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25 produkter
Civil Histories
Essays Presented to Sir Keith Thomas
Av Keith Thomas, Peter Burke m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
4094 kr
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Sir Keith Thomas is one of the most innovative and influential of English historians, and a scholar of unusual range. These essays, presented to him on his retirement as President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, concentrate on one of the broad themes illuminated by his work - changing notions of …
Managing Water Resources, Past and Present
E-bok, 2004
734 kr
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A multi-disciplinary analysis of the evolution of water politics and policy by an international team of distinguished experts. Water management in the Middle Ages in Europe, its evolution in the USA, the elaboration of the European Water Framework Directive, the British experience of water …
Peopling of Britain
The Shaping of a Human Landscape
Av Ryk Ward, Paul Slack
E-bok, 2002
2209 kr
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This volume reviews the way in which, over the centuries, the evolving human presence in Britain has shaped the British landscape and how, in turn, the British landscape has moulded the development of British communities. From the beginnings of human settlement Britain has represented a final …
Invention of Improvement
Information and Material Progress in Seventeenth-Century England
Av Paul Slack
E-bok, 2014
722 kr
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Improvement was a new concept in seventeenth-century England; only then did it become usual for people to think that the most effective way to change things for the better was not a revolution or a return to the past, but the persistent application of human ingenuity to the challenge of increasing …
Plague
A Very Short Introduction
Av Paul Slack
E-bok, 2021
95 kr
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Very Short Introductions : Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Throughout history plague has been the cause of many major catastrophes. It was responsible for the ''Plague of Justinian'' in 542, the Black Death of 1348, and the Great Plague of London in 1665, as well as for devastating epidemics in China …
Plague
A Very Short Introduction
Av Paul Slack
E-bok, 2021
95 kr
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Very Short Introductions : Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Throughout history plague has been the cause of many major catastrophes. It was responsible for the ''Plague of Justinian'' in 542, the Black Death of 1348, and the Great Plague of London in 1665, as well as for devastating epidemics in China …
The Impact of Plague in Tudor and Stuart England
Av Paul Slack
Häftad, 1990
676 kr
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This is a classic study of a disease which had a profound impact on the history of Tudor and Stuart England. Plague was both a personal affliction and a social calamity, regularly decimating urban populations. Paul Slack vividly describes the stresses which plague imposed on individuals, families, …
Public Duty and Private Conscience in Seventeenth-Century England
Essays Presented to G.E. Aylmer
Av MORRILL, John Morrill m. fl.
Inbunden, 1993
2375 kr
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The tension between public duty and private conscience is a central theme of English history in the seventeenth century, when established authorities were questioned and violently disrupted. It has also been an important theme in the work of one of the foremost historians of the period, G. E. …
From Reformation to Improvement
Public Welfare in Early Modern England
Av Paul Slack
Inbunden, 1998
2847 kr
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Between the early sixteenth and the early eighteenth centuries, the character of English social policy and social welfare changed fundamentally. Aspirations for wholesale reformation were replaced by more specific schemes for improvement. Paul Slack's analysis of this decisive shift of focus, …
Environments and Historical Change
The Linacre Lectures
Av Paul Slack
Inbunden, 1999
1854 kr
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Present anxieties about global warming and threats to biodiversity leave no doubts that environmental changes impact upon humans. Perceptions of the environment change as people try to define and shape 'nature' in different ways. The book explores the relationship between environmental change and …
The Peopling of Britain
The Shaping of a Human Landscape
Av Paul Slack, Ryk Ward
Inbunden, 2002
3028 kr
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This volume reviews the way in which, over the centuries, the evolving human presence in Britain has shaped the British landscape and how, in turn, the British landscape has moulded the development of British communities. From the beginnings of human settlement Britain has represented a final …
Plague
A Very Short Introduction
Av Paul Slack
Häftad, 2021
116 kr
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Very Short Introductions : Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Throughout history plague has been the cause of many major catastrophes. It was responsible for the 'Plague of Justinian' in 542, the Black Death of 1348, and the Great Plague of London in 1665, as well as for devastating epidemics in China and …
Managing Water Resources, Past and Present
Inbunden, 2004
1037 kr
