Europe

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Living Rome

Space, Identity, and the Politics of Belonging

A living exploration of contemporary Rome's urban transformations, inequalities, activisms, and social dynamics

Painting History

The Murals of Northern Ireland, 1908–2024

Knowing an Empire

Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue

Revealing dynamic dialogues between early modern China and Latin America through a new methodology

Adam Ferguson and the Politics of Virtue

Edited collection examining Scottish Enlightenment Philosopher Adam Ferguson as a teacher of moral philosophy, his political views and his historical treatment of the Roman Republic. The book offers an assessment of his intellectual influence and legacy.

The Blitz Companion

Aerial Warfare, Civilians and the City since 1911

Reform and Revolt in the City of Dreaming Spires

Radical, Socialist and Communist Politics in the City of Oxford 1830–1980

Tiger Duff

India, Madeira and Empire in Eighteenth-Century Scotland

Scot Patrick ‘Tiger’ Duff (1742–1803) rose to the rank of General in the East India Company, making a fortune in India. This book chronicles his eventful life in Britain, India and Madeira, tracing Imperial trade and its connections back to Scotland

A Saltire in the German Lands

Scottish Benedictine Monasteries in Germany 1575-1862

When Catholicism was illegal in early-modern Scotland, southern Germany became home to Scottish Benedictine monks who educated their fellow Scots and their German hosts, while making significant contributions to the wider European Enlightenment movement.

The Lost World of John Witherspoon

Unravelling the Snodgrass affair, 1762 to 1776

John Witherspoon (1723 – 1794) is remembered today as one of only two Scots among the 56 ‘signers’ of the Declaration of American Independence. This book focuses on his earlier career in Scotland and his involvement in the Snodgrass affair in Edinburgh.

Footloose in Farm Service

Autobiographical Recollections of John Dickie

This short memoir of the Scottish farmworker John Dickie, reflects not only his personal rhythms of life and work, but also the impact of regional and national issues on the farming communities of Victorian Aberdeenshire.

James Boswell

This study of James Boswell (1740-95) examines his political and religious sympathies with Jacobitism, Scotland and Catholicism and the way in which he understood his own, and his country’s, uncertain place in the new world of British imperial opportunity

Adam Ferguson

This innovative study of Scottish philosopher Adam Ferguson (1723-1816) sets out to introduce this much-misunderstood figure to a new and wider audience. It explores the deep Scottish and European roots of Ferguson’s thought