The Wiles Lectures – serie
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The Construction of Nationhood
Ethnicity, Religion and Nationalism
Häftad, 1997
401 kr
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The Construction of Nationhood, first published in 1997, is a thorough re-analysis of both nationalism and nations. In particular it challenges the current 'modernist' orthodoxies of such writers as Eric Hobsbawm, Benedict Anderson and Ernest Gellner, and it offers a systematic critique of …
Pagan and Christian in an Age of Anxiety
Some Aspects of Religious Experience from Marcus Aurelius to Constantine
Av E. R. Dodds
Häftad, 1991
334 kr
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Interest in the world of Late Antiquity is currently undergoing a significant revival, and in this provocative book, now reissued in paperback, E. R. Dodds anticipated some of the themes now engaging scholars. There is abundant material for the study of religious experience in late antiquity, and …
The Swedish Imperial Experience 1560-1718
Häftad, 1984
552 kr
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In his Wiles Lectures for 1977 Professor Roberts examines some of the problems raised by Sweden's brief career as a great power, and seeks to answer some of the questions that flow from them. Were the underlying considerations which prompted the unexpected development geopolitical, or social, or …
The Personality of Ireland
Habitat, Heritage and History
Häftad, 2005
586 kr
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The history of Ireland has been conceived in two ways: as the history of the English in Ireland or as the history of Gaelic Ireland, but both kinds have been concerned with personalities and institutions rather than with society as a whole. None of the many histories of Ireland tells us much about …
Domination and Conquest
The Experience of Ireland, Scotland and Wales, 1100-1300
Av R. R. Davies
Häftad, 2006
636 kr
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This book, a revised and extended version of Professor Davies's 1988 Wiles Lectures, explores the ways in which the kings and aristocracy of England sought to extend their domination over Ireland, Scotland and Wales in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. It analyses the mentalities of domination …
The Politics Naval of Supremacy
Av R. Graham
Häftad, 2008
574 kr
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Professor G. S. Graham sets broadly and clearly in perspective the limiting factors which permitted British predominance at sea in the nineteenth century. He introduces the British fleet in its European, Atlantic and Indian Ocean contexts and examines the local as well as the general conditions for …
Edward I and Criminal Law
Häftad, 2008
464 kr
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The main theme of Professor Plucknett's Wiles Lectures is the transition from the local legislation of Anglo-Saxon times to the beginnings of the English common law under feudalism, and especially under Edward I's direction. Professor Plucknett examines the early laws, which were mainly the …
Religion, Law and the Growth of Constitutional Thought, 1150-1650
Häftad, 2008
398 kr
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To understand the growth of Western constitutional thought, we need to consider both ecclesiology and political theory, ideas about the Church as well as ideas about the state. In this book Professor Tierney traces the interplay between ecclesiastical and secular theories of government from the …
Four Studies of War and Peace in this Century
Häftad, 2008
569 kr
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Sir Keith Hancock makes a four-pronged reconnaissance of international relations and, consequently, the prospects of human survival. He begins by discussing total war and 'small wars' and considers the relevance of this discussion, particularly in its economic aspects, to 'the cold war' and its …
Succeeding John Bull
America in Britain's Place 1900-1975
Häftad, 2008
569 kr
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This book is based on the Wiles lectures for 1981 delivered at the Queen's University of Belfast in October 1981. It is not a history of Anglo-American relations in the century; its theme deals with how the United States of America came to replace Britain as the primary world and oceanic power …
Man on His Past
Häftad, 1969
619 kr
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This book is an extended version of the Wiles lectures given at the Queen's University, Belfast, in 1954. It illustrates the rise, scope, methods and objectives of the history of historiography. The topics selected for discussion give a general outline of the modern historical movement from the …
Reform and Renewal
Av Elton
Häftad, 1973
574 kr
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Scholarship has established the prevalence of a reformist ideal of 'the Commonwealth' in early Tudor England, but concentration on scholars and writings has led to a neglect of affairs and politics. This study attempts to discover the fate of reforming programmes when efforts were made to translate …
War and Society in the Seventeenth Century
Av George Clark
Häftad, 2009
586 kr
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Sir George Clark discusses war as a factor for good and ill in European society in the seventeenth century. In particular, he shows how war helped to determine the emergence of modern Europe from a society geographically, politically and doctrinally confused: what Sir George calls the mêlée of the …
Man as Churchman
Av Norman Sykes
Häftad, 2009
509 kr
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The study of ecclesiastical history presents unique problems: the events it deals with are not ordinary events and fundamental questions of faith may be involved in their interpretation. The Church historian is often required to be a student of dogma as much as of history. It is the complex …
Cultural Foundations of Industrial Civilization
Av John U. Nef
Häftad, 2009
720 kr
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Four hundred years ago the pattern of human life and thought was strikingly different from our own. What main features led to the change in that pattern? Professor Nef, a distinguished historian, suggests that economic history cannot alone give the answer: it must be in terms of changing attitudes …
The History Written on the Classical Greek Body
