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Women in Early Modern Britain, 1450-1640
E-bok, 2017
530 kr
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Although in its infancy, the history of women in Wales and Scotland before and during the Reformation is now thriving. A longer tradition of historical studies has shed light on many areas of women''s experience in England. Drawing on this historiography, Christine Peters examines the significance …
Irish Diaspora in Britain, 1750-1939
Häftad, 2010
515 kr
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This established study focuses on the most important phase of Irish migration, providing analysis of why and how the Irish settled in Britain in such numbers. Updated and expanded, the new edition now extends the coverage to 1939 and features new chapters on gender and the Irish diaspora in a …
Making Youth: A History of Youth in Modern Britain
Inbunden, 2016
1458 kr
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This new study explores how British youth was made, and how it made itself, over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Urbanisation and industrialisation brought challenges that altered how young people were both perceived and understood. As adults found it difficult to comprehend the rapidity of …
Making Youth: A History of Youth in Modern Britain
Häftad, 2016
486 kr
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This new study explores how British youth was made, and how it made itself, over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Urbanisation and industrialisation brought challenges that altered how young people were both perceived and understood. As adults found it difficult to comprehend the rapidity of …
Protest, Politics and Work in Rural England, 1700-1850
Av Carl Griffin
Häftad, 2013
515 kr
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Rural workers in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England were not passive victims in the face of rapid social change. Carl J. Griffin shows that they deployed an extensive range of resistances to defend their livelihoods and communities. Locating protest in the wider contexts of work, …
Poverty in Britain, 1900-1965
Av Ian Gazeley
E-bok, 2017
2087 kr
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How was poverty measured and defined, and how has this influenced our judgement of the change in poverty in Britain during the first sixty years of the twentieth century? During this period, a large number of poverty surveys were carried out, the methods of which altered after World War II. …
Child Labour in Britain, 1750-1870
Av Peter Kirby
E-bok, 2017
562 kr
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What kinds of jobs did children do in the past, and how widespread was their employment? Why did so many poor families put their children to work? How did the state respond to child labour? What problems arise in the interpretation of evidence of child employment? Child Labour in Britain, 1750-1870 …
Religion and Society in England, 1850-1914
Av Hugh Mcleod
Häftad, 1996
500 kr
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Victorians liked to refer to England as 'a Christian country'. But what did this mean at the level of everyday life? The book begins with a social portrait of each of the characteristic forms of religion that flourished in Victorian England, including Anglican, Dissenters, Catholics, Jews, …
Popular Radicalism in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Av John Belchem
Inbunden, 1995
1748 kr
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In offering a wide-ranging overview of radicalism throughout the 'long' nineteenth century, from the mid eighteenth century to the aftermath of the First World War, this study contests the methods and findings of recent revisionist interpretations.Radical movements faced a more difficult task than …
Popular Radicalism in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Av John Belchem
Häftad, 1995
515 kr
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In offering a wide-ranging overview of radicalism throughout the 'long' nineteenth century, from the mid eighteenth century to the aftermath of the First World War, this study contests the methods and findings of recent revisionist interpretations.Radical movements faced a more difficult task than …
Catholics in Britain and Ireland, 1558–1829
Häftad, 1998
500 kr
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In this new study, Michael Mullett examines the social, political and religious development of Catholic communities in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland from the Reformation to the arrival of toleration in the nineteenth century. The story is a sequence from active persecution, through …
History of Work in Britain, 1880-1950
Häftad, 2000
515 kr
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This book draws upon the existing body of literature and incorporates substantial new research to provide an interpretative overview of the social history of work in Britain from the late-Victorian period to 1950. Different theoretical frameworks are analysed and the historiography reviewed. McIvor …
Lollards
Av Richard Rex
Inbunden, 2002
584 kr
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The Lollards offers a brief but insightful guide to the entire history of England's only native medieval heretical movement. Beginning with its fourteenth century origins in the theology of the Oxford professor, John Wyclif, Richard Rex examines the spread of Lollardy across much of England until …
Scotland’s Society and Economy in Transition, c.1500–c.1760
Av Ian Whyte
Häftad, 1997
515 kr
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During the last twenty years there has been an explosion of new research into the development of Scotland from a small, backward country on the periphery of Europe to one poised to undergo industrialisation in step with England. This book provides an overview of key themes related to social change …
English Puritanism
Av John Spurr
Inbunden, 1998
1556 kr
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The Puritans of seventeenth century England have been blamed for everything from the English civil war to the rise of capitalism. But who were the Puritans of Stuart England? Were they apostles of liberty, who fled from persecution to the New World? Or were they intolerant fanatics, intent on …
