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Medical Charities, Medical Politics
The Irish Dispensary System and the Poor Law, 1836-1872
Inbunden, 1997
880 kr
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An examination of Ireland's advanced mid nineteenth-century health policy, focusing on the Medical Charities Act of 1851 and the Irish Poor Law Commission.Should be read by...every specialist in public administration in Ireland and England during the nineteenth century. ENGLISH HISTORICAL …
Nature and Artifice
The Life and Thought of Thomas Hodgskin, 1787-1869
Av David Stack
Inbunden, 1997
1392 kr
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Thomas Hodgskin (1787-1869), radical thinker, is the subject of this study, and he is presented here as a forerunner of New Right ideology rather than as `early English socialist'.Thomas Hodgskin was one of the most significant thinkers of nineteenth-century radicalism. An active writer for over …
Britannia's Glories
The Walpole Ministry and the 1739 War with Spain
Inbunden, 1998
1082 kr
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`The War of Jenkins Ear' examined for the first time in a full-length study, looking at the vitality of popular politics and the inner workings of Parliament during the time.This first full-length study of the 1739 war with Spain, the so-called `War of Jenkins' Ear', looks at both the Spanish and …
Birth of Military Aviation: Britain, 1903-1914
Av Hugh Driver
Inbunden, 1997
1050 kr
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A survey of the development of British military aviation from 1903 to 1914, revealing the consequences of its annexation by the state as a branch of armaments as an underlying cause of aircraft inadequacies on the outbreak of war.A mine of information, drawing on an impressive range of archives. It …
Civil War, Interregnum and Restoration in Gloucestershire, 1640-1672
Inbunden, 1997
1283 kr
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A detailed study of kinship and social and educational ties in Gloucestershire between 1640 and 1672.Recent studies of particular areas during the Civil War have shown how kinship and social and educational ties, far from reinforcing county isolationism, frequently drew inhabitants into a far wider …
Managing the South African War, 1899-1902
Politicians v Generals
Inbunden, 1998
947 kr
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This case study of the power struggle between politicians and generals for control of the strategic management of the South African War illuminates Victorian and Edwardian civil-military relations.Of all the wars fought by Britain between 1815 and 1914, the South African War (1899-1902) was the …
Cornwall Politics in the Age of Reform, 1790-1885
Inbunden, 1999
1283 kr
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Examination of major changes in political behaviour in 19c Cornwall, withwider implications for the country as a whole.This detailed case-study offers a penetrating analysis of the changing political culture in Cornwall up to and after the introduction of the 1832 electoral system. It spans a …
Practice of Penance, 900-1050
Inbunden, 2001
1311 kr
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Penitential practice in the Holy Roman Empire 900-1050, examined through records in church law, the liturgy, monastic and other sources.This study examines all forms of penitential practice in the Holy Roman Empire under the Ottonian and Salian Reich, c.900 - c.1050. This crucial period in the …
Lloyd George, Liberalism and the Land
The Land Issue and Party Politics in England, 1906-1914
Av Ian Packer
Inbunden, 2001
1283 kr
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The land question and its importance to the Liberal Party and British politics.In the late nineteenth century Britain was one of the most urbanised societies in the world, yet land reform remained an important element in its politics. This book explores this paradox through an examination of the …
Power and Border Lordship in Medieval France
The County of the Perche, 1000-1226
Inbunden, 2002
1283 kr
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The emergence of the northern French county of the Perche, and the rise of the Rotrou family from obscure origins to princely power, 11-13c.This is the first modern account of the emergence of the northern French county of the Perche, and the rise of a relatively minor noble family from obscure …
Henry VIII, the League of Schmalkalden, and the English Reformation
Inbunden, 2002
1246 kr
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England's first Protestant foreign policy initiative, an alliance with German Protestants, is shown to have been a significant influence on the Henrician Reformation.England's first Protestant foreign policy venture took place under Henry VIII, who in the wake of the break with Rome pursued …
English Public Opinion and the American Civil War
Inbunden, 2003
1350 kr
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A study of the development of English opinion on the American Civil War, paying special attention to the issues of slavery, neutral rights, democracy, republicanism, trade and propaganda - a new interpretation.At the end of the American Civil War, both North and South condemned Britain for …
Managing the British Empire
The Crown Agents, 1833-1914
Inbunden, 2004
1753 kr
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The Crown Agents Office played a crucial role in colonial development.The Crown Agents Office played a crucial role in colonial development. Acting in the United Kingdom as the commercial and financial agent for the crown colonies, the Agency supplied all non-locally manufactured stores required …
Lordship and Medieval Urbanisation: Coventry, 1043-1355
Inbunden, 2004
1071 kr
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An examination of Coventry's process of urbanisation from its origins in the Anglo-Saxon past to the eve of the Black Death.The processes by which medieval urban communities were formed and developed can be clearly seen in this study of Coventry. Following a survey of Domesday evidence, the book …
Making Trieste Italian, 1918-1954
Av Maura Hametz
Inbunden, 2005
947 kr
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Traces the changing identity and ownership of the important city of Trieste in a turbulent period.The port of Trieste, standing at a crucial strategic point at the head of the Adriatic, had a turbulent history in the mid-twentieth century. With the disappearance of the Habsburg empire after the …
