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At the age of thirty-seven, after a very short courtship, William Wilberforce married Barbara Spooner, the daughter of a Midlands industrialist, and their first child was born in the following year. His family life brought him both happiness and anxiety. Convinced that...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-03-15
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William Cecil, Ireland, and the Tudor State explores the complex relationship which existed between England and Ireland in the Tudor period, using the long association ofWilliam Cecil (1520-1598) with Ireland as a vehicle for historical enquiry. That Cecil, Queen...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-03-15
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This study offers an intellectual biography of the philosopher, political thinker, and historian of ideas Sir Isaiah Berlin. It aims to provide the first historically contextualized monographic study of Berlin's formative years and identify different stages in his...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-03-14
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Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
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This innovative urban history of Dublin explores the symbols and spaces of the Irish capital between the Restoration in 1660 and the advent of neoclassical public architecture in the 1770s. The meanings ascribed to statues, churches, houses, and public buildings are...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-03-13
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Early Modern History: Society and Culture
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Sellafield Stories is the largest Oral History Project conducted in the UK. It was started by Jenni Lister, of Cumbria Record Office & Local Studies Library, and was funded by the BNFL.Through the personal life stories of 30 people who lived, worked and built the...
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Constable
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2012-03-08
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City Women is a major new study of the lives of ordinary women in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century London. Drawing on thousands of pages of Londoners' depositions for the consistory court, it focuses on the challenges that preoccupied London women as they strove for...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-03-01
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In this, the first fully documented study of British and Irish popular reactions to the outbreak of the First World War, Catriona Pennell explores UK public opinion of the time, successfully challenging post-war constructions of 'war enthusiasm' in the British case, and...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-03-01
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Lady Alice Le Strange of Hunstanton in Norfolk kept a continuous series of household accounts from 1610-1654. Jane Whittle and Elizabeth Griffiths have used the Le Stranges' rich archive to reconstruct the material aspects of family life. This involves looking not only...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-03-01
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This is the first comprehensive study of the Bow Street Runners, a group of men established in the middle of the eighteenth century by Henry Fielding, with the financial support of the government, to confront violent offenders on the streets and highways around London....
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OUP Oxford
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2012-02-09
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Trials of the Diaspora presents the long and troubling history of anti-Semitism in England, from the middle ages to the twenty-first century.
Anthony Julius identifies four distinct versions of English anti-Semitism, which he then investigates in detail. The first is...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-02-09
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Trials of the Diaspora presents the long and troubling history of anti-Semitism in England, from the middle ages to the twenty-first century.
Anthony Julius identifies four distinct versions of English anti-Semitism, which he then investigates in detail. The first is...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-02-09
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A Confusion of Tongues examines the complex interaction of religion, history, and law in the period before the outbreak of the wars of the Three Kingdoms. It questions interpretations of that conflict that emphasise either the purely doctrinal roots of religious...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-02-02
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The veterans of the Fourteenth Army who fought in Burma between 1942 and 1945 called themselves 'the forgotten army'. But that appellation could equally well be applied to the whole of the British army after 1945. Histories of Britain's post-war defence policy have...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-01-26
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Told through the eyes of his daughter Evelyn, this is the true story of a father's fight to reclaim his children from the Irish government in the 1950s, now a major film.Desmond Doyle, 29, a painter and decorator, is married with six children and living in the...
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Orion
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2011-12-30
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This is the first transnational study of British, Norwegian, and Swedish engagement with the Antarctic. Rather than charting how Europeans unveiled the Antarctic, it uses the history of Antarctic activity as a window into the political and cultural worlds of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2011-12-19
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Written by specialists from various fields, this edited volume is the first systematic investigation of the impact of imperialism on twentieth-century Britain. The contributors explore different aspects of Britain's imperial experience as the empire weathered the storms...
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OUP Oxford
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2011-12-08
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EMPIRE, STATE, AND SOCIETY “This book captures the broad-sweep of modern British history. Bronstein and Harris’s narrative is distinguished by its comprehensive coverage, readability, and sure judgment. It is an excellent book.”James Epstein, Vanderbilt University “This...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2011-12-07
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Much has been written about the decline of the United Kingdom. The Two Unions looks instead at the lengthy survival of the Union, examining the institutions, structures, and individuals that have contributed to its longevity.
In order to understand its survival, the...
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OUP Oxford
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2011-12-01
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Much has been written about the decline of the United Kingdom. The Two Unions looks instead at the lengthy survival of the Union, examining the institutions, structures, and individuals that have contributed to its longevity.
In order to understand its survival, the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-12-01
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Sexual Politics explores the complex relationship between sexuality and socialist politics in Britain between the 1880s and the present day. Looking at birth control, abortion law reform, and gay rights, this is a timely examination of the relationship between the...
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OUP Oxford
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2011-11-24
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