This book is the first comprehensive account of classical music on all British radio stations, BBC and commercial, between 1945 and 1995. It narrates the shifting development of those services, from before the launch of the Third Programme until after the start of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-11-11
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The essays in this book traverse two centuries of queens and their afterlives—historical, mythological, and literary. They speak of the significant and subtle ways that queens leave their mark on the culture they inhabit, focusing on gender, marriage, national identity,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-11-08
Collection : Queenship and Power PDF, ePub

The central argument ofThe Formation of the English Kingdom in the Tenth Century is that the English kingdom which existed at the time of the Norman Conquest was defined by the geographical parameters of a set of administrative reforms implemented in the mid- to late...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2017-11-03
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There were many surprising accessions in the early modern period, including Mary I of England, Henry III of France, Anne Stuart, and others, but this is the first book dedicated solely to evaluating their lives and the repercussions of their reigns. By comparing a...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-10-24
Collection : Queenship and Power PDF, ePub

Architects, Builders, and Intellectual Culture in Restoration England charts the moment when well-educated, well-resourced, English intellectuals first became interested in classical architecture in substantial numbers. This occurred after the Restoration of the...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2017-10-20
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This book examines the life-cycle of Victorian working-class marriage through a study of the hitherto hidden marital bed. Using coroners’ inquests to gain intimate access to the working-class home and its inhabitants, this book explores their marital, quasi-marital, and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-10-16
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This book provides an account of how, in the years 1800-1825, enlightened entrepreneur and budding reformer Robert Owen used his cotton mill village of New Lanark, Scotland, as a test-bed for a set of political intuitions which would later form the bedrock of early...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-10-16
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Utopianism PDF, ePub

Architects, Builders, and Intellectual Culture in Restoration England charts the moment when well-educated, well-resourced, English intellectuals first became interested in classical architecture in substantial numbers. This occurred after the Restoration of the...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2017-10-13
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This book examines how early Stuart queens navigated their roles as political players and artistic patrons in a culture deeply conflicted about the legitimacy of female authority. Anna of Denmark and Henrietta Maria both employed powerful female archetypes such as...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-10-11
Collection : Queenship and Power PDF, ePub

This study offers a distinctive new account of British economic life since the Second World War, focussing upon the ways in which successive governments, in seeking to manage the economy, have sought simultaneously to 'manage the people': to try and manage popular...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2017-09-29
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This study offers a distinctive new account of British economic life since the Second World War, focussing upon the ways in which successive governments, in seeking to manage the economy, have sought simultaneously to 'manage the people': to try and manage popular...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2017-09-22
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During the twentieth century 'affluence' (both at the level of the individual household and that of society as a whole) became intimately linked with access to a range of prestige consumer durables. The Market Makers charts the inter-war origins of a process that would...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2017-09-15
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During the twentieth century 'affluence' (both at the level of the individual household and that of society as a whole) became intimately linked with access to a range of prestige consumer durables. The Market Makers charts the inter-war origins of a process that would...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2017-09-15
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This book examines the letters, diaries, and published accounts of English and Scottish travelers to Greece in the seventeenth century, a time of growing interest in ancient texts and the Ottoman Empire. Through these early encounters, this book analyzes the travelers’...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-09-14
Collection : New Transculturalisms, 1400–1800 PDF, ePub

This book address the relationship between utopian and radical thought, particularly in the early modern period, and puts forward alternatives approaches to imagined ‘realities’. Alternative Worlds Imagined, 1500-1700 explores the nature and meaning of radicalism in a...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-09-07
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Utopianism PDF, ePub

This book focuses on the nature and extent of social change, integration and identity transformation within the Jewish community of Britain during the interwar years. It probes the notion – widely articulated by Jewish communal leaders at this time – that the immigrant...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-08-22
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This book is a thorough study of John Owen. Owen has become recognized as one of the greatest Reformed theologians Great Britain ever produced, as well as one of the most significant theologians of the Reformed orthodox period. His theological interests were eclectic,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-08-18
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The political narrative of late medieval English towns is often reduced to the story of the gradual intensification of oligarchy, in which power was exercised and projected by an ever smaller ruling group over an increasingly subservient urban population. Contesting the...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2017-08-15
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** Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times, Sunday Times and Observer **'Compulsively readable - the pages seem to turn themselves' John Carey, Sunday Times 'Brings one of the very greatest [artists] vividly to life' Literary Review Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88)...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2017-08-10
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This book explores the experiences of people who struggled with fertility problems in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England. Motherhood was central to early modern women’s identity and was even seen as their path to salvation. To a lesser extent, fatherhood played...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-08-09
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