print and illustrations is excellent, and the University of Exeter Press are to be congratulated on producing a high-quality book at a reasonable price."
The Agricultural History Review, Vol 46.1, June 1998

"This book makes compelling reading. Although based on monumental archive research, the text reads fluently and is illuminated by extensive use of quotations, abundant clear maps and a well-chosen selection of photographs. . . Professor Clout is to be congratulated on revealing the immensity of the tragedy of the massacre of a landscape and for unravelling the extreme complexity of its reconstruction."
Landscape History, Vol. 19 for 1998

"Clout provides a wealth of fascinating detail on conflicts and tensions between the various local interest groups and political organizations that emerged to coordinate reconstruction; between the local, national and even international initiatives that were involved, and between the different secular and religious agencies. The book has been very nicely produced by the publishers and has more than 40 superb maps and around a dozen photographs which convey both the nature of the devastation and the energy of those who rebuilt. This is, in short, an extremely important work which deserves to be widely read by geographers and historians alike. It will stand as a fitting memorial to the efforts (successful or otherwise) of all those who strove to overcome the terrible damage of modern war."
Geographical Journal, 163 (3), 1997

"...a fascinating story of bureaucracy and its well-meaning inefficiency, of the indomitable power of the human spirit to survive, of the passion of the peasantry to return to their own piece of France and to live and work again on their own holdings, of attempts to modernise as well as restore which took little account of people's yearning to return to the familiar. It is a book which will have a wide appeal across the social sciences..."
Roger Kain, Montefiore Professor of Geography, University of Exeter

". . . this is an excellent study; it is both exhaustive and compassionate. Behind the years of research and solid phalanx of tables, charts and statistics Clout never loses sight of the human tragedy, nor of the extraordinary tenacity of a rural population who as recently as 1976 were busy on the northern Meuse reclaiming land from the wastes of that distant war."
Landscape Research, Vol. 22, No. 2, 1997

". . . a pathbreaking contribution to the literature. . . The effects of the war on land use, mechanization, dispersion of the population and their resettlement have never been as carefully treated. There are powerful and telling surveys of the negotiation between local residents and official organizations over the extent of damage, and the appropriate levels of compensation for the devastation brought about by the war. There are original interpretations of the use of Chinese labour on reclamation projects, on the presence of workers from Italy, Belgium, Poland, Spain and Portugal, as well as resistance to the notion that German workers might rebuild where previously their brethren had destroyed. There is interesting detail on these fields as the repository of huge necropoli, and the commemorative efforts which organized the cemeteries which are still sprinkled liberally across this diagonal linking Belgium and Switzerland."
Journal of Historical Geography, 1997

"Hugh Clout est outre-Manche le meilleur connaisseur de la géographie de la France. . . Grand dévoreur d'archives, il sait rendre digeste l'érudition, même sur des thèmes aussi austères que la reconstruction des campagnes du Nord-Est après la Grande-guerre. . . Au terme d'une bonne décennie de recherches, le résultat est remarquable par sa rigueur, par les pistes de recherche qu'il ouvre aux géographes et aux historiens, mais aussi, fait qui mérite d'étre souligné pour un travail de première main, sa concision."
Géographie et Cultures, No. 21, 1997 After the Ruins uses both official and unofficial records to explore a relatively ignored aspect of recent rural history: how the fields, farms, villages and market towns of Northern France were restored during the 1920s in the aftermath of the Great War.

• Author is the leading scholar working in the historical geography France
• Contains illustrations and many detailed maps
• Makes use of both official reports and unofficial critical commentaries

Author: Hugh Clout is Professor of Geography, University College London and Dean of the Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences. He is one of the foremost geographical authorities on modern France and on the European Union in general.

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The Blood-Red Arab Flag

"The Blood-Red Arab Flag offers such a detailed and surgically sharp analysis of British policy and action, on the one hand, and the maritime history of the Gulf in general and the Qawasim in particular, that it may indeed, for a considerable time, be regarded as the definitive work on the subject...this book is highly recommended. Davies has made a major contribution to a crucial period of Gulf and British history which maritime historians will read with great advantage."
The Northern Mariner Vol.VIII, No 4 1998

"Despite the lurid title, this is a serious historical work-sometimes indeed a little too serious to make for easy reading-but it does lead us to a fascinating but almost forgotten area of Middle Eastern history. . . a fascinating and scholarly book . . ."
Times Literary Supplement, September 4 1998

"...the book's analysis shows that the common superficial view of piracy in the Gulf area obscures not only the complex issues of the relations between the Gulf states and Britain but the actual nature and ramifications of this particular chapter in the history of marine violence. . . This book makes a major contribution to Arab Gulf studies."
Lloyd's List, January 17, 1998

During the years 1797-1820 the Qasimi Arabs or Qawasim, inhabitants of the present day United Arab Emirates, acquired an enduring reputation as ruthless pirates. Some of their victims flew the British flag, and thus their actions were to provide the initial stimulus and justification for 150 years of British involvement in the Gulf.

Recently, however, it has been doubted whether the Qawasim were in fact pirates. In a scholarly but accessible account founded on contemporary sources, illustrated with testimonies of eye-witnesses and participants, THE BLOOD-RED ARAB FLAG sets out to decide this controversial question. By making use of valuable and hitherto untapped archival material, Charles Davies strongly evokes a flavour of life in the Gulf in this turbulent and formative period in the Gulf's history.

• First in-depth investigation into controversial subject
• Helps explain why the Gulf is as it is today
• Evocative, accessible style based on original research

Author: Charles E. Davies is a barrister and an Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre for Arab Gulf Studies, University of Exeter.

Britain and France at the Birth of America: The European Powers and the Peace Negotiations of 1782-3

‘This splendidly produced volume from one of Britain’s newer academic publishers needs to be set in the historiographical context of its subject, one much written about from varying national viewpoints . . . The merits of this book by Andrew Stockley are that he incorporates recent scholarship; adds new material of his own; notes the impact of internal politics in Britain and France; and, above all, as his title suggests, puts the whole topic in a European rather than American setting . . . an excellent synthesis of a complicated topic, leavened with fresh material and marked by an original approach.’
The British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies,  25.1, Spring issue

‘Highly recommended for all college libraries.’
Choice, Vol. 39, No. 6, Feb 2002

‘The specialist will find much to enjoy and benefit from, especially the analysis of the construction of a viable British foreign policy towards the American colonies and their European allies.’
The International History Review, Vol. 24:1, March 2002

This is the first comprehensive study of the peace negotiations which ended the American War of Independence. It challenges traditional views and uses a wide range of sources to provide a detailed analysis of the treaties signed between Britain and France, Spain, the Netherlands, and the United States. It shows that American independence, rather than being the important issue of the negotiations, was consistently subordinated to European balance of power considerations.

The book demonstrates the importance of personality and popular prejudice in determining foreign policy, and new insights are offered into the personalities and objectives of the leading political figures of the time, including George III, Louis XVI, Benjamin Franklin, Lords Shelburne, Grantham and North, Charles James Fox, the comte de Vergennes, John Jay, John Adams, Catherine the Great and Frederick the Great. The result is a significant new study of eighteenth-century diplomatic and political history which overturns previously established views.

• " . . . turns the established view of the creation of the USA upon its head . . ."
  Hamish Scott, University of St Andrews
• Draws on a wide range of archival material
• Quotes personalities such as George III, Benjamin Franklin, Catherine the Great, Lord Shelburne, Louis XVI, the comte de Vergennes, John Adams

Author: Andrew Stockley is Lecturer in Constitutional Law, University of Canterbury, New Zealand and Principal of College House, Christchurch, New Zealand.

