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Cambridge University Press The Politics of Everyday Life in Vichy France
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Pearson Education Russian Revolution The Paper
Book SynopsisRealistic and readable Depth studies for all abilities.
£999.99
Taylor & Francis The Road to Crecy The English Invasion of France
Book SynopsisThe Road to CrÃcy tells the story of the English expedition to France in 1346 which climaxed with the battle of CrÃcy. On 26 August 1346 on a low ridge outside the village of CrÃcy-en-Ponthieu in northwestern France, an English army of perhaps 12,000 men under the command of King Edward III faced a combined French and German force five times their number under Edward's rival King Philip VI. The result, on the part of the French at least, was seen as a foregone conclusion. The English army, largely composed of foot soldiers and tired after days of marching and fighting, would be ridden down and overwhelmed by the armoured knights of France, then universally regarded as the finest fighting men in Europe. A few hours later, all was over. Thousands of French knights and auxiliary troops lay dead or dying on the slopes of the ridge, shot down as they advanced by English and Welsh archers. King Philip, wounded twice by enemy arrows, had fled the field. The events of those few hours had changed the course of the Hundred Years War, the balance of military power in Western Europe, and the nature of warfare itself. Trade Review'An excellent read...For the general reader this book has great drama...For the Historian there is careful research and diligent reconstruction well presented. For the soldiers there are issues of leadership, engineering and logistics to contemplate. Something for everyone.'The British Army ReviewTable of Contents1 The Road to War 2 The Antagonists 3 Preparations 4 St-Vaast to Carentan 5 Carentan to Caen 6 Caen to Elbeuf 7 Elbeuf to Poissy 8 Poissy to Airaines 9 The Somme 10 Crécy-en-Ponthieu 11 Aftermath Appendix Bibliography
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Hooligans and Rebels
Book SynopsisIn this fascinating book, Stephen Humphries examines all aspects of childhood delinquency, from hooliganism, teenage gangs and vandalism to juvenile crime and classroom anarchy. He shows that far from being simply the product of contemporary society, the rebellion of under-privileged children and youth has a long and compelling history. By drawing on oral testimonies and forgotten documentary accounts, the author evokes a vivid picture of young people at war with adults in the days when children were to be seen and not heard. The recollections of working-class people, rarely if ever heard in conventional histories, provide an authentic and often moving account of how working-class children coped with an often harsh and oppressive world. Hooligans and Rebels will be welcomed by all those interested in oral history, and the history of youth in modern British society.Table of Contents1. Deprivation and Depravity: A Review of the Theory. 2. Subverting the School Syllabus. 3. Challenges to Classroon Coercion. 4. School Strikes: Pupils and Parents Protest. 5. Larking About: Pranks and Parody. 6. Social Crime and Family Survival. 7. Street Gangs: Revolt, Rivalry and Racism. 8. Reformatories: Resistance to Repression. Notes and References. A Brief Guide to Oral History Material. Further Reading. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Corrupting Sea
Book SynopsisAn analysis of the relationship between man and his physical and biological environment in the Mediterranean region over 2000 years. It covers issues such as historiography, patterns of settlement and demographic change, religious cult sites, climate, disease, deforestation, technological innovation and anthropology of Mediterranean communities.Trade Review"The Corrupting Sea is a book that all classicists should read." Classical Review "In their book The Corrupting Sea, Horden and Purcell have engaged in one of the most relentless intellectual reassessments to have been undertaken in recent times of the history of the pre-industrial Mediterranean. One seldom emerges from a book as rich as this, having had so many firmly-held notions shaken out of one's mind and having glimpsed so many enthralling new vistas on a once-familiar past." Professor Peter Brown, Princeton University "To bring together the economic and social history of so many periods and places within the great story of the Mediterranean is a remarkable achievement and Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell should be congratulated upon it." Professor Colin Renfrew, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge "In recreating the Mediterranean for the new millennium, the authors offer a substantial achievement that challenges many long-held assumptions not only about the Mediterranean, but also about human relations with the environment and even the very nature of historical writing. It certainly deserves to provoke discussion among scholars from fields as broad as its own grand scope." Times Higher Education Supplement "The Corrupting Sea is a book of magisterial synthesis and scholarship - a huge multi-disciplinary literature turned into a narrative that is at once comprehensive, enjoyable, quirky and thought-provoking." Antiquity "This book will be indispensable for the serious student of the Mediterranean past and present." CHOICE "This is an important book that presents a powerful and original model of Mediterranean history that will be used, debated, and criticized by historians of all periods for years to come." English Historical Review "Horden and Purcell's new Mediterranean panorama, which will take a generation of historians to digest and implement, forms one of those manifest watersheds in the study of antiquity." Journal of Roman Archaeology "This book amounts to an often fascinating, and unerringly useful, compendium." International History Review "Here a generation of ecological historians ... has led the way. Horden and Purcell have synthesized that literature, extended its reach into the Middle Ages, and made it accessible to the general medievalist." Speculum "This impressive work synthesizes a vast amount of historical, geographical, archaelogical, and ethnographic knowledge about the Mediterranean region." Historical GeographyTable of ContentsList of Maps vii Acknowledgements ix Note on References x Abbreviations xi Introduction 1 Part One: ‘Frogs round a Pond’: Ideas of the Mediterranean 7 I A Geographical Expression 9 1. What is the Mediterranean?;2. The Challenge of the Continents;3. The Mediterranean Disintegrated; 4. Intimations of Unity II a Historian’s Mediterranean 26 1. The Imaginary Sea; 2. Four Men in a Boat; 3. The End of the Mediterranean; 4. Mediterranean History; 5. Historical Ecology Part Two: ‘Short Distances and Definite Places’: Mediterranean Microecologies 51 III Four Definite Places 53 1. The Biqa; 2. South Etruria; 3. The Green Mountain, Cyrenaica; 4. Melos; 5. ‘La trame du monde’; 6. Mountains and Pastures; 7. Theodoric and Dante IV Ecology and the Larger Settlement 89 1. An Urban Tradition; 2. Definitions; 3. The Urban Variable; 4. Types and Theories; 5. Consumption; 6. Settlement Ecology; 7. Autarky; 8. Dispersed Hinterlands V Connectivity 123 1. Lines of Sound and Lines of Sight; 2. Extended Archipelagos; 3. Shipping Lanes; 4. Economies Compared; 5. The Early Medieval Depression; 6. Connectivity Maintained?; 7. Conclusion Copyrighted Material Part Three: Revolution and Catastrophe 173 VI Imperatives of Survival: Diversify, Store, Redistribute 175 1. The History of Mediterranean Food Systems; 2. The New Ecological Economic History; 3. Understanding the Marginal; 4. The Integrated Mediterranean Forest; 5. The Underestimated Mediterranean Wetland; 6. ‘These Places Feed Many Pickling-Fish .’; 7. Mediterranean Animal Husbandry; 8. Cereals and the Dry Margin; 9. The Case of the Tree-Crop; 10. The Mediterranean Garden; 11. The Smaller Mediterranean Island VII Technology and Agrarian Change 231 1. Working the Soil; 2. The Irrigated Landscape; 3. On the Diversity of Cultivated Plants; 4. Abatement and Intensification; 5. Anatomy of the Mediterranean Countryman; 6. Colonizations and Allotments; 7. The Reception of Innovation VIII Mediterranean Catastrophes 298 1. On the History of Catastrophe; 2. An Unstable World; 3. Alluvial Catastrophe and its Causes; 4. Sediments and History; 5. The History of Vegetation; 6. Environmental History without Catastrophe IX Mobility of Goods and People 342 1. Inescapable Redistribution; 2. Animal, Vegetable and ; 3. The Problem of Mediterranean Textiles; 4. Problems with High Commerce; 5. The Ultimate Resource; 6. Organized Mobility; 7. Places of Redistribution Part Four: The Geography of Religion 401 X ‘territories of Grace’ 403 1. Religion and the Physical Environment; 2. A Perilous Environment; 3. The Sacralized Economy; 4. The Religion of Mobility; 5. The Religion of Boundary and Belonging Part Five: ‘Museums of Man’? The Uses of Social Anthropology 461 XI ‘mists of Time’: Anthropology and Continuity 463 1. Survivals Revisited; 2. Balanced Arcadias; 3. The Presence of the Past; 4. Upstreaming XII ‘i also Have a Moustache’: Anthropology and Mediterranean Unity 485 1. Grands faits méditerranéens?; 2. Mediterranean Values?; 3. Honour and Shame I; 4. Honour and Shame II; 5. Honour in the City; 6. Pattern and Depth; 7. Distinctiveness; 8. Origins; 9. History; 10. The Case for Mediterraneanism Bibliographical Essays 530 Consolidated Bibliography 642 Index 737
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Harvard University Press Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 39
Book SynopsisPHCC, 39 offers a wide range of articles on topics across the field of Celtic Studies and includes the Colloquium keynote given by Barbara Hillers on the literary use of Irish and international folklore in the Irish tale Aislinge Meic Con Glinne (The Vision of Mac Con Glinne). Other papers expand the scope as far as the early twentieth century.
