Leading historians discuss European nationalism in its historical context. They focus on different European regions especially the multinational former Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, the British Isles, and Belgium. These essays should…

The volume of essays offers accounts of national experience during the Industrial Revolution in Europe and the USA, including reappraisals of the classic accounts of the process of industrialisation in…

Neurasthenia, meaning nerve weakness, was ‘invented’ in the United States as a disorder of modernity, caused by the fast pace of urban life. Soon after, from the early 1880s onwards…

First published in 1987. Even as the professionalism of medicine progressed, many sufferers continued to rely on what would now be termed fringe practitioners - quacks, backstreet surgeons, bone-setters, Thomsonian…

The thirteen original essays in this book examine the status and development of the sciences in the eighteenth century. The last generation has seen a revolution in the methodology adopted…

This three-volume set covers the history of British and continental European madness and psychiatry from the Renaissance through to Freud.

The human sciences,including psychology, anthropology and social theory, are widely held to have been born during the 18th century. This study of the Enlightenment sciences of humans explores the sources…

A dictionary devoted to the history of scientific ideas. Organised alphabetically by concept, it contains more than 700 entries explaining the origins, meaning and significance of the chief theories and…