European history: medieval period, middle ages Books
Gill CodeBreaker
Book SynopsisThe incredible true story of the librarian, the Nazi spy and Ireland's secret role in turning the tide of World War IIWhen unassuming librarian Richard Hayes, a gifted polymath and cryptographer, was drafted by Irish intelligence services to track the movements of a prolific Nazi spy, Hermann Görtz, Dublin became the unlikely venue for one of the most thrilling episodes in Irish history.In a complex game of cat-and-mouse that would wind its way through the city and its suburbs, Code Breaker reveals how Richard Hayes cracked a code that helped turn the tide of World War II, and uncovers a secret history of the capital that has remained hidden in plain view for the past 70 years.
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Gill Granuaile
Book SynopsisGranuaile was a historic icon, fearless leader and Ireland’s original rebel girl. The first in a new series of books for children, of inspirational Irish lives by Irelandopedia and Historopedia authors John and Fatti Burke
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Gill Constance Markievicz
Book SynopsisThe third book in the Little Library series. When your collection is complete, you'll have a little library and big knowledge!Discover the REVOLUTIONARY that was CONSTANCE MARKIEVICZ!Constance Markievicz grew up in Co. Sligo in the late 1800s with a dream: she wanted Ireland to become free and the people to be treated fairly. She spent her life working to make these things happen. With rebellion in the air, she was asked for advice on how a lady should dress. Her answer? Dress suitably in short skirts and strong boots, leave your jewels in the bank and buy a revolver.'And the Easter Rising began
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Gill Historical Irish Oddities
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Gill A Pocket History of Northern Ireland
Book SynopsisThe book tells the history of Northern Ireland from the Third Home Rule Bill right through to Derry Girls. Covering all aspects of the beginnings of Northern Ireland as a separate state, to gerrymandering and World War II, and on to the emergence of the Troubles and finally peace, this book is a guide to all the dramatic events of the past 100 years. Leaders such as Terrence O'Neill, Gerry Fitt, Ian Paisley, Gerry Adams, David Trimble and John Hume are profiled, along with terrorist organisations and political parties. The cultural history of Northern Ireland is also celebrated, from Seamus Heaney to Derry Girls and Game of Thrones.
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Gill That Place We Call Home
Book SynopsisJohn Creedon has always been fascinated by place names, from when he was a young boy growing up in Cork City to travelling around Ireland making his popular television show. In this brilliant new book, he digs beneath the surface of familiar place names, peeling back the layers of meaning behind them to reveal stories about the nature of the land of Erin and the people who walked it before us.Travel the highways, byways and boreens of Ireland with John and become absorbed in the place names s
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Gill A Pocket History of Kilmainham Gaol
Book SynopsisA wonderful introduction to an Irish landmark.
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Gill A Pocket Guide to Newgrange and the Boyne Valley
Book SynopsisOlder than Stonehenge, older than the Pyramids, Newgrange in Co Meath was built over 6,000 years ago. This remarkable Neolithic structure by the legendary River Boyne has fascinated visitors for millennia, but became a significant tourist site after its excavation and partial reconstruction by archaeologist Michael O'Kelly in the 1960s and 70s. Regarded as Ireland's greatest national monument, Newgrange has entered Irish mythology through its associations with ancient deities, and today it continues to fascinate archaeologists and visitors alike.A Pocket Guide to Newgrange and the Boyne Valley contains everything you need to know about one of Ireland's most significant historical landmarks.
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Gill A History of Ireland in 100 Episodes
Book SynopsisAdapted from the BBC series, this anthology highlights important episodes of Irish history.A sweeping, accessible history of Ireland adapted from Dr Jonathan Bardon?s BBC series.This authoritative and comprehensive history of Ireland, written by Dr Jonathan Bardon and completed by his former editor Fergal Tobin, covers the entire history of the island from the Ice Age to the Peace Process in 100 short episodes. In this thoughtful analysis of Irish society, Bardon integrates the significant cultural and literary history of Ireland with its political and social histories.Based on the hugely popular BBC series A Short History of Ireland, each episode stands alone, providing a snippet of Irish history in five minutes? reading. In turn, reading each episode in sequence from beginning to end provides a magisterial history of Europe?s most western land.Complete with a new introduction and epilogue, A History of Ireland in 100 Episodes is for anyone looking for a short but authoritative history of the island of Ireland.
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Gill In Fact
Book SynopsisIf you follow the headlines, you could be forgiven for thinking that things in Ireland are worse than ever. In fact, we live longer than ever before, we have never been healthier or better educated, we earn five times more than our grandparents did, our personal freedoms exceed those of any previous generation, and the lives of women and children have been transformed for the better.At a time when some good news is welcome, this uplifting book tells our national story through facts and stats, placing Ireland under the microscope to chart 100 undeniable achievements of the past 100 years.When the State was formed, Ireland was one of the most poverty-stricken nations in Europe. Now it has the second-highest quality of life in the world. While there is still more to be done, In Fact illustrates that Ireland, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than you might think.
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Gill United Nation
Book SynopsisOne hundred years after the Anglo-Irish Treaty and partition, after 30 years of Troubles, the Good Friday Agreement and Brexit, the debate on Irish unity has intensified.But what could a united Ireland look like, and what would it mean for those both north and south of the border? In this meticulously researched book, Frank Connolly interviews people from all sides, and presents his conclusions as to how and whether a united Ireland could create a viable, vibrant new country. United Nation is a timely look at the possibility of an integrated and united Ireland.
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Gill Creedon J That Place We Call Home
Book SynopsisJohn Creedon has always been fascinated by place names, from growing up in Cork City as a young boy to travelling around Ireland making his popular television show. In this brilliant new book, he peels back the layers of meaning of familiar place names to reveal stories about the land of Éireann and the people who walked it before us.Travel the highways, byways and boreens of Ireland with John and become absorbed in the place names, such as The Cave of the Cats', Artichoke Road', The Eagle's Nest' and Crazy Corner'. All hold clues that help to uncover our past and make sense of that place we call home, feeding both mind and soul along the way.That Place We Call Home will foster or feed a love of local lore and cultivate an appreciation for the historical remnants scattered in plain sight all over Ireland's 63,000 townlands' Irish IndependentMarvellous' Paddy Kehoe, RTÉA beautiful book' Daithí Ó Sé, The Today Show
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Gill Irelands Secret War
Book SynopsisIreland's Secret War is a thrilling account of the true extent of IrishAllied co-operation during World War II. It reveals strategic Nazi intentions for Ireland and the real role of leading government figures of the time, placing Dan Bryan and G2 firmly at the centre of Ireland's battle against Nazi Germany.With the help of over thirty-five hours of previously unpublished audio recordings that were held in storage in northern California for over fifty years, Marc McMenamin reveals the extraordinary unheard history of WWII in Ireland, told from the point of view of the main protagonists.Written with the verve and energy of a thriller, Ireland's Secret War reassesses the legacy of the Irish contribution to the Allied war effort through the voices of those involved at the time.
