Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London looks at how increased consumption in the aftermath of the Black Death reconfigured long-held gender roles and changed the domestic lives of London's merchants and artisans for years to come.
The War for the American Interior and the Infrastructural Routes of Revolution
Alec Zuercher Reichardt
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512828283
Pub Date: August 2025
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
Roads to Power, Roads to Crisis maps the Seven Years’ War for the American Interior and reconstructs the inter-imperial roots of the American Revolution. The construction of a British infrastructure state propelled Britain to wartime victory. Yet, in its aftermath, it was also the empire’s undoing, laying the roads to revolution.
Meirav Jones shows how political theory did not develop solely from within a conversation among elites; neither was it conceived as a Godless enterprise. She argues that the foundations of modern politics were laid in conversation with theological politics and in negotiation with Jewish ideas and ideas of the Jews.
A Male Hysteria examines diabetes medicine in Victorian England and the lives of Victorian diabetics. Diabetes was thought to be psychological in origin and patients were kept from work or excitement. Some, including diabetic doctors and nurses, rebelled. A Male Hysteria traces the origins of the persistent belief in a diabetic personality.
Psychoanalysis, Motherhood, and the British Welfare State
Shaul Bar-Haim
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512826050
Pub Date: May 2024
Format: Paperback
304 Pages
The Maternalists explores how mid-twentieth-century British psychoanalysis created a new mother-centered culture, which after 1945 would shape dramatically both welfare ideology and the British welfare state itself.
Finance, Violence, and the Crown in the Thirteenth Century
John Tolan
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512823899
Pub Date: March 2023
Format: Hardcover
264 Pages
England’s Jews tells the story of the thousands of Jews who lived in medieval England and played important roles in English society, protected by the Crown, before their expulsion in 1290. John Tolan shows how thirteenth-century England was paradoxically both the theatre of fruitful interreligious exchange and a crucible of European antisemitism.
Launched in 1609 as the greatest English merchant vessel of its era, the Trades Increase and nearly all who sailed it perished three years later on the far side of the world. This is the engrossing account of the ship's tragic expedition and global capitalism at its hour of emergence.
