This book looks at petitions over the last five centuries to reconstruct the lives and opinions of 'humble' petitioners. Since Pharaonic times, governments have

The essays in this 1994 book aim to integrate labour history within the broader discipline of social history and to demonstrate the continuing vitality and vali

A collection of original essays on citizenship and identity.

Reveals how global trade shaped early modern economic, social and political development, and inaugurated the first era of globalization.

Building on A People’s History of the United States, this radical world history captures the broad sweep of human history from the perspective of struggling c