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This book traces the social backgrounds, educational experiences and subsequent lives of women who attended the university colleges in Wales from their inception to the outbreak of the Second World War. Using a sample of 2,000 graduates, the book foregrounds the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-07
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This book investigates emotion in early modern Scotland, and provides the first exploration of a Scottish individual’s life and writing in light of the recent major advances in the study of emotion. It does this through the example of James Melville, a minister in the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-11-03
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Editeur :
Headline
Parution :
2022-10-06
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This book traces the emergence of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) from 1955 to 1963 amid the broader reshaping of the institutional architecture of post-war Europe. It considers the ill-fated Free Trade Area (FTA) proposal, the subsequent creation of EFTA,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-09-28
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Sick Note shows how the question of 'who is really sick?' has never been straightforward and will continue to perplex the British state.
Sick Note is a history of how the British state asked, 'who is really sick?' Tracing medical certification for absence from work...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-08-11
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Sick Note shows how the question of 'who is really sick?' has never been straightforward and will continue to perplex the British state.
Sick Note is a history of how the British state asked, 'who is really sick?' Tracing medical certification for absence from work...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-08-11
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Modernity and the Victorians diagnoses a disorder in the scholarship on Victorian Britain, and proposes an interpretative remedy. It argues that the 'modernization theory' beloved of twentieth-century social scientists cannot be made to fit the facts of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-21
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Modernity and the Victorians diagnoses a disorder in the scholarship on Victorian Britain, and proposes an interpretative remedy. It argues that the 'modernization theory' beloved of twentieth-century social scientists cannot be made to fit the facts of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-21
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This book examines the lives and tenures of all the consorts of the Tudor and Stuart monarchs of England between 1485 and 1714, as well as the wives of the two Lords Protector during the Commonwealth. The figures in Tudor and Stuart Consorts are both incredibly...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-07-20
Collection :
Queenship and Power
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Dickens and Victorian Psychology: Introspection, First-Person Narration, and the Mind positions Charles Dickens's fiction in the midst of Victorian psychological debate, tracking Dickens's increasing reliance over the course of his career on the introspective mode,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-14
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Dickens and Victorian Psychology: Introspection, First-Person Narration, and the Mind positions Charles Dickens's fiction in the midst of Victorian psychological debate, tracking Dickens's increasing reliance over the course of his career on the introspective mode,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-07-14
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A refreshing guide to discovering the hidden details of London with 10 fully guided walking routes from London's leading tour guide Look Up London. Have you ever noticed London's tiniest public sculpture? Or wondered why there are strange cone-shaped structures on the...
Editeur :
Greenfinch
Parution :
2022-05-26
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This book addresses one the most contentious issues of postwar Western Europe, namely the organization of the primary and secondary stages of schooling in state education systems. In examining the politics of continuity and change in postwar schooling in Britain...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-16
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood
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This book is a study of an eighteenth-century portrait of a youth in Polish dress, owned by the National Portrait Gallery in London since 1922, but never publicly displayed. Two inscriptions claim that it is a portrait of Charles Edward Stuart, popularly known as...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2022-05-08
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This book—along with its companion volume Mary I in Writing: Letters, Literature, and Representations—centers on representations of Queen Mary I in writing, broadly construed, and the process of writing that queen into literature and other textual sources. It spans an...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-06
Collection :
Queenship and Power
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Calvinist Conformity in Post-Reformation England is the first modern full-scale examination of the theology and life of the distinguished EnglishCalvinist clergyman Daniel Featley (1582-1645). It explores Featley's career and thought through a comprehensive treatment of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-04-29
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This book—along with its companion volume Writing Mary I: History, Historiography, and Fiction—centers on representations of Queen Mary I in writing, broadly construed, and the process of writing that queen into literature and other textual sources. It spans an equally...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-25
Collection :
Queenship and Power
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This book highlights the ways in which Britain and Belgium became culturally entangled as a result of their interaction in the period between the Napoleonic Wars and the First World War. In the course of the nineteenth century, the battlefields of Waterloo and Ypres in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-03-21
Collection :
Britain and the World
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The longest-reigning monarch in European history! If the news about Harry, William, Kate, Meghan, and the rest of the British royals has you wondering about how this latest generation of princes, princesses, dukes, and duchesses got their start, you’re not alone. Queen...
Editeur :
For Dummies
Parution :
2022-03-15
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Reflecting emerging scholarship on the entanglement of colonial histories, this book examines British and South African perspectives on, and involvement in, the genocide of the Herero and Nama in German South West Africa from 1904 to 1908. Seeking to present a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-02-28
Collection :
Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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