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Gill In Our Day
Book SynopsisFor over fifty years, Kevin C. Kearns trekked the rough-and-tumble streets of the heart of Dublin, hoping to record and preserve the city's vanishing oral history. Armed only with a Sony tape recorder, the ordinary people he encountered street traders, dockers, factory workers, tram drivers, housewives and midwives, children and grandparents shared private stories of hardship, joy, sorrow, suffering, survival and triumph.In Our Day is the culmination of a life's work a treasure trove bursting with whispers from the past 450 vignettes, memories and recollections gathered to present an evocative, poignant portrait of a forgotten Dublin.Without Kevin, the lives of ordinary decent Dubliners would be forgotten. This book is a celebration of them.' Joe Duffy
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Gill A Year of Glory and Gold
Book SynopsisThe 1930s in Ireland is often remembered as a bleak period of economic stagnation and unemployment. But, 1932, hailed by the Irish Press as a new era', was an early glimmer of the modernity that Ireland would later reach, with key events including Olympic gold medals and the rise of Jack Doyle, the Eucharistic Congress, a so-called gold rush and the election of Éamon de Valera, all hinting at Ireland's future success.The soundtrack scoring all this change was the jazz craze, loosening the conservative moral order of the time. Bringing new forms of dress, lifestyle and behaviour, it excited a younger generation for the future, while leaving an older generation wary of such rapid change.A Year of Glory and Gold is an energetic biography of a bright year in Ireland's history, combining deep archival research with spirited storytelling by one of Ireland's best-loved social historians.
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Gill Is Ireland Neutral
Book SynopsisNeutrality has, supposedly, long been a pillar of the Irish national identity. But examining the concept reveals it to be a vague, flimsy and elastic notion that, throughout history, various governments have been happy to stretch or, in some cases, abandon entirely. Today, warfare has expanded to include cyberattacks, environmental concerns, election interference and disinformation. If our traditional idea of warfare is changing, should our idea of neutrality change, too?In this timely and thought-provoking examination of a core tenet of Irish society, Conor Gallagher explores the practical and ethical implications of choosing a side. He asks, in the face of aggression, is it right to sit back and do nothing?And is it even possible to be neutral in such an interconnected world?
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Gill Last Voices of the Irish Revolution
Book SynopsisThe Irish Civil War ended in 1923. Eighty years on, documentary-maker Tom Hurley wondered if there were many people left from across Ireland who experienced the years 1919 to 1923, their prelude and aftermath.In early 2003, he recorded the experiences of 18 people, conducting two further interviews abroad in 2004. Tom spoke to a cross-section (Catholic, Protestant, Unionist and Nationalist) who were in their teens or early twenties during the civil war. The chronological approach he has taken spans fifty years, beginning with the oldest interviewee's birth in 1899 and ending when the Free State became a republic in 1949.100 years after the Civil War ended, this book weaves aunique chronology of the revolutionary years through the experiences of 20 people.Together, theirs are the last voices of the Irish Revolution.
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Penguin Books Ltd The War in Italy A Ladybird Expert Book
Book Synopsis* PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY NOW *- Why did the Allies decide to invade Southern Italy?- How did the weather and Italian terrain complicate the fighting?- How did General Mark Clark''s Allied Armies win the final battle?Discover the mounting conflict and complex campaigns of the war in Italy. From Operation HUSKY to Clark''s final offensive, the Allied campaign tightened the noose around Nazi Germany and saw the end of Italian Fascism, though it was at a cost of high civilian casualty and destruction.AN EPIC OF GRIT, DETERMINATION AND SACRIFICEWritten by historian, author and broadcaster James Holland and with immersive illustrations by Keith Burns, THE WAR IN ITALY 1943-1945 is an accessible and enthralling introduction to these critical battles and their impact on the outcome of World War II
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Penguin Books Ltd The Spanish Armada A Ladybird Expert Book Volume
Book SynopsisPart of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES.____________Why did the Spanish launch their Armada on England?How did Francis Drake counter the Spanish threat?And why were so many ships lost at sea?In 1585 Spain was the most POWERFUL Empire in the known world.As tensions between PROTESTANT England and CATHOLIC Spain rose . . . SPAIN decided to INVADE ENGLAND. And launched the SPANISH ARMADA This raises the question: how did England manage to overthrow the Spanish invasion? Was it luck or judgement? Discover the answers and more inside Sam Willis''s Ladybird Expert - The Spanish Armada, the thrilling and accessible account that explains what happened, who the key figures were and the tactics, triumphs and failures on both sides . . .Trade ReviewThe artwork is gloriously retro, echoing the original Ladybird house style but containing completely up to date information. * Shiny New Books *
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Penguin Books Ltd The English Civil War At First Hand
Book SynopsisAlmost a quarter of a million lives were lost as King and Parliament battled for their religious and political ideals in the English Civil War. England was divided between Cavaliers and Roundheads engaged in bitter struggles from Preston to Lostwithiel, Pembroke to York. Armies were on the march, villages were decimated and great dynasties destroyed: fathers and sons, uncles and cousins were pitted against each other in defence of their loyalties. The civil war led to the execution of a king, the beginnings of sectarian division in Ireland, savage clan warfare in Scotland and the roots of English socialism.Tristram Hunt avoids adding to the many, mostly transitory interpretations of the civil war and instead offers a timeless narrative based on the first-hand accounts of those who witnessed these traumatic events. In doing so he brings out the voices of the civil war generation - those who lost sons, who witnessed massacres and who fought for an ideal. In this book we see th
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Penguin Books Ltd Scotlands Empire
Book SynopsisT.M. Devine (OBE) is University Research Professor and Director of the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen.Trade ReviewScotland's Empire is a fascinating work, replete with telling detail and continually throwing out observations which invite further speculation * Literary Review *A book that will be enjoyed by anyone interested in history, or who simply enjoys a good story, well told -- Laurence James * Herald *The history of the British empire will never look the same after this book -- Professor Christopher BaylyTom Devine, Scotland's foremost historian, follows up his majestic The Scottish Nation with a forensic analysis of Scotland's central role in the British Empire ... Devine creates a book that suits post-devolution Scotland - we only have ourselves to understand -- Frank McAvetty, MSP * Sunday Herald (Books of the Year 2003) *As a sophisticated and clearly argued statement of Scots and Empire this book could hardly be bettered * Scotsman *
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Penguin Books Ltd The Scottish Nation
Book SynopsisT.M. Devine (OBE) is University Research Professor and Director of the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen.Trade ReviewMagnificent ... a high achievement, a history of modern Scotland which, rarely for the subject, endows with sweep and power the changes that have created the country we live in -- Michael Fry * Herald *Devine's scholarship is state of the art ... if you are after answers to the big questions of Scottish history, Devine is your man -- Niall FergusonI think this book takes its place among the greatest accounts of Scotland's history available today -- Alex Salmond * New Statesman BOOKS OF THE YEAR *
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Penguin Books Ltd Russia and the Russians From Earliest Times to
Book SynopsisGeoffrey Hosking is one of the foremost historians of Russia and its people. The result of a lifetime''s knowledge, this monumental and authoritative work has been acclaimed as the definitive single-volume history of Russia, tracing its story from the settlement of Kiev through to the present day. This second edition is updated throughout, with a new chapter on the recent role of Putin and Medvedev, and their impact on Russia''s economy, politics and its citizens.
