Monika Baar examines the work of five prominent East-Central European historians in the nineteenth century, analyzing and contrasting their body of work, their promotion of a national culture, and the contributions they made to European historiography.

P.L. Pham examines the reasons for the Wilson Government's decision to withdraw from 'East of Suez'. Drawing upon previously classified records in the United Kingdom, USA, and Australia, Pham provides a detailed and comprehensive examination of the British policy process leading up to the final decision to withdraw.

Hindenburg: Power, Myth, and the Rise of the Nazis reveals how a previously little-known general, whose career to normal retirement age had provided no real foretaste of his heroic status, became a national icon and living myth in Germany after the First World War, capturing the imagination of millions.

Orientalism in Louis XIV's France presents a history of Oriental studies in seventeenth-century France, mapping the place within the intellectual culture of the period that was given to studies of Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Chinese texts, as well as writings on Mughal India.

Michael Clark explores the dilemmas of identity and inter-faith relations that confronted Jews in late Victorian Britain, following their successful campaign for equal rights. This was a crucial period in which the Anglo-Jewish community shaped the basis of its modern existence, whilst the British state explored the limits of its toleration.

Katrina Navickas provides a lively and detailed account of popular politics in Lancashire in this period. She offers fresh insights into the complicated dynamics between radicalism, loyalism, and patriotism, explaining how this heady mix created a politically charged region where both local and national affairs played their part.

Zoe Waxman examines the full history of Holocaust testimony, from the very first chroniclers confined to Nazi-enforced ghettos, to today's survivors writing as part of collective memory. She reveals the multiplicity of Holocaust experience and how different contexts have given rise to very different modes of remembering.

Exploring the phenomenon of mass conversion to Christianity amongst oppressed rural peoples in late colonial India, Religious Transformation in South Asia looks at what lay behind the social and religious aspirations of converts and mission personnel.

Richard II has long suffered from an effeminate reputation, but the real king was very different. This book argues that the king sought to assert his authority by acting in accordance with prevailing ideas of manhood, first through a military campaign, and then, fatally, through revenge against those who attempted to restrain him.

Based on extensive archival research in Russia, India, and Uzbekistan, and containing much source material translated from Russian, Russian Rule in Samarkand uses a comparative approach to examine the structures, personnel, and ideologies of Russian rule in Turkestan, taking Samarkand and the surrounding region as a case-study.

In the Middle Ages, the March between England and Wales was a contested frontier zone, a 'land of war'. Brock Holden examines how the English aristocracy of this borderland organised themselves and their followers - politically, socially, economically and militarily - in order to survive against the increasing power of their Welsh opponents.

The Macedonian Question-the struggle over a territory with historically ill-defined borders and conflicting national identities-is one of the most intractable issues in Balkan history. Dimitris Livanios explores the British dimension to the problem, from the outbreak of the Second World War to the aftermath of the Tito-Stalin split.

Expelling the Germans examines British involvement in the forced migration of German minorities from Poland and Czechoslovakia. Based on archival research, it focuses on the refugee crisis caused by this mass movement of population, and on subsequent British attempts to offset its worst effects.