British History Books

New and Published Books

1. Leisure and the Changing City 1870 - 1914 (Routledge Revivals)

   By Helen Meller

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   By the late nineteenth century, the city had become the dominant social environment of Britain, with the majority of the population living in large cities, often with over 100, 000 inhabitants. The central concern of this book, first published in 1976, is to assess how successful the late...

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. The Women's Movement and Women's Employment in Nineteenth Century Britain

   By Ellen Jordan

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History

   In the first half of the nineteenth century the main employments open to young women in Britain were in teaching, dressmaking, textile manufacture and domestic service. After 1850, however, young women began to enter previously all-male areas like medicine, pharmacy, librarianship, the civil...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
3. Britain and the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic

   A Dark Epilogue

   By Niall Johnson

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

   Between August 1918 and March 1919 a flu pandemic spread across the globe and in just under a year 40 million people had died from the virus worldwide. This is the first book to provide a total history and seriously analyze the British experiences during that time.The book provides the most...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
4. 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 March 21st 2013 by Routledge
5. Britain's Revival and Fall in the Gulf

   Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and the Trucial States, 1950-71

   By Simon C. Smith

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of the Middle East

   Britain's relationship with the Gulf region remains one of the few unexplored episodes in the study of British decolonization. The decision, announced in 1968, to leave the Gulf within three years represented an explicit recognition by Britain that its 'East of Suez' role was at an end. This book...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
6. Encyclopedia of Traditional British Rural Sports

   Edited by Tony Collins, John Martin, Wray Vamplew

   Series: Routledge Sports Reference Series

   Providing a social, economic and political study of field sports and those other activities and customs labelled as rural sports, from the earliest of times to the present day in all of the United Kingdom and Ireland.This book brings together several distinct types of traditional rural sports with...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
7. Japan and Britain at War and Peace

   Edited by Hugo Dobson, Nobuko Kosuge

   Series: Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge Series

   Since the events of the Second World War the relationship between Japan and Britain has undergone an extraordinary transformation, from bitter conflict to peaceful alliance. Japan and Britain at War and Peace is a multilayered examination of this bilateral relationship with an emphasis on the issue...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
8. British Prime Ministers From Balfour to Brown

   By Robert Pearce, Graham Goodlad

   The origins of the post of Prime Minister can be traced back to the eighteenth century when Sir Robert Walpole became the monarch’s principal minister. From the dawn of the twentieth century to the early years of the twenty-first, however, both the power and the significance of the role have been...

   Published March 13th 2013 by Routledge
9. The Pleasures of the Imagination

   English Culture in the Eighteenth Century

   By John Brewer

   The Pleasures of the Imagination examines the birth and development of English "high culture" in the eighteenth century. It charts the growth of a literary and artistic world fostered by publishers, theatrical and musical impresarios, picture dealers and auctioneers, and presented to th public in...

   Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge
10. The Political Worlds of Women

    Gender and Politics in Nineteenth Century Britain

    By Sarah Richardson

    Series: Routledge Research in Gender and History

    Traditional analyses of nineteenth-century politics have assigned women a peripheral role. By adopting a broader interpretation of political participation, the author identifies how middle-class women were able to contribute to political affairs in the nineteenth century. Examining the contribution...

    Published March 11th 2013 by Routledge