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Penguin Books Ltd The First Bohemians
Book SynopsisVic Gatrell's last book, City of Laughter won both the Wolfson Prize for History and the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize; his The Hanging Tree won the Whitfield Prize of the Royal Historical Society. He is a Life Fellow of Caius College, Cambridge.Trade ReviewAn irresistible history, fizzing with life -- Philip Pullman * Observer BOOKS OF THE YEAR *Gatrell's love for this dangerous but brilliant age is matched by his expert knowledge of its culture, both high and low -- Dan Jones * Daily Telegraph HISTORIES OF THE YEAR *A rich and surprising book ... a sumptuous Christmas treat -- Dominic Sandbrook * Sunday Times HISTORY BOOKS OF THE YEAR *Could be bought for its illustrations alone -- Francis Wilson * Times Literary Supplement BOOKS OF THE YEAR *Compelling ... scholarly and bawdy -- Tristram Hunt * Mail on Sunday BOOKS OF THE YEAR *A gorgeously engrossing book, bracingly sceptical of received pieties ... combines scholarship with originality, colour and imagination to a rare degree ... Boozy, arty and sexually charged, Covent Garden in the mid-1700s surges spectacularly into life in this engrossing history ... As well as recording Covent Garden's buzz and buoyancy, Gatrell aims to alter how we think about 18th-century painting. Our automatic association of it with Reynolds's or Gainsborough's flattering society portraits or with nymph-ridden neoclassical allegories is, he thinks, a mistake, and he quotes approvingly Johnson's declaration that he would rather see a portrait of a dog he knew than all the allegorical paintings in the world. Against Reynolds and his Royal Academicians Gatrell pits the realists, who drew or painted the street life of workaday Londoners ... They provide the most memorable images in Gatrell's book, not just familiar masterpieces such as Hogarth's glowingly wholesome Shrimp Girl, but sketches he has retrieved from obscurity - an exhausted washerwoman slumped in a chair, a ballet dancer lying flat on a table to ease her legs, a carter leaning over the side of his cart to kiss his sweetheart -- John Carey * Sunday Times *Welcome to Vic Gatrell's London ... [His] brilliant account ... brings it all to life: the site of Dirty Lane where passers-by defecated; the stench of smoke, horses, humans, dead fish and offal; and the sound of "the melodious clank of marrow bone and cleaver" with which the Covent Garden butchers welcomed George I's coronation in 1714 ... Gatrell's scholarly career has been a sustained attempt to recapture Georgian London from Victorian prudery ... In its sweep of visual arts, social history, literary criticism and bawdy culture [The First Bohemians] provides a superb chronicle of a golden age of authentic, urban creativity -- Tristram Hunt * Sunday Times *Gatrell's book does [his subject] justice in all the right ways. It is beautifully produced - from the sumptuous, almost three-dimensional dust jacket to the more than 200 illustrations sprinkled liberally throughout the text ... The great joy of the book is how effortlessly and continuously his narrative and pictures illuminate one another ... It is a tour de force of social and pictorial history that few living historians could match ... a new kind of deeply social and more democratic history of artistic production ... Ultimately, though it rests on serious scholarship, The First Bohemians is ... a relaxed, confident and triumphantly successful re-creation of a fascinating world of male companionship, drunkenness, poverty, sex and art -- Faramerz Dabhoiwala * Guardian *Colourful ... entertaining ... Gatrell does a fine job of tracing how the scurrilous behaviour of London's residents often inspired some of the finest works of art and literature ... the richness of detail makes The First Bohemians a pleasure to read ... his enthusiasm feels infectious * Economist *Gatrell's richly documented (and wonderfully illustrated) study ... [shows] how an unconventional way of looking at the world - vivid, unpretentious and often richly comic - eventually found its way to the heart of our culture, and we are richer for it ... This book is, at its heart, more concerned with the history of art, and what might be called the history of public taste, than with social history. Gatrell deftly sketches the long-running conflict between two different approaches to painting in 18th-century England: the "high" school of the Royal Academicians, with its emphasis on noble history paintings, mythical scenes and grand Italianate landscapes, and the "low" school of Hogarth and his admirers, which drew on the Dutch tradition of portraying ordinary life in vivid domestic detail ... And while the "low" school never won the contest for prestige, it did produce a transformation of taste, teaching the English to take pleasure in local landscapes and the portrayal of simple human pleasures. In what is perhaps the finest section of the book, Gatrell shows how the great comic artist Thomas Rowlandson played a key part in this change -- Noel Malcolm * Sunday Telegraph *Gatrell argues persuasively that it was their proximity to this mayhem that made the artists and writers in 18th century Covent Garden so vivid and exciting ... [He] proves a dab hand at recreating the blazing furnace of 18th century Covent Garden ... Gatrell is a natural iconoclast -- Craig Brown * Mail on Sunday *Gatrell is terrific company. He praises 18th-century writing for propelling us 'niftily to the point' and his own his prose performs the same trick ... The First Bohemians is generously, often ingeniously, illustrated and Gatrell's pithy commentary on the prints and pictures can be scathing ... Pleasure, particularly through misbehaviour, is one of Gatrell's great interests. His last book, City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in 18th-Century London ... was generally proclaimed a masterpiece, and in The First Bohemians - also destined to be loaded with prizes - he returns to the 'importance', 'necessity' and 'truthtelling' of satire, the 18th century's mental health check -- Francis Wilson * New Statesman *[A] marvellous book ... exhilarating, richly illustrated and witty * Financial Times *This is dense, ripely enjoyable social history -- Peter Conrad * Observer *Gatrell's evocation of taverns, bagnios and alleys is compelling. He has a lovely eye for shadows in paintings and how they indicate time of day; he has a lively eye for sympathies in sketches. Butchers, bawds, rakes, tradesmen, sailors, fruit-sellers, fruit-buyers, tailors, cooks, pie-men, aristocrats, oilmen, coalmen, stay-makers, bookbinders, button-sellers and dozens of others are particularised fleetingly from crowds. Exact topography makes it clear how jostle and juxtaposition brought all sorts of people together. Decent dealings get an occasional look-in; the possibility of clean, calm and sunny moments is conceded. ... for all its zest for sensual assault, [The First Bohemians] engages with the unwashed great in illuminating scholarship -- Clare Brant * Times Higher Education *
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Penguin Books Ltd Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death Reflections
