This book discusses and analyses the last three decades of British political history, looking at why Britain found itself shut out from its immediate neighbours on the continent in 2016, twenty years after the country was celebrated as a prosperous,...Loe edasi...
This book considers the shift in the regional administrative centre from Wroxeter to Shrewsbury, the powerful evidence for investment in the material fabric of the middle Welsh March, particularly between the late 11th and 13th centuries, and Shrops...Loe edasi...
First published in 1991, Northern Ireland: Faith and Faction examines the provinces unique communal strife, tracing Ulsters evolution from seventeenth-century plantations to today. Insightful analysis of religious communities makes it vital for hist...Loe edasi...
This book proposes new understandings of modern life in Britain by bringing constructs of female spirituality centre stage and examining three forgotten artists identified with the Pre-Raphaelites and Victorianism....Loe edasi...
Whether Britain is apart from or a part of Europe (D. Abulafia) has gained significance in recent years. This book reassesses an underexplored field of early modern transnational history: the variety of ways in which connections between Britain an...Loe edasi...
The United Kingdom Since 1945 is an economic and social history providing an appraisal of seventy-five years of British and Northern Irish history....Loe edasi...
In offering a holistic analysis of the vast array of evidence and literature pertaining to the Whitechapel Murders committed in Londons East-End in the Autumn of 1888, this volume offers a multi-disciplinary and multi-dimensional consideration of th...Loe edasi...
This book draws on a wide range of sources to provide the first comprehensive account of the experience of eighteenth-century working girlhood across all regions of Britain, examining the lifecycle stage of growing up for the middling and lower clas...Loe edasi...
This book explores how questions of Ireland and Irishness are represented in online environments, and what these phenomena say about contemporary Irish identities both within the country and globally. It will interest Irish Studies, Media Studies, C...Loe edasi...
This volume offers readers a comprehensive and vivid picture of medieval death and burial in England, bringing the fascinating beliefs and rituals surrounding mortality into sharp focus....Loe edasi...
Bede is the inaugural volume in the Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture series, which seeks to comprehensively map British literary culture from 500 to 1100 CE....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1954, this work is a history of university representation in England from its beginning in 1604, when King James first gave the two universities the right to send two members each to the House of Commons, to the close of the...Loe edasi...
In all of the literature on Anglo-Saxon England, rarely has the question of social class been confronted head-on. This study draws upon recent research into topics such as religious practice, emotions, daily life, and intellectual culture to investi...Loe edasi...
This volume boldly reinterprets Britains maritime history through multidisciplinary scholarship, exploring how the sea fundamentally shaped British development....Loe edasi...
Its 57 essays continue to celebrate the life and work of the men and women who played roles in a variety of spheres in the history of Anglo-Japanese relations and deserve to be recorded and remembered. They give a picture of facets of modern history...Loe edasi...
This newest volume in a long-running work of mapping the sources of Anglo-Saxon literary culture in England from 500 to 1100 CE takes up one of the most important authors of the period, the eighth-century monk-scholar known as the Venerable Bede....Loe edasi...
This collection of essays moves plants to the foreground of analysis and brings together some of the rich and innovative ways that scholars are expanding the discussion of plants and botany in Shakespeares writings...Loe edasi...
This volume comprises some fifty essays on different themes and personalities, grouped thematically: portraits of key figures such as Stamford Raffles and Lord Lytton; history of Japanese trade and investment in the UK, such as NSK and Mitsubishi El...Loe edasi...
This book focuses on five saints: the four female Irish saints who have extant medieval biographies (Darerca, Brigid, Íte, and Samthann), and Patrick, whose writings -- fifth-century Irelands sole surviving texts -- attest to the centrality of wome...Loe edasi...
This is a contribution to the revival of early modern womens writings and cultural production in English that began in the 1980s. Its originality is twofold: it links womens writing in English with the wider context of Baroque culture, and it intr...Loe edasi...
This book offers a novel treatment of medieval Irish sources, uses a wide variety of genres of comment on the history of emotion and fills a gap in our understanding of fosterage as central to medieval Irish society....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1957 and as a revised edition in 1970, this is a fascinating survey of many of the major events in Britain between the Armistice of 1918 and the Great Depression of 1929....Loe edasi...
First published in 1988, A Chronology of Post War British Politics provides the first convenient chronological reference source for the modern British political scene. It places all the major political events in the period since 1945 in a chronologi...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1965, this book recaptures the major events between 1949 and 1960 including: Austerity and rationing in the UK, the Festival of Britain, the expansion of television, the Korean war, Suez, the renaissance of British playwritin...Loe edasi...
