Japonisme in Britain, Selected Articles from British Periodicals, 1825-1911

From its introduction to British society in the mid-17th century champagne has been a wine of elite celebration and hedonism. Champagne in Britain, 1800–1914 is the first book for ...

This addition to The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations provides an updated, clear, and concise history of Great Britain that will be of value to undergraduates and to a gen...

Abstract Throughout the second half of the 20th century, fundamental differences in values and policy can be discerned in British-German relations. For historical...

This deeply informed text sets the government and politics of Britain firmly in the context of Britain's enduring membership in the European Union. Michael L. Mannin thoroughly app...

The mainstream British attitude toward the Irish in the first half of the 1840s was based upon the belief in Irish improvability. Most educated British rejected any notion of Irish...

Abstract Why did Julius Caesar come to Britain? His own account suggests that he invaded to quell a resistance of Gallic sympathizers in the region of modern-day Ken...

The son of a village doctor, Rutherford Alcock trained in medicine and became a battlefield surgeon, working in Portugal and Spain during the civil wars there in the 1830s. In a ma...

British Experiences in the French Foreign Legion during the Interwar Period examines how, during the Interwar period, a few Britons joined the French Foreign Legion, in spite of th...