British Diplomats and Diplomacy, 1688-1800

‘The work as a whole is based on a thorough knowledge of the published and unpublished sources, and includes an invaluable survey of relevant archives in a lengthy appendix. The writing is illuminated by many vivid quotations and memorable details.’
The International History Review, Vol. 24:2, June 2002

‘While acknowledging the importance of “structural” factors such as poor, slow communications, Black is also concerned to avoid narrowly determinist approaches, and focuses on individual diplomats, drawing extensively on their correspondence with officials and others to flesh out their activity in detail. By way of general conclusion, Black thinks that for all its defects British diplomacy in this period was, by and large, successful, reducing the pressure for fundamental change. [Black] has added to – and in some degree modified – our knowledge and understanding of one of the most important instruments of the British fiscal-military state in the eighteenth century.’
The British Journal for Eighteenth- Century Studies,  25.1, Spring issue

‘In several excellent chapters, Black examines in turn the extent to which the recruitment of envoys relied on patronage, the “social politics” of rank and titles in diplomacy, the techniques and practices of the supervision of envoys and the dissemination of diplomatic information, and the nature and intrigues of diplomats’ lives abroad . . . The book is capped by an extremely useful bibliographic guide to collections of private and public diplomatic papers.’
Choice, Vol. 39, No. 6, Feb 2002

"A Staggering range of archive materials."
TLS, June 22, 2001

Cash Flow and Corporate Finance in Victorian Britain: Cases from the British Coal Industry 1860-1914

The book adds a new dimension to the analysis of corporate performance over a long period and offers a valuable database which will facilitate further research. It is an unusual and useful collaboration between accounting historians and economic historians.

"The authors are to be complimented on having undertaken a heavily labour-intensive exercise in a painstaking and meticulous manner."
The European Accounting Review, Vol. 10:1 (2001)

"The value of this study lies in its innovative approach to the use of company annual accounts by historians. This approach, which involves the preparation of cash flow statements as a tool for understanding how company activities have been financed, has general applicability: it can be used for companies in any sector and for years since 1914."
Business History, July 2001

Market: Historians of accountancy. Business historians. Economic historians. Academic libraries.

Authors: Trevor Baldwin is a senior lecturer in Accounting in the University of East Anglia. R.H. Berry is Boots Professor of Accounting and Finance in the University of Nottingham. R.A. Church is Professor of Economic and Social History in the University of East Anglia. M.V. Pitts is a lecturer in Accounting and Finance in the Warwick Business School, University of Warwick.

Cathedrals under Siege

Cathedrals Under Siege is the story of our greatest churches during the seventeenth century - the most perilous episode in their history. During the Civil War and Commonwealth, they were attacked, desecrated and abolished as institutions, just managing to survive to be restored with Charles II in 1660. This book reviews these great events along with the quieter periods in the early and later parts of the centuries. It examines all aspects of cathedral history - buildings, clergy, finances, music and literature - breaking new ground in the first ever study of cathedrals in this important century.

"Lehmberg's assiduous prosopography will win him gratitude from fellow historians."
Ecclesiastical History, July 1997

"A very solid achievement of excellent scholarship - massive, extensive, even relentless... [Lehmberg] has searched out archival evidence all over the realm and bases his conclusions on a thorough, personal inspection of the cathedrals of England... The story is beautifully told and proves fascinating." Sir Geoffrey Elton

• First ever study of all twenty-six English cathedrals in this important century
• Profusely illustrated with photographs and engravings
• Author is one of the most eminent American historians of British history

Author: Stanford Lehmberg is Professor of History in the University of Minnesota, USA. His numerous books include biographies of leading Tudor Englishmen and the fundamental study of English cathedrals during the Reformation period: The Reformation of Cathedrals: Cathedrals in English Society, 1485-1603 (Princeton, 1988).

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The Civilian in War

"...a gem of a book for students..."
Arthur Marwick, O.U.Newsletter

A collection of essays by specialist authors covering both belligerent and occupied countries: Britain, Germany, the United States, the former Soviet Union, Japan, Italy, Poland, France and the Netherlands. It explores the impact of the Second World War on the civilian population by looking at such aspects as propaganda, morale, labour mobilization, the role of women, resistance and collaboration within a comparative framework. 

Culture in History

"As a summary of the present status of "culture" in the various social sciences represented here the editors' introduction would be difficult to surpass ... Overall the book will be a useful addition for undergraduates taking interdisiciplinary courses in cultural studies."
Business History

English Church Dedications

People assume that parish church dedications are ancient, but many of those in use today are inventions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the original dedications were entirely different. This startling discovery reveals fresh information about the history of English parish churches and throws light on religion in England in all periods of history.

Part One of English Church Dedications is a general history of Church dedications in England from Roman times to the present day. Part Two provides a gazetteer of dedications in Cornwall and Devon, with dates and references, showing how far each one can be traced back and what changes and misunderstandings have occurred. It offers totally new evidence about the Cornish saints and provides a guide and model for similar research in other counties.

• Will appeal to the general reader with an interest in Church history
• Totally new evidence on English parish churches
• Gives a general outline history of the subject

Author: Nicholas Orme is Professor of History in the University of Exeter. He has written widely on religious, educational and social history. He is the leading authority on Church history in the South West of England.

CONTENTS

Part One: Introduction

1. English Church Dedications
2. The Period before 1066
3. From 1066 to the Reformation
4. From the Reformation to 1800
5. Church Dedications since 1800
6. The Gazetteer and How to Use It

Part Two: Gazetteer of Church Dedications

Church Dedications in Cornwall
Church Dedications in Devon

Bibliography
Index of Saints
General Index

"In addition to providing the first real scholarly treatment of the subject, Nicholas Orme's work also raises a number of questions which should inspire local researchers........Professor Orme has produced a masterly study of a neglected subject for which he is to be congratulated. The value for local historians in Cornwall and Devon is immense, and hopefully this book will inspire more detailed country studies eslewhere. It richly deserves a place on all serious local historian's bookshelves alongside Dr. Oliver Padel's Cornish Place Names which it complements so well." 
Cornwall Association. A Local History.

". . . an exemplary demonstration of the deep scholarship which we have come to expect of its author, who provides several kinds of index and an awe-inspiring bibliography to the whole study . . . (He) sets the present investigation before us with the hope of its proving the start of an enterprise to trace the history of all church dedications in England and he provides a model of formidable erudition and great clarity for others to follow." 
Newsletter of the Centre for South-Western Historical Studies, Spring 1997

Ethics and Politics in Seventeenth Century France

"...this collection contains much that will interest the historian and the literary scholar."
English Historical Review, April 1998, Vol. CXIII, No. 451

"This volume merits careful reading by all specialists in seventeenth century French studies. The thematic coherence provided by the focus on literature and politics in Watt's own work has been reflected in this volume with learned and illuminating results."
Papers in Seventeenth Century French Literature

This collection of twenty essays, of which five are in French, written by leading English and French literary and historical scholars, deconstructs the ethical and political framework supporting and circumscribing the actions of a powerful elite in France between the early 1600s and the final years of Louis XIV's reign. Reflecting a diversity of individual concerns, the essays, which offer a radical double questioning of the absolute values in which were founded the authority of Church, King and nobility, have been divided into two interrelated parts in acknowledgement of the complex tensions between codes of behaviour and political practice in the different theatrical spaces of government in the real and imaginary world.