£20.96
Harvard Department of the Classics The Lives of Latin Texts
Book SynopsisThe Lives of Latin Texts collects papers presented at a 2018 conference in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University in honor of Richard Tarrant on the occasion of his retirement. The breadth of authors, genres, periods, and topics is testament to Tarrant's influence on the fields of Latin literary studies and textual criticism.
£24.65
Harvard University Press Inky Fingers
Book SynopsisRenowned historian Anthony Grafton invites us to see the scholars of early modern Europe as laborers. Bookish but hardly divorced from physical tasks, they were artisans of script and print. Drawing new connections between text and craft, publishing and intellectual history, Grafton shows that the life of the mind depends on the work of the hands.Trade ReviewGrafton describes magnificent achievements, storms of controversy, and sometimes the pure devilment of scholars and printers, from the 15th to the early 17th centuries…Captivating and often amusing. * Wall Street Journal *The essays…repopulate the world of high scholarship with participants of all social ranks, dragging the most rarefied ideas down to earth…For all his own intellectual daring, Grafton’s sympathies lie with gruntwork. Originality is upstaged by transmission, inspiration by logistics. Ideas, in this vivid telling, emerge not just from minds but from hands, not to mention the biceps that crank a press or heft a ream of paper. -- Leah Price * New York Review of Books *As usual, Grafton presents largely unfamiliar material—his last essay looks at precursors to Spinoza’s rationalist approach to biblical interpretation—in a clear, even breezy style…Erudite. -- Michael Dirda * Washington Post *Describes the texture of intellectual life from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment…Scholarship is a kind of heroism in Grafton’s account, his nine protagonists’ aching backs and tired eyes evidence of their valiant dedication to the pursuit of knowledge. -- Erin Maglaque * London Review of Books *Excellent and endlessly readable. -- Robert Fredona * Business History Review *Delightful…Weave[s] together an impressive range of case studies that investigate the labors of scholarly authors between 1500 and 1750. -- Arthur der Weduwen * Library & Information History *I can only gesture here to the richness of Grafton’s work…Looking at humanists in their world, Grafton shows once more that despite the ongoing challenges to the humanities, he is a worthy successor to those he writes about and an exemplar for those of us fortunate enough to know him or to read him. -- Jonathan Locke Hart * Renaissance and Reformation *A new book by Grafton is always a cause for celebration. * Choice *Grafton’s sweeping erudition and meticulous scholarship are on display in Inky Fingers, which offers us a look over the shoulders of theologians and humanist scholars. His case studies illuminate how ‘traditional’ historical skills—the careful reading of texts, the deciphering of marginalia, and the tracing of arcane references—still hold countless possibilities for new readings and revelations. -- Daniel Jütte, author of The Strait Gate: Thresholds and Power in Western HistoryInky Fingers directs our attention to the inky realities of book production and the messiness of everyday life. To erase urban contexts, correspondence networks, financial burdens, and other human factors from the early modern narrative, Grafton shows us, is to distort how new ideas—both famous and obscure—came into being. An excellent and thought-provoking book! -- Ada Palmer, author of Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance and the Terra Ignota series
£18.86
Princeton University Press Greed and Injustice in Classical Athens
Book SynopsisOffers a historical and sociological interpretation of classical Athens centered on the notion of greed. Integrating ancient philosophy, poetry, and history, and drawing on modern political thought, this work demonstrates that the Athenian discourse on greed was an essential component of Greek social development and political history.Trade Review"[A] timely and sophisticated interdisciplinary study, involving not only ancient political theory, but also modern ethics, the concepts of distributive justice and individual virtue... Students of political theory will find this study, which illuminates many basic issues both thoughtful and invigorating."--David F. Graf, Religious Studies Review "The intellectual breadth and depth of the project is most impressive. Moreover, the scholarship is thorough ... primary sources are regularly cited and sometimes quoted and the writing style is as consistently clear as it is literate and, from a critical standpoint, au courant. Altogether, Balot's study is to be highly recommended across the wide spectrum of disciplines it so splendidly reflects."--Nicholas F. Jones, The HistorianTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Chapter 1. Introduction 1 Chapter 2. Greed in Aristotle's Political Thought 22 Greed and Unfairness in Distribution in Nicomachean Ethics 5 23 What Makes Human Beings Greedy? 34 Analyzing Greed in the Polis: Revolution, Civic Strife, and Distributive, Justice 44 Conclusion 55 Chapter 3. Solonian Athens and the Archaic Roots of Greed 58 Homer and Hesiod 59 Solon's Reform 73 Solon's Critique: The Problem of Acquisition and Unfairness 79 Chapter 4. Herodotus and the Greed of Imperialism 99 Eastern Imperialism 100 Greed and Fairness in the Panhellenic League 108 The Emergent Imperialism of Athens 114 Conclusion 129 Chapter 5. Thucydides, Greed, and the Breakdown of Political Community 136 Revolution at Corcyra: Greed, Leadership, and Civic Trust 137 Periclean Athens: Greedy Success 142 Human Nature, Democracy, and Greed 154 Post-Periclean Disintegration 159 Conclusion: The Ethics of Athenian Imperialism 172 Chapter 6. "Revolution Matters"? Oligarchic Rebellion and Democratic Hegemony in Athens 179 Athenian Culture in the Late Fifth Century: Unity and Division 180 The Revolution of 411: Speech, Mistrust, and Violence 211 The Revolution of 404: Greed and the Thirty 219 Responding to the Revolutions. Lysias and Xenophon 225 Chapter 7. Epilogue: Planto's Republic in Context 234 Bibliography 249 Index Locorum 273 General Index 279
£79.20
University of Wales Press Welsh Ballads of the French Revolution
Book SynopsisWelsh Ballads of the French Revolution (1793 - 1815) is an edition of ballads composed in the Welsh language during a momentous period in the history of Western civilization. The texts respond to the upheavals of the Revolutionary decade and its afermath, as people in Britain began to react to the violent deaths of the French monarchs.Trade ReviewThe vibrancy and colour of the Welsh ballads of the French Revolution are brought to life in this ground-breaking anthology edited and translated by Ffion Mair Jones. Offering a detailed analysis of ballads responding to the upheavals of the French Revolution, this volume reveals how the traumatic events of the period were interpreted and presented to Welsh audiences at the time. Ffion Mair Jones argues that despite being overwhelmingly loyal to the British crown, these ballads are far from being monotonous in their conservatism and she uncovers the historical and contemporary impulses that encouraged loyalty and discouraged dissent among the popular poets of the day. By making these ballads accessible to a wider audience, this volume will shed new light on Welsh popular responses to the most dramatic and important event in eighteenth-century Europe. Dr Siwan Rosser, School of Welsh, Cardiff UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Responding to Revolution The Voices of Dissent: The ballads of south-west Wales (1793) 'Faithful Britons': The loyalist response (1793 - 4) The Fishguard Invasion (1797): Loyalty, identity and the hand of God Taking up Arms: Militia, volunteers and the army (1793 - 1815) War-reporting (1794 - 1815) The Duke of York (1793, 1794) The Glorious First of June and Cape St Vincent (1794, 1797) Nelson ballads (1805) Napoleon ballads (1812 - 15) Conclusion