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A multi-disciplinary analysis of the evolution of water politics and policy by an international team of distinguished experts. Water management in the Middle Ages in Europe, its evolution in the USA, the elaboration of the European Water Framework Directive, the British experience of water …
The Invention of Improvement
Information and Material Progress in Seventeenth-Century England
Av Paul Slack
Inbunden, 2014
1123 kr
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Improvement was a new concept in seventeenth-century England; only then did it become usual for people to think that the most effective way to change things for the better was not a revolution or a return to the past, but the persistent application of human ingenuity to the challenge of increasing …
Crisis and Order in English Towns 1500-1700
Inbunden, 2006
3793 kr
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This collection of essays in English urban history covers a period which has been called 'the Dark Ages in English Economic History', on which it directs a revealing light. The essays range from a discussion of the role of ceremony in the civic life of Coventry at the end of the Middle Ages to the …
Crisis and Order in English Towns 1500-1700
Häftad, 2013
832 kr
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This collection of essays in English urban history covers a period which has been called 'the Dark Ages in English Economic History', on which it directs a revealing light. The essays range from a discussion of the role of ceremony in the civic life of Coventry at teh end of the Middle Ages to the …
Rebellion, Popular Protest and the Social Order in Early Modern England
Av Paul Slack, Paul Slack
Häftad, 2008
754 kr
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Rebellion, riot and popular unrest have been the theme of a succession of stimulating and influential articles in Past and Present. This selection shows how the various forms of popular protest in England from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries have been reinterpreted by modern scholars. Topics …
The English Poor Law, 1531-1782
Inbunden, 1995
605 kr
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The poor law had a profound impact on English society between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries. Designed to reform the poor as much as to relieve poverty, it also shaped institutions of government and determined people's expectations and assumptions about social welfare. Over the last few …
The English Poor Law, 1531-1782
Häftad, 1995
442 kr
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The poor law had a profound impact on English society between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries. Designed to reform the poor as much as to relieve poverty, it also shaped institutions of government and determined people's expectations and assumptions about social welfare. Over the last few …
Epidemics and Ideas
Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence
Av Ranger/Slack, Terence Ranger m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
738 kr
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From plague to AIDS, epidemics have been the most spectacular diseases to afflict human societies. This volume examines the way in which these great crises have influenced ideas, how they have helped to shape theological, political and social thought, and how they have been interpreted and …
Impact of Plague
In Tudor and Stuart England
Av Paul Slack
E-bok, 2026
1052 kr
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Plague, the epidemic disease whose ravages are the subject of this book, originally published in 1985, was both a personal affliction and a social calamity. It regularly decimated urban populations and totally disrupted social, economic and even political life. Paul Slack discusses the stresses …
Impact of Plague
In Tudor and Stuart England
Av Paul Slack
E-bok, 2026
1052 kr
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Plague, the epidemic disease whose ravages are the subject of this book, originally published in 1985, was both a personal affliction and a social calamity. It regularly decimated urban populations and totally disrupted social, economic and even political life. Paul Slack discusses the stresses …
Impact of Plague
In Tudor and Stuart England
Av Paul Slack
Inbunden, 2026
1567 kr
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Plague, the epidemic disease whose ravages are the subject of this book, originally published in 1985, was both a personal affliction and a social calamity. It regularly decimated urban populations and totally disrupted social, economic and even political life. Paul Slack discusses the stresses …
Crisis and Order in English Towns 1500-1700
E-bok, 2013
950 kr
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This collection of essays in English urban history covers a period which has been called ''the Dark Ages in English Economic History'', on which it directs a revealing light. The essays range from a discussion of the role of ceremony in the civic life of Coventry at teh end of the Middle Ages to …
Crisis and Order in English Towns 1500-1700
E-bok, 2013
960 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This collection of essays in English urban history covers a period which has been called ''the Dark Ages in English Economic History'', on which it directs a revealing light. The essays range from a discussion of the role of ceremony in the civic life of Coventry at teh end of the Middle Ages to …
