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A Patriot Press
National Politics and the London Press in the 1740s
Inbunden, 1993
1186 kr
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This is a meticulous and scholarly study of the polemical press of the 1740s, and the first substantial investigation of the politics of the Pelham regime for a generation. Robert Harris examines the vigorous and wide-ranging debate in tracts and periodicals about the principal issues of the …
Confession and Criminal Justice in Late Medieval Italy
Siena, 1260-1330
Inbunden, 2021
1373 kr
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In medieval Italy the practice of revenge as criminal justice was still popular amongst members of all social classes, yet crime also was increasingly perceived as a public matter that needed to be dealt with by the government rather than private citizens. Confession and Criminal Justice in Late …
Sisters and Sisterhood
The Kenney Family, Class, and Suffrage, 1890-1965
Inbunden, 2021
1461 kr
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The Kenney family grew up in Saddleworth, outside Oldham, in the last decades of the nineteenth century. In 1905, three of the sisters met Christabel Pankhurst, a turning point which changed the rest of their lives. Annie Kenney became one of the leaders of the Women's Social and Political Union …
Shadow of a Taxman
Who Funded the Irish Revolution?
Inbunden, 2022
1461 kr
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Shadow of a Taxman investigates how the unrecognised Irish Republic's money was solicited, collected, transmitted, and safeguarded, as well as who the financial backers were and what might have influenced their decision to contribute. The Republic's quest for funds took its emissaries as far afield …
Designs on Democracy
Architecture and the Public in Interwar London
Av Neal Shasore
Inbunden, 2022
1461 kr
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Designs on Democracy examines a pivotal period in the formation of the modern profession of architecture in Britain. It shows how architects sought to meet the newly articulated demands of a mass democracy in the wake of the First World War. It does so by providing a vivid picture of architectural …
Making Refugees in India
Av Ria Kapoor
Inbunden, 2022
1461 kr
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Offering a global history of India's refugee regime, Making Refugees in India explores how one of the first postcolonial states during the mid-twentieth century wave of decolonisation rewrote global practices surrounding refugees - signified by India's refusal to sign the 1951 UN Refugee …
Electric News in Colonial Algeria
Häftad, 2022
580 kr
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How do the things which connect us also serve to divide us? Electric News in Colonial Algeria traces how news circulated in a particularly divided society: Algeria under French rule in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It tells a different history of globalization, one which puts …
Text and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia
The Written and The World, 711-1031
Inbunden, 2023
1623 kr
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Text and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia is a study of the functions and conceptions of writing and reading, documentation and archives, and the role of literate authorities in the Christian kingdoms of the northern Iberian Peninsula between the Muslim conquest of 711 and the fall of the …
Ethno-Religious Violence in Colonial Sri Lanka, 1853–1915
Inbunden, 2027
1300 kr
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Sri Lanka in 1915 was rife with tensions in response to colonialism, ethnic assertion, migration, economic change, and religious revival. The island was also part of an Indian Ocean theatre of the First World War that saw action and intrigue. Against that backdrop erupted the 1915 anti-Moor pogrom, …
Republicanism and the State between Brazil and the River Plate
Rio Grande do Sul, 1808-1845
Inbunden, 2027
1623 kr
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The Rio Grandense Republic rose and fell between 1836 and 1845 in Brazil's southernmost province, Rio Grande do Sul. Its founders, the farroupilhas, first rebelled against taxes and centralization, but they soon turned to separatism and declared the Brazilian Empire a monarchical pariah in a …
Anti-Calvinists
The Rise of English Arminianism c.1590-1640
Häftad, 1990
1759 kr
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This is a study of the rise of English Arminianism and the growing religious division in the Church of England during the decades before the Civil War of the 1640s. The widely accepted view has been that the rise of puritanism was a major cause of the war; Nicholas Tyacke argues that it was …
The Protestant Crusade in Great Britain 1829-1860
Av John Wolffe
Inbunden, 1991
1490 kr
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This is a study of the organized anti-Catholic movement in nineteenth-century Britain. The passing of the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829 was in some respects a triumph for religious toleration, but it was followed by a substantial Protestant backlash. This was further stimulated by the …
Greece and the Inter-War Economic Crisis
Av Mark Mazower
Inbunden, 1991
3555 kr
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The great depression of the inter-war years was the most profound shock ever to strike the world economy, and is widely held to have led directly to the collapse of parliamentary democracy in many countries. This scholarly study of Greece in the period between the two world wars, however, …
Political Society in Lancastrian England
The Greater Gentry of Nottinghamshire
Inbunden, 1991
2525 kr
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This is a study of the political and social structure of late medieval England. Dr Payling examines the wealth and political influence of a dozen Nottinghamshire families who dominated their county during the first half of the fifteenth century. His analysis shifts the historical emphasis from the …
Goths and Romans 332-489
Inbunden, 1991
4074 kr
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This is a scholarly study of the collision of Goths and Romans in the fourth and fifth centuries. Gothic tribes played a major role in the destruction of the western half of the Roman Empire between 350 and 500, establishing successor kingdoms in southern France and Spain (the Visigoths), and in …
Violence and Social Order
East Anglia 1422-1442
Inbunden, 1992