The dual political and moral theme of this study is not new, but it is one which has always been highly regarded by historians and literary specialists alike. It is in fact one of the 'classics' of seventeenth-century studies, the one to which critics must always return, and to which students must always address themselves, if they are to comprehend the intellectual core of seventeenth-century French studies.

Readership: Scholars, researchers and teachers of French literature and history. Undergraduates and postgraduates studying French, history, political history, seventeenth-century literature. The interested general reader.

KEITH CAMERON is Professor in French and Renaissance Studies, University of Exeter. ELIZABETH WOODROUGH is Lecturer in French, specialising in French literature of the seventeenth century, University of Exeter.

CONTENTS

Introduction
1. 'Alternative' Ethical Systems in France during the Grand Siècle (William D. Howarth)
2. A Note on Lay Piety in the Early Seventeenth Century (John Cruickshank)
3. Guez de Balzac: The Enduring Influence of Rome (Margaret McGowan)
4. L'Image de la Ligue dans les Mémoires du Cardinal de Retz (Simone Bertiére)
5. The Political Testaments of Richelieu and La Rochefoucauld (Elizabeth Woodrough)
6. Considérations morales et politiques autour d'Henri II de Montmorency: Une polyphonie discordante (Noémi Hepp)
7. Medicine and Statecraft in the Mémoires du Cardinal de Retz (Colin Jones)
8. The Fouquet-Colbert Rivalry and the 'Revolution' of 1661 (Richard Bonney)
9. Crescit ut ascpicitur: Condé and the Reinterpretation of Heroism, 1650-1662 (Mark Bannister)
10. Love, Marriage and a Disputed Sentence in La Princesse de Clèves (John Campell)
11. Marie de Villars: A Political Woman? (Wendy Perkins)
12. Ascendent et déclinaison de la noblesse française dans le systéme de Boulainvilliers (Yves Coirault)

PART II: THE POLITICS OF THEATRE

13. Corneille: Ethic and Polis (Henry Phillips)
14. Sur l'échec des conjurés dans La Mort de Sénèque (Madeleine Bertaud)
15. 'Le Poids d'une couronne':The Dilemma of Monarchy in La Calprenède's Tragedies (Guy Snaith)
16. African Temptresses and Roman Matrons: Female Roles on the Paris Stage, 1634-1643 (David Clarke)
17. How Quinault uses Political Commonplaces (William Brooks)
18. Politics and Tragedy: The Case of the Earl of Essex (C. J. Gossip)
19. 'Je commence á rougir': Shame, Self-Esteem and Guilt in the Presentation of Racine's Hippolyte (Edward Forman)
20. L'influence de Louis XIV sur la vie littéraire: pour un bilan critique (Jean Rohou)

Faction and Faith

" . . . Anne Duffin's scholarly study of early seventeenth-century Cornwall worthily takes its place alongside Mary Coate's classic 1933 volume on this county's Civil War experience. Based on copious research, clearly presented, balanced in its judgements, it fills a significant gap in early modern regional history." Southern History, Vol. 18, 1997

"This is a book which will be valued by historians of this period and by those with a particular interest in Cornwall."
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries, Autumn 1997

The history of Cornwall in the first half of the seventeenth century is both dramatic and turbulent. In Faction and Faith, Anne Duffin draws upon extensive new source material, combining national documents and local family collections with a detailed analysis of churchwardens' accounts, borough records and over 350 wills. She challenges the established view that Cornwall was naturally royalist and presents a picture of a politically-aware and religiously-splintered society.

• Makes use of extensive new source material from national and local records
• First major publication since 1933 on Cornwall in this period
• Challenges the established view of Cornish society in the early seventeenth century

Author: Anne Duffin is a part-time lecturer in the Department of History and Archaeology, University of Exeter. She is also a freelance historian and writer.

CONTENTS

Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography
Index

From Deliverance to Destruction

"Dr Stoyle's account deserves to become the standard authority. He ranges widely in the sources to describe and explain the circumstances by which parliamentary authority was ousted and replaced by royalist administration until the final siege of Exeter in 1646. He explores the tensions between the commands of Berkeley and Goring on the Royalist side, and convincingly analyses conflicts between military and civic authority."
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 1998

"Dr Stoyle is to be congratulated on a book which is highly readable and widely accessible, which presents a lively and engaging account, but which also makes an important contribution to our knowledge of the urban sector before and during the civil war."
Southern History, Vol. 18, 1997

"This is of more than local interest, since Exeter offers something of a case study, challenging the view that in provincial urban communities little concern was shown there for national issues until citizens were faced by the mind-concentrating demands posed by war in the kingdom . . . Similar searching reinspection of other urban centres is called for."
Cromwelliana

From Deliverance to Destruction is a study of the city of Exeter during the Great Civil War of 1642-46; it offers a lively, immediate account of how one English city slid, inexorably, into the chaos of civil war. The book shows how Exeter's inhabitants first began to dissent from each other over religious issues, then became divided into two warring camps, and finally, after three years of bitter conflict, witnessed much of the ancient city being destroyed about their ears. The main text is accompanied by a generous collection of transcripts from original seventeenth-century documents. These have been specially selected to illuminate the war's effect on ordinary men and women, and to show how closely engaged they were with the national politico-religous debate. This book will be of interest to all serious students of the English Civil War, while at the same time being accessible to a non-specialist audience.

Readership: Scholars, undergraduates and advanced level students studying history, local history, military history, religion, politics and popular behaviour during the early modern period; Civil War enthusiasts; the general reader interested in local history.

MARK STOYLE is lecturer in Early Modern History, University of Southampton. He is the author of Loyalty and Locality, published by UEP in 1994.

From Ta'izz to Tyneside

"The book) serves as more than simply the history of a small community in the north-east of England. In methodological terms, and in the ways in which it seeks to do justice to the subjects of its study, it is a model which historians and sociologists working in the general area of 'race' and ethnicity should study carefully. Its sensitivity and its depth of research, including some wonderful photographs, deserve a considerable audience."Immigrants and Minorities

From Ta'izz to Tyneside is the first in-depth study of early Arab immigrants to Britain, and provides a unique insight into their everyday lives. During the First World War, several thousand Arab seafarers arrived in a number of British ports; most came from the Yemen and neighbouring parts of Britain's Aden Protectorate. They represent the first significant Muslim communities to settle in Britain. The book focuses on Tyneside because this is the only area for which there are extensive local archival sources.

Events on Tyneside are set in their national and international contexts. Throughout the interwar period, declining employment opportunities in shipping brought intense competition for jobs, and the Arab seamen found themselves unwanted guests; discrimination, abuse, regulation and control intensified.

Readership:Students of sociology, anthropology, ethnic relations, social history, geography, Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, maritime history. The general reader interested in the history of Tyneside. Schoolteachers wishing to include in their teaching more about the contribution of ethnic communities to British history.

RICHARD LAWLESS is a former Director of the Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Durham and currently Emeritus Reader in Middle Eastern Studies.

Gentry Leaders in Peace and War

"A well-researched and positive contribution to appreciation of the local dimension of early Stuart government. Her pertinent questions elicit thoughtful and stimulating answers."
Exeter Cathedral News, February 1998

The great strength of the government of Devon in the early seventeenth century lay in the quality of its leaders. They ruled together in harmony, free from rivalries for supremacy, free from the influence of any powerful resident nobles and saved from religious conflicts by the pacific Bishop Hall. Confident of their ability to rule the county and prepared to introduce innovative methods, even in the judicial sphere, they achieved a high level of competent administration. They gave the king loyal service but were also prepared to be outspoken over the difficulties his policies caused them.