Book SynopsisOtto Dov Kulka''s memoir of a childhood spent in Auschwitz is a literary feat of astounding emotional power, exploring the permanent and indelible marks left by the HolocaustWinner of the JEWISH QUARTERLY-WINGATE PRIZE 2014As a child, the distinguished historian Otto Dov Kulka was sent first to the ghetto of Theresienstadt and then to Auschwitz. As one of the few survivors he has spent much of his life studying Nazism and the Holocaust, but always as a discipline requiring the greatest coldness and objectivity, with his personal story set to one side. But he has remained haunted by specific memories and images, thoughts he has been unable to shake off.Translated by Ralph Mandel.''The greatest book on Auschwitz since Primo Levi ... Kulka has achieved the impossible'' - the panel of Judges, Jewish Quarterly-Wingate PrizeTrade ReviewThe greatest book on Auschwitz since Primo Levi ... Kulka has achieved the impossible: a mythological and strangely beautiful new language for living with Auschwitz ... a book as mighty as it is modestOf the many accounts of survival in the Nazi concentration camps - Jewish and non-Jewish - few approach Otto Dov Kulka's for the quality of its writing and attempt to understand the nature of contemporary barbarism ... one of the essential books of our age; not since Primo Levi's The Periodic Table has there been such a powerful holocaust memoir ... the writing, at times trance-like, creates an extraordinary sense of communion and intimacy with the reader ... in pained but lucid prose Kulka seeks to understand how his memory processed the trauma of Auschwitz * Telegraph *'A poetic masterpiece unlike anything else written on the subject' * Telegraph BOOKS OF THE YEAR *This is one of the most remarkable testimonies to inhumanity that I know. The deeply moving recollections of Dov Kulka's boyhood years in Auschwitz, interwoven with reflections of elegiac, poetic quality, vividly convey the horror of the death-camp, the trauma of family and friends, and the indelible imprint left on the memory of a young boy who became a distinguished historian of the Holocaust. An extraordinarily important work which needs to be readAstonishing ... [Landscapes] is, quite simply, extraordinary ... a sort of Modernist precipitate of a historical work, something strange and powerful formed from, but separate to, the solution of history ... I can't see how this book could be bettered * Times Higher Education *Almost unclassifiable ... Nothing else I have read comes close to this profound examination of what the Holocaust means ... [Kulka's] journey strikes me as a quest similar to the attempt to describe the face of God or the structure of the universe. They are too vast and too mysterious. Not that this stops us, or this author, from trying * New Statesman *Primo Levi's testimony, it is often said, is that of a chemist: clear, cool, precise, distant. So with Kulka's work: this is the product of a master historian - ironic, probing, present in the past, able to connect the particular with the cosmic. His memory is in the service of deep historical understanding, rendered in evocative prose that is here eloquently translated from Hebrew * Guardian *Beautiful, startling ... This is a great book: read it. And be grateful - its publication is, in every possible sense, a miracle ... It is the strange and shocking paradox, this child's world constructed in such proximity to death, that makes the book so startling and so beautiful. Every incident is, in effect, seen twice: through the eyes of the historian and the eyes of a boy ... This is not history, it is something else... his words enter the wider sphere of literature * Sunday Times *Kulka's reflections have an unsettling rawness ... yet even in Auschwitz, there are moments of protest, black humour and beauty ... This is a grave, poetic and horrifying account of the Holocaust which does not so much revisit the Auschwitz of the past, but the Auschwitz of Kulka's inner world * Independent *This is not so much a book about Auschwitz as one about coming to terms with the shock of survival ... Amid fragmentary, digressive impressions are images of terrible poetic concreteness ... What, ultimately, makes Kulka's book unlike any other first-hand account written about the camps is the authenticity of its vision of an 11-year-old boy... He has done the rest of us - and the world - so great a kindness by writing his book ... offer[ing] the barest glint of sunlight amid a thunderous darkness * Financial Times *A book of moments, hauntings and dreams ... it is unremitting and touches us all [with] a hallucinatory power * The Times *Otto Dov Kulka's brief, beautiful and unsettling Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death brings together childhood memories of Auschwitz with the reflections of a historian who has spent his life working on the Holocaust: a masterly interrogation of memory and the limitations of historical detachment * Times Literary Supplement BOOKS OF THE YEAR *A historian's memoir of Auschwitz, without sentimentality and almost without outrage, since it is an examination of a place where all human reactions are inadequate ... an overwhelming testimony to the human love of truth * Guardian *For the first time, [Kulka] has turned his academic eye inward to explore as unflinchingly as possible the ways in which his childhood encounter with Auschwitz has affected him. Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death makes for deeply disturbing but ultimately very rewarding reading, and is unlike any Holocaust memoir I have ever come across ... The book is not a memoir in the conventional sense, but an extraordinary collection of some of the memories, ideas and dreams that make up Kulka's internal landscape * Telegraph *In this short, powerful memoir, every word tells its story * Daily Mail *The term memoir barely seems adequate to the introspective, often poetic, sometimes hallucinatory moments that [Landscapes] captures ... such an important contribution to the literature on the Holocaust ... [it] unsettles presuppositions about the camp and its lasting psychological effects so thoroughly that even a reader steeped in the Holocaust canon is likely to experience a sense of defamiliarisation * Sydney Review of Books *Otto Dov Kulka's name should be as well known as Primo Levi's as a supreme writer of personal experience of the hell of Auschwitz. But his Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death is unlike any other Holocaust writing because it faithfully reproduces the sensibility of the eleven year old boy that Kulka was at the time. So, unnervingly there are blue skies and daring games and actual school classes along with the smell of the smoke of incinerated bodies. More than other writing except Levi's Kulka's book, excavated with great pain via his attempted therapy of memory, sets you, the reader there. It is an imperishable achievement born of strength of mind and body and a kind of glowing inner vitality that I was lucky enough to encounter when I met him a few years ago. Profound scholar, extraordinary writer some part of him remained miraculously boyish in his warm vitality. -- Simon Schama
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Penguin Books Ltd The Brothers York
