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Department of History

Faculty of Arts & Humanities

Publications

Staff publications

The History Department's academic staff typically produce over a hundred books, edited volumes, journal articles and book reviews between them every year. Here is a selection of their latest publications, representing the depth, range and volume of the department's research, arranged in alphabetical order by title.

Abigail Woods, Michael Bresalier, Angela Cassidy and Rachel Mason Dentinger, Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine: One Health and its Histories (2018)

Dionysios Stathakopoulos, A Short History of The Byzantine Empire (2014)

Daniel Hadas (ed.), Augustine d’Hippone, Commencement de commentaire sur l’épître aux Romains (2019)

Carl Bridge, David Lowe & David Lee (eds.) Australia Goes To Washington: 75 Years of Australian Representation in the United States, 1940 to 2015, (2016)

Simon Sleight & Shirleene Robinson (Eds.), Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World (2016)

Rory Naismith, Citadel of the Saxons: The Rise of Early London (2018)

James Bjork, Tomasz Kamusella, Timothy Wilson, & Anna Novikov (eds.), Creating Nationality in Central Europe, 1880-1950: Modernity, Violence and (Be) Longing in Upper Silesia (2016)

Christopher Dillon, Dachau and the SS: A Schooling in Violence (2015)

Christine Mathias, Claudio Belini, Fabián Bosoer, Fernando Devoto, Julio Melon, and Mariano Plotkin, (eds.) - Elexilio de Perón: Los Documentos del archivo Hoover (2017)

David Todd, Free Trade and its Enemies in France, 1814-1851 (2015)

Matteo Salonia, Genoa's Freedom: entrepreneurship, republicanism, and the Spanish Atlantic (2017)

Serena Ferente, Gli ultimi guelfi: Linguaggi e identità politiche in Italia nella seconda metà del Quattrocento (2013)

Petros Bouras-Vallianatos & Sophia Xenophontos (eds.), Greek Medical Literature and its Readers: From Hippocrates to Islam and Byzantium (2018)

Hannah Dawson, Hobbes: great thinkers on modern life (2017)

Jon Wilson, India Conquered: Britain's Raj and the Chaos of Empire (2016)

Francisco Bethencourt (ed.), Inequality in the Portuguese-Speaking World: Global and Historical Perspectives (2018)

Jennifer Altehenger, Legal Lessons: Popularizing Laws in the People's Republic of China 1949-1989 (2018)

David Carpenter, Magna Carta (2015)

Daniel Matlin, On the Corner: African American Intellectuals and the Urban Crisis (2013)

Bérénice Guyot-Réchard, Shadow States: India, China and the Himalayas, 1910-1962 (2016)

Alice Rio, Slavery After Rome, 500-1100 (2017)

Paul Readman, Storied Ground: Landscape and the Shaping of English National Identity (2018)

Max M. Edling, The Creation of the Constitution (2018)

Reza Zia-Ebrahimi, The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism: Race and the Politics of Dislocation (2018)

Richard Vinen, The Long '68: Radical Protest and its Enemies (2018)

David Edgerton, The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth Century History (2019)

Alana Harris (ed.), The Schism of '68: Catholicism, Contraception and 'Humanae Vitae' in Europe, 1945-1975 (2018)

Alice Taylor, The Shape of the State in Medieval Scotland, 1124-1290 (2016)

Vincent Hiribarren, Un manguier au Nigeria: Histoîres du Borno (2019)

Jon Wilson, India Conquered. Britain’s Raj and the Chaos of Empire (2016)

Bérénice Guyot-Rechard, Shadow States. India, China and the Himalayas, 1910-1962 (2016)

Alice Rio, Slavery After Rome, 500-1100 (2017)

Arthur Burns, Paul Readman, & Chad Bryant (eds.) Walking Histories 1800-1914 (2016)

Francisco Bethencourt, Strangers Within. The Rise and Fall of a New Christian Trading Elite (2024)

Daniel Hadas, Augustin d’Hippone—Commencement de Commentaire sur l’épître aux Romains. Introduction, édition critique, traduction et commentaire (2019)

Dan Matlin and A.M. Fearnley, Race Capital? Harlem as Setting and Symbol (2018)

David Brydan, Franco’s Internationalists: Social Experts and Spain’s Search for Legitimacy (2019)

Edward Zychowicz-Coghill, The First Arabic Annals: Fragments of Umayyad History (2021).

Stefan Bauer and Simon Ditchfield (eds.), A Renaissance Reclaimed: Jacob Burckhardt’s ‘Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy’ Revisited (2022)

Stefan Bauer, The Invention of Papal History: Onofrio Panvinio between Renaissance and Catholic Reform (2nd edition in paperback, 2023)

Anna Maerker, Simon Sleight and Adam Sutcliffe, History, Memory and Public Life: The Past in the Present (2018)

Simon Sleight and Kristine Alexander, A Cultural History of Youth in the Modern Age (2023)

David Edgerton, The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900 (second edition, 2019)

Toby Green, A Fistful of Shells. West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution (2019)

Sarah Stockwell, The British End of the British Empire (2018)

David Carpenter, Henry III. The Rise to Power and Personal Rule, 1207-1258 (2020)

Adam Sutcliffe, What are Jews for? History, Peoplehood, and Purpose (2020)

Fay Bound Alberti, A Biography of Loneliness. The History of an Emotion (2019)

Max Edling, Perfecting the Union. National and State Authority in the US Constitution (2021)

Simon Sleight and Shirleene Robinson, Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World (2016)

Toby Green, The Covid Consensus

Simon Sleight, Young People and the Shaping of Public Space in Melbourne, 1870-1914 (2nd edition in paperback, 2016)

Chris Manias, The Age of Mammals (2023)

Laura Gowing, Gender in Early Modern England (2022)

Amar Sohal, The Muslim Secular: Parity and the Politics of India’s Partition, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2023)

Vivienne X Guo, Negotiating a Chinese Federation (2022)

Peter Heather, Christendom. The Triumph of a Religion (2022)

Laura Gowing, Ingenious Trade. Women and Work in Seventeenth-Century London (2021)

Max Edling, Perfecting the Union. National and State Authority in the US Constitution (2021)

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