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University of Wales Press Spying for Hitler
Book SynopsisThroughout World War II, the loyalties of Welsh nationalists frequently came into question?and it?s long been thought that key figures collaborated with Hitler and the Nazis. In Spying for Hitler, John Humphries sets the record straight, showing that in fact Welsh nationalists deliberately infiltrated German military intelligence?and were instrumental in the creation of MI5?s Double-Cross System, which has been credited with controlling every German agent sent to Britain.Trade ReviewA John le Carre-style spy thriller with a difference - it's all true! John Humphries lifts the lid on the enduring suspicion that Welsh nationalists spied for Germany during the Second World War. Hitler promised Home Rule if Wales helped the Nazis to win. A retired Swansea police inspector was recruited to sabotage the British war effort; a U-Boat was sent to land explosives on a secluded beach; and three Cuban saboteurs arrived aboard a fishing boat. 'Spying for Hitler' even has a twist in the end. Humphries, a former newspaper editor, has applied his undoubted journalistic skills to solving one of the outstanding mysteries of the last war, one that cast a dark shadow over a resurgent nationalist movement. A gripping read, meticulously pieced together from MI5 and German Military Intelligence sources. Terry Breverton, Publisher and Author
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Vintage Blood Of Spain
Book SynopsisWe discover what civil war, revolution and counter-revolution actually felt like from inside both camps. The contours of the war take shape through the words of the eyewitnesses. The atmosphere of events is vividly recaptured. And though the lived experience of the participants is revealed the uniquely tragic essence of all civil war. ''Fascinating and brilliantly unorthodox. '' Hugh Thomas, author of THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO.Trade ReviewTraversing a scarred land that has endured everything and forgotten nothing, historian Ronald Fraser records the memories of survivors in this remarkable oral history... No other volume on the Spanish Civil War can surpass the power of this one. * Time *Fascinating and brilliantly unorthodox. -- High ThomasFraser has stunningly captured the feel of the Spanish Civil War. It is as close to the truth as we'll ever get. -- Studs TerkelMoving and original...splendid and evocative. * New York Times Book Review *Just occasionally a great and important historical work appears that not only affects our understanding of the events it describes and analyses, but also significantly alters our attitude towards the historical process itself... A magnificent, monumental book, that is quite the most valuable addition to the vast library of books on the 1930s that has been published in the last decade. -- Richard Gott * Guardian *
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Vintage The Devils Disciples
Book SynopsisThe Nazi regime was essentially a religious cult, relying on the hypnotic personality of one man, Adolf Hitler, and it was fated to die with him. It focuses on the three Nazi paladins closest to Hitler - Goring, Goebbels and Himmler - with their nearest rivals - Bormann, Speer and Ribbentrop in close attendance.Trade ReviewA pacy, elegant book. * Guardian *It is of paramount importance that well-researched, authoritative accounts of the Nazi era continue to be written. Anthony Read's study of Hitler's inner circle is just such one. -- Michael Arditti * Daily Express *
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Vintage Eden
Book SynopsisAnthony Eden, who served as both Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister, was one of the central political figures of the twentieth century. He had good looks, charm, a Military Cross from the Great War, an Oxford first and a secure parliamentary constituency from his mid-twenties. He was Foreign Secretary at the age of 38, and the first British statesman to meet Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin. Eden''s dramatic resignation from Neville Chamberlain''s Cabinet in 1938, outlined here in the fullest detail yet, made an international impact.This ground-breaking book examines his controversial life and tells the inside story of the Munich crisis (1938), the Geneva Conference (1954), Eden''s battles with Churchill over the modernisation of the post-war Conservative Party and his rivalry with Butler and Macmillan in the early 1950s, culminating in a fascinating analysis of the Suez crisis.Trade Review[A] biography of almost unqualified excellence. -- Roy Hattersley * New Statesman *The best-life of this ill-starred politician that we are likely to get...the skilful way he has paced his narrative...vivid...some of the disclosures are pure, unalloyed joy...Thorpe has painted a sympathetic enough portrait but he has not tried to blot out all the warts...excellent. -- ANTHONY HOWARD * SUNDAY TIMES *Sympathetic and authoraitative...This biography, while solidly based on a myriad primary sources and a comprehensive range of secondary ones, flows easily with many nice touches...easily the best friendly account. -- INA GILMOUR * FINANCIAL TIMES *A biography of almost unqualified excellence...comprehensive, authoritative, balanced and invariably (throughout more than 600 pages) readable...In a year or more of notable biographies, there has been nothing to touch it...as told by D.R. Thorpe it is a history of exceptionally high quality. -- Roy Hattersley * New Statesman *
£17.09
Duckworth Books The Nine Lives of John Ogilby Britains Master Map
Book SynopsisIn this enlightening book, Alan Ereira brings a fascinating hidden history to light, and reveals that Ogilby's celebrated Britannia is far more than a harmless road atlas: it is, rather, filled with secrets designed to serve a conspiracy of kings and England's undoing. The Nine Lives of John Ogilby is the story of a remarkable man, and of a covertTrade Review‘A spectacular book with a wide range of insights to the 17th Century’ * Terry Jones *Ereira is justly proud… situates Britannia in its political context, connecting it to Charles II’s military purposes and need to crush rebellion' * Guardian *‘Compelling... a terrific subject for a biography... Ereira’s enthusiasm is infectious [and his] generous biography conveys both the irrepressible energy and the shifty elusiveness of Ogilby.’ * TLS *Britannia was created by a cunning Scot, to help the monarch’s absolute ascendancy over the whole of Britain. The secret is finally out.' * Scotsman *
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Gill Threads
Book SynopsisA fascinating history of Irishmen, woven through the clothes they wear.Taking the clothes they wore as a starting point, Paul Galvin skilfully weaves together a collection of stories of Irish men who defined the culture and mood of their time.In Push' he tells the story of the legendary Walker Brothers cyclists and soldiers who pedalled through a storm for Ireland at the 1912 Stockholm Games. In Born Mad', discover another side to Samuel Beckett sartor and prolific sportsman who had knockout power as a champion boxer in school. In Boland' we learn about Harry Boland's background as a trained tailor, and in Jack' we encounter Jack B. Yeats at the Olympic Games in Paris.These are just some of men who have inspired Paul's own fashion collections and whom he writes about here in a fascinating collection that shines a light on how history is woven into the clothes Irishmen wear.