829 kr
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This challenging study sets out to explore the nature and meaning of violence in fifteenth-century England. Philippa Maddern examines violence on each side of the law - both in crime and in law enforcement - in order to uncover the attitudes and beliefs of the inhabitants of medieval East Anglia. …
Men Versus the State
Herbert Spencer and Late Victorian Individualism
Av M. W. Taylor
Inbunden, 1992
3555 kr
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Men Versus the State is a study both of the political philosophy of Herbert Spencer (considered by many to be the greatest philosopher of Victorian Britain) and of the ideas of the Individualists, a group of political thinkers inspired by him to uphold the policy of laissez-faire during the 1880s …
Politics and Military Morale
Current Affairs and Citizenship Education in the British Army 1914-1950
Inbunden, 1992
2382 kr
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In the first scholarly examination of education in current affairs and citizenship within the British Army in the twentieth century, S.P. MacKenzie charts the development of army education from its beginnings in the First World War, to its heyday in the Second World War, and analyses its final …
The Origins of Military Thought
From the Enlightenment to Clausewitz
Av Azar Gat
Häftad, 1991
859 kr
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This book sheds new light on the origins and nature of modern military thinking. The ideas of Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) - which remain at the heart of strategic analysis today - have hitherto been examined largely in isolation from their cultural and philosophical roots in the eighteenth and …
Murders and Madness
Medicine, Law, and Society in the Fin de Siècle
Av Ruth Harris
Häftad, 1991
741 kr
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Murders and Madness examines the French debate over crime and madness in the fin de siècle. Ruth Harris argues that psychiatric theories of human behaviour and new sociological interpretations of crime combined to undermine the traditional foundations of the penal system and helped to shape the new …
Gentlemen and Tarpaulins
The Officers and Men of the Restoration Navy
Av J. D. Davies
Inbunden, 1991
1110 kr
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This is the first scholarly study of the Royal Navy during the reigns of Charles II and James II. Historians have long viewed the Restoration Navy through the eyes of Samuel Pepys, the greatest diarist and naval administrator of the age. Perceptive and intelligent as Pepys was, he presented only a …
Women, Crime, and Custody in Victorian England
Av Lucia Zedner
Inbunden, 1991
3933 kr
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This book explores how the Victorians perceived and explained female crime, and how they responded to it - both in penal theory and prison practice. In Victorian England women made up a far larger proportion of those known to be involved in crime than they do today; the nature of female criminality …
Duke Richard of York 1411-1460
Häftad, 1991
1854 kr
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This first biography of Richard, third Duke of York, examines the political opposition of a great lord to Henry VI's regime. Active in the government of Lancastrian Normandy, he served twice as lieutenant of Ireland where, on his second visit, he did much to consolidate the trend towards Irish …
The End of an Élite
The French Bishops and the Coming of the Revolution 1786-1790
Av Nigel Aston
Inbunden, 1992
1060 kr
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The End of an Élite is the first scholarly study in English of the bishops of the French church at the outbreak of the French Revolution. The 130 members of the episcopate formed an élite within an élite, the First Estate of France.Nigel Aston explores the role of the episcopate in national and …
Labour's War
The Labour Party and the Second World War
Inbunden, 1992
2734 kr
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Labour's War is the first scholarly history of the Labour Party during the Second World War, and offers a fresh look at British politics during the war years. Stephen Brooke examines the effect of war upon the party's ideology and policy, the experience in government of Labour leaders such as …
The Townshends and their World
Gentry, Law, and Land in Norfolk c.1450-1551
Inbunden, 1992
1186 kr
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This is the first scholarly history of the rise of the Townshends, who were to become the most famous landowning family in Norfolk. C. E. Moreton exploits to the full the rich family archives in order to tell the story of individuals such as Roger Townshend I, a prominent lawyer of the late …
Scribes and Scholars at Salisbury Cathedral c.1075-c.1125
Inbunden, 1992
2989 kr
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This is a study of the books of Salisbury Cathedral and their scribes in the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries. These manuscripts form the largest collection to have survived from any English centre in the period following the Norman Conquest, and they bear witness to the energetic scribal …
The Caroline Captivity of the Church
Charles I and the Remoulding of Anglicanism 1625-1641
Inbunden, 1992
2306 kr
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Julian Davies's detailed analysis of the religious policy and ecclesiastical practice of the Church of England in the reign of Charles I offers a bold new interpretation of the Caroline Church, firmly based on the documentary evidence.Dr Davies examines the roles of Charles I and of Archbishop …
Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain 1914-1950
Inbunden, 1992
1050 kr
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Before the advent of television, reading was among the most popular of leisure activities. `Light' fiction - romances, thrillers, westerns - was the sustenance of millions in wartime and in peace. This lively and scholarly study examines the size and complexion of the reading public and the …
Black Country Élites
The Exercise of Authority in an Industrialized Area, 1830-1900
Inbunden, 1993
1261 kr
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Black Country Élites is a study of the people who ran Victorian industrial towns; it also examines the institutions, policies, rituals, and networks these urban élites deployed to cope with urban growth, social unrest, and relative economic decline. Concentrating on a particularly grimy district of …