First published in 1972, England, France and Christendom, 137799 is the study of the most fiercely fought portion of the Hundred Years War and describes the nature of the wars that took place during the reigns of Charles VI of France and Richard II...Loe edasi...
Ireland was the location of the earliest provision for the care and control of the mentally ill. Initially welcomed, discontent with the institutions grew with the growth of asylum admissions after the Famine. Originally published in 1981, this book...Loe edasi...
First published in 1980, Skill and the English Working Class, 18701914 investigates the nature of work and the significance of skill in industrial manual labour during late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain....Loe edasi...
This book offers a compelling exploration of Margaret Thatchers approach to European integration during the years of her premiership, providing a nuanced portrait of one of the most fascinating and influential political figures of recent decades....Loe edasi...
This book provides a history and analysis of how the British guild socialist movement was forged in the heat of labour unrest prior to World War One, the experience of the war, and subsequent troubled years including the impact of the Bolshevik revo...Loe edasi...
Trade Signs and their Origin (1957) surveys the history and usage of traders signs in Britain. The use of distinguishing signs, badges or emblems on shops is an interesting social and economic factor that spread in the Middle Ages, as traders identi...Loe edasi...
Britain 19061951 (1963) looks at British history and economics in the first half of the twentieth century. It examines the changing political and economic situation before and after the First World War, the impacts of the Great Depression and Britai...Loe edasi...
States of Emergency (1983) examines the co-ordinated Government contingency planning in Britain to counter major strikes in vital industries, an effort that began in earnest during the aftermath of the First World War....Loe edasi...
Volume IV comprises two sections dealing, respectively, with the development of pet culture and its evolution as a cultural institution over the course of the long nineteenth century, and with the variegated presence of domesticated (and feralised)...Loe edasi...
Volume III hones in on the relations between humans and domesticated animals in U.S. society, illuminating how these relations were integral to key developments of the long nineteenth century....Loe edasi...
This volume looks at key Irish figures, beyond lawyers and judges, whose ideas have impacted on the way law is conceived, conceptualised, and practised. The work consists of four Parts, each corresponding to a distinct historical phase....Loe edasi...
First published in 1945, this book is a discussion of housing policy between 1919 and 1939. During these years the local authorities built over a million houses. This was perhaps the outstanding peace time experiment in state intervention in the pro...Loe edasi...
First published in 1986, for the second edition of this text (previously only covering up to 1970) in A Social History of Housing 18151985, John Burnett has extended his study to take account of the next fifteen years. It remains a comprehensive and...Loe edasi...
Volume I traces the significance of animals, and the problem of animality, within the currents of U.S. social and scientific thought during a period marked by a rapid expansion of American and transatlantic print culture....Loe edasi...
Volume II continues the discussion of animals/animality in U.S. social and scientific thought to address the ways in which the nexus of ideas surrounding human-animal distinctions became intertwined with interhuman hierarchies and power relations....Loe edasi...
Volume V covers three key areas of interaction and concern that shaped Americans relations with wild animals: hunting; practices and sites of animal display natural history museums, zoological gardens, and circuses; the growing awareness of anthrop...Loe edasi...
First published in 1935, the original blurb reads: ... All slums will definitely be cleared away, never to recur in future generations. ... In eighty years Great Britain will be demolished and rebuilt, except historical and other special public buil...Loe edasi...
This volume examines the emergence of a market for Scottish art among Scotlands wealthy industrialists in the mid-nineteenth century and in the period leading up to the First World War. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection...Loe edasi...
This volume examines the ways in which Scottish identity was expressed through visual and material culture in the early to mid-nineteenth centuries, culminating in Victorias romanticisation of Scotland. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary,...Loe edasi...
This volume focuses on artists and writers associated with the Arts and Crafts movement, Scottish Symbolism and the Celtic Revival. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students of Art History a...Loe edasi...
This volume introduces key artists and engages with the critical debates and artistic theories that were circulating in the second half of the nineteenth century. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great intere...Loe edasi...
This four-volume interdisciplinary collection explores loss, memory, and mourning in the long nineteenth century. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of the History of Emo...Loe edasi...
This four-volume interdisciplinary collection explores loss, memory, and mourning in the long nineteenth century. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of the History of Emo...Loe edasi...
This four-volume interdisciplinary collection explores loss, memory, and mourning in the long nineteenth century. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of the History of Emo...Loe edasi...