GENTRY LEADERS IN PEACE AND WAR emphasizes this strength by describing much of the administration through a series of biographical studies, each biography covering the whole life of the subject and so relating service in peacetime to actions during the civil war. In this way the book describes the government of Devon in the early seventeenth century through the eyes of its administrators and helps us to understand the whole class of gentry leaders.

• First county history to deal with seventeenth century by a series of biographical studies
• Contains maps and illustrations

Author: Mary Wolffe is a freelance historian specialising in the early seventeenth century.

Government, Party and People in Nazi Germany

"Wide-ranging, thoughtful and very useful."
Journal of European Studies

Examines the relationship of the Nazi Party with the civil service and the working class. The effectiveness of the machinery of the party is also analysed and an assessment made of its impact on public opinion.

Historical Atlas of South-West Britain

This is the first historical atlas of a major region of the United Kingdom. Its aim is to create and communicate the history of the south-western peninsula of England-Cornwall, Devon and the Isles of Scilly-from the beginnings of man's occupation to the present day. The cartographic message projected by around 400 maps is extended by a substantial text of about 250,000 words as well as diagrams, contemporary prints and photographs.

This is one of the most substantial collaborative cartographic ventures undertaken in the United Kingdom. There are more than fifty contributors, about half of whom are drawn from within the University of Exeter, the remainder being researchers at other universities who specialize on topics relating to South-West England. The majority are geographers, archaeologists and historians, but there are also important contributions from political scientists, sociologists, educationalists and the region's museums, library and archive services. The pre-medieval content is organized chronologically but thereafter the reconstruction of human occupation is structured thematically.

• Large format hardback in slipcase-nearly 600 pages
• Accessible to the general reader and 'A' level students
• More than 50 specialist contributors

Editors: Roger Kain is Montefiore Professor of Geography in the University of Exeter, a Fellow of the British Academy and one of its Vice-Presidents. He has been honoured with medals and prizes from The Royal Geographical Society, The Newberry Library Chicago, the Library Association. William Ravenhill was Reardon Smith Professor of Geography in the University of Exeter.

CONTENTS

Introduction Roger Kain
1 Environmental Setting Christopher Caseldine
2 Traditional building materials and their influence on vernacular styles Veronica Chesher
THE DEEP PAST: BEFORE THE NORMAN CONQUEST
3 Palaeolithic: the earliest human occupation Allan Straw
4 Late Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic hunting-gathering communities Alison Roberts
5 Neolithic settlement, land use and resources Frances Griffith and Henrietta Quinnell
6 Barrow and ceremonial sites in the Neolithic and Earlier Bronze Age Frances Griffith and Henrietta Quinnell
7 Settlement c.2500 BC to c.AD 600 Frances Griffith and Henrietta Quinnell
8 The Bronze Age metalwork of Devon and Cornwall Susan M. Pearce
9 Iron Age to Roman buildings, structures, and coin and other findspots Frances Griffith and Henrietta Quinnell
10 The Roman Army in the South West Valerie Maxfield
11 Classical Sources for the Ancient South West Malcolm Todd
12 Early Christian Dumnonia A.C. Thomas
13 Place names in Devon and Cornwall O.J. Padel
14 Saxon conquest and settlement Della Hooke
THEMES IN THE HISTORY OF POST-MEDIEVAL SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND
15-18 POPULATION
15 Population distribution from the Domesday Book of 1806 William Ravenhill
16 Population distribution and growth in early modern England Jonathan Barry
17 Population change in south-west England, 1811-1911 Andrew Alexander and Gareth Shaw
18 Population changes in the twentieth century Andrew Gilg
19-25 POLITICAL AND MILITARY HISTORY
19 Castles, fortified houses and fortified towns, 1300-1500 Robert Higham
20 Representation and rebellion in the later middle ages Nicholas Orme
21 Civil wars of the seventeenth century Peter Gaunt
22 Coastal defences and garrisons, 1480-1914 Michael Duffy
23 Defence and disruption: World Wars I and II Mark Blacksell
24 Antecedents of the modern administrative map: local areas and local authorities, 1801-1998 Jeffrey Stanyer
25 Parlimentary boundaries and political affiliations, 1918-1997 Michael Rush
26-30 RELIGION AND RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS
26 Ecclesiastical institutions in 1086 and monastic houses c.1300 Christopher Holdsworth
27 The Church in Devon and Cornwall from c.1300 to the Reformation Nicholas Orme
28 Religion and the spread of nonconformity before 1800 Jonathan Barry
29 Religious Worship in 1851 Bruce Coleman
30 Religion and ecclesiastical practices in the twentieth century Grace Davie and Derek Hearl
31-34 EDUCATION/DISSEMINATION OF KNOWLEDGE/LANGUAGE
31 Printing, the book trade, and newspapers, c.1500-1860 Ian Maxted
32 Education in Cornwall in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries L. Burge and F.L. Harris
33 Education in Devon in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Roger Sellman
34 The retreat of the Cornish language Philip Payton
35-39 AGRICULTURE
35 Agriculture and rural settlement in 1086 F.R. Thorn and C.M.J. Thorn
36 Medieval farming and rural settlement Harold Fox
37 Agriculture and rural settlement, 1500-1800 Michael Havinden and Robin Stanes
38 Farming in the nineteenth century Sarah Wilmot
39 Agriculture, forestry and landscape conservation in the twentieth century Andrew Gilg
40-44 INDUSTRY AND MINING
40 Medieval rural industry Harold Fox
41 The tin industry in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Cornwall G.A.M. Gerrard
42 The woollen, lime, tanning and leather working, and paper making industries c.1500 to c.1800 Michael Havinden
43 Metal mining in Cornwall and Devon since the eighteenth century Roger Burt
44 Employment in Devon and Cornwall in the twentieth century Andrew Gilg
44 -47 INLAND TRANSPORT
44 Turnpike roads in Devon and Cornwall John Kanefsky
45 Canals and railways in the South West in the nineteenth century Richard Oliver
46 Railways and roads in the twentieth century Malyn Newitt
48-50 MARITIME ACTIVITIES
48 Fisheries, exploration, shipping and mariners in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Todd Gray
49 Maritime Devon, 1660-1815 Stephen Fisher
50 Seaborne trade, fishing and marine recreation since 1800 David Starkey
51-55 TOWNS
51 Medieval urban development Harold Fox
52 Medieval town plans T.R. Slater
53 Towns and processes of urbanisation in the early modern period Jonathan Barry
54 Post-medieval morphological development of towns Mark Brayshay
55 Town and country planning in the twentieth century Andrew Gilg
56-60 SERVICE INDUSTRIES: TOURISM AND RETAILING
56 Early tourist destinations: artists' changing landscape preferences Peter Howard
57 The growth of tourism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Gareth Shaw, Justin Greenwood and Allan Williams
58 Retail trading, 1850-1939 Andrew Alexander and Gareth Shaw
59 Commerce and marketing, 1800-1914: co-operative retailing Martin Purvis
60 Retail development in the late twentieth century Gareth Shaw and Andrew Alexander
61-65 EXETER AND PLYMOUTH
61 The city of Exeter from AD50 to the early nineteenth century C.G. Henderson
62 Exeter Cathedral Nicholas Orme and C.G. Henderson
63 Map evidence of the growth of Exeter during the nineteenth century Richard Oliver
64 Exeter in the twentieth century Andrew Gilg
65 Plymouth Mark Brayshay, Cynthia Gaskell Brown and James Barber

Intelligence and International Relations, 1900-1945

"An excellent collection ... All the papers are the result of scholarly research on intelligence and international relations in recent years and they provide insights not easily found elsewhere."
Cryptologia

"Into Another Mould"?