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James Clarke & Co Ltd Britains Greatest Prime Minister HB
Book SynopsisBritain''s Greatest Prime Minister: Lord Liverpool unpicks two centuries of Whig history to redeem Lord Liverpool (1770-1828) from ''arch-mediocrity'' and establish him as the greatest political leader the country has ever seen.In the past, biographers of Lord Liverpool have not sufficiently acknowledged the importance of his foremost skill: economic policy (including fiscal, monetary and banking system questions). Here, Hutchinson''s decades of experience in the finance sector provide a more specialised perspective on Liverpool''s economic legacy than most historians are able to offer.From his adept handling of unparalleled economic and social difficulties, to his strategic defeat of Napoleon and unprecedented approach to the subsequent peace process, Liverpool is shown to have set Britain''s course for prosperity and effective government for the following century. In addition to granting him his rightful place among British Prime Ministers on both domestic and foreign policy grounds,Trade Review"Martin Hutchinson, one of the rarest of Wall Street's birds of plumage - a true original thinker - here makes the persuasive case that the greatest of Britain's prime ministers is a man whose name perhaps few Americans have ever heard. This splendid, erudite, fast-moving biography assures Lord Liverpool of the recognition he so richly deserves." James Grant, Founder and Editor, Grant's Interest Rate Observer "Meticulously researched, beautifully written and enlivened by the author's mischievous wit, Britain's Greatest Prime Minister is a tour de force in political biography and provides a deep sense of the tumultuous and challenging times in which Lord Liverpool lived. An added bonus is Hutchinson's unconventional assessment of the good, the bad, the mediocre and the dregs among UK prime ministers." Kevin Dowd, Durham University "Martin Hutchinson has written a masterly biography rooted in political economy that promotes the once-despised Lord Liverpool to the first rank of prime ministers. He demonstrates how Liverpool's shrewd financial policy laid the foundations for defeating Napoleon, restoring post-war stability at home and in Europe, and strengthening Britain's economic and strategic world dominance. It's an impressive story, still largely unknown, and Hutchinson's telling is powerful and readable in equal measure." John O'Sullivan, Editor-at-large of National Review and author of The President, the Pope and the Prime Minister "Hutchinson writes clearly and briskly, making even minor matters interesting... a remarkable book." Lord Lexden, The House Magazine Jan 2021, pp.39 "He has written a first-rate political biography which is essential reading for all who are interested in the period." Michael Arnold, Historical Association, 26th January 2021Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Note on Nomenclature Note on Money I. Introduction II. Early Years until the Death of Pitt, 1770-1806 III. De Facto Primus inter Pares, 1806-11 IV. Year of Destiny, 1812 V. Years of Victory, 1813-15 VI. Penury and Progress, 1815-19 VII. Challenges, Recovery and Transition, 1820-23 VIII. Bubble, Reform, Death and Oblivion, 1824-28 IX. Conclusion Appendix: Liverpool's letter to the Bank of England Bibliography Index
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Manchester University Press Revolutionary Britannia Reflections on the Threat
Book SynopsisFollowing the overthrow of the absolutist monarchy in France in 1789, European history was punctuated by political upheavals until in 1848 the continent was swept by revolutionary fervour. Britain alone of the major western powers seemed exempt. This text examines this apparent difference.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroductionPart 1. Sedition and Treason, 1792-1820The impact of the revolution in FrancePlots, real or imagined, 1793-1795United Irish, English and Scotsmen, 1795-1803The seriousness of the threatLuddismThe post-war crisis, 1817From Peterloo to Cato Street and BonnymuirConclusionPart 2. Revolution or reform, 1830-1832The Reform Bill crisisPolitical unions and urban riotsThe Welsh rising, 1831Rural unrestConclusionPart 3, 1837-1848The first Chartist crisis, 1839-1840The Monmouthshire and Yorkshire risingsThe second Chartist crisis, 1842The third Chartist crisis, 1848ConclusionPart 4, Why was there no revolutionThe nature of the popular movementGeography and the problem of LondonLoyalism and the silent majorityThe cohesion of social welfareReligionThe strength of the stateThe authority of the lawThe forces of orderConclusionAppendix: Wheat and bread prices, 1790-1850Select bibliographyIndex
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Manchester University Press Peasants and Historians Debating the Medieval
Book SynopsisThis book examines one hundred years of historical debate on the English peasantry in the later Middle Ages, exploring the influences and changes to peasantry society, economy and culture.Trade Review‘Practitioners of peasant history will benefit from the guides to bibliography and analysis of past ideas and present preoccupations, while newcomers are given a useful guide to the state of the subject. Those familiar with the peasant world will find well-known subjects presented from a new perspective.’Christopher Dyer, University of Leicester, Agricultural History -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Early contributionsPart I: Themes 2. Population, resources and the medieval English peasantry3. Lords and peasants4. Peasants and marketsPart II: Debates5. Demography and the medieval peasantry6. Family, household and gender7. The village community and the nature of peasant society in medieval England8. Peasant cultureConclusionIndex
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Manchester University Press Scotland the Caribbean and the Atlantic World
Book SynopsisThis is the first book-length study wholly devoted to assessing the array of ties between Scotland and the Caribbean that bound the Atlantic World together in the later eighteenth century.Trade ReviewThere is no comparable study and this book would find a welcome place on the reading lists of graduate students and historians of the Atlantic world.' -- .Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsMapsIntroduction1. Scotland in the eighteenth century2. The eighteenth-century West Indies3. Scots on the plantations4. Mercantile connections5. Scots doctors in the West Indies6. Scots in West Indian politics7. Scots, the Caribbean and British politics8. Repatriation from the West IndiesConclusionBibliographyIndex
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Manchester University Press British imperialism in Cyprus 18781915
Book SynopsisThis book explores the tensions underlying British imperialism in Cyprus, explaining how the Union Jack came to fly over the island and why after thirty-five years the British wanted it lowered. Cyprus' importance was always more imagined than real and was enmeshed within widely held cultural signifiers and myths. -- .Trade Review'With his subtle, yet well-researched and well-argued study, Varnava has made a significant contribution to Cypriot history, as well as the histories of the Ottoman and British empires, particularly in our understandings of how images and reality may wildly differ in the context of imperial ventures.'The American Historical Review'It is highly commendable that the author adopts an open and fresh approach to Cyprus’ history, in particular in the way how he looked in retrospect at the Ottoman period and its ramifications until British rule.'Journal of Mediterranean Studies'this is a fascinating and compelling tale. Very well-written, conceptually and methodologically sophisticated, this is by far the best book on the early years of the history of the British in Cyprus. It rightfully deserves a central place on the bookshelf of anyone interested in Cypriot, Ottoman, Greek, British or imperial histories'A Review of the Past and other Stories'British Imperialism in Cyprus deserves significant consideration for two reasons. Varnava's adroit use of the ‘Eldorado’ argument adds important nuance to analyses of the acquisitive propensities of the British imperial state. The cultural is subtly woven into the political in a manner that historians of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European imperialism will find illuminating.'European Review of History'Varnava's book should open the way for more studies that will increase our understanding and knowledge of this most interesting and important period of British colonial rule in Cyprus.'The Round Table'British Imperialism in Cyprus is definitely an illuminating research piece on the ‘tensions underlying British imperialism in Cyprus’.'Anglophone Studies'Varnava’s book is a wonderful addition to our knowledge and understanding of a crucial period in Cyprus’ history, namely that of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. […] a well-written and well-documented account of the first four decades of British rule in Cyprus. It heightens our knowledge and exposes the problems surrounding some ofthe accepted ‘truths’ regarding this period. […] This book would be an excellent addition to student reading lists as well as providing new material for seasoned researchers in the history, colonial studies, sociology, and political science of Cyprus.'The Cyprus Review‘This thoroughly researched and very well written study will remain essential for any modern historian of Cyprus. Intellectually stimulating, in a well substantiated way provocative and full of new insights, one can only wish that its main theses enter the public discourse of Cyprus, which is so ignorant of many of the findings of this book.’Reviews in History‘Varnava's work is an overdue reassessment of common wisdom in the history of Cyprus which will also appeal to students of Cypriot history as well as the reader interested in international relations and politics in the Near East at the beginning of the twentieth century.’Journal of Modern Greek Studies -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Historicising the British Possession of Cyprus: The Contexts2. Cyprus from Richard Coeur de Lion to Disraeli: The Imperial Imagination3. Justifying the Occupation of Cyprus, 1876-78: ‘The Key of Western Asia’4. The Sublime Illusions: 1878-80: The Mediterranean ‘Eldorado’5. Financial Policy and the Development of Cyprus, 1880-1912: The ‘Mill-Stone’6. From Multiculturalism to Multi-Nationalism: The ‘European’ Possession7. Cyprus’ Strategic Place in the British Imperial Structure: The Backwater8. ‘Cyprus is of No Use to Anybody’: The PawnConclusionBibliographyAppendices
