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Yale University Press The Social Life of Coffee
Trade Review“Cowan’s work fits the bill in many ways. It is easily the most thorough account of the social history of the British coffeehouse ever written.”—Adrian Johns, University of Chicago -- Adrian Johns"Brian Cowan's Social Life of Coffee is an engagingly written, lavishly illustrated, and meticulously researched book. It provides the most comprehensive account of the rise and accommodation of coffee and coffeehouse culture that is currently available. Cowan's book will begin a number of important and intellectually fruitful debates about the rise and extent of virtuoso culture, about the nature and limits of the bourgeois public sphere, and about the gendered nature of social space in Early Modern England."—Steven Pincus, Yale University -- Steven Pincus
£58.94
Yale University Press The Social Life of Coffee
Book SynopsisProvides an account of the origins of coffee drinking and coffeehouse society, and in so doing the author reshapes our understanding of the commercial and consumer revolutions in Britain during the long Stuart century.Trade Review"'A well-researched, wide-ranging and fascinating book... Cowan adds rich colours and shades to a picture we had hitherto only in outline.' (Kevin Sharpe, Times Literary Supplement) 'Because the modern world was washed into existence on a tide of caffeine, the subject is too important to be left to historians of food and drink... Cowan is concerned with the political history of coffee houses and points to the heterogeneity of coffee house culture.' (London Review of Books) 'Erudite and persuasively argued, this work is based on a truly impressive range of primary and secondary sources, as demonstrated in the extensive bibliography.' (William Clarence-Smith, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Institute of Historical Research)"
£30.88
Boydell & Brewer Ltd The State Trials and the Politics of Justice in
Book SynopsisThe book discusses the 'state trial' as a legal process, a public spectacle, and a point of political conflict - a key part of how constitutional monarchy became constitutional. State trials provided some of the leading media events of later Stuart England. The more important of these trials attracted substantial public attention, serving as pivot points in the relationship between the state and its subjects. Later Stuart England has been known among legal historians for a series of key cases in which juries asserted their independence from judges. In political history, the government's sometimes shaky control over political trials in this period has long been taken as a sign of the waning power of the Crown. This book revisits the process by which the 'state trial' emerged as a legal proceeding, a public spectacle, a point of political conflict, and ultimately, a new literary genre. It investigates the trials as events, as texts, and as moments in the creation of historical memory. By the early nineteenth century, the publication and republication of accounts of the state trials had become a standard part of the way in which modern Britons imagined how their constitutional monarchy had superseded the absolutist pretensions of the Stuart monarchs. This book explores how the later Stuart state trials helped to create that world.Table of ContentsPart One: What Were the State Trials? Introduction: The State Trials in Historical Perspective - Brian Cowan and Scott Sowerby 1. State Trials and the Rule of Law under the Later Stuarts and Early Hanoverians - Tim Harris and Stephen Taylor 2. Corruption and Later Stuart State Trials - Mark Knights Part Two: Restoration State Trials 3. 'Blood will have Blood': The Regicide Trials and the Popular Press - Melinda S. Zook 4. The Trial and Execution of Oliver Plunket - John Marshall 5. Sham Plots and False Confessions: The Politics of Edward Fitzharris's Last Words, 1681 - Andrea McKenzie 6. Constructing Conspiracy: Reporting the Rye House Plot Trials - Newton Key Part Three: Revolutionary State Trials 7. Enforcing Uniformity: Public Reactions to the Seven Bishops' Trial - Scott Sowerby 8. Revolutionary Justice and Whig Retribution in 1689 - Mark Goldie 9. Relitigating Revolution: Address, Progress, and Redress in the Long Summer of 1710 - Brian Cowan 10. Politics and Sentiment in the Jacobite State Trials - Paul Monod 11. Defeating Innuendoes: The Trials of Thomas Rosewell (1684) and Daniel Isaac Eaton (1794) - Annabel Patterson Index
£80.75
Imperial College Press Topics In Statistical Mechanics
Book SynopsisBuilding on the material learned by students in their first few years of study, this book presents an advanced level course on statistical and thermal physics. It begins with a review of the formal structure of statistical mechanics and thermodynamics considered from a unified viewpoint. After a brief revision of non-interacting systems, emphasis is laid on interacting systems. First, weakly interacting systems are considered, where the interest is in seeing how such interactions cause small deviations from the non-interacting case. Second, systems are examined where interactions lead to drastic changes, namely phase transitions. A number of specific examples are given, and these are unified within the Landau theory of phase transitions. The final chapter of the book looks at non-equilibrium systems and the way these evolve towards equilibrium. Here, fluctuations play a vital role, as is formalized in the Fluctuation-Dissipation theorem.Trade Review"This is an excellent graduate-level textbook that grew out of a largely online intercollegiate course given by the author to fourth-year students in the United Kingdom. The text is concise but provides an accurate and well-balanced introduction to a remarkable breadth of topics, with an emphasis even on modern aspects such as the statistical mechanics of phase transitions and non-equilibrium dynamics ... Cowan has managed to capture the rich field of statistical mechanics in a concise and truly excellent exposition. His text should be accessible to good advanced undergraduates, and certainly to first- or second-year graduate students in physics, mathematics, or engineering." Mathematical ReviewsTable of Contents# The Methodology of Statistical Mechanics # Practical Calculations with Ideal Systems # Non-Ideal Gases # Phase Transitions # Fluctuations and Dynamics
£35.15
World Scientific Europe Ltd Topics In Statistical Mechanics
Book SynopsisBuilding on the material learned by students in their first few years of study, Topics in Statistical Mechanics (Second Edition) presents an advanced level course on statistical and thermal physics. It begins with a review of the formal structure of statistical mechanics and thermodynamics considered from a unified viewpoint. There is a brief revision of non-interacting systems, including quantum gases and a discussion of negative temperatures. Following this, emphasis is on interacting systems. First, weakly interacting systems are considered, where the interest is in seeing how small interactions cause small deviations from the non-interacting case. Second, systems are examined where interactions lead to drastic changes, namely phase transitions. A number of specific examples is given, and these are unified within the Landau theory of phase transitions. The final chapter of the book looks at non-equilibrium systems, in particular the way they evolve towards equilibrium. This is framed within the context of linear response theory. Here fluctuations play a vital role, as is formalised in the fluctuation-dissipation theorem.The second edition has been revised particularly to help students use this book for self-study. In addition, the section on non-ideal gases has been expanded, with a treatment of the hard-sphere gas, and an accessible discussion of interacting quantum gases. In many cases there are details of Mathematica calculations, including Mathematica Notebooks, and expression of some results in terms of Special Functions.
£112.50