‘”Into Another Mould” is fascinating because of the breadth it brings to the study of the Interregnum, encompassing as it does several elements of the period not often considered.  Since it has been updated with recent bibliographical material, it may be considered essential reading for those who wish to gain a more thorough understanding of the Interregnum period.  With just over 150 pages, it would also be the perfect length for use in college courses . . . “Into Another Mould” has done just what its contributing writers set out to do—proved that the history of the Interregnum period is riveting and definitely worthy of close examination in its own right.’
Albion

The first edition of this volume, published in 1981 under the title Into Another Mould, contemplated three aspects of the interregnum 1642-60: the suggested or even attempted reforms of local government; the politics of the New Model Army; the strains, new and old, between and within the constituent kingdoms. In this new edition, the original essays have been revised and joined by three new essays: 'Wales and the British Dimension'; 'Oliver Cromwell and his Protectorate Parliaments'; and a commentary by the editor, Ivan Roots, on procedure, legislation and constitutional change in the second of these parliaments.

Readership: Scholars, undergraduates and advance level students studying this key period of history.

IVAN ROOTS is Emeritus Professor in History at the University of Exeter.

The Jews of South-West England

The definitive study of the once-important Jewish communities of Devon and Cornwall, providing an in-depth study of the demography and economic activity as well as the political, cultural, religious and social life of South-Western Jewry.

"This well-documented account of the communities of Plymouth, Exeter, Falmouth and Penzance during the medieval and modern eras offers an affectionate account of provincial Jewish life in an overwhelmingly gentile environment, which led inexorably to a process of assimilation and eventual decline.

The author, who was for many years the minister of Plymouth Hebrew Congregation . . . augments what is an essentially scholarly work with a wealth of anecdotes."
Jewish Chronicle

The Last Years of Austria-Hungary

The emergence of central Europe and the Balkans as a major area of interest and international concern in post-Cold War Europe have given the fall of the Habsburg Empire and the consequences of that fall considerable contemporary resonance.  The Empire was an experiment in multi-national politics, and how different ethnic and religious groups live or do not live together is very much what this book is about.

The eight essays in this volume seek to unravel the complexities of the final twenty years of Austria-Hungary and its eventual disintegration, tackling from different angles the political, social and international challenges to the Empire’s existence.  The book successfully fills a gap in the market between expensive textbooks and very specialist articles and monographs and as such will appeal both to students and to the general reader interested in the Habsburgs and the Great War.

From reviews of the first edition:

"The essays provide new insights into the question of Habsburg endurance, while offering perceptive suggestions about its ultimate collapse . . . [The book] represents a valuable attempt to publish new research and new perspectives on familiar questions. Carefully edited and with an excellent set of maps and a solid bibliography, the book offers students and specialists alike fresh thoughts about the Habsburg Monarchy, the Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia." 
Samuel R. Williamson, The International History Review  

• Important links to post-Cold War Europe

• An ideal introduction for students and anyone interested in the Great War—fills the gap between other textbooks and specialist monographs

• More than simply a revised edition with a new Introduction and an extra chapter—new material reflecting the latest thinking has been added throughout, together with new maps and translations from original documents

Market: Undergraduate students of history, especially those specialising in Eastern Europe, the Great War and early 20^th century European history.  Historians.  The general reader interested in the Habsburgs or the Great War.

Editor: Mark Cornwall is Senior Lecturer in European History at the University of Dundee. He is the author of The Undermining of Austria-Hungary: The Battle for Hearts and Minds (Macmillan, 2000).

Contents and contributors

Introduction , Mark Cornwall
The Foreign Policy of the Monarchy , F.R. Bridge, Emeritus Professor of International History, University of Leeds
‘Well-Tempered Discontent’: Austrian Domestic Politics , Lothar Höbelt, Assistant Professor and Universitätsdozent at Institut für Geschichte, University of Vienna
The Bohemian Question , Catherine Albrecht, Associate Professor, University of Baltimore
The Hungarian Political Scene , Tibor Zsuppán, formerly Lecturer in History, University of St Andrews
The Southern Slav Question , Janko Pleterski, Emeritus Professor of University of Ljubljana
The Eastern Front , Rudolf Jeřábek, Senior Archivist at the Austrian State Archives, Vienna
Disintegration and Defeat: the Austro-Hungarian Revolution , Mark Cornwall
Appendix
Documents: The Final Meetings of the Common Ministerial Council
Further Reading
Index

The Letters of Sir Walter Ralegh

‘This is a fascinating volume and one which is quite clearly a labour of love, and it has much to offer anyone seeking a more detailed understanding of the languages and practices of Elizabethan patronage networks. Generally, the critical apparatus is useful and provides valuable contexts for the letters, particularly for those, the vast majority, which are concerned with financial, legal, or naval technicalities. Although there is a wistful comment in the introduction that “Sir Walter’s own papers, which must have been considerable, have never been found”, Latham and Youings have given us plenty to be getting on with.’
YES, Vol. 32, 2002

‘[Ralegh] was careful of his reputation in life and in death; and these letters help to show, among much else, how he fashioned his own image. This splendidly edited and finely produced volume deserves our gratitude for helping us to enjoy the prose of a remarkable man and a fine writer.’
English Historical Review, Vol. 117, No. 471, Apr 2002

While the publication is itself a notable achievement in book design, the extensive endnotes along with the comprehensive introduction and index (all apparently added by Youings) make the book an extremely useful reference work on Sir Walter Ralegh.
International History Review, vol xxii2, June 2000

"The University of Exeter Press has done the proud Devon man proud. The book is well printed and generously illustrated. Students will be grateful for plates of holograph letters which illustrate the varying forms of Ralegh's hand, and include an example of a sketch of a scaffold or gallows that he use to emphasize the message 'hast post hast! hast for life'."
TLS October 22 1999

This edition of the letters of Sir Walter Ralegh will replace the long out-of-print edition of Edward Edwards published in 1868. It contains the full text, in the original spelling, with modern punctuation, of all known surviving letters, 240 in all, compared with Edwards' 160, in most cases taken from the original manuscripts, many never before published. All are extensively annotated, many have been newly dated and corrected; there is a substantial Introduction by Joyce Youings.

The letters help to reconcile the family man, never happier than at home on his estate in the West Country, with one who is revered, especially in North America, as the founder and inspirer of English overseas settlement. They show him drawn both towards his native West Country, where he was not universally admired, and towards the Court at Westminster where lay the determination of the success or failure of his enterprises. Never before have we been able to get as near to understanding the strengths and weaknesses of one of the best-known figures of English history, the man who was both patriot and European; courtier and failed politician; soldier and poet; owner of ships and organiser of privateering ventures yet a reluctant sailor; greedy for personal wealth and social status but apparently ready to plead the case of the poor and disadvantaged.

