Christopher Prendergast

'One of the best history books you will read this decade' History Today'Fascinating, suspenseful, revelatory, alive' The TimesThere can be few more ex

The essential guide to geopolitics in the modern Middle East in the aftermath of the Arab Spring

A lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusaders   Throughout the Middle Ag

An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholars This book provide

Scholars from a wide range of critical and theoretical viewpoints, presents a fresh approach to the study of nineteenth-century French poetry. Each of

A lifetime's reading of Proust's masterpiece: A highly entertaining book that takes in such disparate Proustian obsessions as insomnia, food and diges

From the author of "The Order of Mimesis" and "Paris and the Nineteenth-Century", this book provides a collection of essays on Raymond William's theor

What are counterfactuals and what is their point? In many cases, none at all. It may be true that if kangaroos didn't have tails, they would fall over

‘Annabel was a black and white figure in the distance, going in through the front doors. She worked behind the reception. I was a history teacher.’ As

In this set of essays the contributors explore the notion of world literature and world thoughts by examining past perspectives and mapping identities

This study centres on the hypothesis that, as first claimed by historian Louis Chevalier, Eugene Sue's "Les Mysteres de Paris", through pressure from

Marcel Proust was long the object of a cult in which the main point of reading his great novel In Search of Lost Time was to find, with its narrator,

Master your relationship with money and unleash the power of alternative investments with this practical guide to smart money strategies from Tony Rob

This text outlines the forms of political interaction in the early modern city and takes a comparative approach to the nature of conflict and conflict

In 1848 stond bijna heel Europa in brand. Politieke onrust verspreidde zich in dat jaar als een lopend vuurtje over het hele continent, en leidde tot

This rich and enjoyable book by the acclaimed author of Japan Story explores the many ways in which Asia has influenced Europe and North America over

'Afscheid van Berlijn', de tweede Berlijnse roman van de Britse schrijver Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986), is opgebouwd als een raamvertelling van