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This book offers a new perspective on the parliamentary battle for British entry into the European Community (EC) – the forerunner of the EU. It provides a historical case study of how the whipping operation, overseen by the Chief Whip Francis Pym, played a...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-08-30
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the intricate relationship between radicalism and sociability in late Georgian parliamentary and extra-parliamentary politics, focusing on the Foxite-Whig faction. Re-evaluating the significance and tactical use of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-07-21
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This monograph examines religion in the first English Civil War as a tool for war both in instructing soldiers and portraying the enemy. It argues that thus far, the remarkable differences between the teaching of Parliamentarian and Royalist ministers to their...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-07-14
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The 1950s are usually portrayed as conservative, conformist, and apathetic, but was there more to this much-maligned decade than that? In Britain, the convergence of conflicting political moments-the Cold War, the Bomb, the rise of America, the decline of the empire,...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-07-02
Format(s) : PDF
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''In that book my theme was the eternal conflict between One Man Government and the Rich. Napoleon said: the only institution ever devised by men for mastering the Money Power in the State is Monarchy. It is obviously true and is the most practically important of all...
Editeur : Rare Treasure Editions
Parution : 2025-07-08
Format(s) : epub sans DRM
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The 1950s are usually portrayed as conservative, conformist, and apathetic, but was there more to this much-maligned decade than that? In Britain, the convergence of conflicting political moments-the Cold War, the Bomb, the rise of America, the decline of the empire,...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-06-12
Format(s) : ePub
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Beginning in the late nineteenth century, British companies used the resources of empire to create an imperial oil industry that controlled 20% of global oil reserves by 1939 and allowed for the movement of capital and labor between regions and companies. The imperial...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-06-11
Format(s) : PDF
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This book collects together all contemporary and near-contemporary accounts of the 1467 emprise, a particular performative feat of arms, between Anthony Woodville, Lord Scales—brother of Elizabeth Woodville, wife of King Edward IV of England—and Antoine,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-06-09
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book examines the cultural legacies of the fifteen years that Mary Queen of Scots spent as a prisoner in the household of Bess of Hardwick and her fourth husband, the Earl of Shrewsbury. It proposes four main areas of influence: first, that although Mary never...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-05-29
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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A narrative blend of history, cultural criticism, and memoir in celebration of everyday queer women, based on a lesbian helpline that existed in North London in the nineties, and "a clear-eyed and moving addition to the still-expanding record of lesbian lives"...
Editeur : Legacy Lit
Parution : 2025-05-27
Format(s) : ePub
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Beginning in the late nineteenth century, British companies used the resources of empire to create an imperial oil industry that controlled 20% of global oil reserves by 1939 and allowed for the movement of capital and labor between regions and companies. The imperial...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-05-26
Format(s) : ePub
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This book examines the history of a pioneering Thoroughbred horse breeding operation, the Irish National Stud. By incorporating and integrating a diverse array of primary sources from various repositories and supplementing them with contemporary and secondary materials,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-05-24
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The late-eighteenth-century 'age of revolutions' has long been identified as a key moment in the gendering of modern democratic politics, one which opened up new debates on the 'rights of women' while often re-affirming the masculinity of the political citizen. In...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-05-14
Format(s) : PDF
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The late-eighteenth-century 'age of revolutions' has long been identified as a key moment in the gendering of modern democratic politics, one which opened up new debates on the 'rights of women' while often re-affirming the masculinity of the political citizen. In...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-04-28
Format(s) : ePub
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This book provides a detailed examination of the questions that preoccupied British alienists throughout the second half of the nineteenth century. Was insanity one disorder with different forms or a set of distinct natural kinds that each had different causes,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-03-30
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Trust the power of cognitive science to help students to understand more, remember more and feel more confident about their exams.This textbook is guaranteed to make learning more effective. The approach was created by author and teacher Dale Banham, who has amazing...
Editeur : Hodder Education
Parution : 2025-03-24
Format(s) : ePub
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The First World War transformed modern politics. No example demonstrates this more powerfully than the enactment and use of emergency powers by all belligerents. Wartime governments passed extensive emergency legislation that allowed them to pursue their war efforts...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2025-03-19
Format(s) : PDF
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This book provides the first detailed historical account of British public opinion and party policy towards European integration from 1973 (the year in which the UK joined the European Community) to 2016 (the year in which the UK voted to leave the European Union). It...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-03-18
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Imperial expositions held in fin-de-siècle London, Paris and Berlin were knots in a world wide web. Conceptualizing expositions as meta-media, Fleeting Cities constitutes a transnational and transdisciplinary investigation into how modernity was created and displayed,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2025-03-11
Format(s) : PDF
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