In Homes and Homecomings an international group of scholars provide inspiring new historical perspectives on the politics of homes and homecomings. Using innovative methodological and theoretical approaches, the book examines case studies from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe.

• Provides inspiring new historical perspectives on the politics of homes and homecomings
• Takes an historical approach to a subject area that is surprisingly little historicised
• Features original research from a group of international scholars
• The book has an international approach that focuses on Africa, Asia, the Americas and East and West Europe
• Contains original illustrations of homes in a variety of historical contexts

K. H. Adler lectures in history at the University of Nottingham. She is the author of Jews and Gender in Liberation France (2003), and the editor of Gender & History. She is currently working on a book about post-war homecomings in twentieth-century France.

Carrie Hamilton lectures in History at Roehampton University, London, where she is also Director of the Centre for Research in Sex, Gender and Sexuality. She is the author of Women and ETA: The Gender Politics of Radical Basque Nationalism (2007), and is currently writing a book on sexuality and the Cuban Revolution.