Drawing from a wide array of English and Japanese primary sources, Saito examines the pivotal role of Britains overseas information policy in shaping post-war AngloJapanese relations....Loe edasi...
This collection brings together academic analysis of leading contemporary accounts of the British Constitution with key constitutional documents and sources, while also offering analysis of the leading histories of the Constitution....Loe edasi...
Feminist Language and Discourse in the British Suffrage Press: Words as Deeds explores the dynamic and evolving concept of gender within the context of British suffrage periodicals from 1907 to 1914. It is of value to researchers in fields such as f...Loe edasi...
Drawing together both recent research and original sources, this concise and accessible biography reassesses the debates surrounding the life of King Edward IV. Edward IV remains essential reading for all students of late medieval England, the Wars...Loe edasi...
Prophets and Witches offers an exploration of female prophecy and witchcraft during the political and religious upheavals of the English Revolutionary period from 1640 to 1660....Loe edasi...
First published in 1976, Interwar Britain presents a highly readable and up-to-date account of a crucial period in modern British history. The major economic and social issues, ranging from economic growth and policy to social welfare and housing, a...Loe edasi...
First published in 1923, Labour and the Industrial Revolution is an examination of opinions (17601832) on the right place of wage-earner under the State. The author treats of the machine as the groundwork of economic and ethical theory and of the mo...Loe edasi...
First published in 1974, Northern Ireland is a collection of documents which constitutes an illuminating description and analysis of the complex religious, political, social, and economic factors that underlie the Irish conflict. The author goes bac...Loe edasi...
Post-Chartist period saw an easing of class tensions and the growth of a reformist working class. Using evidence based upon the cotton districts of north-west England, the author shows that enhanced socio-political stability owed much to economic re...Loe edasi...
First published in 1991, Social Security and Social Control (now with a new preface by the author) takes a fresh look at social security policy and demonstrates how the disciplinary effects of social security and relief programmes are more extensive...Loe edasi...
First published in 1983, Strikes in Post-War Britain provides the first systematic long-run examination of official strike statistics since the war. It is based on a wealth of new material and analysis....Loe edasi...
Split into two volumes, volume 2 is a cultural history of technology that provides new insights into the international history of nuclear energy by examining the perspectives of six nuclear power plants host communities in Britain and Germany from t...Loe edasi...
Split into two volumes, volume 1 is a cultural history of technology that provides new insights into the international history of nuclear energy by examining the perspectives of six nuclear power plants host communities in Britain and Germany from t...Loe edasi...
Volume 4 examines the British diet from its colonial and global perspectives. Colonialism, combined with rapidly improving global transport networks, introduced the British introduced to a plethora of unfamiliar foods from overseas....Loe edasi...
In the long nineteenth century, significant developments occurred in science, technology and medicine which transformed food production and consumption. This volume explores the foods that were eaten in nineteenth-century Britain....Loe edasi...
Around the 1860s, publishers began printing books dedicated to specific meals. The sources reprinted in this volume were produced in response to the changing social dynamics that accompanied industrialisation, urbanisation and socio-economic moderni...Loe edasi...
Drawing on key published works, as well as those of his contemporaries, this book explores the political and economic thought of the seventeenth century diplomat William Temple and his proposals for change in Restoration England and Ireland....Loe edasi...
This book analyses the transformation in 16th- and 17th-century English economic life that overturned the traditional restraints of the medieval economy for the commercial ethos that governs the modern world, and the resulting imbalance which opened...Loe edasi...
First published in 1978, The Victorians presents a survey of the Victorian era, exploring the relationship between literature and society through three distinct sections. This book is a must read for scholars and researchers of English literature....Loe edasi...
This book analyses how reproductive rights and sexual freedoms, the political sphere, womens role in the workplace and sexual violence were positioned and depicted by three magazines with very different demographics: Spare Rib, Cosmopolitan and Woma...Loe edasi...
Food is the physiological basis of mans existence but is also an expression of a societys culture and may play many roles other than physiological in terms of both personal and group relationships. Originally published in 1976, this book focusses on...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1985, Diet and Health in Modern Britain examines the changes in diet and health in Britain during the rapid social development of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is particularly concerned with the ways i...Loe edasi...
In the first major engagement with Aberdeenshires rural society since Carters The Poor Mans Country of 1979, Riddells study of Northeast Scotland encourages readers to consider the vast potential held by Digital Genealogy for second-wave Digital Hum...Loe edasi...
