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Women of Quality
Accepting and Contesting Ideals of Femininity in England, 1690-1760
Inbunden, 2002
1346 kr
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An examination of the interaction between ideology and experience in the lives of English women during a period of great social and intellectual change.Focusing on the complex relationship between discourse and experience, Women of Quality examines the role of gender in aristocratic women's daily …
Restoration Scotland, 1660-1690
Royalist Politics, Religion and Ideas
Inbunden, 2002
1346 kr
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The first modern account of the advancement of political and religious ideas in Scotland in the years between the Restoration of Charles II and the collapse of royal authority under James VII and II.In the twilight years of Scottish independence, the Restoration period witnessed both the triumph of …
Remaking English Society
Social Relations and Social Change in Early Modern England
Av Steve Hindle, Alexandra Shepard m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
450 kr
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Written by leading authorities, the volume can be considered a standard work on seventeenth-century English social history.A tribute to the work of Keith Wrightson, Remaking English Society re-examines the relationship between enduring structures and social change in early modern England. …
Domestic Culture in Early Modern England
Inbunden, 2015
1333 kr
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A detailed study of the domestic life of the early modern, non-elite householdThis book is a detailed study of the domestic life of the early modern, non-elite household, focussing on the Oxfordshire market town of Thame. Going beyond the exploration of the domestic economy and trends in living …
Final Crisis of the Stuart Monarchy
The Revolutions of 1688-91 in their British, Atlantic and European Contexts
Av Tim Harris, Stephen C Taylor
Häftad, 2015
389 kr
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Written in a lively and engaging style, and designed to be accessible to a broader audience, this collection combines new research with the latest scholarship to provide a fresh and invigorating introduction to the revolutionary period that transformed Britain and its empire.There has been an …
Disaffection and Everyday Life in Interregnum England
Inbunden, 2017
1333 kr
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A look at how ordinary English men and women responded to the transformations that accompanied the regicide, the creation of a republic, and the rise of the Cromwellian Protectorate.How did ordinary English men and women respond to the transformations that accompanied the regicide, the creation of …
British Travellers and the Encounter with Britain, 1450-1700
Av John Cramsie
Inbunden, 2015
2129 kr
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Encounters with a 'multicultural' Britain in the Tudor and Stuart periods written with an eye to debates about immigration and ethnicity in today's Britain.This book recovers the encounter with a "multicultural" Britain by British travellers in the Tudor and Stuart periods. When William Camden, …
Accidents and Violent Death in Early Modern London
1650-1750
Av Craig Spence
Inbunden, 2016
1346 kr
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Between the mid-seventeenth and mid-eighteenth century more than 15,000 Londoners suffered sudden violent deaths. In the early modern period, accidental and 'disorderly' deaths - from drowning, falls, stabbing, shooting, fires, explosions, suffocation, and animals and vehicles, among others - were …
Stuart Marriage Diplomacy
Dynastic Politics in their European Context, 1604-1630
Av Valentina Caldari, Sara J. Wolfson
Inbunden, 2018
1731 kr
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Dynastic marriages mattered in early modern Europe: the creation of alliances and the outbreak of wars were tied to continental dynastic politics.Dynastic marriages mattered in early modern Europe. The creation of alliances and the outbreak of wars were tied to continental dynastic politics. This …
Alehouses and Good Fellowship in Early Modern England
Häftad, 2016
365 kr
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Representing a history of drinking "from below", this book explores the role of the alehouse in seventeenth-century English society.This book provides a history of the alehouse between the years 1550 and 1700, the period during which it first assumed its long celebrated role as the key site for …
Popular Culture and Political Agency in Early Modern England and Ireland
Essays in Honour of John Walter
Av Michael J Braddick, Phil Withington m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1333 kr
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An outstanding collection, bringing together some of the leading historians of this period with some of the field's rising stars, which examines key issues in popular politics, the negotiation of power, strategies of legitimation,and the languages of politics.One of the most notable currents in …
Commerce and Politics in Hume's History of England
Av Jia Wei
Inbunden, 2017
1279 kr
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Illuminates the relationship between Hume the political thinker, Hume the historian, and Hume the political economist and highlights the social, economic and institutional changes which he wove into an innovative theory of causationDavid Hume's six-volume History of England: From the Invasion of …
Bristol from Below
Law, Authority and Protest in a Georgian City
Av Steve Poole, Nicholas Rogers
Inbunden, 2017
1731 kr
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Captures the substance and scale of popular politics and protest in Bristol over the course of the long eighteenth century.Bristol from Below captures the substance and scale of popular politics and protest in Bristol over the course of the long eighteenth century. It charts the lives of ordinary …
Cromwell's House of Lords
Politics, Parliaments and Constitutional Revolution, 1642-1660
Inbunden, 2018
1333 kr
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The final years of the Cromwellian Protectorate are usually written off as a brief interlude on the inevitable road to Restoration. This book galvanises this forgotten period of Interregnum studies by providing the first thoroughstudy of the Cromwellian 'Other House' - a new upper parliamentary …
National Identity and the Anglo-Scottish Borderlands, 1552-1652
Inbunden, 2019
1346 kr
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A detailed examination of the March system - the special administrative arrangements which applied on both sides of the border - how it was applied and how it evolved as national political circumstances changed.The Anglo-Scottish borderlands of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries provide an …