Book SynopsisSELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 BY THE GUARDIAN, DAILY MAIL, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE ''A gripping, complex and sensational story, told with calm narrative command ... With insight and skill, Penn cuts through the thickets of history to find the heart of these heartless decades'' Hilary MantelThe gripping new history by the author of the acclaimed bestseller Winter KingIt is 1461 and England is crippled by civil war. One freezing morning, a teenage boy wins a battle in the Welsh marches, and claims the crown. He is Edward IV, first king of the usurping house of York... Thomas Penn''s brilliant new telling of the wars of the roses takes us inside a conflict that fractured the nation for more than three decades. During this time, the house of York came to dominate England. At its heart were three charismatic brothers - Edward, George and Richard - who became the figureheTrade ReviewA gripping, complex and sensational story, told with calm narrative command. It's a story we think we know - but most accounts leave the personnel as frozen as portraits in stained glass. Here, the three York brothers spring to ferocious life, and you need strong nerves to meet them. With insight and skill, Penn cuts through the thickets of history to find the heart of these heartless decades. -- Hilary MantelThe Brothers York is not just a magisterial work of sublime scholarship, it's a pure page-turner. I couldn't put it down. The wonderful thing about Thomas Penn is that he makes some of the most familiar stories in English history feel fresh and exciting. -- Amanda ForemanAn immense, sinewy political thriller. Thomas Penn has the enviable skill of presenting hard research with a light touch. The Brothers York is savage, exciting, blisteringly good. -- Jessie Childs, author of God's TraitorsAn epic orgy of colour and character: there are soldiers and townsmen, poets and pirates, battlefield massacres and hidden murders ... One of the great strengths of Brothers York is the attention paid to the European stage. -- Leanda de Lisle * The Times *A rip-roaring account ... Pacy, engrossing and evocative in its details (of feasts and jousts as well as battles and diplomatic skulduggery), it engages the reader's emotions as well as intellect. -- Chris Given-Wilson * Times Literary Supplement *Superb. The tragedy and brutality of the Wars of the Roses jumps out from every page of Penn's book ... An impressive and engaging read. -- Kate Maltby * Financial Times *Thrilling, pacy ... Brings a novelist's verve to his telling of events ... Penn's history of betrayal, backstabbing and paranoia strikes notes that still resonate today. -- John Gallagher * The Guardian *Fresh and lively narrative swagger ... Peppered with delightful, telling anecdotes and details. Some are comical and others grisly, but all breathe life into their subject ... Perhaps the greatest strength of Penn's entertaining book is his understanding of the warping effects of European affairs on English domestic stability. -- Dan Jones * The Sunday Times *Epic, racy, breaks new ground ... Penn combines a keen sense of time, place, circumstance and anecdote with a firm grasp of human psychology, of the macabre, the comic and the tragic, and - perhaps as important as any of these - an instinct for the rhythm of a sentence. -- John Guy * London Review of Books *An exceptionally detailed and absorbing narrative history with a gallantly sustained human touch ... Penn's Yorkist England is an excellent place to take an exciting, and instructive, holiday from 2019. -- Minoo Dinshaw * The Telegraph *Gripping, richly contextualised and meticulously researched ... a vital corrective to the ongoing, polarising battle over Richard III's legacy. -- Marcus Nevitt * The Spectator *
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James Clarke & Co Ltd Not Mentioned in Despatches
Book SynopsisA controversial, detailed examination of the decisive events of the Falklands war, focusing on the Battle of Goose Green and questioning the media's presentation of the heroic victory for the British.Trade Review"As a service to history, this is commendable" Major Ali Ahmed, USI Journal "His argument that Col. Jones leaned too heavily towards restrictive control is convincing ... a remarkably outspoken book." Soldier "Controversial and readable, explains clearly the two contradictory systems of tactical command under consideration at Goose Green. This is a fascinating book which looks at a very recent piece of our history from a new and disturbing angle." Forces News "Exhaustive research ... A masterly study of this confused action." Eastern Daily PressTable of ContentsList of Maps and Sketches Acknowledgements Introduction Part One: Preliminaries to Battle Part Two: The Battle Part Three: Conclusions Appendices Bibliography Index
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James Clarke & Co Ltd St Joseph of Arimathea at Glastonbury
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1922, this is the definitive account of the legends of St Joseph of Arimathea and his association with Glastonbury.Table of ContentsPart I. Antiquity of Glastonbury and Origin of the National Church Part II: Traditions 2. St. Joseph of Arimathea 3. Good King Lucius 4. Our Lord and the Blessed Virgin 5. Topical Support of the Traditions Part III: Authorities 6. The Coming of the Disciples of Christ 7. The Coming of St. Joseph of Arimathea 8. The Coming of St. Philip to France 9. The Coming of St. Simon Zelotes 10. The Coming of Aristobulus 11. The Coming of St. Paul Part IV: Evidences 12. Early Missions from Britain 13. Early Fathers, Diocletian Persecution, Church Councils, and Pelagian Heresy 14. Conclusion Appendices
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Manchester University Press Science Race Relations and Resistance Britain
Book SynopsisThis book offers a new account of the British Empire’s greatest failure and its most disturbing legacy. Using a wide range of published and archival sources, this study of racial discourse from 1870 to 1914 argues that race, then as now, was a contested territory within the metropolitan culture.Trade ReviewAppropriate for specialists on Victorian racism as well as those new to the subject, Science, Race Relations and Resistance gives an illuminating and critical examination of the development of scientific racism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.‘Science, Race Relations and Resistance impresses with its exploration of racial rhetoric, and convincingly unravels the tangled relationship between scientific racism and the real problems posed by the ‘colour question’. It thus manages to align imperial history and anthropological history in a new and credible way, and will undoubtedly be valued by scholars in both fields.’Elise Juzda Smith, The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 101, Issue 347‘Ultimately, Lorimer’s Science, Race Relations and Resistance, 1870–1914 is a wide ranging and important survey of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century 362 Book Reviews debates on race and race relations that will be of interest to historians of Britain, imperialism and racism.’Sadiah Qureshi, The University of Birmingham, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History25 Mar 2015.‘A great strength of Science, Race Relations and Resistance is its refusal to generalize or simplify British ideas about race in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through systematic analyses of a wide variety of sources, from popular science works, to humanitarian journals, to writings by scholars and administrators interested in the ’colour question’, Lorimer shows that there was always a multiplicity of views about how best to manage race relations.’Elise Juzda Smith, University of Warwick, Journal of the Historical Association -- .Table of ContentsGeneral Editor’s introduction1. Introduction2. Imperial contradictions: assimilation and separate developmentPart I: Race 3. Race and science: from institutional foundations to applied anthropology, 1871–19144. Race, popular science, and empirePart II: The language of race relations5. From colour prejudice to race relations 6. The colour question – 'The greatest difficulty in the British Empire', 1900–14 Part III: Resistance 7. Resistance: initiatives and obstacles 8. Conclusion Index
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Manchester University Press The Age of Upheaval Edwardian Politics 18991914
Book SynopsisA study of one of the most intense and formative periods of modern political history. The years 1899-1914 witnessed a fundamental challenge to many Victorian values and institutions, and this work examines what made these years the most politically turbulent between the Chartist era and today.Table of ContentsWar and politics, 1899-1902; Unionist debacle, 1902-1905; new Liberalism for old?, 1906-1910; challenge to the constitution, 1910-1914.
