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This book explores students’ consumer practices and material desires in nineteenth-century Oxford. Consumerism surged among undergraduates in the 1830s and decreased by contrast from the 1860s as students learned to practice restraint and make wiser choices, putting a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-09-01
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Why did killing a fox mean liberty? What did parish revels have to do with the Peterloo Massacre? What did animal cruelty have to do with the English constitution? What did the Factory Acts mean for modern football?
In This Sporting Life, Robert Colls explains sport...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-08-28
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Why did killing a fox mean liberty? What did parish revels have to do with the Peterloo Massacre? What did animal cruelty have to do with the English constitution? What did the Factory Acts mean for modern football?
In This Sporting Life, Robert Colls explains sport...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-08-28
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This book examines attitudes towards German held captive in Britain, drawing on original archival material including newspaper and newsreel content, diaries, sociological surveys and opinion polls, as well as official documentation and the archives of pressure groups...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-19
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“This monograph is an important contribution to our understanding of the varied fortunes of British Christianity during the twentieth century.”
- Rev Dr Andrew Atherstone, Tutor in Church History and Latimer...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-07-31
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The vernacular Anglo-Saxon Chronicles cover the centuries which saw the making of England and its conquest by Scandinavians and Normans. After Alfred traces their development from their genesis at the court of King Alfred to the last surviving chronicle produced at the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-07-02
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The vernacular Anglo-Saxon Chronicles cover the centuries which saw the making of England and its conquest by Scandinavians and Normans. After Alfred traces their development from their genesis at the court of King Alfred to the last surviving chronicle produced at the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-07-02
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This book explores the place of loyalty in the relationship between the monarchy and their subjects in late medieval and early modern Britain. It focuses on a period in which political and religious upheaval tested the bonds of loyalty between ruler and ruled. The era...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-30
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This book examines the forms and practices of Irish confinement from the 19th century to present-day to explore the social and political failings of 20th and 21st century postcolonial Ireland. Building on an interdisciplinary conference held in the Crumlin Road Gaol,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-26
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
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Zum ersten Mal wird hier die ganz unwahrscheinliche Entstehung moderner Demokratie aus der Perspektive der Handelnden erzählt und analysiert. Nicht als Masterplan, den es nicht gab, sondern als innovatives Stückwerk in vielen Ländern, oft mit anderen als demokratischen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-05-13
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'This captivating account . . . is the story of an ordinary soldier, but an extraordinary man. I commend this book most warmly.'Richard Dannatt, General The Lord Dannatt GCB CBE MC DL, Chief of the General Staff 2006-9'The amazing account of a young man, Neville...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2020-04-30
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THE RADIO 4 BOOK OFTHE WEEK'Gobsmacking' The Times'Luscious' Mail on Sunday'Delectable . . . ravishing' Sunday Times'A chocolate box full of delicious gothic delights - jump in' Lucy Worsley'Stranger than fiction, as dark as any gothic drama . . . utterly gripping'...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2020-04-16
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This book offers a new interpretation of the place of periodicals in nineteenth-century Ireland. Case studies of representative titles as well as maps and visual material (lithographs, wood engravings, title-pages) illustrate a thriving industry, encouraged, rather than...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-03-26
Collection :
New Directions in Book History
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Sweet and Clean? challenges the widely held beliefs on bathing and cleanliness in the past. For over thirty years, the work of the French historian, George Vigarello, has been hugely influential on early modern European social history, describing an aversion to water...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-03-26
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Sweet and Clean? challenges the widely held beliefs on bathing and cleanliness in the past. For over thirty years, the work of the French historian, George Vigarello, has been hugely influential on early modern European social history, describing an aversion to water...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-03-26
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From the Plantation of Ulster in the seventeenth century to the entry into peace talks in the late twentieth century the Northern Irish people have been engaged in conflict - Catholic against Protestant, Republican against Unionist. The traumas of violence in the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-03-26
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From the Plantation of Ulster in the seventeenth century to the entry into peace talks in the late twentieth century the Northern Irish people have been engaged in conflict - Catholic against Protestant, Republican against Unionist. The traumas of violence in the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-03-26
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This book examines the topic of excess in modern Irish writing in terms of mysticism, materialism, myth and language. The study engages ideas of excess as they appear in works by major thinkers from Hegel, Kierkegaard and Marx through to Nietzsche, Bataille, Derrida...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-03-14
Collection :
New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature
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A stonemason's story of the building of Britain: part archaeological history, part deeply personal insight into an ancient craft. In his thirty-year career, stonemason Andrew Ziminski has worked on many of our greatest monuments. From Neolithic monoliths to Roman baths...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2020-03-05
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This book explores the form, function and meaning of crime and execution broadsides printed in nineteenth-century Britain. By presenting a detailed discourse analysis of 650 broadsides printed across Britain between the years 1800-1850, this book provides a unique and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-02-18
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