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Arnold J. Toynbee: A Life
One of the most remarkable thinkers of this century, Arnold Toynbee won world-wide recognition as the author of the monumental ten-volume A Study of History. Its publication and phenomenal success brought him fame and the highest praise, as the reading public proclaimed him the most renowned scholar in the world. This thought-provoking, engaging study of Toynbee, written by one of today's most eminent historians, weaves together Toynee's intellectual accomplishments and the personal difficulties of his private life. Providing both an intimate portrait of a leading thinker and a judicious evaluation of his work and his legacy for the the study of history, William H. McNeill offers both a biog...
An Uneasy Inheritance
'Fascinating' Spectator 'Entertaining' Sunday Times 'Enthralling' Guardian 'Beautiful, funny and moving' Daily Mail 'Compelling and moving' Observer 'Replete with vivid - often hilarious, often shocking - anecdotes' Financial Times While for generations Polly Toynbee's ancestors have been committed left-wing rabble-rousers railing against injustice, they could never claim to be working class, settling instead for the prosperous life of academia or journalism enjoyed by their own forebears. So where does that leave their ideals of class equality? Through a colourful, entertaining examination of her own family - which in addition to her writer father Philip and her historian grandfather Arnold contains everyone from the Glenconners to Jessica Mitford to Bertrand Russell, and features ancestral home Castle Howard as a backdrop - Toynbee explores the myth of mobility, the guilt of privilege, and asks for a truly honest conversation about class in Britain.
Faith, Duty, and the Power of Mind
"Attractively illustrated and engagingly written, Faith, Duty and the Power of Mind is a distinctive and distinguished contribution to English (and American) history, with much to say about the trajectories of middle-class lives, and about the changing place of women within English society during the Victorian period and beyond."--BOOK JACKET.
Military Leadership in the British Civil Wars, 1642-1651
This work is a study of military leadership and resulting effectiveness in battlefield victory focusing on the parliamentary and royalist regional commanders in the north of England and Scotland in the three civil wars between 1642 and 1651.
The Siege of Loyalty House
An immersive and electrifying account of a defining episode in the English Civil War that illuminates the human experience—and human cost—of this devastating war. It was a time of puritans and populism, witch hunts and civil war. Between 1643 and 1645, Basing House in Hampshire, England, was besieged three times. To the parliamentary Roundheads, the house symbolized everything that was wrong with England: it was the largest private residence in the country, a bastion of royalism and excess. Its owner, the Marquess of Winchester, reportedly had the motto Love loyalty etched into the windows. Winchester refused all terms of surrender. When he discovered his brother plotting to betray the h...
Visualising Protestant Monarchy
The first comprehensive, comparative study of the visual culture of monarchy in the reigns of William and Mary and Queen Anne
Letters and the Body, 1700–1830
This collection explores the multifaceted relationship between letters and bodies in the long eighteenth century, featuring a broad selection of women's and men’s letters written from and to Britain, North America, Europe, India and the Caribbean, from the labouring poor to the landed elite. In eleven chapters, scholars from various disciplines draw on different methodological approaches that include close readings of single letters, social historical analyses of large corpora and a material culture approach to the object of the letter. This research includes personal letters exchanged among family and friends, formal correspondence and letters that were incorporated into published forewor...
King Charles I
A biography of the British monarch examines his upbringing, personality, and the events that led to his downfall
Charles I, the Personal Monarch
Since this book was first published a large amount of new material on the king and his reign has emerged. This book contains a new preface which takes account of the new work.