Gender, Crime and Judicial Discretion, 1780-1830
Av Deirdre Palk
Inbunden, 2006
1271 kr
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Crimes in England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were both committed and judged differently, depending on whether the culprit was male or female.Based on a wide range of primary material, this book follows the journeys of men and women implicated in the capital crimes of shoplifting, …
Lollardy and Orthodox Religion in Pre-Reformation England
Reconstructing Piety
Inbunden, 2006
1246 kr
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An account of how, in certain parts of sixteenth-century England, challenges to conventional piety anticipated the Reformation.Here is a richly detailed account of the relationship between Lollard heresy and orthodox religion before the English Reformation. Robert Lutton examines the pious …
Women in Thirteenth-Century Lincolnshire
Inbunden, 2007
1350 kr
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A detailed investigation of the place of women in thirteenth-century society, using individual case studies to reappraise orthodox opinion.This book offers the first regional study of women in thirteenth-century England, making pioneering use of charters, chronicles, government records and some of …
Gender and Space in Early Modern England
Inbunden, 2007
1283 kr
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A nuanced re-evaluation of the ways in which gender affected the use of physical space in early modern England.Space was not simply a passive backdrop to a social system that had structural origins elsewhere; it was vitally important for marking out and maintaining the hierarchy that sustained …
Scottish Public Opinion and the Anglo-Scottish Union, 1699-1707
Av Karin Bowie
Inbunden, 2007
1283 kr
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The Anglo-Scottish union crisis is used to demonstrate the growing influence of popular opinion in this period.In the early modern period, ordinary subjects began to find a role in national politics through the phenomenon of public opinion: by drawing on entrenched ideological differences, …
George Canning and Liberal Toryism, 1801-27
Inbunden, 2008
938 kr
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A survey of the political career of George Canning, showing how he contributed to a radical change in British party politics.Winner of the Royal Historical Society's 2009 Whitfield Book Prize. George Canning, one of the most charismatic and divisive figures in British political history, was at the …
Dying and the Doctors
The Medical Revolution in Seventeenth-Century England
Av Ian Mortimer
Inbunden, 2009
1271 kr
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A survey of the changes in medical care for those approaching death in the early modern period.From the sixteenth century onwards, medical strategies adopted by the seriously ill and dying changed radically, decade by decade, from the Elizabethan age of astrological medicine to the emergence of the …
Law and Kinship in Thirteenth-Century England
Av Sam Worby
Inbunden, 2010
1271 kr
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First comprehensive survey of how kinship rules were discussed and applied in medieval England.Two separate legal jurisdictions concerned with family relations held sway in England during the high middle ages: canon law and common law. In thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Europe, kinship rules …
Trade and Trust in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Spanish Merchants and their Overseas Networks
Inbunden, 2010
1271 kr
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Shows how merchants sought to minimise losses by forging strong bonds of interpersonal trust amongst a range of employees, partners, and clients.Fruitfully combining approaches from economic history and the cultural history of commerce, this book examines the role of interpersonal trust in …
Scottish Middle March, 1573-1625
Power, Kinship, Allegiance
Inbunden, 2010
1271 kr
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A new investigation of James I and VI's policy in the troubled Border region between England and Scotland.The Scottish Borders experienced dramatic change on James VI's succession to the throne of England: where characteristically hostile Anglo-Scottish relations had encouraged cross-border …
Political Life of Josiah C. Wedgwood
Land, Liberty and Empire, 1872-1943
Av Paul Mulvey
Inbunden, 2010
1271 kr
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New study of the Radical politician Josiah Wedgwood, setting him in context and illuminating many of the political issues of the time.In his day, "Josh" Wedgwood was one of Britain's best-known and most outspoken Radical politicians. He served in three wars, and, in a Parliamentary career lasting …
Rulers and Ruled in Frontier Catalonia, 880-1010
Pathways of Power
Inbunden, 2010
1271 kr
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Skilful use of original sources teases out the networks of power and association in what was to become Catalonia.A frontier both between Christianity and Islam and between Francia and the Iberian Peninsula, the region that later became Catalonia was at the heart of the demographic and cultural …
Samuel Rawson Gardiner and the Idea of History
Av Mark Nixon
Inbunden, 2011
1271 kr
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A study of an eminent historian of seventeenth-century Britain and his work, showing its continued importance for all those working on the period.Samuel Rawson Gardiner [1829-1902] is the colossus of seventeenth-century historiography. His twenty-volume history of Britain from 1603 to 1656 and his …
Time and the French Revolution
The Republican Calendar, 1789-Year XIV
Av Matthew Shaw
Inbunden, 2011
1271 kr
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A history of the innovation and effects of the French Republican Calendar.The French Republican Calendar was perhaps the boldest of all the reforms undertaken in Revolutionary France. Introduced in 1793 and used until 1806, the Calendar not only reformed the weeks and months of the year, but …
Liberalism and Local Government in Early Victorian London
Inbunden, 2011
1271 kr
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A fresh interpretation of London's early Victorian political culture, devoting particular attention to the relationship which existed between Whigs and vestry-based radicals.In the second quarter of the nineteenth century the British capital witnessed a growing polarisation between metropolitan …
