Edited by Chris Waters (NHC Fellow, 1996–97), Becky Conekin, and Frank Mort This work examines the two decades after World War II in terms of political and economic change, highlighting economic growth and modernisation; the rise of affluence; and the development of the welfare state and social stability. It also draws upon popular cultural changes.
Edited by Gavin Kelly (NHC Fellow, 2010–11) and Johannes A. van Waarden Sidonius Apollinaris is a central figure in the literature and history of fifth-century Gaul. But he still awaits sustained debate in modern scholarship. This integrated and international collection of essays explores the potential for a complete commentary on his works, starting with a … Continued
By Allen B. Ballard (NHC Fellow, 1980–81) This book reflects on the lives and histories of Black Philadelphians and South Carolinians.
By Catherine M. Cole (NHC Fellow, 2006–07) South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commissions helped to end apartheid by providing a forum that exposed the nation's gross human rights abuses, provided amnesty and reparations to selected individuals, and eventually promoted national unity and healing. The success or failure of these commissions has been widely debated, but … Continued
By Sarah Maza (NHC Fellow, 1988–89) From 1770 to 1789 a succession of highly publicized cases riveted the attention of the French public. Maza argues that the reporting of these private scandals had a decisive effect on the way in which the French public came to understand public issues in the years before the Revolution.
By Perez Zagorin (NHC Fellow, 1978–79) Rebels and Rulers, 1500–1660 is a comparative historical study of revolution in the greatest royal states of Western Europe during the sixteenth and the first half of the seventeenth centuries. Revolution as a general problem and the causes and character of revolution in early modern Europe have been among … Continued
By F. Edward Cranz (NHC Fellow, 1981–82) The previous Variorum collection of studies by the late F. Edward Cranz focused specifically on Nicholas of Cusa. The present selection has an equally clear focus, but a far broader scope: it brings together materials on his major thesis, of a fundamental reorientation of the categories of thought … Continued
By Keith P. Luria (NHC Fellow, 2000–01) Religious rivalry and persecution have bedeviled so many societies that confessional difference often seems an unavoidable source of conflict. Sacred Boundaries challenges this assumption by examining relations between the Catholic majority and Protestant minority in seventeenth-century France as a case study of two religious groups constructing confessional difference and coexistence. … Continued
By Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp (NHC Fellow, 1993–94) As early as the 1780s, African Americans told stories that enabled them to survive and even thrive in the midst of unspeakable assault. Tracing previously unexplored narratives from the late eighteenth century to the 1920s, Laurie Maffly-Kipp brings to light an extraordinary trove of sweeping race histories that African Americans … Continued
Edited by Kathryn Kish Sklar (NHC Fellow, 1995–96), Anja Schüler, and Susan Strasser Women reformers in the United States and Germany maintained a brisk dialogue between 1885 and 1933. Drawing on one another's expertise, they sought to alleviate a wide array of social injustices generated by industrial capitalism, such as child labor and the exploitation … Continued