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Manchester University Press The Reign of Richard II
Book SynopsisA source reader covering the first twenty years (1377-97) of Richard II's reign. Includes well-known English chronicles, foreign chronicles, and legal, administrative and financial records with clear and lively commentary and notes to enable readers to make the fullest use of each document. -- .Trade ReviewThis is an excellent supplementary text for any course on medieval Britain. -- .Table of ContentsPrologue: The End of Edward III’s Reign 1376–7 1. The Minority: 1377–81 The Peasants’ Revolt 2. The Struggle For Power 1382–7 The Radcot Bridge Campaign 3. The Rule And Fall Of The Appellants: The Merciless Parliament And Its Aftermath 1388–9 The first session, 3 February–20 March The second session, 13 April–2 June The appellants in power 4. From Appeasement To Tyranny: 1389–97 The Expedition To Ireland, 1394–5 Epilogue Bibliography Index
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Manchester University Press The Reign of Richard II
Book SynopsisA source reader covering the first twenty years (137797) of Richard II's reign. Includes well-known English chronicles, foreign chronicles, and legal, administrative and financial records with clear and lively commentary and notes to enable readers to make the fullest use of each document. -- .Trade ReviewThis is an excellent supplementary text for any course on medieval Britain.'Large sections of the Anonimalle Chronicle and the Evesham chronicle aretranslated here for the first time. This volume is strong on local monastic chronicles,and sources taken from ecclesiastical sources, such as bishop’s registers,or concerning the hierarchy, such as an excellent libel against Alexander Neville,archbishop of York. The translations are workmanlike and readable.Christopher FletcherUniversity of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) -- .Table of ContentsPrologue: The End of Edward III’s Reign 1376–7 1. The Minority: 1377–81 The Peasants’ Revolt 2. The Struggle For Power 1382–7 The Radcot Bridge Campaign 3. The Rule And Fall Of The Appellants: The Merciless Parliament And Its Aftermath 1388–9 The first session, 3 February–20 March The second session, 13 April–2 June The appellants in power 4. From Appeasement To Tyranny: 1389–97 The Expedition To Ireland, 1394–5 Epilogue Bibliography Index
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Manchester University Press British Business History 17201994 Pseudepigrapha
Book SynopsisThis text covers British business history from 1720 to the present. It argues that company culture has been the most important component in the evolution of business organizations and management practices. Coverage is chronological and a chapter compares Britain with the US, Germany and Japan.Table of ContentsPart 1 Business history - an introduction: aims and definitions; the Harvard school; modelling business evolution; business history and economic theory; conclusion. Part 2 The emergence of modern business, 1720-1870: meeting the organisational challenges; operational management - labour recruitment and control; the utilities and professional management; business and long-term finance; liquidity and the financial environment; British business by mid-century. Part 3 Big business abroad up to 1914: American managerial capitalism; the German case - "Co-operative Managerial Capitalism"?; Japanese business and the collective ideal; a typology for large-scale business. Part 4 British industrial capitalism under pressure, 1870-1914: the market-cum-technological environment; attitudes towards combination; a reawakening?; the business culture and its managerial impact; business finance up to 1914; British business by 1914. Part 5 Rationalisation and corporatism, 1914-1945: business abroad and the multidivisional; the "Rationalisation Movement", mergers and the business culture; "Scientific Management" and British workshop practices; the rise of a corporate economy; business by the 1940s. Part 6 Managerial capitalism - evolution and impact, 1945-94: "Finance Capital" and relations with the city; mergers, take-over bids and managerial capitalism; the dynamics of British managerial capitalism; a "Managerial Revolution"?; business into the 1990s.
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Manchester University Press The Cromwellian Protectorate New Frontiers
Book SynopsisExamining the nature of the first regime to have effective control of the British Isles and the impact it had on England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales and on Britain's international reputation, this study views the Cromwellian period as one of acheivement rather than merely a reactionary regime.Table of ContentsIntroductionPART ONE: THE PROTECTORATE AND THE QUEST FOR REFORMATION1. The establishment of the Cromwellian Protectorate, December 1653: ‘a conservative reaction’? Barebone’s Parliament, July - December 1653 The establishment of the Protectorate, December 16532. The First Year of the Cromwellian Protectorate, December 1653 - January 1655 The Instrument of Government and rule by Lord Protector and Council, December 1653 - September 1654 The first Protectorate Parliament, September 1654 - January 16553. The Crisis of the Cromwellian Protectorate, February 1655 - June 1656 The Protectorate’s siege mentality Godly rule4. Stresses within the Cromwellian Protectorate, June 1655 - June 1657 Return to rule with parliament The case of James Nayler The militia bill5. The End of the Cromwellian Protectorate, June 1657 - May 1659 The end of the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell, The end of the Cromwellian ProtectoratePART TWO: THE IMPACT OF THE PROTECTORATE6. The Cromwellian Protectorate and the Wider World The activist role of the Protectorate in international affairs The Protectorate and the Dutch The Protectorate and the Baltic The Protectorate and France and Spain7. The Cromwellian Protectorate and Scotland and Ireland Different attitudes to Scotland and Ireland Similar attitudes to Scotland and Ireland: conquest and reformation Punitive policies against the Irish and Scots The Protectorate’s British legacy8. The Cromwellian Protectorate and England and Wales Opposition Failure Acceptance ChangeConclusion: The persistent grinDocuments
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Manchester University Press Reconstructing Womens Wartime Lives Discourse and
Book SynopsisExamines the effects of the Second World War on women's sense of themselves. Using oral history it explores the interaction between cultural representations of men and women in the war, and women's own narratives of their wartime lives.Table of ContentsGender, memory and the Second World War; daughters reconstruct their parents - mothers, fathers and wartime mobilization; "heroes" and "stoics" - war work and feminine identity; wartime masculinities and gender relations; feminine bonding and the maintenance of difference; demobilization and discourses of women's work; the Second World War and narratives of personal change. Appendices: "Woman's Weekly", 23rd July 1992, pp 2-3; details of interviewees.
