| |
Thomas Hobbes and Political Thought in Ireland, c.1660-1730 is a history of political thought in Ireland, told from the perspective of the reception in that country ofThomas Hobbes, the English philosopher. Unlike Hobbes, political thought in Ireland has received little...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-01-10
PDF
|
This book gathers contributions on the later Stuart queens and queen consorts. It seeks to re-insert Henrietta Maria, Catherine of Braganza, Mary of Modena, Mary II, Anne, and Maria Clementina Sobieska into the mainstream of Stuart and early Georgian studies,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-01-04
PDF, ePub
|
This book explores how New Zealand, a small country almost as far from Western Europe as it is possible to be, assumed political importance in Britain’s accession to the European Community vastly out of proportion to its size, proximity and strategic position. At...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-26
PDF, ePub
|
Thomas Hobbes and Political Thought in Ireland, c.1660-1730 is a history of political thought in Ireland, told from the perspective of the reception in that country ofThomas Hobbes, the English philosopher. Unlike Hobbes, political thought in Ireland has received little...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-12-26
ePub
|
During the 1840s and 1850s, the British government financed a world-wide investigation into how the Earth's magnetic phenomena operated, consisting of a network of naval expeditions and colonial observatories. Questions surrounding terrestrial magnetism were not just...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-12-06
PDF, ePub
|
This book explores the role of the Cyprus regiment, a military unit of the British Army, in the Second World War. Highlighting the contribution of Cyprus to the war effort, the book contributes to the limited historiography on the military engagement of Cyprus in the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-11-27
PDF, ePub
|
Ireland was England's oldest colony. Making Empire revisits the history of empire in Ireland—in a time of Brexit, 'the culture wars', and the campaigns around 'Black Lives Matter' and 'Statues must fall'—to better understand how it has formed the present, and how it...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-10-10
ePub
|
This Palgrave Pivot examines the history of the largely urban offence once known as vitriol throwing because the substance most commonly used was strong sulphuric acid, oil of vitriol. A relatively rare form of assault, it was motivated largely by revenge or...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2023-10-09
PDF, ePub
|
Ireland was England's oldest colony. Making Empire revisits the history of empire in Ireland—in a time of Brexit, 'the culture wars', and the campaigns around 'Black Lives Matter' and 'Statues must fall'—to better understand how it has formed the present, and how it...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-09-29
PDF
|
'Colonization through a process of affection', wrote the London-based Barbadian novelist George Lamming in 1960, was 'the worst form of colonization'. Lamming's London was marked by the violent currents of racism—some seen, many disavowed. But the operations of race,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-09-29
PDF
|
Just days into the miners' strike of 1984-1985, a few women in coalfield communities around Britain began to meet to consider how they could support the strike, a clash with the Thatcher government over the future of the coal industry. Women ultimately formed a national...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-09-20
PDF
|
'Colonization through a process of affection', wrote the London-based Barbadian novelist George Lamming in 1960, was 'the worst form of colonization'. Lamming's London was marked by the violent currents of racism—some seen, many disavowed. But the operations of race,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-09-05
ePub
|
Just days into the miners' strike of 1984-1985, a few women in coalfield communities around Britain began to meet to consider how they could support the strike, a clash with the Thatcher government over the future of the coal industry. Women ultimately formed a national...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-09-05
ePub
|
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The Victorian period may have come to an end over 120 years ago, but the Victorians continue to be a vital presence in the modern world. Contemporary Britain is still in large part Victorian in its transport...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-08-09
PDF
|
The story of the British army, from its inception in the late seventeenth century to the present.
This new concise history by one of Britain's leading military historians explores the British army from the creation of a permanent standing army in the seventeenth...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-25
ePub
|
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The Victorian period may have come to an end over 120 years ago, but the Victorians continue to be a vital presence in the modern world. Contemporary Britain is still in large part Victorian in its transport...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-25
ePub
|
The expansion of the British Empire facilitated movement across the globe for both the colonizers and the colonized. Waiting on Empire focuses on a largely forgotten group in this story of movement and migration: South Asian travelling ayahs (servants and nannies), who...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-19
PDF
|
This book provides an overview of the inception, development and achievements of British socialist and workers theatre – a feat which has not been attempted before. It explores the connections between politics and culture (specifically theatre) and between political...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-07-07
PDF, ePub
|
The story of the British army, from its inception in the late seventeenth century to the present.
This new concise history by one of Britain's leading military historians explores the British army from the creation of a permanent standing army in the seventeenth...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-07
PDF
|
The expansion of the British Empire facilitated movement across the globe for both the colonizers and the colonized. Waiting on Empire focuses on a largely forgotten group in this story of movement and migration: South Asian travelling ayahs (servants and nannies), who...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-07-04
ePub
|