Roguery in Print
Crime and Culture in Early Modern London
Av Lena Liapi
Inbunden, 2019
1267 kr
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The first comprehensive analysis of an extensive body of rogue pamphlets published in early modern London.Early modern England was fascinated by the figure of the rogue. The rogue, who could be a beggar or vagrant but also a cutpurse, conman, card sharp, and all-round 'trickster' or even a …
Hanoverian Succession in Great Britain and its Empire
Av Brent S Sirota, Allan I MacInnes m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1279 kr
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A reassessment of the impact of the Hanoverian succession.Was the accession of the Hanoverian dynasty of Brunswick to the throne of Britain and its empire in 1714 merely the final act in the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688-89? Many contemporaries and later historians thought so, explainingthe …
Politics, Religion and Ideas in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Britain
Essays in Honour of Mark Goldie
Av John Coffey, Justin Champion m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1731 kr
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This volume traces the evolution of Whig and Tory, Puritan and Anglican ideas across a tumultuous period of British history, from the mid-seventeenth century through to the Age of Enlightenment.This volume, a tribute to Mark Goldie, traces the evolution of Whig and Tory, Puritan and Anglican ideas …
Age Relations and Cultural Change in Eighteenth-Century England
Inbunden, 2020
1770 kr
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Interactions between age groups were central to major social and cultural developments in eighteenth-century England, and this book serves as a powerful reminder that people lived through not in the past.This book explores the links between age relations and cultural change, using an innovative …
Restraint of the Press in England, 1660-1715
The Communication of Sin
Inbunden, 2022
1731 kr
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A discussion of the fascinating interplay between communication, politics and religion in early modern England suggesting a new framework for the politics of print culture.This book challenges the idea that the loss of pre-publication licensing in 1695 unleashed a free press on an unsuspecting …
National Covenant in Scotland, 1638-1689
Inbunden, 2020
1333 kr
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What did it mean to be a Covenanter?From its first subscription in 1638, the National Covenant was an aspect of life that communities across Scotland encountered on a daily basis. However, how contemporaries understood its significance remains unclear. This edited collection assesses how people …
Visualising Protestant Monarchy
Ceremony, Art and Politics after the Glorious Revolution (1689-1714)
Inbunden, 2021
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The first comprehensive, comparative study of the visual culture of monarchy in the reigns of William and Mary and Queen AnneThis book provides the first comprehensive, comparative study of the visual culture of monarchy in the reigns of William and Mary and Queen Anne. It makes innovative use of …
National Covenant and the Solemn League and Covenant, 1660-1696
Inbunden, 2022
1230 kr
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Examines how the form and function of the Covenants were shorn of religious implications and repurposed, serving a pluralistic vision of the role of religion in politics and public life.Until now, scholarship on the Covenants has mainly focussed on their role in the conflicts of the 1640s, with …
Blood Waters
War, Disease and Race in the Eighteenth-Century British Caribbean
Inbunden, 2021
1267 kr
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Far from the romanticised image of the swashbuckling genre of maritime history, the eighteenth-century Caribbean was a 'marchlands' in which violence was a way of life and where solidarities were transitory and highly volatile.This book paints a picture of the eighteenth-century British Caribbean …
State Trials and the Politics of Justice in Later Stuart England
Inbunden, 2021
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The book discusses the 'state trial' as a legal process, a public spectacle, and a point of political conflict - a key part of how constitutional monarchy became constitutional.State trials provided some of the leading media events of later Stuart England. The more important of these trials …
Africans in East Anglia, 1467-1833
Inbunden, 2021
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What were the lives of Africans in provincial England like during the early modern period? How, where, and when did they arrive in rural counties? How were they perceived by their contemporaries?This book examines the population of Africans in Norfolk and Suffolk from 1467, the date of the first …
Royalism, Religion and Revolution: Wales, 1640-1688
Inbunden, 2021
1333 kr
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Analyses the role of long-term continuities in the political and religious culture of Wales from the eve of the Civil War in 1640 to the Glorious Revolution of 1688In Royalism, Religion and Revolution: Wales, 1640-1688, Sarah Ward Clavier provides a ground-breaking analysis of the role of long-term …
Painting for a Living in Tudor and Early Stuart England
Inbunden, 2022
1333 kr
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A rare examination of the political, social, and economic contexts in which painters in Tudor and Early Stuart England lived and workedWhile famous artists such as Holbein, Rubens, or Van Dyck are all known for their creative periods in England or their employment at the English court, they still …
Scotland and the Wider World
Essays in Honour of Allan I. Macinnes
Av Neil McIntyre, Alison Cathcart
Inbunden, 2022
1267 kr
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Provides for a historical perspective of Scotland's interaction with the world beyond its borders.As one of the most prolific historians of his generation, Allan I. Macinnes, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Strathclyde, has been foremost in promoting an international rather than …
Urban Government and the Early Stuart State
Provincial Towns, Corporate Liberties, and Royal Authority in England, 1603-1640
Inbunden, 2022
1333 kr
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Examines relations between centre and localities in seventeenth century England by looking at early Stuart government through the lens of provincial towns.This book investigates relations between centre and localities in seventeenth century England by looking at early Stuart government through the …
