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York was one of the most important cities in medieval England. This original study traces the development of the city from the Norman Conquest to the Black Death. The twelfth and thirteenth centuries are a neglected period in the history of English towns, and this study...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-10-24
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Drawing on interviews with key players and previously unused archival sources, this book offers a fascinating account of a critical period in Fine Gael's history when the party was challenged to define its place in Irish politics.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-10-15
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Leadership an Elizabethan Culture studies the challenges confronted by government and church leaders (local and central), the counsel given them, the consequences of their decisions, and the views of leadership circulating in late Tudor literature and drama.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-10-02
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Jepson Studies in Leadership
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The volume explores how the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars were experienced, perceived and narrated by contemporaries in Britain and Ireland, drawing on an extensive range of personal testimonies by soldiers, sailors and civilians to shed new light on the social and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-09-19
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War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
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Charting the growing religious pluralism of British society, this book investigates the diverse formations of masculinity within and across specific religions, regions and immigrant communities. Contributors look beyond conventional realms of worship to examine men's...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-09-05
Collection :
Genders and Sexualities in History
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This is the first detailed comparative study of patronage as an instrument of power in the relations between kings and bishops in England and Normandy after the Conquest. Esteemed medievalist Everett U. Crosby considers new perspectives of medieval state-building and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-09-04
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The New Middle Ages
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Focusing on the everyday behaviour of people in the late-Victorian street, this extensive study provides an alternative history of the modern city, and sheds new light on the relationship between police constables and civilians. A wealth of source material is...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-08-29
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The Making of the Modern British Home explores the impact of the modern suburban semi-detached house on British family life during the 1920s and 1930s - focusing primarily on working-class households who moved from cramped inner-urban accommodation to new suburban...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-08-29
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The monarchs of the Tudor period are among some of the most well-known figures in British history. John Guy presents a compelling and fascinating exploration of the Tudors in the new edition of this Very Short Introduction.
Looking at all aspects of the period, from...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-08-29
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The monarchs of the Tudor period are among some of the most well-known figures in British history. John Guy presents a compelling and fascinating exploration of the Tudors in the new edition of this Very Short Introduction.
Looking at all aspects of the period, from...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-08-29
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This book examines British scientific and antiquarian travels in the "North," circa 1790–1830. British perceptions, representations and imaginings of the North are considered part of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century processes of British self-fashioning as a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-08-28
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
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Love has a history. It has meant different things to different people at different moments and has served different purposes.
This book tells the story of love at a crucial point, a moment when the emotional landscape changed dramatically for large numbers of people....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-08-22
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Love has a history. It has meant different things to different people at different moments and has served different purposes.
This book tells the story of love at a crucial point, a moment when the emotional landscape changed dramatically for large numbers of people....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-08-22
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Combining military and cultural history, the book explores British soldiers' travels and cross-cultural encounters in Spain and Portugal, 1808-1814. It is the story of how soldiers interacted with the local environment and culture, of their attitudes and behaviour...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-07-23
Collection :
War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
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This book examines the partnerships between Britain's famed redcoats and the foreign corps that were a consistent and valuable part of Britain's military endeavors in the eighteenth century. While most histories have portrayed these associations as fraught with discord,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-07-19
Collection :
War, Culture and Society, 1750–1850
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Alice Keppel, lover of Queen Victoria's son Edward VII and great-grandmother of Camilla Parker-Bowles, was the acceptable face of Edwardian adultery. It was her art to be the King's mistress yet to laud the Royal Family and the institution of marriage. She partnered the...
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Riverrun
Parution :
2013-07-04
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The killing of new-born children is an intensely emotional and emotive subject.The hidden nature of this crime has made it an area incredibly difficult subject area for historians to approach up until now. This work provides the first detailed history of infanticide in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-06-14
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Covering the period between the Munich Agreement and the Communist Coup in February 1948, this groundbreaking work offers a novel, provocative analysis of the political activities and plans of the Czechoslovak exiles during and after the war years, and of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-05-31
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From the eighteenth century until the 1950s the British Empire was the biggest political entity in the world. The territories forming this empire ranged from tiny islands to vast segments of the world's major continental land masses. The British Empire left its mark on...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-05-30
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From the eighteenth century until the 1950s the British Empire was the biggest political entity in the world. The territories forming this empire ranged from tiny islands to vast segments of the world's major continental land masses. The British Empire left its mark on...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-05-30
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