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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)

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

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An illuminating reading list on racism and resistance

The History Department at King's has compiled a list of readings that are examples of useful entry points for considering the deeper historical context behind contemporary racism and anti-racist movements.

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