British History Books

New and Published Books

1. Churchill, Roosevelt and India

   Propaganda During World War II

   By Auriol Weigold

   Series: Routledge Studies in Modern History

   As the United States was drawn into the Second World War, pressure grew from a number of nations for India’s independence. Prime Minister Churchill, in Britain's name, engaged deliberately in propaganda in the United States to persuade the American public and, through it, President Roosevelt that...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Women and Their Money 1700-1950

   Essays on Women and Finance

   Edited by Anne Laurence, Josephine Maltby, Janette Rutterford

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Business History

   This book examines women's financial activity from the early days of the stock market in eighteenth century England and the South Sea Bubble to the mid-twentieth century. The essays demonstrate how many women managed their own finances despite legal and social restrictions and show that women were...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Reginald McKenna

   Financier among Statesmen, 1863–1916

   By Martin Farr

   Series: British Politics and Society

   Reginald McKenna has never been the subject of scholarly attention. This was partly due to his own preference for appearing at the periphery of events even when ostensibly at the centre, and the absence of a significant collection of private papers. This new book redresses the neglect of this...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Origins of Pan-Africanism

   Henry Sylvester Williams, Africa, and the African Diaspora

   By Marika Sherwood

   Series: Routledge Studies in Modern British History

   Origins of Pan-Africanism: Henry Sylvester Williams, Africa, and the African Diaspora recounts the life story of the pioneering Henry Sylvester Williams, an unknown Trinidadian son of an immigrant carpenter in the late-19th and early 20th century. Williams, then a student in Britain, organized the...

   Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
5. Disability in Eighteenth-Century England

   Imagining Physical Impairment

   By David M. Turner

   Series: Routledge Studies in Modern British History

   This is the first book-length study of physical disability in eighteenth-century England. It assesses the ways in which meanings of physical difference were formed within different cultural contexts, and examines how disabled men and women used, appropriated, or rejected these representations in...

   Published April 17th 2012 by Routledge
6. Intelligence Cooperation and the War on Terror

   Anglo-American Security Relations after 9/11

   By Adam D.M. Svendsen

   Series: Studies in Intelligence

   This book provides an in-depth analysis of UK-US intelligence cooperation in the post-9/11 world. Seeking to connect an analysis of intelligence liaison with the wider realm of Anglo-American Relations, the book draws on a wide range of interviews and consultations with key actors in both countries...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
7. The Schooling of Girls in Britain and Ireland, 1800- 1900

   By Jane McDermid

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History

   This book compares the formal education of the majority of girls in Britain and Ireland in the nineteenth century. Previous books about ‘Britain’ invariably focus on England, and such ‘British’ studies tend not to include Ireland despite its incorporation into the Union in 1801. The Schooling of...

   Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge
8. Medicine, Race and Liberalism in British Bengal

   Symptoms of Empire

   By Ishita Pande

   Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian History

   This book focuses on the entwinement of politics and medicine and power and knowledge in India during the age of empire. Using the powerful metaphor of ‘pathology’ - the science of the origin, nature, and course of diseases - the author develops and challenges a burgeoning literature on colonial...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
9. Britain, America and the War Debt Controversy

   The Economic Diplomacy of an Unspecial Relationship, 1917-45

   By Robert Self

   Series: British Politics and Society

   This volume throws important new light upon a pivotal period of transition in the Anglo-American relationship and sets the stage for its equally dramatic transformation during and after the Second World War. Based upon extensive research in previously unpublished archival material on both...

   Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
10. Educating the Royal Navy

    18th and 19th Century Education for Officers

    By Harry W. Dickinson

    Series: Cass Series: Naval Policy and History

    This volume provides the first comprehensive history of education and training for officers of the Royal Navy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It covers the development of educational provision, from the first 1702 Order in Council appointing schoolmasters to serve in operational...

    Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge