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Hodder Arnold List of publications for Earlier publications can be accessed by using the History On-Line Search Page Affluence and Authority The turn of the millennium generated a spate of reflections on the state of the nation and the ways in which life in Britain had changed during the course of the twentieth century. Affluence and Authority contributes to this debate by providing a wide-ranging, well-informed and accessible interpretation of British social history during a hundred years of profound, and almost certainly unprecedented, economic, political, cultural, demographic and ideological change. Paperback - ISBN: 0340763671 - £16.99 - January 2005 - pp. 256 Hodder Arnold - further details for this title Belief and Unbelief in Medieval Europe Religion in medieval Europe was hugely important, and impinged upon the most mundane transactions and everyday experiences. But was the period a uniform ‘Age of Faith’? By focussing on the ordinary laity, this fascinating account unlocks the multiple meanings of religion, asking how it functioned and with what effects. Holiness, piety and belief are explained and contextualized, as are heresy, dissent and superstition. The themes explored include religious acculturation, community, intercession and Christian identity as well as occasions of unbelief and lay people’s rejection of the Church’s message. Paperback - ISBN: 0340807865 - £14.99 - June 2005 - pp. 328 Hodder Arnold - further details for this title Britain and Europe 1789-2005
At critical moments, Britain has played a crucial part in the political evolution of modern Europe, yet its stance has often been ambivalent: sometimes glad to be part of 'European civilization' but at other times rejoicing in the blessings of insularity. This book breaks new ground in tracing the evolving and contested understandings both of Britain and of Europe on the part of politicians, diplomats, historians and travellers in the centuries since the French Revolution. It is at once a discussion of the foreign policy of the United Kingdom – an independent sovereign state in its relations with 'the continent'during its imperial hey-day and after – and a study of the historical perceptions, experiences and assumptions that preceded, and now accompany and complicate its participation in the European Union. The debate over Britain and Europe has long lacked depth. This book supplies it. Paperback - ISBN: 034057786X - £16.99 - September 2005 - pp. 320 Hodder Arnold - further details for this title Britain and the Continent 1000-1300 When considering relations between Britain and the Continent, the core issues are commonly those identified by politicians: sovereignty, law, taxation and foreign policy. For others the Continent has other connotations: a source of economic rivalry, an artistic inspiration, a sporting challenge, a holiday destination and even a focus for nationalist xenophobia. However, in the medieval past, there were no British interests at stake because England and Scotland were separate kingdoms and the Welsh had their own agenda. English kings ruled extensive lands on the Continent, so it was hard to know how English interests could be separately identified, let alone voiced. For centuries after the Norman Conquest, the language of public discourse in England was French. The educated elite who attained high office in church and state attended the international universities in Bologna and Paris while the churches of Britain and Ireland willingly took all their problems to Rome for resolution. The papacy provoked no resentment and inspired no heretics. Royal government encouraged participation in the affairs of Europe and placed no obstacles in the way of free access in either direction. Donald Matthew describes these interactions during the period 1000–1300, and cogently assesses what advantage was taken of these opportunities on the broadest possible front. Hardback - ISBN: 0340740604 - £45.00 - March 2005 - pp. 336 - Paperback - ISBN: 0340740612 - £16.99 Hodder Arnold - further details for this title British America 1500-1800 British America combines the histories of colonies and empire – usually distinct fields of enquiry – in a sweeping introduction to and interpretation of the British-American New World. This book argues that while settlers created colonies, the early empire remained a largely imaginary construct. Writers, explorers, and colonial proprietors imagined colonies and empire as corporate entities serving various political, religious, and social purposes. Yet, these visions were invariably usurped by settlers who created colonies according to principles of political autonomy and individual independence based on private property, even if the liberties their ideals engendered entailed the extermination and expulsion of Native Americans and the enslavement of Africans. English and then British governments encouraged autonomy by granting colonies as private proprietorships, and then accommodating the settler-led polities that subsequently emerged. When Britain finally imposed a vision of empire from the 1760s, the settlers declared their independence, forcing Britain to consider imperialism as something much more than imaginary. Hardback - ISBN: 0340760095 - £45.00 - March 2005 - pp. 352 - Paperback - ISBN: 0340760109 - £16.99 Hodder Arnold - further details for this title Horatio Nelson:
Leading Nelson scholar Marianne Czisnik illuminates the life and reputation of Britain’s most famous admiral in a fresh and groundbreaking manner. Some of the most controversial aspects of his life and career are explored, such as his involvement in the defeat of the Neapolitan revolution and his notorious love affair with Lady Hamilton. Along the way, new research is introduced that provides original insights into the character of this complex man and the way his image was developed by successive generations of biographers and naval historians. Paperback - ISBN: 0340900210 - £12.99 - September 2005 - pp. 240 Hodder Arnold - further details for this title The End of The Cold War Era
Between 1989 and 1991 the world witnessed a number of dramatic and traumatic changes, most notably, the demise of communism in Europe, the end of the superpower rivalry and the break-up of the Soviet Union. The final stages of the Cold War were impossible to accurately predict, and many of the questions posed by those events remain unanswered today. This book investigates the end of the Cold War in three major areas: Europe, superpower relations, and the Third World. Extracting essential lessons from the recent past, Saki Dockrill provides the reader with a clearer understanding of today’s and tomorrow’s world. Paperback - ISBN: 0340740329 - £14.99 - September 2005 - pp. 256 Hodder Arnold - further details for this title Using History To travel round the world is to be reminded of the very public presence of history, of the past as issue and identity. Yet this is widely underrated. The main reason for the discrepancy is the contrast between the ethos and methods that are central to the modern notion of scholarship that focus on questions, and history as it is appropriated and used by the state, the media, and the national collective memory in which the emphasis is on simplistic answers. Rather than seeing academics as the drivers of historical assessments, the central claim of this study is that developments in the public usage of history are crucial to the understanding of the past, and that these developments stem largely from political pressures. Paperback - ISBN: 0340888938 - £12.99 - May 2005 - pp. 176 Hodder Arnold - further details for this title Writing Early Modern History This volume of the Writing History series examines how theory has contributed, both explicitly and implicitly, to the writing of early modern history. It focuses upon neither abstract theory nor historiography per se, but upon the practical application and influence of theory in early modern scholarship. Paperback - ISBN: 0340807792 - £16.99 - May 2005 - pp. 256 Hodder Arnold - further details for this title Writing Medieval History In recent times postmodernism has influenced all areas of the humanistic disciplines, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about the meaning of historical evidence and our ability to read and interpret it. Medievalists have been notably present in these debates, bringing ‘the linguistic turn’ to medieval sources and renewing a traditional field with non-traditional subjects and approaches. Hardback - ISBN: 0340808454 - £45.00 - January 2005 - pp. 256 - Paperback - ISBN: 0340808462 - £16.99 Hodder Arnold - further details for this title 25 April 2006 |
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