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Manchester University Press The BBC and National Identity in Britain 192253
Book SynopsisThis book is the first study of how the BBC, through radio, tried to represent what it meant to be British. The book combines an examination of the BBC's desire to construct a strong, unitary sense of Britishness (through empire and the monarchy) with a thorough consideration of the broadcasting in the non-English parts of the United Kingdom. -- .Trade ReviewThis is an important book that makes a valuable contribution to our knowledge of modern British history and the evolution of British identity in the twentieth century.Robert Savage, Boston College, H-Albion, 01/02/2012Resting on a solid foundation of BBC written archives, personnel writings and speeches, and an impressive array of recent investigations, the volume’s seven chapters reveal how Corporation and government decisions, from scheduling to content, impacted the marketing of Britishness.Eugenia M. Palmegiano, JHistory, 01/02/2012one of the most original and incisive contributions to the history of British broadcasting since the publication of Asa Briggs’ mammoth five-volume history between 1961 and 1995....It is a book that deserves to be afforded significant intellectual currency not only in the history of broadcasting but also in the academic discourse around national identity that emerged around the millennium and has received stimulus with the formation of Britain’s’ first coalition government in seventy years. James Chapman, University of Leicester, Visual Culture in Britain (13), 31/01/2012The book is a welcome addition to the literature, particularly for those interested in either the BBC or imperial cultureLaura Beers, Journal of Modern History -- .Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. “Jolly proud you are a Britisher:” empire and identity, 1923–392. From the war to Westminster Abbey: the BBC and the empire, 1939–533. The BBC and the making of a multi-national monarchy4. Rethinking regional broadcasting in Britain, 1922–535. Broadcasting a nation: The BBC and national identity in Scotland6. BBC broadcasting in Wales, 1922–537. This is Northern Ireland: regional broadcasting and identity in “Ulster”ConclusionSelect BibliographyIndex
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Manchester University Press Warrior Dreams Playing Scotsmen in Mainland
Book SynopsisPresents new insights on Scotland’s international image at the beginning of the twenty-first centuryTrade ReviewIt’s hard to know whether to laugh or cry at one of the most bizarre stories of modern culture, beautifully told by David Hesse. Is this who Scots have become, or are we simply figuring in someone else’s fantasy life? Hesse tells it with sympathy and irony, and he is always true to what he finds. Perhaps we are all Scots now.'Emeritus Professor David McCrone, University of Edinburgh'It is a volume full of surprises, intriguing facts and sharp insights which will have obvious appeal for scholars of identity, history, anthropology and folk culture. But Warrior dreams also merits a much broader readership because of its accessible prose and stimulating exploration of the enduring global appeal of romantic Scottishness'.Professor Sir Tom Devine, University of Edinburgh...is an extraordinary book which examines the remarkable cult of Scottishness which has mushroomed across northern Euroe from Moscow to Stockholm in recent decades. Hesse skillfully explains why Highland games, pipe bands, military re-enactments and Scots festivals have become so popular on the continent among Europeans who have no Scottish herritage whatever and often have never visited the country of their dreams. A book which deserves a wide readership...‘These primary source materials, among others, are analysed within an impressive grasp of a wider scholarship on memory and heritage and deft comparisons with the “genetic” Scottish diaspora of North America and Australasia.’Interdisciplinary Journalof Scottish Studies, Vol. 39, 2017 -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Scots of Europe1. Context: playing the past2. The Scottish dreamscape: formation3. The Scottish dreamscape: spread4. Marching Scots: pipe bands5. Only the strong: Highland Games6. Our Scottish past: commemorations7. Régiments du passé: re- enactment8. Homecomings: finding neverland9. Who’s like us? Scotland as a site of memoryConclusion: Warrior dreamsAppendix A: TablesAppendix B: Sample questionnaireBibliography Index
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Manchester University Press Changing Gender Roles and Attitudes to Family
Book SynopsisThis book presents the results of the first major study to examine people's attitudes to family formation and childbearing in Ireland. Based on a nationwide representative sample of 1,404 men and women in the childbearing age group, the study was carried out against a backdrop of changing gender role attitudes and behaviour as well as significant demographic change.Table of Contents1. Changing gender roles and family formation: overview of key issues and previous research2. Method3. Attitudes to gender roles 4. Family formation: attitudes and behaviour 5. Attitudes to having children and childlessness6. People's priorities and values7. Attitudes to social policies relevant to family formation 8. Predictors of family status 9. Predictors of ideal and expected family size10. The effect of family status on well-being11. Summary and discussionIndex
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The Crowood Press Ltd The Angevin Dynasties of Europe 9001500
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Schofield & Sims Ltd Roman Britain Laminated posters
Book SynopsisAimed at the Key Stage 1 and 2 levels, this chart provides facts and information about the everyday life in Britain during the Roman Times. It features topics about work and trade, religion and infrastructure. Featuring colorful pictures, it is intended for a project or lesson.
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Andrews UK Limited The Celtic Supernatural
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Pluto Press Rebel Footprints
Book SynopsisThe classic walking guide for the intrepid radical in London.Trade Review'David has brought the streets and buildings of London alive to the real history of the city and the struggles of ordinary people. Anyone reading this will walk the streets of our city with a different view of the world, and what people can do when they act together' -- Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party'Informative and well-judged ... There is so much that is inspirational in this book' -- Nicholas Lezard, Guardian Paperback of the Week'A book of detail and passion' -- Danny Dorling, Times Higher Education'You haven't walked the streets of London unless you've understood the secret history of revolt, rebellion and poverty hidden all around you in its bricks and alleyways. Rosenberg takes you there as no other writer has done' -- Paul Mason'By offering us a guide to our radical past, Rosenberg reminds us of the strong tradition of dissent that has shaped our history and made us who we are' -- Billy Bragg'Stirs my heart's old sympathies with the idealism of the radical Left. I still urge you to let Rosenberg take you on his London journey' -- Dave Hill, GuardianThis brilliant book brings London's long tradition of radicalism and rebellion to life. Using walks to show how dissent led to democracy, it is a fitting testimonial to the collective struggles of Londoners of every colour and creed. I for one will be dusting down my walking shoes and taking to the streets to find out more -- Frances O'Grady, General Secretary of the TUCTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword by Ash Sarkar Introduction: Rebellious City 1. Writers and Rioters in the Fleet Street Precinct 2. Trailblazers for Democracy in Clerkenwell Green 3. The Spark of Rebellion in Bow 4. Coming in from the Cold: Immigrant Agitators and Radicals in Spitalfields 5. No Gods, No Masters: Radical Bloomsbury 6. Life on the Boundary: Fighting for Housing in Bethnal Green and Shoreditch 7. Stirrings from the South: The Battersea Four 8. Speaking Truth to Power: Suffragettes and Westminster 9. Not Afraid of the Prison Walls: Rebel Women and Men of Poplar 10. People's Power in Bermondsey 11. No Pasaran! Cable Street and Long Lane Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Pluto Press The Fight for Scottish Democracy