• Includes 240 surviving letters - many never before published

• Impeccable scholarship but very accessible to the general reader
• Indispensable to all future biographers of Ralegh and his Elizabethan and Jacobean contemporaries

Editors: Agnes Latham was Reader in English Literature, Bedford College London and editor of the standard edition of Sir Walter Ralegh's poetry. Joyce Youings is Emeritus Professor of History in the University of Exeter and is well known as a specialist in Tudor history and as an editor of Tudor documents.

Loyalty and Locality

This volume is a study of popular behaviour during the English Civil War. The book makes three claims. The first is that English counties did not behave as homogeneous units during the conflict of 1642-46, but that they divided instead along regional lines, certain areas supporting Parliament, others supporting the King. The second is that this general rule applied to cities too, and that in urban communities it is possible to discern both 'Royalist' and 'Parliamentarian' parishes. The third is that these internal divisions were not simply temporary alignments, conjured up by extraordinary circumstances, but that they reflected deep and enduring splits in local society, contrasting patterns of popular behaviour stretching back over very many years.

"...is a model of scrupulous scholarship, which sets a high standard to imitate for those who seek in future to apply similar techniques to other counties in order to interpret popular attitudes to the rival parties in the English Civil War."
War in History 6 (2) 1999

" . . . the work of a historian of unmistakable flair. Like all really good local studies it has a sensuous feel for the nature of its territory, and utilizes a very wide range of varieties of source material to reconstruct the experience of its people."
History, January 1998, Volume 83, No. 269

"The book is a brilliantly original exploration of Devon's experience of the seventeenth-century civil wars....his work has important implications for the whole history of Stuart England."David Underdown, Professor of History, Yale University

"There is no doubt that this book will now represent the benchmark of how to measure popular participation [in the English Civil War]..." John Morrill, Reader in Early Modern History, University of Cambridge.

"'It is a book which displays what every solid work of history ought to exhibit, that curious epithet which emanates from senior common rooms: "a first-class mind". ... The clarity and cogency of the argument shine through." Literary Review

". . . an important contribution to the long-running debate on the origins and nature of the English Civil War."History Today

"A Clear, persuasive and often trenchantly written discussion.....he has made a significant and refreshingly original contribution to regional history and to the diverse, oft-changing, story of the English Civil War."
English Historical Review

Maps and History in South-West England

This volume of essays considers the practical and political purposes for which maps were used, the symbolic and ideological roles of maps in the history of South-Western England and the ways in which map evidence can be used to recover facts about the past for use in the writing of history. The text is accompanied by 43 pages of maps and illustrations.

Mediterranean Urban Culture

‘this is a useful collection of discrete essays in which almost everyone has something new to say which will be of interest to readers of this journal.’
Urban History, Vol. 28:3, 2001

The book, after an Introduction by the editor, is divided into three sections: neighbours and neighbourhoods; religion, ethnicity and minority groups; culture, politics and society. The coherence of the collection sets up resonances and comparisons which confirm a considerable unity in the concept of Mediterranean urban culture in its broadest sense.

• Original contributions by international scholars representing a wide range of interests
• Interdisciplinary, with access to the latest research
• Offers a new definition of urban culture

Author: Alexander Cowan is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Northumbria, and a member of the University's research group for European Urban Culture. He has written extensively on Venetian social history and is the author of Urban Europe, 1500-1700 (forthcoming 1998, Edward Arnold).

contributors

Federica Ambrosini, Associate Professor in Venetian History, Università di Padova
James Amelang, Professor of History, Universita Autonoma de Madrid
Benjamin Arbel, Senior Lecturer in History, Tel-Aviv University
Donatella Calabi, Associate Professor of History, Istituto Universitario d'Archittetura, Venice
Nicholas Davidson, Lecturer in History, University of Leicester
John Edwards, Emeritus Reader in History, University of Birmingham
Ruthi Gertwagen, Lecturer in Maritime History, University of Haifa
Alan Harvey, Associate Lecturer in History, University of Northumbria
Thomas Nichols, Lecturer in the History of Art, University of Aberdeen
Eleni Sakellariou, Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge
Jo Wheeler, Administrator, King's College, London

Midwifery and Medicine in Early Modern France: Louise Bourgeois

"Wendy Perkins has written an excellent account of the work, writings and career of Louise Bourgeois, who had a flourishing midwifery practice at the French royal court at the beginning of the seventeenth century. Bourgeois was notable as a successful and articulate woman practitioner and author. . . Perkins, who is an expert on French literature, has integrated into her account recent work of social historians on medicine: on the medical market place, on patient-doctor relations, especially between women and medical practitioners, and on the social construction of the body. She does so with skill and modesty."
Medical History, April 1998, Vol. 42

Louise Bourgeois was midwife to Maria of Medici, Queen of France, from 1601 to 1609, and the first woman in modern times to write about what she calls her "art". This book gives an account of her life, and then goes on to analyse her theories about the workings of the human body in her own particular sphere, before concentrating on her advice about handling the delivery of a child (especially where it was problematic), her relationships with her clients and the way she uses them in case histories, her relations with some of the medical men of her time, and her recipes for a whole range of medical conditions in her book entitled Recueil des secrets.

The study argues that Bourgeois was an educated, skilled midwife, very alive to the encroachment of medical men into an area which had always been the preserve of women. It shows that she had no scruples in attacking incompetent male pracitioners, and that she argued fiercely in her books that all practitioners, whatever their speciality, and whether their expertise was in academic theory or practical skills, should receive the recognition they deserved.

Readership: Historians of medicine, particularly of medical care for women. Undergraduate and postgraduate students of medical history, women's studies and midwifery. French scholars, physicians, surgeons and midwives.

WENDY PERKINS is Senior Lecturer in French, University of Birmingham.

NAZISM 1919-1945

The documents in the four volumes of this acclaimed series are drawn from a wide range of sources -  official and party documents, memoirs, letters, diaries and newspapers - and are linked with a commentary. The combination of documents and commentary represents at the same time a textbook, an original contribution to scholarship and useful source books for students and historians.

Jeremy Noakes is Professor of History at the University of Exeter.
Geoffrey Pridham is Professor in European Politics at the University of Bristol. 

Volume 1
The Rise to Power 1919-1934: A Documentary Reader

Volume 1 of this acclaimed series of documents with commentary covers the period from the founding of the Nazi party in 1919 to Hitler's assumption of the office of 
Fuhrer and Reich Chancellor of 1 August 1934.

Volume 3
Foreign Policy, War and Racial Extermination: A Documentary Reader

The volume contains the most systematic documentation available in English
of the Nazi programmes of racial and eugenic extermination, including a
case study of the occupation of Poland.  There is a general account of the Nazi
empire and of the development of German occupation policies, and the book
also covers German foreign policy 1933-1945.  Following the opening up of
the archives in Eastern Europe, the past decade has seen the publication
of important research on the Nazi extermination of the Jews, and three
chapters have been substantially revised in the light of this research.

Nazism, War and Genocide

This volume of specially commissioned essays brings together contributions by internationally recognised scholars from Britain, Germany and the USA to present and reflect upon the latest research on the history of the Third Reich.

CONTRIBUTORS: Jane Caplan, Norbert Frei, Dick Geary, Robert Gellately, Neil Gregor, Ian Kershaw, Mark Roseman, Jill Stephenson, Nik Wachsmann. For contents and affiliations see overleaf.

The book provides a new approach to the history of Nazism’s racial policy, its social policy, its planning for war and genocide, and its legacy.  It shows how Nazism’s radical ideological drive penetrated the most diverse areas of German society and everyday life.  It reminds us that the crimes of the Third Reich were ultimately born of the decisions of a political, military and administrative leadership of singular ambition, drive and brutality.

