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Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, this volume covers the period when coal was the pivot on which British economic pre-eminence rested. It reasses widely accepted generalizations regarding the industry's economic development and explores its social ramifications.

How do we make sense of death - in theology, in philosophy, in experience? How do religions other than Christianity deal with death and with dying? This title discusses the treatment - and indeed, the denial - of death by contemporary Western society, and its place in other religious traditions.

This volume examines other patterns of slave resistance, concentrating on runaway slaves and the communities some of them formed, and show us who the runaways were, suggest when and where they went, and who harboured them.

A Roman historian chronicles Rome on the brink of collapseAmmianus Marcellinus was the last great Roman historian, and his writings rank alongside those of Livy and Tacitus. The Later Roman Empire chronicles a period of twenty-five years during Marcellinus' own lifetime, covering the reigns of Constantius, Julian, Jovian, Valentinian I, and Valens, and providing eyewitness accounts of significant military events including the Battle of Strasbo...