Book SynopsisA brand-new history of Scotland's radical war for democracy in 1820Trade Review'This quite excellent book, with its extremely comprehensive research, revelatory conception and lucid prose, has the welcome potency to finally dispel the long concocted myth that, compared to 18th century England, Scotland was inherently averse to radical creative or physical unrest' -- Andrew Noble, Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow'Intensely dramatic, impeccably detailed and narrated with literary flair, Armstrong brings to life the history of a powerful yet forgotten revolution' -- Maxine Peake, Actress and Writer'In his book on Thomas Muir, Armstrong vividly told the story of one of Scotland's greatest sons and the radical cause. Now he does the same for those involved in the 1820 rising. It's sadly a tale that's largely been untold. But this eloquently rights that wrong' -- Kenny MacAskill, MP for East Lothian and former Cabinet Secretary for Justice'Armstrong pulls off a masterful feat, colouring a world long gone with such vivid detail that you feel the hope, injustice and ruthless suppression of a great but unsung democratic uprising. Yet, even though the period is so powerfully re-imagined, there's no loss of historical accuracy or political drive in this excellent book' -- Lesley Riddoch, author of 'Blossom: What Scotland Needs to Flourish''At a time when anachronistic discussions of Scottish nationalism are prevalent, Armstrong's book should prove to be an outstanding and timely contribution to literature on Scottish history on the 200th anniversary of the Radical War' -- Neil Davidson, author of 'The Origins of Scottish Nationhood''The Fight for Scottish Democracy earns a vital place in remembering those who struggled at such tremendous personal risk for democratic rights now taken so unquestionably for granted' -- Scottish Left ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Map 1. 1820: Death on the Green 2. 1812: Overture 3. 1815: A Disputed Peace 4. 1816–17: Alarm 5. 1817: Repression 6. 1818–19: Fever 7. 1819: Peterloo 8. 1819: Radicals vs Loyalists 9. 1820: Underground 10. 1820: Address to the Inhabitants 11. 1820: Hostilities 12. 1820: Purge 13. 1820: Retribution 14. Retreat Postscript References Bibliography Index
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Pluto Press Victor Grayson
Book SynopsisThe true story of the strange disappearance of a radical iconTrade Review'Victor Grayson was a socialist firebrand and trailblazer. The leftist equivalent of a spectacular firework, he blazed gloriously, but briefly, before falling to earth - and from grace. This is a gripping account of his spectacular political rise, challenge to the cosy Labour establishment, bizarre ideological volte-face and sudden, never solved, disappearance' -- Peter Tatchell, human rights defender'Wonderful' -- Jeremy Corbyn, former leader of the Labour party'Remarkable ... cuts through the mystery and fabrication that has surrounded Grayson's tumultuous life and brings us a step closer to the true story of one of the most renowned socialist politicians of his generation' -- Dan Carden MP'Casts a new light on its fascinating subject' -- Dr Kevin Hickson, Senior Lecturer in British Politics, University of Liverpool'A fresh and lively portrait of Victor Grayson built on sound research and archival discoveries' -- David Clark (Lord Clark of Windermere), former Colne Valley MP and author of 'Victor Grayson: The Man and the Mystery' (Quartet, 2016)'From his stunning victory in the Colne Valley by-election of 1907 to his stirring oratory and mysterious disappearance, Victor Grayson has continued to be a source of fascination. In this well-written new study, Harry Taylor not only illuminates Grayson's political career, he also illustrates its significance in the rise of the Labour Party' -- Nick Thomas Symonds MP'A cracking read. If you like your politics and your history in primary colours, Harry Taylor's story of Victor Grayson fits the bill' -- Chris Bryant MP'A thorough, wonderfully-written examination of a hugely intriguing and complex figure who vanished so quickly after a brief yet incendiary political career' -- Maxine Peake, actor'The Victor Grayson story is one of the great 'who-dunnit' sagas of modern politics. It is especially poignant for socialists as he was one of the first of the breed in Parliament, full of promise which soon dissipated. Harry Taylor tells the tale with verve and insight' -- Andrew Lord Adonis'Taylor delves into Labour's most fascinating cold case to produce a lively and compelling story of a working class hero' -- Paul Mason, author of 'How To Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance''Taylor gives us a superb life ... the best biography of Grayson' -- 'Bookmunch''Stunning ... In Harry Taylor Grayson has found an understanding, but not uncritical, champion, who wears his extensive research lightly and has now confirmed his status as one of the party's most perceptive and sympathetic chroniclers' -- 'Tides of History'‘Taylor’s compelling scholarship is thorough and enthralling’ -- ‘Morning Star’‘An engaging and evocative biography … Victor Grayson’s story is told in accomplished style by Taylor’ -- ‘Tribune’‘Harry Taylor has produced a helpful, well-written and excellent account of the life and subsequent mysterious disappearance of the Labour MP Victor Grayson’ -- ‘House Magazine’Table of ContentsIllustrations Foreword by Jeremy Corbyn Introduction 1. The Boy from Liverpool 2. The Student Revolutionary 3. The By-Election 4. ‘The Boy Who Paralysed Parliament’ 5. Member for the Unemployed 6. ‘England’s Greatest Mob Orator’ 7. Revolution Delayed 8. The Battle for a Socialist Party 9. More Than Just a ‘Cheap Orator’ 10. A Taste of War 11. To Passchendaele 12. On Lloyd George’s Service 13. Towards the Truth Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements Index
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Pluto Press A Party with Socialists in It
Book SynopsisA smart and succinct history of the Labour leftTrade Review'A welcome corrective, This book astutely appraises British politics’ most frustrating but important dissident tradition' -- 'Guardian''Admirably clear-sighted' -- 'New Statesman''At a very crucial time in British politics, this book helps us to fill in important gaps in our knowledge' -- David Coates, author of 'Prolonged Labour: The Slow Birth of New Labour in Britain''A well-timed explanation of the class contradictions at the root of the Labour Party from its creation to the present day' -- 'Labour Briefing'Table of ContentsForeword to the Second Edition by Nadia Whittome MP Foreword to the First Edition by John McDonnell MP Preface to the Second Edition Introduction 1. Divided Beginnings 2. Second Time as Disaster 3. The Age of Consent 4. The Civil War 5. 'Though Cowards Flinch...' 6. The Broad Church Collapses 7. The Single Idea 8. The Corbyn Supremacy 9. From Ancient Grudge Break to New Mutiny… Conclusion: …Where Civil Blood Makes Civil Hands Unclean Notes Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Postwar British Politics in Perspective
Book SynopsisA comprehensive, yet accessible introduction to British Politics since 1945 and to the development of the British state. Essential reading for scholars concerned with questions of social, political and economic change, especially future change after an era of Conservative domination.Trade Review"This is an iconoclastic book, which challenges established interpretations of British politics since 1945 and develops its own powerful new approach to understanding social and political change. It deserves to be widely read." Andrew Gamble, University of Sheffield "The authors present a powerful new theoretical and methodological approach to postwar British politics. Combining theoretical argument and judiciously chosen case studies, their new textbook will surely stimulate interest in critical realism and its broader relevance to political analysis." Bob Jessop, Lancaster University "Postwar British Politicsin Perspective provides an authoritative, theoretically informed and eye-catching reinterpretation of British political development. Historically grounded and yet urgently contemporary in its treatment of themes such as UK-EU relations and the domestic consequences of globalization, the book should be required reading for specialists, students and anyone interested in British politics. It is a book that punctures much of the conventional wisdom and replaces it with an uncommonly astute and comprehensive alternative." Joel Krieger, Wellesley College, Massachusetts "It may interest advanced graduate students and specialists in the field." M. Curtis Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New BrunswickTable of ContentsAbout the authors. Introduction: Explaining Change in the Postwar Period. (David Marsh). Part One: Key Themes of Postwar British Political Development. 1. Continuity and Discontinuity in British Political Development. (Colin Hay). 2. Britain's Economic Decline: Cultural Versus Structural Explanations. (Jim Johnston). 3. The Post-War Consensus: A Woozle That Wasn't? (Peter Kerr). 4. Crisis and Political Development in Postwar Britain. (Colin Hay). 5. Britain's Relations with the European Union in Historical Perspective. (Jim Buller). 6. Globalization and the Development of the British Political Economy. (Matthew Watson). Part Two: Key Narratives of Postwar British Political Development. 7. Questions of Change and Continuity in Attlee's Britain. (Jim Johnston). 8. Explaining Thatcherism: Towards a Multidimensional Approach. (Peter Kerr and David Marsh). 9. The Post-Thatcher Era. (Stuart McAnulla). Conclusion: Analysing and Explaining Postwar British Political Development. (Colin Hay and David Marsh). Bibliography. Index.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 1950s Childhood Growing up in postwar Britain 737
