Historia & arkeologi

Traces the careers and fortunes of the last priests ordained before the Reformation. A central paradox of the English reformation is that the call to the Catholic priesthood was never more eagerly answered than on the very eve of religious upheava...

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The Worshipful company of Musicians, the only City Livery Company dedicated to the Performing Arts, celebrates its 500th anniversary in 2000. A new history by Richard Crewdson (Clerk to the Company 1967-87) marks the occasion by charting the event...

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`Succinct survey of how war was experienced by ordinary people in late medieval France ... very welcome addition to the literature.' INTERNATIONAL HISTORY REVIEW [Michael Jones] This alternative account of peasant life during crisis is a welc...

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Medieval culture was intensely visual. Although this has long been recognised by art historians and by enthusiasts for particular media, there has been little attempt to study social display as a subject in its own right. And yet, display takes us...

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The collection of arms and armour in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, is one of the finest in England, and ranks just behind the royal and national collections in terms of the range and quality of its material. The majority of the items come fro...

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Stukeley's antiquarian researches, particularly into the great stone circles of Stonehenge and Avebury, were the first to reveal their great antiquity. Friend of Newton, his life embodies the classic Enlightenment confrontation between scienc...

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An account of one hundred years of diet (including political influences) and its reflection in the population's health - from wartime deprivation to fast food overkill. Simple meals made from a limited range of industrially processed foodstuf...

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A first report on the potential impeachment of the Prime Minister for High Crimes and Misdemeanours in relation to the war on Iraq

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On the morning of April 26, 1986, a Soviet nuclear plant at Chernobyl (near Kiev) exploded, pouring radioactivity into the environment and setting off the worst disaster in the history of nuclear energy. Now a former Soviet scientist gives a compr...

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Federico Fellini (1920-93) was one of the most inventive of film-makers and he remains one of the best loved. Director of a whole series of celebrated films - among them La Strada (1954) The Nights of Cabiria (1957), La Dolce Vita (1960), Otto e M...

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For the last seventy years—ever since his show-trial in 1946—Alojzije Stepinac, Cardinal Archbishop of Zagreb, has been the subject of controversy. In this book, Robin Harris explores recently available original sources, including Secr...

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Examines the dilemmas of introducing revolutionary changes in an African country deeply affected by structural adjustment. Yoweri Museveni battled to power in 1986 and his government impressed many observers, some of whom recommended it as a model...

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Between 1880 and 1920, Muslim Sufi orders became pillars of the colonial regimes and economies of Senegal and Mauritania. In Paths of Accommodation David Robinson examines the ways in which the leaders of the orders negotiated relations with the F...

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Publishes for the first time Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka's early revue sketches on which his later plays draw strongly for characters and situations. This special issue, guest edited by Judith Greenwood and Chuck Mike, is devoted to early...

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The death of S.M. Otieno and the fierce debates and struggle in court about who controlled his remains revealed much about Kenyan society. Examines the complex sociologies, politics and histories of the debates that arose after the death of Kenyan...

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The author proceeds from the assumption that Mozambican labour history was not fundamentally about skills, wages and productivity - it was about racism, human dignity and contested masculinity. Brutal forced-labour policies made it difficult for r...

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This work explores how both men and women adapted, negotiated and contested their rights and duties in marriage during a period of socio-political upheaval in 20th-century Niger, a period which saw the advent and demise of colonial rule, the aboli...

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Presents a systematic, comprehensive and region-wide study of central African ironworkers as a distinct group. Integrating material on culture and social history, Kriger provides detailed descriptions of the labour process and the items that the s...

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Tells the history of colonial Uganda through the experiences of an extraordinary leader. The author examines the life of Kakungulu and his role in the creation of the imperial state. Was this man regarded as 'a hero', 'a collaborato...

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Zanzibar Stone Town presents the problems of conservation in its most acute forms: should it be preserved for the tourists or should it be allowed to grow for the benefit of the inhabitants? Can ways be found to accommodate conflicting social and ...

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Tracing developments in Namibia from 1915 to 1946, the contributors examine its history through the themes of the migration and containment of its peoples. The peoples of Namibia have been on the move throughout history. The South Africans took ov...

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This series of Classics in African Anthropology is primarily drawn from a distinct family of texts which dominated the academic analysis of society in mid-20th century Africa. The texts reproduced are significant yet often neglected, and have stoo...

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This study examines the complex history of slavery in East Africa, focusing on the area that came under German colonial rule. In contrast to the policy pursued at the time by other colonial powers in Africa, the German authorities did not legally ...

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The first of three studies in the "History of Education in England", this volume traces the emergence of modern education from the efforts of the scientific societies in the 1780s up to the securing of universal education with the Act of...

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This classic book tells the history of eight hundred years of the Irish people's struggles for freedom. It takes us from the arrival of English settlers in the Middle ages up to the present day -the struggle in the words of James Fintan Lalor...

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This work captures the dynamism of the West-African student movement in Britain, and the struggle to articulate a coherent, anti-colonial politics. The emergence of the West African Students Union (WASU) and its alliances with influential Labour M...

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Since it was first published in 1920, The Black Man's Burden has been widely recognized as a prime source of education and influence in the field of African history.

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Memoir of the 1959 Guerrilla war in Cuba.

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