The medieval natural world

How did medieval people make sense of their surroundings, and how did this change over the years as understanding and knowledge expanded? This new Seminar Study is designed to familiarise students of medieval history with the ways in which medieval people interpreted the world around ...

The medieval military orders

1120-1314

This new addition to the popular Seminar Studies series looks at the origins, development and organisation of the Military Orders during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, showing how they functioned as a form of religious life and concentrating on their role in the Crusades and ...

The First World War

The First World War shattered empires and ended the era of European dominance in World History - not at all the outcome expected by those involved in the conflict. Those nations who took part in the First World War did so with the aim of being ...

The Vietnam war

One of the most popular titles in the "Seminar Studies" series, "The Vietnam War" examines the conflict from its origins through to 1975 and North Vietnam's victory. This new edition brings the book up to date with current academic debates and includes new source ...

The british women's suffrage campaign, 1866-1928

This Seminar Study was the first book to trace the British women's suffrage campaign from its origins in the 1860s through to the achievement of equal suffrage in 1928. In this second edition, Smith provides new evidence drawn from the author's research on ...

The inter-war crisis, 1919-1939

The inter-war years were, at the time, perceived to be years of crisis across the world. The First World War, the war to end all wars', had solved nothing and its legacy was a world full of unresolved disputes and manifest ambiguities. Overy examines the ...

Britain and Empire, 1880-1945

Britain and Empire, 1880-1945 traces the relationship between Britain and its empire during a period when the two spheres intersected with one another to an unprecedented degree. The story starts with the imperial expansion of the late nineteenth century and ends with the Second World ...

The origins of the Second World War

"Seminar Studies in History...provide a means of bridging the gap between specialist articles and monographs and textbooks. They are written by acknowledged experts on the subject who are not only familiar with current thinking but have often contributed to it. Their format, well-tried and ...