Book SynopsisChildren of the 1950s have much to look back on with fondness: Muffin the Mule, Andy Pandy, and Dennis the Menace became part of the family for many, while for others the freedom of the riverbank or railway platform was a haven away from the watchful eyes of parents. The postwar welfare state offered free orange juice, milk and healthcare, and there was lots to do, whether football in the street, a double bill at the cinema, a game of Ludo or a spot of roller-skating. But there were also hardships: wartime rationing persisted into the '50s, a trip to the dentist was a painful ordeal, and at school discipline was harsh and the Eleven-Plus exam was a formidable milestone. Janet Shepherd and John Shepherd examine what it was like to grow up part of the Baby Boomer generation, showing what life was like at home and at school and introducing a new phenomenon the teenager.Table of ContentsIntroduction: From Austerity to Affluence Family Life Schooldays Health Shopping Recreation and Entertainment Further Reading Places to Visit Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Victorian Detective 761 Shire Library
Book SynopsisAt the dawn of the Victorian age there was effectively no police detective force in Britain and detecting methods were rudimentary; by the end of Victoria's reign the Criminal Investigation Department had been established and basic forensic tests were in use. This book explores the development of the professional detective during the nineteenth century, giving examples of the methods he used to track down criminals and to convict them of offences ranging from petty theft to brutal murder. It also explains the development of forensics, from fingerprinting to tests that could identify whether or not blood was human. Mysteries such as the Jack the Ripper murders are examined, as well as the work of famous sleuths like the Prince of Detectives' Jonathan Whicher the real-life counterpart of the legendary Sherlock Holmes.Table of ContentsIntroduction / Bow Street / The Detective Branch / Prince of Detectives / Tracking Down Terrorists / Crime Scene Investigation – in and Beyond Whitechapel / Further reading / Places to Visit / Index
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Edinburgh University Press British Propaganda in the Twentieth Century
Book SynopsisThis book examines the evolution of British propaganda practice during the course of the twentieth century.Trade ReviewRemarkably lucid ! morally engaging overview. Another excellent book for students of propaganda, politics, society and the state ! a publication which incorporates a unique combination of sources, careful handling of material and a multi-disciplinary approach to the subject. Remarkably lucid ! morally engaging overview. Another excellent book for students of propaganda, politics, society and the state ! a publication which incorporates a unique combination of sources, careful handling of material and a multi-disciplinary approach to the subject.
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Edinburgh University Press The Foundation of Rome
Book SynopsisAugusto Fraschetti describes the legends surrounding the origins, foundation and early history of Rome, the significance the Romans attached to the legends of their origins, and the uses to which they put them.Between 1000 BC and 650 BC a cluster of small, isolated groups of thatched huts on the Roman hills became an extensive and complex city, its monumental buildings and large public spaces evidence of power and wealth. Two competing foundation legends accounted for this shift, one featuring the Trojan fugitive Aeneas and the other the wolf-reared Romulus and Remus. Both played a significant role in Roman thought and identity, preoccupying generations of Roman historians and providing an important theme in Roman poetry.In the last two centuries the foundation era of Rome has been the subject of extensive investigations by archaeologists. These have revealed much that was previously a mystery and have allowed the piecing together of a coherent account of the early history of the city. Professor FrTable of ContentsContents; Translators' note; Abbreviations; Preface; 1. The twins; 1. The Vestal and the she-wolf; 2. Grandparents and ancestors; 3. An adolescence in the bosom of 'nature': the world of the luperci; 4. At the conquest of Alba; 2. The foundation; 1. On the site of Rome: taking the auspices, and the death of Remus; 2. 'Roma Quadrata' and the pomerium; 3. The civic body and its organs; 4. The abduction of the women and the war against the Sabines; 5. From the domestic fires of the curiae to the hearth of Vesta; 6. Archaeology and the 'rights' of criticism; 7. Settlements and festive rituals: from Romulus to Tullus Hostilius; 3. Romulus' government and his wars; 1. Romulus 'the lawgiver'; 2. The calendar; 3. The joint reign of Romulus and Titus Tatius; 4. Romulus' wars; 4. The disappearance of the founder: Romulus 'cut into pieces' or his apotheosis; 1. The founder's disappearance: two traditions; 2. The ascent into heaven: the highly ambiguous characteristics of a tradition; 3. Romulus and the god Quirinus; 4. The dismemberment of the body: comparativist perspectives; 5. Romulus in the South Seas; 6. A Roman view: the disappearance of Romulus and the foundation of the comitia; 7. The body of Romulus and the origins of the patriciate; 8. The death of Romulus and the destiny of Caesar; Epilogue: The twins: a view from the Bosphorus; Appendix I. The ambiguous status of Tarpeia; Appendix II. A wall at the foot of the Palatine Hill; Notes; Bibliography Index of names and ancient places Index of characters and modern authors.
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Edinburgh University Press The Arsenal of Democracy
Book SynopsisA critical re-examination of the conduct and outcome of Anglo-American wartime aircraft supply diplomacyThrough a series of case studies, Gavin J. Bailey reveals new details of how Britain used American aircraft and integrates this with broader British statecraft and strategy. He challenges conceptions that Britain was strategically reliant on the US and reveals a complicated, asymmetrical dependency between the wartime allies.Aircraft were at the heart of British supply diplomacy with the United States in the Second World War and were at the forefront of the Roosevelt administration''s policy of aiding the Anglo-French alliance against Germany. They were the largest item in British purchasing in the US in 1940, a key consideration in the Lend-Lease of 1941 and a major component of several wartime conferences between Churchill and Roosevelt.
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Edinburgh University Press The Neolithic of Mainland Scotland
Book SynopsisArchaeologists show us how the Neolithic human lived in mainland Scotland, with new research, first publication of key datasets and radical reinterpretation of both burial practices and ceramics across 3rd millennium BC mainland Scotland.
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The History Press Ltd Farewell to the Horses
Book SynopsisCady Hoyte, like many other young lads of his generation, proudly joined the army in 1915 to fight for his King and Country. From the Warwickshire town of Nuneaton, he joined the Warwickshire Yeomanry as a gunner in the Machine Gun Corps and quickly found that army life made no concessions for an eager young 19 year old.
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The History Press Ltd The Victorian Master Criminal
Book SynopsisOn 2 August 1876, a young policeman named Constable Nicholas Cock was shot dead while walking ‘the beat’ at Whalley Range, Manchester. Although no one suspected a link between them, these two sensational murder cases would, in the end, turn out to be tied together in a way that shocked Victorian society to its core.
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The History Press Ltd Scunthorpe Images of England
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The History Press Ltd Prince Eddy
Book SynopsisPrince Albert Victor, King Edward Vll''s (r 1901-10) first son and heir to the throne, and popularly known as Eddy, has virtually been airbrushed out of history. In this book, Andrew Cook, the presenter and historical consultant of the Channel 4 documentary on the life of Prince Eddy, reveals the truth about a key royal figure, a man who would have made a fine king and changed the face of the British monarchy.Trade Review"'Andrew Cook is a brilliant investigative historian' ANDREW ROBERTS."
