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In the winter trenches and flak-filled skies of World War I, captured soldiers and pilots narrowly avoided death only to find themselves imprisoned in Germany's archipelago of brutal POW camps. After several unsuccessful escapes, a group of Allied prisoners of...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2018-08-23
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This study provides the first postsecular account of the moral revolution that Britain experienced in the 1960s. Beginning from the groundbreaking premise that secularity is not a mere absence, but an invented culture, it argues that a new form of British secularity...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-08-23
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This study provides the first postsecular account of the moral revolution that Britain experienced in the 1960s. Beginning from the groundbreaking premise that secularity is not a mere absence, but an invented culture, it argues that a new form of British secularity...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-08-22
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Shakespeare's largely misunderstood narrative poems contain within them an explosive commentary on the political storms convulsing his country The 1590s were bleak years for England. The queen was old, the succession unclear, and the treasury empty after decades of war....
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PublicAffairs
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2018-08-21
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Did you know that a child can be cured of the whooping cough by passing it under the belly of a donkey?The history of medicine in Britain is filled with the most bizarre and gruesome cures for many common ailments. Although enthusiastically supported by doctors of the...
Editeur :
Robinson
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2018-08-02
Collection :
Tom Thorne Novels
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The second son of a modest gentry family, John Lilburne was accused of treason four times, and put on trial for his life under both Charles I and Oliver Cromwell. He fought bravely in the Civil War, seeing action at a number of key battles and rising to the rank of...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-07-26
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This book is a contribution to the new field of literary studies which is informed by book history and takes interest in the intersection of the ideal and material aspects of literature. It studies the ways eighteenth-century English novels, plays and poems illustrated...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-21
Collection :
New Directions in Book History
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This is the first scholarly treatment of the history of public eating in London in the Victorian and Edwardian eras.
The quotidian nature of eating out during the working day or evening should not be allowed to obscure the significance of the restaurant (defined...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-07-03
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The family is a major area of scholarly research and public debate. Many studies have explored the English family in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, focusing on husbands and wives, parents and children.The Ties that Bind explores in depth the other key...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-07-03
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In the second half of the nineteenth century, hundreds of thousands of German and Irish immigrants left Europe for the United States. Many settled in the Northeast, but some boarded trains and made their way west. Focusing on the cities of Fort Wayne, Indiana and St...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-29
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Gypsies, Egyptians, Romanies, and--more recently--Travellers. Who are these marginal and mysterious people who first arrived in England in early Tudor times? Are claims of their distant origins on the Indian subcontinent true, or just another of the many myths and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-06-28
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Radical Parliamentarians and the English Civil War charts the way the English civil war of the 1640s mutated into a revolution, in turn paving the way for the later execution of King Charles I and the abolition of the monarchy. Focusing on parliament's most militant...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-06-28
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This is the first scholarly treatment of the history of public eating in London in the Victorian and Edwardian eras.
The quotidian nature of eating out during the working day or evening should not be allowed to obscure the significance of the restaurant (defined...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-06-28
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The family is a major area of scholarly research and public debate. Many studies have explored the English family in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, focusing on husbands and wives, parents and children.The Ties that Bind explores in depth the other key...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-06-28
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This book provides a thorough examination of the relations between the men in the British, French and American armies on the Western Front of the First World War. The Allied victory in 1918 was built on the backs of British, French, and American soldiers who joined...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-06-16
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The second son of a modest gentry family, John Lilburne was accused of treason four times, and put on trial for his life under both Charles I and Oliver Cromwell. He fought bravely in the Civil War, seeing action at a number of key battles and rising to the rank of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-06-10
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This book is the first major study of the blackout in the Second World War. Developing a comparative history of this system of civil defense in Britain and Germany, it begins by exploring how the blackout was planned for in both countries, and how the threat of aerial...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-06-06
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'Naval tradition? Naval tradition? Monstrous. Nothing but rum, sodomy, prayers and the lash.' This quotation, from Winston Churchill, is frequently dismissed as apocryphal or a jest, but, interestingly, all four of the areas of naval life singled out in it were ones...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-05-31
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
The history of early modern medicine...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-05-31
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
The history of early modern medicine...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-05-30
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