History

Alternative Sinology

This series provides a dedicated outlet for monographs and edited volumes in all fields of humanities and social sciences from medieval to contemporary on East and Southeast Asia. It is particularly interested in those that take alternative views on China; use alternative research methodologies to achieve unique outcomes; focus on otherwise understudied or marginalised aspects, Chineseness, or the...

Artes Liberales

Artes Liberales aims to promote the study of the Middle Ages – broadly defined in geography and chronology – from a perspective that transcends modern disciplinary divisions. It seeks to publish scholarship of the highest quality that is interdisciplinary in topic or approach, integrating elements such as history, art history, musicology, literature, religion, political thought,...

Cultural History of Modern War

This fascinating series interrogates the divisions between war and society, war and peace, allies and enemies, heroes and villains. The volumes span all corners of the globe, and address all types of warfare, while maintaining a focus on the cultural meanings of the myriad practices of modern war.

Disability History

This series responds to the growing interest in disability history as a discipline worthy of historical research. It has a broad international historical remit, encompassing issues that include class, race, gender, age, war, medical treatment, professionalisation, environments, work, institutions and cultural and social aspects of disablement including representations of disabled people in...

Gender in History

Gender in History aims to investigate the social and cultural constructions of gender in historical sources, as well as the gendering of historical discourse itself. It explores the configuration in the past of gender identities and relations between the sexes, investigates the history of...

Global Icons

The Pluto Educational Trust is proud to support the Global Icons series. Books published in this series will celebrate and honour individuals whose thought, activism and enduring work ‘changed the world’. The Global Icons series will publish books in honour of Walter Rodney, who wrote and struggled for the freedom of black and colonised peoples. Our goal is publish Icons who have become...

Historical Approaches

This series examines the nature of the historical discipline, its theory and practice, and its evolving relationships to other cultural and intellectual fields. The series offers books that have the clarity of argument and liveliness of style to appeal to a general and student readership, while also prompting thought and debate among practising historians and thinkers about the discipline. All...

IHR Research Guides

Aimed at new researchers in history, this series offers practical introductions to specific genres of source, and to sources pertaining to specific sub-disciplines of history. Every volume provides a survey of the historiography, examines relevant methodological issues, looks at available primary sources in different media and formats, and discusses the problems of their access and interpretation....

Issues in Historiography

The study of history is concerned most fundamentally not with dead facts and permanent verdicts but with highly charged dialogues, disagreements, controversies and shifting centres of interest, with the changing methodologies and discourse of the subject over time, and with audience reception. This series is designed to explore such matters by means of case studies of key moments in world history...

Jacobite Studies

Jacobitism is one of the most important and misunderstood phenomena in modern historical studies. Despite being ‘a way not taken’ its brooding presence lay in the background of an eighteenth-century British Isles in the process of transforming itself into a global superpower. Published in association with the Jacobite Studies Trust, the series seeks to shed light on all facets of Jacobitism...

Lund University Press

Lund University Press publishes high-quality and rigorously peer-reviewed books in the Humanities, Theology and Social Sciences. The press was set up in 2015 to bring world-wide exposure to important research produced at Lund University. In collaboration with Manchester University Press, who produce, market and sell our books, Lund University Press publishes a couple of volumes a year. All are in...

Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture

The series publishes monographs and essay collections comprising new research informed by current critical methodologies on the literary cultures of the Global Middle Ages. We are interested in all periods, from the early Middle Ages through to the late, and we include post-medieval engagements with and representations of the medieval period (or ‘medievalism’). ‘Literature’ is taken in a...

Manchester Medieval Sources

This series provides translations of key sources that are directly usable in students’ own work, with accessible and contextual introductions and helpful annotations throughout. The books meet a growing need amongst students and teachers by providing texts central to medieval studies courses and focus upon the diverse cultural, social and political conditions that affected the functioning of all...

Manchester Medieval Studies

The study of medieval Europe is being transformed as old orthodoxies are challenged, new methods embraced and fresh fields of enquiry opened up. The adoption of interdisciplinary perspectives and the challenge of economic, social and cultural theory are forcing medievalists to ask new questions and to see familiar topics in a fresh light. ...

Nursing History and Humanities

The Nursing History and Humanities series is devoted both to historical approaches and humanities perspectives: work that explores nursing cultures over time and place, in moments of pandemic and public health crisis and in creative and critical contexts.  The series aims to capture the current challenges facing nursing in local and global spaces, even as our books continue to document the long...

Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain

This important series publishes volumes that take a fresh and challenging look at the interactions between politics, culture and society in early modern Britain and beyond. It seeks to counteract the fragmentation of current historiography by encouraging a variety of methodological and critical approaches to this period of dramatic conflict and change that fundamentally shaped the modern world....

Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies

Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies promotes interdisciplinary work on the period c.1603–1815, covering all aspects of the literature, culture and history of the British Isles, colonial North America and the early United States, other British colonies and their global connections. The series welcomes academic monographs, as well as collective volumes of essays that combine theoretical...

Social Archaeology and Material Worlds

Social Archaeology and Material Worlds aims to forefront dynamic and cutting-edge social approaches to archaeology. It brings together volumes about past people, social and material relations and landscape as explored through an archaeological lens. Topics covered may include memory, performance, identity, gender, life course, communities, materiality, landscape and archaeological politics and...

Social Histories of Medicine

Social Histories of Medicine is concerned with all aspects of health, illness and medicine, from prehistory to the present, in every part of the world. The series covers the circumstances that promote health or illness, the ways in which people experience and explain such conditions, and what, practically, they do about them. Practitioners of all approaches to health and healing come within its...

Studies in Early Modern European History

This series aims to promote challenging and innovative research in all areas of early modern European history. For over twenty years it has published monographs and edited volumes that make an original contribution to our understanding of the period and is particularly interested in works that engage with current historiographical debates and methodologies, including race,...

Studies in Early Modern Irish History

The series seeks to identify key themes and set the agenda for future research. Each volume comes from leading scholars from Ireland, Britain, North America and elsewhere, filling gaps in a field traditionally focused on political or military history. We aim to bring the best of Irish historical research to a wider audience, by engaging with international themes of empire, colonisation, religious...

Studies in Imperialism

When the Studies in Imperialism series was founded almost forty years ago, its central assumption was that ‘imperialism as a cultural phenomenon had as significant an effect on the dominant as on the subordinate societies’. With around two hundred titles now published, this remains the prime concern. The series has been a proud home to monographs and edited volumes covering a huge range of...

Studies in Modern French and Francophone History

This series is published in collaboration with the Society for the Study of French History (UK) and the French Colonial Historical Society. It aims to showcase innovative monographs and edited collections on the history of France, its colonies and imperial undertakings, and the francophone world more generally since

Studies in Popular Culture

Bringing together Cultural History and Cultural Studies, the books in this series explain in a readable and accessible way where we are now socially and culturally and how we got to where we are, promote an interdisciplinary approach to cultural issues and encourage deeper thought about the attitudes and institutions of popular culture.

Women on the Move

Women on the Move is a transdisciplinary book series that focuses on unveiling the presence and multiplicity of experiences of women in migration processes. The series bridges the gap between historical and contemporary approaches, its objective being to publish books on women’s migration from a wide variety of perspectives, time frames and geographical outlooks, with a combination of...

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