Häftad, 2011
586 kr
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This book challenges historians to come to terms with the distortions that they systematically introduce into their work by their reliance on what has been written on paper without looking at what was and was not written on the body. This book is concerned with the ways in which texts relating to …
The Newtonian Revolution
Häftad, 1983
499 kr
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This volume presents Professor Cohen's original interpretation of the revolution that marked the beginnings of modern science and set Newtonian science as the model for the highest level of achievement in other branches of science. It shows that Newton developed a special kind of relation between …
Politics in the Ancient World
Av M. I. Finley
Häftad, 1983
468 kr
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The business of politics - the vital process of conducting government through the dynamics of argument, conflict and decision-making - offers us one of the most revealing areas of insight into any society. Sir Moses Finley's exploration of politics in the city states of Greece and republican Rome …
The Italian Renaissance in its Historical Background
Av Denys Hay
Häftad, 1977
341 kr
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Professor Hay provides a clear picture of what the Renaissance was, what it meant and how it spread. He shows the Renaissance as a growing and changing series of attitudes and ideas, rooted firmly in the general history of the period, and not as a static and isolated phenomenon. Most current ideas …
Philosophers of Peace and War
Kant, Clausewitz, Marx, Engles and Tolstoy
Av W. B. Gallie
Häftad, 1979
569 kr
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Intellectual eminence apart, what did Kant, Clausewitz, Marx and Engels, and Tolstoy have in common? Professor Gallic argues that they made contributions to 'international theory' - to the understanding of the character and causes of war and of the possibility of peace between nations - which were …
Aristocratic Century
The Peerage of Eighteenth-Century England
Av John Cannon
Häftad, 1987
586 kr
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Since the work of Butterfield and Namier in the 1930s, it has commonly been said that eighteenth-century England appears atomised, left with no overall interpretation. Subsequent work on religious differences and on party strife served to reinforce the image of a divided society, and in the last …
Domination and Conquest
The Experience of Ireland, Scotland and Wales, 1100-1300
Av R. R. Davies
Inbunden, 1990
1777 kr
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This book, a revised and extended version of Professor Davies's 1988 Wiles Lectures, explores the ways in which the kings and aristocracy of England sought to extend their domination over Ireland, Scotland and Wales in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. It analyses the mentalities of domination …
Religion, Politics and Preferment in France since 1890
La Belle Epoque and its Legacy
Inbunden, 1995
1610 kr
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This book investigates the problems that committed Catholics allegedly faced if they sought careers in state employment under the Third French Republic. Using ministerial and Masonic archives, the book explores the broad divergence of practice between individual ministries and between particular …
Martyrdom and Rome
Inbunden, 1995
1610 kr
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This book examines the historical context of the earliest Christian martyrs, and anchors their grisly and often wilful self-sacrifice to the everyday life and outlook of the cities of the Roman empire. Professor Bowersock begins by investigating both the time and the region in which martyrdom, as …
The Egalitarian Moment
Asia and Africa, 1950-1980
Av D. A. Low
Inbunden, 1995
1274 kr
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General histories of the twentieth century will have much to say about the establishment, spread, maintenance and sudden collapse of Soviet Communism. This book outlines a major feature of twentieth-century world history that arguably affected more people than the rise and fall of Soviet Communism. …
Religion, Politics and Preferment in France since 1890
La Belle Epoque and its Legacy
Häftad, 2002
482 kr
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This book investigates the problems that committed Catholics allegedly faced if they sought careers in state employment under the Third French Republic. Using ministerial and Masonic archives, the book explores the broad divergence of practice between individual ministries and between particular …
Martyrdom and Rome
Häftad, 2002
754 kr
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This book examines the historical context of the earliest Christian martyrs, and anchors their grisly and often wilful self-sacrifice to the everyday life and outlook of the cities of the Roman empire. Professor Bowersock begins by investigating both the time and the region in which martyrdom, as …
Languages and Communities in Early Modern Europe
Av Peter Burke
Häftad, 2004
636 kr
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In this magisterial study, Peter Burke explores the social and cultural history of the languages spoken or written in Europe between the invention of printing and the French Revolution, arguing that, from a linguistic point of view, 1450 to 1789 should be regarded as a distinct period. One major …
The Egalitarian Moment
Asia and Africa, 1950-1980
Av D. A. Low
Häftad, 1995
452 kr
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General histories of the twentieth century will have much to say about the establishment, spread, maintenance and sudden collapse of Soviet Communism. This book outlines a major feature of twentieth-century world history that arguably affected more people than the rise and fall of Soviet Communism. …
Modernizing England's Past
English Historiography in the Age of Modernism, 1870-1970
Häftad, 2006
653 kr
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What came before 'postmodernism' in historical studies? By thinking through the assumptions, methods and cast of mind of English historians writing between about 1870 and 1970, this book reveals the intellectual world of the modernists and offers a full analysis of English historiography in this …