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The History Press Ltd Voices from the Workhouse
Book SynopsisVoices from the Workhouse tells the real inside story of the workhouse - in the words of those who experienced the institution at first hand, either as inmates or through some other connection with the institution.
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The History Press Ltd Ellerman Lines
Book SynopsisELLERMAN LINES was formed by John Reeves Ellerman at the end of the nineteenth century. Ellerman left home at age 14, and at 24 he established J. Ellerman & Co. in London; by 1893, he had been appointed chair of a shipping company. Following the acquisition of various companies, Ellerman Lines Ltd was formed on 22 January 1902, becoming one of the greatest shipping lines in the world. Services were offered to the Mediterranean, India, South America and East and South Africa as the Ellerman group grew and grew. Ellerman Lines traded successfully throughout war and peace, heavily involved in the war effort, until the third quarter of the century, when many countries gained their independence from Britain and 1960s containerisation saw this once great shipping line close for good. Using many previously unpublished photographs illustrating the different types of vessels owned by Ellerman Lines, experienced maritime author Ian Collard turns his attention to the company's history, from it
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Ebury Publishing The Victorians
Book SynopsisJacob Rees-Mogg is a Conservative and the MP for the constituency of North East Somerset. Jacob sits on the Brexit Select Committee and he chairs the European Research Group. After Eton, Jacob read History at Trinity College, Oxford, before moving into finance. He co-founded Somerset Capital Management, which specialises in emerging markets investment management.Trade ReviewA full-throated, clear-sighted, well-researched and extremely well written exposition of the Victorians and their values. Rees-Mogg’s choice of a dozen Victorian luminaries allows him to defend an era too often ignored or written off in British history, and to compare it to our modern day in a way that readers will find gripping but also chastening * Andrew Roberts, bestselling author of ‘Churchill: Walking with Destiny’ *A fine philosophical mind * Matthew Parris *One of the most important politicians in the country * Economist *Polite, eloquent, witty, well-informed, coherent, principled — Jacob Rees-Mogg is the antithesis of almost every-thing the Labour party stands for under its current populist leadership * James Delingpole *The best-dressed man in the House of Commons * Spectator *
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Taylor & Francis The Burghs and Parliament in Scotland c 15501651
Book SynopsisExisting studies of early modern Scotland tend to focus on the crown, the nobility and the church. Yet, from the sixteenth century, a unique national representative assembly of the towns, the Convention of Burghs, provides an insight into the activities of another key group in society. Meeting at least once a year, the Convention consisted of representatives from every parliamentary burgh, and was responsible for apportioning taxation, settling disputes between members, regulating weights and measures, negotiating with the crown on issues of concern to the merchant community. The Convention's role in relation to parliament was particularly significant, for it regulated urban representation, admitted new burghs to parliament, and co-ordinated and oversaw the conduct of the burgess estate in parliament. In this, the first full-length study of the burghs and parliament in Scotland, the influence of this institution is fully analysed over a one hundred year period. Drawing extensively on local and national sources, this book sheds new light upon the way in which parliament acted as a point of contact, a place where legislative business was done, relationships formed and status affirmed. The interactions between centre and localities, and between urban and rural elites are prominent themes, as is Edinburgh's position as the leading burgh and the host of parliament. The study builds upon existing scholarship to place Scotland within the wider British and European context and argues that the Scottish parliament was a distinctive and effective institution which was responsive to the needs of the burghs both collectively and individually.Trade Review’A valuable study, timeously published.’ Northern History ’English, Irish and Continental urban historians will find a comprehensive and lucid study that makes it much less easy for comparative works to ignore the political and economic significance of the Scottish burghs.’ Urban History ’...his careful exposition of the extant, but scanty, evidence steadily builds up to elucidate points left unclarified in broader studies of the institution or else taken for granted by other historians ....this study will become an essential handbook for anyone interested in the subject.’ Parliamentary History ’Our understanding of the burghs and parliament in Scotland has been greatly enhanced by this important research monograph. It should be of interest to a wider audience of urban historians of early modern Europe, as well as historians of early modern Scotland.’ Parliaments, Estates and RepresentationsTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Erection and enrolment: gaining entry to parliament; Representation; The convention of burghs, the burgess estate and parliament; Individual burghs and parliament; Edinburgh: the capital and parliament; Hosting the estates; A sense of priority: status, precedence and display; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Gender Sexuality and Material Objects in English
Book SynopsisAn important contribution to recent critical discussions about gender, sexuality, and material culture in Renaissance England, this study analyzes female- and male-authored lyrics to illuminate how gender and sexuality inflected sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poets' conceptualization of relations among people and things, human and non-human subjects and objects. Pamela S. Hammons examines lyrics from both manuscript and print collectionsâincluding the verse of authors ranging from Robert Herrick, John Donne, and Ben Jonson to Margaret Cavendish, Lucy Hutchinson, and Aemilia Lanyerâand situates them in relation to legal theories, autobiographies, biographies, plays, and epics. Her approach fills a crucial gap in the conversation, which has focused upon drama and male-authored works, by foregrounding the significance of the lyric and women's writing. Hammons exposes the poetic strategies sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English women used to assert themselves as subjects of propeTrade Review'...an exceptionally strong strong study of seventeenth century British poetry and its important-even crucial-relationship to a still larger, richer discourse of subjects and obects, gifts and debts, owners and renters, sovereigns and petitioners which informed the early modern worlds of economies and politics, organized an emerging print culture, and shaped many ideas about sexuality and gender.' Elizabeth Mazzola, The City College of New York, USA and author of Women's Wealth and Women's Writing in Early Modern England 'Pamela Hammons's book is a well-researched contribution to the growing list of works that strive to understand women's position in early modern culture as well as the literary landscape of that culture.'Clio '... Hammons offers an insightful consideration of the ways that early modern male and female authors conceptualize and present their relationship to important small items and to larger possessions, such as houses or land. It illuminates our understanding of both poetry and of material culture in early modern England and offers a valuable range of texts and objects that interact in ways that will inform future scholarship.' Renaissance Studies '... this is a lovely book that repeatedly reminds us of the many and insoluble ties that early modern poetry had to England's rich material culture.' Journal of British Studies '... Hammons's study successfully reveals ways in which early modern English poetry, despite thematic and stylistic overlap, presents a definite and defining gender divide. This divide illustrates the patriarchal perspectives and anxieties regarding female agency evident in poetry by male authors, as well as the tactics of women poets to give voice to independent, subjective identities, and economic agency, or female aspiration to such dominated positions of material ownership.' Parergon '...Hammons deftly finds surprising things to say instead of just validating the quality of women's writings...Hammons' books should be laudTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: his and hers; Part I Love Tokens: Robert Herrick's gift trouble; Women's poetic portraits of love tokens in heteroerotic courtship; Women's poetic portraits of love tokens in same-sex and divine relationships. Part II Houses and Land: The gendered imagination of real property in Renaissance England; Margaret Cavendish's disguised possession; Lucy Hutchinson's polluted palaces and ekphrastic empire; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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MY - University of Toronto Press Jews and Ukrainians
Book SynopsisThe story of Jews and Ukrainians is presented in an impartial manner through twelve thematic chapters. Among the themes discussed are geography, history, economic life, traditional culture, religion, language and publications, literature and theater, architecture and art, music, the diaspora, and contemporary Ukraine.Trade Review'This book is an experiment and is largely successful - against all odds... Magocsi and Petrovsy-Shtern deserve praise for their courage and daring in writing this work and touching upon controversial and unpleasant issues.' -- Simon Geissb hler Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs February 2017Table of Contents1. The Land and its Peoples 2. The Historical Past 3. Economic Life 4. Traditional Culture 5. Religion 6. Language and Publications 7. Literature and Theatre 8. Architecture and Art 9. Music 10. The Diaspora 11. Contemporary Ukraine 12. The Past as Present and Future
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