• Brings together internationally recognized authorities within the field, including Ian Kershaw, author of the best-selling biography Hitler.

• Based on the latest, archival research.

•   Written in a clear, accessible style that will appeal to students and stimulate scholars.

•   Dedicated to Jeremy Noakes, the internationally renowned scholar and author of the acclaimed series Nazism: 1914–1945: A Documentary Reader, also published by University of Exeter Press.

Market:  In Britain and Europe, academics and teachers of courses on Nazism, Modern History and German History.  In the USA, students and scholars of Nazi Germany, Genocide and Holocaust Studies.   The general reader with an interest in all these fields.  University and public libraries.

Editor:  Neil Gregor is Reader in Modern German History at the University of Southampton.  His previous publications include Daimler-Benz in the Third Reich (1998) (winner of the Fraenkel Prize for Contemporary History; shortlisted for the Longman/History Today Book of the Year); and Nazism: A Reader (2000).

Contents

1.      Introduction, Neil Gregor, Southampton University
The Early Concentration Camps in Germany, 1933–1938, Jane Caplan, St Anthony’s College, 
Oxford
Working Class Identities and Nazi Racial Policy, Dick Geary, University of Nottingham
Social Outsiders and the Consolidation of Hitler’s Dictatorship, 1933–1939, Robert Gellately,
Florida State University
Law and Terror – The Radicalisation of the State during WW2 , Nik Wachsmann, University 
of Sheffield
Germans, Slavs and the Burden of Work in Rural Southern Germany during the Second World War                   , Jill Stephenson, University of Edinburgh

         Did Hitler Miss his Chance in 1940? Ian Kershaw, University of Sheffield
        Wannsee and the Final Solution, Mark Roseman, Indiana University
         Auschwitz and the German Public, Norbert Frei, University of Bochum, Germany
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The New History of The Italian South: The Mezzogiorno Revisited

This collection of essays brings together the work of a new generation of revisionist historians who argue that the true history of Southern Italy has been reduced to that of a 'Southern problem' viewed through a Northern prism. These scholars suggest that the South was not a 'backward' region, but a combination of regions in which different social and economic patterns had evolved in response to the prevailing conditions within the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.

The book employs an interdisciplinary approach to examine not only the concrete history of the South, but also the discourses and images in which it has been framed. It is the first publication in English devoted to the new history of Southern Italy, and brings together many of the leading figures in the revisionist movement, as well as some of their critics.

• New approaches to a key issue in Italian history
• No other books on the subject available in English
• Includes essays from well-known Italian historians whose work is otherwise unavailable in English

Market: Scholars and students of Italian and European history. Undergraduate courses in Italian and European history and society, Geography, Anthropology. Academic libraries. The general reader interested in Italy and Italian history.

Editors: Robert Lumley is a lecturer in Italian Studies at University College London. His publications include, as co-editor, Introduction to Italian Cultural Studies (Oxford, 1996). He is Director of the Centre for Italian Studies at University College. Jonathan Morris is a lecturer in Modern European History at University College London. His publications include The Political Economy of Shopkeeping in Milan 1885-1922 (Cambridge, 1993). He is Associate Editor of Contemporary European History.

CONTRIBUTORS

Fulvio Cammarano, Professor of the History of Political Institutions, University of Bologna
John Dickie, Lecturer in Italian, University College London
Gabriella Gribaudi, Professor of History, University of Naples
Paolo Macry, Professor of History, University of Naples
Jonathan Morris, Lecturer in Modern European History, University College London
Marta Petrusewicz, Associate Professor of History, Hunter College, New York
Paolo Pezzino, Professor of History, University of Pisa

Population and Society in an East Devon Parish: Reproducing Colyton 1540–1840

Population and Society in an English Parish: Reproducing Colyton 1540–1840 is a vivid and refreshing consideration of everyday life in a town visited by plague, Civil War, religious radicalism and industrial changes. What really happened in the place once described as ‘the most rebellious town in Devon’?

The town of Colyton in Devon has been intensively analysed by historians interested in population trends, but this book combines demographic information with extensive details of the economy, society and local politics of the parish and region.  This finely-grained, micro-history stresses the diversity of local experience and exposes many facets of the lives of ordinary individuals during the period.

The book provides valuable new material on religious radicalism, agricultural changes, economic development, local politics, poverty and welfare policies as well as the history of the family and lifecycle in a small town.

• Micro-history of a parish and region divided by factional disputes over a 300-year period

• Uses material from a wide range of sources—from court records and poor relief material to details of ordinary families

• Offers both consolidation and critique of the demographic research carried out on this area since the early 1960s

Market: Postgraduate and undergraduate students taking courses in early modern or social history, especially those interested in comparable studies and issues about poverty, demography and social relations. Local historians and general readers, especially those with an interest in early modern history or in Colyton and the South West.

Author: Pamela Sharpe is Queen Elizabeth II Research Fellow at The University of Western Australia in Perth.  Until 1999 she was Lecturer in Social and Economic History at University of Bristol.  Her books include Chronicling Poverty: the Voices and Strategies of the English Poor, 1640–1840 (Macmillan, 1997), Women’s Work: the English Experience, 1650–1914 (Arnold, 1998), Women, Gender and Labour Migration: Historical and Global Perspectives (Routledge, 2001).

The Relations of History and Geography: Studies in England, France and the United States

The two leading thinkers in historical geography in the English-speaking world in the mid-twentieth century were Carl Sauer and H.C. Darby.  Critical evaluations of the work of Carl Sauer have been published but so far none have examined the contribution of H.C. Darby, although the influence of his ideas on his students and many other contemporary scholars in geography, history and archaeology can be seen in the development of landscape studies and advances in the understanding of processes of geographical change. 

This set of twelve previously unpublished essays on historical geography written by Darby in the 1960s explains the basis of his ideas.  The material was intended by Darby as a book, but he failed to complete this in his lifetime. 

The essays are divided into three quartets of studies relating to England, France and the United States.  They are accompanied by contributions from Hugh Clout, T.J. Coppock, Hugh Prince and Michael Williams which both contextualise the material and bring it up-to-date.  

• Previously unpublished essays from one of the twentieth century's most celebrated historical geographers

• Explanatory and contextual contributions from four of the best-known contemporary historical geographers

• 'Darby was an intellectual collossus of the mid-twentieth century, a man of great influence on the nature and content of geography as practised.' Roger Kain, Montefiore Professor of Geography, University of Exeter

Market:  Past students of H.C. Darby.  Historical geographers.  Landscape historians.  Historians and philosophers of geography.  Local and cultural historians.  Academic libraries.

Editor and contributors: Michael Williams is a Professor in Geography and Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, Fellow of the British Academy and Honorary Fellow of the American Forest History Society. Hugh Clout is Professor of Human Geography at University College London and Fellow of the British Academy. T.J. Coppock was Ogilvie Professor of Geography at the University of Edinburgh and Fellow of the British Academy.  Hugh Prince is Emeritus Reader and Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Geography at University College London. 