The British Royals in Popular in Popular Culture examines the intricate relationship between the monarchy and popular culture from the Tudors to the Windsors, illustrating how the institution has persistently adapted to maintain its symbolic, psycho...Loe edasi...
First published in 1983, British Policy and the Irish Administration, 192022 fills a void for academic and popular readership of twentieth century Irish history, administrative history, and public administration in Ireland....Loe edasi...
During the eighteenth century, Englands landowners played a vital role in the growth of the national economy. First published in 1989, Town and Countryside draws together important research on the ways in which both urban and rural landed classes pr...Loe edasi...
The Study of Political Behaviour (1958) shows the lines along which political research has developed, both in Britain and in other countries. It looks at ways of studying voter preferences and choice, party allegiance, analyst expertise and polling...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1968 this important work covers a crucial period in Britains economic history. In the three or four decades before the First World War British industry was subject to increasing foreign competition particularly from America a...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1968 this important work covers a crucial period in Britains economic history. In the three or four decades before the First World War British industry was subject to increasing foreign competition particularly from America a...Loe edasi...
The culture of the ius commune has been a unifying element of European and Western legal civilization. This volume discusses the expansion and changes of ius commune in three significant corners of Europe, which in the classical narrative either tot...Loe edasi...
Empire building in British India was inseparably tied to the processes of frontier-making and the creation of boundaries. This book examines how the dynamics of frontier and boundary creation were shaped by a variety of agents....Loe edasi...
Irish Kingship in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries examines the power of medieval Irish kings but treats power as a complex concept worthy of study in its own right. It starts from the premise that historians of medieval Ireland have interpreted p...Loe edasi...
This book examines the peacetime military relationship between the UK and Japan, spanning partnerships and interactions from the 1860s to the present day....Loe edasi...
This book explores how and why the UK left the European Union and its impact on the British Constitution. The work explores the roots behind that decision, examining the political and legal steps that led to Brexit and analysing the consequences and...Loe edasi...
This book assesses how non-Aboriginal collectors understood Aboriginal objects, and what this reveals about colonial relationships, anxieties and ambitions....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1986, this volume illuminates the predominant theatrical styles of a particular period in dramatic history. It does this by reconstructing as far as conjecture permits the manner in which five major plays of the late Middle...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1930, this book outlines the system of local government at work in the reign of Edward I. The Hundreds were the districts of England into which every county was subdivided. The Hundred Rolls were a complete statement as to th...Loe edasi...
The author of this book, originally published in 1926, was a strong advocate for the use of original source documents in the study of history. He compiled this volume with the aim of giving easy access to important documents of political history for...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1978, this global comparative survey investigates the political, social and economic features of feudalism. While Europe remains its point of departures, it considers many other societies and their history, such as China and...Loe edasi...
This volume draws on a trove of unpublished original material from the pre-1940s to the present to offer a unique historiographic study of twentieth-century Methodist missionary work and womens active expression of faith, practised at the critical c...Loe edasi...
Commercial Relations between India and England (1924) is a comprehensive study of the beginnings of the English relations with India and the East. It examines the East India Companys long struggles to build up trade, leading to Britains political an...Loe edasi...
Many books published in the years between 1550 and 1660 had an elaborate engraved title-page. The Comely Frontispiece (1979) selects title-pages which represent theology, philosophy, history, poetry, medicine and explains that these pages were not m...Loe edasi...
Since its first appearance in 1925, Elizabethan Life in Town and Country (1961) has securely established itself both for the general reader and the student as an accepted authority for the social history of the age....Loe edasi...
At the time of the publication of this book in its fourth edition in 1969, Ireland was alone globally in having experienced a decline of population for more than a century. The book analyses the physical environment and the life of 20th century Irel...Loe edasi...
The Augustan Age (1962) examines the writing of the time, and the critical theory that supported it. By focusing on a few writers of paramount interest, the book looks at what men of letters such as Dryden, Swift, Pope and a few others have to say,...Loe edasi...
First published in 1989, Drugs and British Society (now with a new preface by Susanne MacGregor) provides information on the drugs problem in Britain in the 1980s, based on extensive research and experience, and places it in its international and hi...Loe edasi...
The Star-Crossed Renaissance (1941) examines the attitude of the thinkers of Renaissance England toward astrology, Was Shakespeare, for example, a believer in astrology? This book provides a comprehensive and thoroughly-researched answer....Loe edasi...
First published in 1969, Conflict and Stability in Fifteenth-Century England is a study of a much neglected and misinterpreted century of English historythe century of the Wars of the Roses which, the author shows, had only a comparatively small eff...Loe edasi...