English Puritanism
Av John Spurr
Häftad, 1998
486 kr
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The Puritans of seventeenth century England have been blamed for everything from the English civil war to the rise of capitalism. But who were the Puritans of Stuart England? Were they apostles of liberty, who fled from persecution to the New World? Or were they intolerant fanatics, intent on …
Education in Britain, 1750–1914
Av W B Stephens
Häftad, 1999
500 kr
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This concise study covers the development of education throughout Great Britain from the Industrial Revolution to the Great War: a period in which urbanization, industrialization and population growth posed huge social and political problems, and education became one of the fiercest areas of …
Family and Household in Medieval England
Häftad, 2000
515 kr
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Drawing upon a wide range of historical research, Family and Household in Medieval England offers a stimulating and engaging introduction to the formative period of one of the central institutions of western society. The family and household together provided the basic unit of social organisation …
Towns in Tudor and Stuart Britain
Av Sybil Jack
Häftad, 1996
515 kr
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Why should one study urban history? Were towns the precipitating element for change in the human way of life? By examining in turn various aspects of urban history in the period 1500-1700 this book attempts to examine recent historical ideas about towns in Britain. Was the urban system in Britain a …
English Sexualities, 1700–1800
Häftad, 1997
515 kr
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This fascinating and wide-ranging analysis of gender and sexualities brings together the disparate literatures on demography, love and marriage, the body, homosexuality, lesbianism, and the regulation of sexuality. It makes available to both undergraduates and professionals these complex …
Women in Britain since 1900
Av Sue Bruley
Häftad, 1999
486 kr
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This is the first text devoted exclusively to women in Britain since 1900 which covers the whole century. The author combines evidence from primary research, with an emphasis on personal testimony, with the most up-to-date work of specialist scholars in each field. Embracing social, economic, …
Popular Religion in Sixteenth-Century England
Holding their Peace
Häftad, 1998
486 kr
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This book is a lively and accessible study of English religious life during the century of the Reformation. It draws together a wide range of recent research and makes extensive use of colourful contemporary evidence. The author explores the involvement of ordinary people within, alongside and …
Race Relations in Britain Since 1945
Häftad, 1998
486 kr
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Race Relations in Britain since 1945 provides a critical overview of the origins, development and present state of race relations in Britain. Highly contentious, the field of race relations is closely related to a number of issues which are regarded to be at the very heart of contemporary British …
State, Society and the Poor in Nineteenth-Century England
In Nineteenth-Century England
Av Alan Kidd
Häftad, 1999
515 kr
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Today it is impossible to separate discussion of poverty from the priorities of state welfare. A hundred years ago, most working-class households avoided or coped with poverty without recourse to the state. The Poor Law after 1834 offered little more than a 'safety net' for the poorest, and much …
Women in Early Modern Britain, 1450-1640
Inbunden, 2003
1603 kr
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Although in its infancy, the history of women in Wales and Scotland before and during the Reformation is now thriving. A longer tradition of historical studies has shed light on many areas of women's experience in England. Drawing on this historiography, Christine Peters examines the significance …
Women in Early Modern Britain, 1450-1640
Häftad, 2003
500 kr
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Although in its infancy, the history of women in Wales and Scotland before and during the Reformation is now thriving. A longer tradition of historical studies has shed light on many areas of women's experience in England. Drawing on this historiography, Christine Peters examines the significance …
Medieval British Towns
Häftad, 1999
486 kr
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Medieval British Towns sets out to explain the reasons for the explosion of town foundation throughout the British Isles from the twelfth century onwards and charts the subsequent development of towns through to the early sixteenth century. The raison d'etre of towns throughout the British Isles …
Education in Early Modern England
Av Helen Jewell
Inbunden, 1999
1748 kr
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Covering the period c.1530-c.1760, this book analyses the aims, facilities and achievements across all levels of education in England, institutional and informal, acknowledging in context the education situation in the rest of the British Isles, western Europe and North America.
Education in Early Modern England
Av Helen Jewell
Häftad, 1999
515 kr
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Covering the period c.1530-c.1760, this book analyses the aims, facilities and achievements across all levels of education in England, institutional and informal, acknowledging in context the education situation in the rest of the British Isles, western Europe and North America.
Riot, Rebellion and Popular Politics in Early Modern England
Av Andy Wood
Inbunden, 2001
1748 kr
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Riot, Rebellion and Popular Politics in Early Modern England reassesses the relationship between politics, social change and popular culture in the period c. 1520-1730. It argues that early modern politics needs to be understood in broad terms, to include not only states and elites, but also …