Shifting the Boundaries

". . . a stimulating set of interdisciplinary essays concerned to trace the evolution of the private sphere in eighteenth-century Europe."
The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, Volume 57 (1995)

"This carefully organized and scholarly collection can justifiably claim to have tested out the usefulness of the public/private distinction in a variety of new ways: the result is a thought-provoking read which will contain something of interest to most scholars of the eighteenth century."
Journal of European Studies

A collection of essays, written by well-known specialists in their fields, which deal with the problematic and ever-shifting boundaries between the public and the private spheres in Western Europe in the eighteenth century. It examines and challenges the notion that there was a clear distinction between the emerging public sphere, which mediated between the State and individuals and provided a forum for Enlightenment debates, and the private, intimate or familial sphere.

The essays focus on political, legal, historiographic, literary and gender issues in an attempt to create a more subtle and differentiated view of how men and women established and understood various 'public'and 'private' domains, and used the languages of public and private actions and sentiments.

Readership: Scholars, undergraduate and postgraduate students of English, history, politics, modern languages, sociology, cultural and women's studies, cultural history and gender study.

DARIO CASTIGLIONE is Lecturer in Political Theory, University of Exeter. LESLEY SHARPE is Senior Lecturer in German, University of Exeter.

Sir John Norreys and the Elizabethan Military World

"Nolan has produced a highly readable military biography of the best land commander that England produced during an age when the national stage was crowded with larger than life figures."
Society for Army Historical Research, Vol. lxxviii No 313 (Spring 2000)

Sir John Norreys and the Elizabethan Military World is the first biography of Elizabeth I's most trusted soldier. It chronicles Norreys's life between 1570 and 1600, examining how Norreys built on his family's personal friendship with Elizabeth to navigate the treacherous waters of the court and rise to prominence as a warrior and diplomat. The book incorporates English, Irish, Belgian, Dutch, Spanish and French archival material, including a number of previously unexploited English sources such as Norreys's personal papers in the Bodleian Library.

The life of Sir John Norreys is a tale of ambition, rivalry, corruption, violence and achievement typical of the nobility of the Elizabethan age, and provides a marvellous "grand tour" of western Europe in a time of budding imperialism, religious hatred, international intrigue and military innovation.

• First biography of Norreys, in his time considered as important as Drake and Raleigh
• Important contribution to the study of military history
• Will appeal to both the specialist and general reader

Market: Military historians. Scholars of the history and literature of Elizabethan England and Ireland. Scholars of Elizabethan foreign, military and naval history. Academic libraries. The general reader with an interest in the Elizabethan period and in military history.

Author: John Nolan is Lecturer, University of Maryland, European Division.

The Soviet Union: A Documentary History. Volume 1: 1917-1940

This is the first volume of a new integrated documentary history of the Soviet Union.  The Soviet story—the revolution, Lenin, Stalinism, the Great Patriotic War, the era of Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Cold War, and the dramatic collapse under Gorbachev—looms large in history syllabuses across the world.  This book will be a valuable resource for students at all levels, drawing upon the primary material that has come to light since the collapse of Communist rule in 1991.  Combining lucid narrative commentary and a rich selection of evocative documents, it provides a lively entrée to current debate over humanity’s most momentous and tragic experiment.

This volume is organised into three chronologically distinct parts, subdivided thematically and embedding over 200 documents.  Key terms and references to individuals, places, events and institutions are explained and guidance provided on significant features of the primary sources.   It assumes no prior knowledge of the subject.  Volume Two, covering the period 1939–1991, is scheduled for publication in December 2004.

• A valuable resource for students from A-level through to university MA courses

• Biographical index providing key details on most of the hundreds of individuals mentioned

•   Revealing documents, including items not available previously in English, drawn from material which has come to light since the collapse of Communist rule

• Lucid commentary combining narrative and analysis by the author of several works on Russian history widely used for students of all levels

•   Conceived as companion to the highly-regarded, best-selling 4-volume Nazism 1919–1945: A Documentary Reader by Noakes & Pridham, also published by UEP

Market: A-level, undergraduate and postgraduate students taking courses in 20^th century history.  Historians.  Academic and general libraries.  General readers with an interest in the subject.

Authors:  Edward Acton is Professor of Modern European History at the University of East Anglia.  Tom Stableford is Assistant Librarian, Slavonic and East European Collections, Bodleian Library, Oxford.  

This new documentary history of the Soviet Union draws upon the powerful flow of archival and other primary material—political, social, economic, military and cultural—which has come to light since the collapse of Communist rule in 1991.

With reason, the Soviet story—the revolution, Lenin, Stalinism, the Great Patriotic War, the era of Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Cold War, and the dramatic collapse under Gorbachev—looms large in history syllabuses across the world. The USSR was the most formidable challenge to a world dominated by the West, by capitalism, and by the nation-state. Its people suffered brutal repression, were devastated by and yet repelled Nazi invasion, and achieved epoch-making socio-economic transformation. It did much to mould twentieth-century human consciousness and the international order, and the repercussions of its collapse will long continue to reverberate across the globe. As the Soviet Union recedes into the past, wrestling with its dynamism, horrors, failures, meaning and legacy ranks high among the challenges facing historians.

This is a valuable resource for students of the subject at all levels. Documents illuminating government policy and major All-Union developments are balanced by entries illustrating the regional, local, and 'opposition' perspective, and the view from below.  The narrative and analytical commentary embeds the documents in the context of recent research and highly fruitful collaboration between Western and Russian (and other ex-Soviet) historians.

‘The format used is a documentary history which weaves a narrative commentary around and through a sequence of substantial primary sources. The narrative links the documents, sets them in context and draws attention to significant features, supported by a biographical index which provides key details on most of the many hundreds of individuals mentioned. The documents—state and party papers, speeches, letters, newspaper and journal articles, diaries and memoirs—give the narrative weight, texture and nuance. Together they offer a broad entrée to recent debate and current historiographical developments, while the footnotes point to carefully selected and accessible secondary studies through which readers without Russian can delve deeper into the issues raised and into specialist work produced in the west, in the former Soviet Union and, most strikingly, by direct collaboration between scholars from both.’ Edward Acton, from the Introduction

Contents

Part One: Revolution and Civil War (1917-1921)

i.          The February revolution and the Provisional Government

ii.          The Bolshevik seizure of soviet power               

iii.         Bolshevik state, Orthodox church                                  

iv.         Soviet power and the peasantry 

v.         The other Russia: a "third way" or dictatorship?  

vi.         Terror                                                                                      

vii.        The crisis of "war communism"                                     

Part Two: The Period of the “New Economic Policy” (NEP) (1921-1928)

i.          The economy, the market and planning              

ii.          The state, the party and the leadership struggle

iii.         Soviet power and the intelligentsia                                 

iv.         Church and state                                                                      

Part Three: Soviet Society under Stalin (1928-1940)

i.          Collectivization and the peasantry                                  

ii.          Industrialization and the working class                

iii.         Intelligentsia, opposition and terror                     

iv.         Church and state                                                                      

Full list of documents, Biographical index, Subject index

Spain and the Independence of Colombia 1808-1825

". . . absolutely outstanding. Earle is at the cutting edge of recent historiography reexamining the nature of the Spanish American Wars of Independence and this book will serve to stimulate other similar studies of the royalist struggle and collapse elsewhere in South America."
Professor Christon I. Archer, Department of History, University of Calgary

"[Earle] has reviewed an impressive array of printed primary and secondary sources, including many obscure titles. She provides a helpful glossary and chronology, an exhaustive bibliography, three maps, and a table . . . this welcome contribution is likely to remain a standard reference for many years."
The International History Review, June 2001 (xxiii, 2)

• Only book-length study of Colombia's War of Independence in English

• Offers an entirely new explanation for Colombia's independence from Spain

• Sugges