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Manchester University Press Britain in the Second World War A Social History
Book SynopsisThis text provides original documents which are designed to help the reader evaluate claims that World War II introduced a new sense of social solidarity and social idealism which led to a consensus on welfare state reform.
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Manchester University Press AngloAmerican Relations Since 1939 The Enduring
Book SynopsisTaking the "special relationship" as a central theme, this text explores the public and private diplomacy between Britain and the United States in periods of war and peace. Using released archives and contemporary sources, the areas of both cooperation and conflict are revealed.Table of ContentsThe wartime relationship; the search for a new relationship 1945-50; cooperation and friction 1950-56; rebuilding the alliance 1957-59; challenges to the nuclear partnership 1960-63; "The Close Relationship" 1964-70; "The Natural Relationship" 1970-79; the "Extraordinary" alliance restored 1979-89; the post-Cold War era.
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Manchester University Press Neville Chamberlain appeasment and the British
Book SynopsisMcDonough takes a broad approach which brings social, economic and strategic factors together with a detailed analysis of Chamberlain's policy, allowing students to explore questions of continuity and change more clearly.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of abbreviations1. Introduction: the changing debatePart I Appeasement and British government 1918–19392. British foreign policy, 1918–19373. National defence4. Chamberlain’s new direction, May 1937–February 19385. The road to Munich, March–September 19386. The approach of war, October 1938–September 1939Part II Appeasement and British society 1918–19397. Appeasers and the anti-appeasers8. The mass media, public opinion and appeasement9. Economic appeasement10. ConclusionSelected documentsSelect bibliographyInde
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Manchester University Press The Social World of Early Modern Westminster
Book SynopsisEarly modern Westminster is familiar as the location of the Royal Court at Whitehall, parliament, the law courts and the emerging West End, yet it has never been studied in its own right. This book is the first study to provide an integrated picture of the town during this crucial period in its history. It reveals the often problematic relations between the diverse groups of people who constituted local society - the Court, the aristocracy, the Abbey, the middling sort and the poor - and the competing visions of Westminster''s identity which their presence engendered.Different chapters study the impact of the Reformation and of the building of Whitehall Palace; the problem of poverty and the politics of communal responsibility; the character and significance of the increasing gentry presence in the town; the nature and ideology of local governing elites; the struggles over the emerging townscape; and the changing religious culture of the area, including the problematic role Trade Review"'This is a work of real scholarship, based on a wealth of original archival research, addressing important questions in current historical debates, presented in a very accessible, readable and engaging form' Vanessa Harding, Birkbeck College, University of London"Table of ContentsIntroduction: Rediscovering Early Modern Westminster1. Henrician Westminster: Corporate Life in a Time of Change, 1525-15472. The Impact of the Reformation in Westminster 1547-15623. Town, Cloister and Crown4. Parish Elites5. The Rise of a Fashionable Society6. Space and Urban Identities7. The Westminster Court of Burgesses: Neighbourhood, Disorder and Urban Expansion8. Poverty, Plague and the Politics of Communal Responsibility9. Religious Life and Religious Politics c.1558-1640Conclusion
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Manchester University Press Making Sense of the Industrial Revolution English
Book SynopsisUsing case studies, including the experiences of individuals as well as extracts from contemporary documents, this book aims to capture the reality of industrialization while introducing the many facts and figures which make up the real backbone of the history of the period.Table of ContentsLIST OF FIGURESLIST OF TABLESACKNOWLEDGEMENTSINTRODUCTIONPart I – Conceptualising the Industrial RevolutionONEPerceptions of the Industrial RevolutionTWOThe regionality of English economic developmentPart II – Development of the economic infrastructureTHREETechnological change and work organisationFOURFinancing the Industrial RevolutionFIVESellers and buyers: demand and the Industrial RevolutionSIXFeeding the Industrial RevolutionPart III – The Industrial Revolution and aspects of everyday lifeSEVENThe demography of the Industrial RevolutionEIGHTFamilies, households and individualsNINEThe changing economics of the householdTENThe built environment during the Industrial RevolutionConclusionBibliographyIndex
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Manchester University Press British Fascism 19181939 Parties Ideology and
Book SynopsisThis text surveys the development of British fascism between 1918 and 1939. It provides a guide to interwar British fascism's essential features and includes a discussion of fascism and culture, a previously under-researched area of the topic.Table of ContentsPreface and acknowledgementsList of abbreviationsIntroduction: the historiography of fascist studies1. Origins and progenitors2. The early postwar context and the pre-fascist groups: incipient fascism?3. The arrival of fascism: the British Fascisti and the Imperial Fascist League4. The British Union of Fascists5. The minor parties, ‘one-man bands’ and some fellow travellers6. The membership7. British fascism and antisemitism8. Defining culture9. A host of ‘decadent’ phenomena10. The city, the countryside and the machine11. Responding to the visual arts: British fascism and artistic modernismBibliography
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Manchester University Press Money in the Medieval English Economy 9731489
Book SynopsisThe importance of money as one of the key variables in the workings of the medieval economy is often overlooked. This new study first provides the reader with a background to the problems of modelling the medieval economy and the value of the Fisher equation of exchange to monetary historians, to the pratical processes of strking coins from silverTrade ReviewAn insightful and wide-ranging book on money and its place in the medieval English economy ... Other secondary literature is available on money and the economy in medieval England, but Professor Bolton's book offers students, researchers and general readers with a breadth of vision and analysis'Andrew Wareham, Reviews in History, 6th June 2013'"Money in the Medieval English Economy: 973-1489" is one of the most important books published in English medieval economic history during the past two decades. Indeed, I do not know of any other comparable and equally comprehensive study of English medieval monetary history.'John Munro, University of Toronto, EH.Net (June 2013)'The longest and most important sustained discussion of the economic importance of England's medieval currency now available. It should be read by all those interested in the the workings of premodern monetary economics or the medieval economy more widely .. a valuable, perceptive, and very welcome addition to the literature on medieval economic history.'Rory Naismith, University of Cambridge, Journal of Economic HistoryThere is no doubt that the new monograph by Jim Bolton can be classified as a most meaningful contribution not only to the economic but also the social and political history of medieval England....this book is a truly superb study, certainly one of the most important ones in the field of the monetary history of pre-industrialEurope. There is no doubt that this monograph will be a standard reference source for both professional academics and college/university-level students.'His approach is bold and straightforward classical scholarship and a pleasure to read. The narrative provides a step-by-step approach in which each conclusion reached points the reader towards the direction of his next move... in the final analysis, a tour de force that raises the debate to a higher level.' Svein H. Gullbekk, 'Speculum' 91/2 (April 2016) -- .Table of ContentsPart one: Theories and problems1. Modelling the medieval economy: the equation of exchange2. Money and the money economy3. Coinage and the bullion supplyPart two: The coinage and the economy, c. 973–14894. The coinage from the late tenth century to 11585. A monetarised economy, 973–1158?6. The coinage 1158–13517. The emergence of a money economy, 1158–13518. Testing the money economy, 1351–14899. ConclusionsBibliography Index
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Manchester University Press Money in the Medieval English Economy 9731489
Book SynopsisThe importance of money as one of the key variables in the workings of the medieval economy is often overlooked. This new study first provides the reader with a background to the problems of modelling the medieval economy and the value of the Fisher equation of exchange to monetary historians, to the pratical processes of strking coins from silverTrade ReviewAn insightful and wide-ranging book on money and its place in the medieval English economy ... Other secondary literature is available on money and the economy in medieval England, but Professor Bolton's book offers students, researchers and general readers with a breadth of vision and analysis'Andrew Wareham, Reviews in History, 6th June 2013'"Money in the Medieval English Economy: 973-1489" is one of the most important books published in English medieval economic history during the past two decades. Indeed, I do not know of any other comparable and equally comprehensive study of English medieval monetary history.'John Munro, University of Toronto, EH.Net (June 2013)'The longest and most important sustained discussion of the economic importance of England's medieval currency now available. It should be read by all those interested in the the workings of premodern monetary economics or the medieval economy more widely .. a valuable, perceptive, and very welcome addition to the literature on medieval economic history.'Rory Naismith, University of Cambridge, Journal of Economic HistoryThere is no doubt that the new monograph by Jim Bolton can be classified as a most meaningful contribution not only to the economic but also the social and political history of medieval England....this book is a truly superb study, certainly one of the most important ones in the field of the monetary history of pre-industrialEurope. There is no doubt that this monograph will be a standard reference source for both professional academics and college/university-level students.'His approach is bold and straightforward classical scholarship and a pleasure to read. The narrative provides a step-by-step approach in which each conclusion reached points the reader towards the direction of his next move... in the final analysis, a tour de force that raises the debate to a higher level.'Svein H. Gullbekk, 'Speculum' 91/2 (April 2016) -- .Table of ContentsPART ONE: THEORIES AND PROBLEMS1. Modelling the medieval economy: the equation of exchange2. Money and the money economy3. Coinage and the bullion supplyPART TWO: THE COINAGE AND THE ECONOMY, c. 973–14894. The coinage from the late tenth century to 11585. A monetarised economy, 973–1158?6. The coinage 1158–13517. The emergence of a money economy, 1158–13518. Testing the money economy, 1351–14899. ConclusionsBibliography Index
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Manchester University Press The Great Favourite
Book SynopsisThis is the first biography of the last major unknown figure in European history. The Duke of Lerma was the first and greatest of the royal favourites of the European seventeenth century. He was the greatest art patron of his generation and the greatest lay builder in Spanish history. This study is profoundly well researched and fluently written. -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction - Valladolid, Pentecost Sunday, 29 May 1605: 'Protector general and advocate of all the world'1. The Sandoval family and the crown of Castile2. The accession of Philip III3. The establishment of the valimiento, 1598-16014. The court in Valladolid, 1601-1606 : The years of the golden keys5. Government and policymaking6. Humiliation, 1606-16077. Flight : The Journeys of 1608-16108. Survival : The death of the Queen and Lerma's 'other course' 1611-16139. Retreat10. Cardinal-Duke11.The end of the Sandoval hegemony12. Lerma and Uceda : Decline, testaments and deathConclusion
£66.50
Manchester University Press British Politics in an Age of Reform New
Book SynopsisThis text is a detailed examination of principal themes in the political history of late 18th- and early 19th-century Britain.Table of ContentsCrown and politicians; revolution and war; parliament and people; instability and reform.
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Manchester University Press The English Manor C1200 to C1500 Manchester
Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive introduction and essential guide to one of the most important institutions in medieval England and to its substantial archive. This is the first book to offer a detailed explanation of the form, structure and evolution of the manor and its records.Trade Review'This is an excellent book, with wise and interesting comments in the introductory sections, which are themselves important historical commentaries on the history of farming and societies over three centuries. The documents are very valuable as teaching aides and will be much used by those teaching local history, and in advanced undergraduate teaching.' Professor C. C. Dyer, University of BirminghamTable of ContentsPreface and acknowledgementsPART ONE: THE COMPOSITION AND ORIGINS OF THE MANOR1. Introduction2. The characteristics of the medieval manor3. The size and composition of medieval manors4. Origins and development of the manor5. Manorial documentsPART TWO: MANORIAL SURVEYS, EXTENTS AND RENTALS6. Surveys and extents before c.13007. Land tenures and personal status on the medieval manor8. Surveys, rentals and terriers after c.13009. Historical uses of surveys and extentsPART THREE: MANORIAL ACCOUNTS10. The management of the manor11. The format of the account12. The evolution of the account13. Historical uses of the account14. Subsidiary documents of the accountPART FOUR: MANOR AND LEET COURTS15. The manor court16. The leet court17. Manor and leet courts after c.140018. Historical uses of court rolls19. GlossarySelect bibliographyIndex
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Manchester University Press Charitable Hatred Tolerance and Intolerance in
Book SynopsisCharitable hatred presents a challenging new perspective on religious tolerance and intolerance in early modern England. Instead of charting a path of linear progress from persecution to toleration, it emphasises the complex interplay between these two impulses throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.Table of Contents1 Introduction2 Fraternal correction and holy violence: the pursuit of uniformity and the enforcement of religious orthodoxy3 Godly zeal and furious rage: prejudice, persecution and the populace4 Living amidst hostility: responses to intolerance5 Loving one’s neighbours: tolerance in principle and practice6 Coexisting with difference: religious pluralism and confessionalisationIndex
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Manchester University Press Dusty Bob
Book SynopsisDusty Bob provides a detailed and highly illustrated study of a trade central to the well-being of Victorian London - that of the metropolitan dustman. Using an wide range of sources, especially prints and illustrations, this book shows, for the first time, why dustmen provided a subject for so many Victorian artists, writers and dramatists. -- .Table of Contents1. Dustmen real and imagined2. Picturesque and educative dustmen – the urban scene and its dirty denizens 1790-18213. Theatrical dustmen 1820-1860 - not so Dusty Bob4. Visual culture and the represented dustman 1820 – 1850. The public dustman5. Visual culture and the represented dustman 1820 - 1850. Domestic dustmen and cultural challenge6. Dust and the early Victorian imagination7. Dust commodified and categorised – mayhew, Dickens and the investigative impulse 1840-1900Conclusion
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