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Edmund Burke was both a political thinker of the utmost importance and an active participant in the day-to-day business of politics. It is the latter role that is the concern of this book, showing Burke engaging with issues concerning the West Indies, which featured so...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-07-04
Format(s) : ePub
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Few decades have given rise to such potent mythologies as the 1930s. Popular impressions of those years prior to the Second World War were shaped by the single outstanding personality of that conflict, Winston Spencer Churchill. Churchill depicted himself as a political...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-05-23
Format(s) : PDF
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Few decades have given rise to such potent mythologies as the 1930s. Popular impressions of those years prior to the Second World War were shaped by the single outstanding personality of that conflict, Winston Spencer Churchill. Churchill depicted himself as a political...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-05-23
Format(s) : ePub
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Teaching Britain examines teachers as key agents in the production of social knowledge. Teachers in nineteenth century Britain claimed intimate knowledge of everyday life among the poor and working class at home, and non-white subjects abroad. They mobilized their...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-05-09
Format(s) : PDF
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Teaching Britain examines teachers as key agents in the production of social knowledge. Teachers in nineteenth century Britain claimed intimate knowledge of everyday life among the poor and working class at home, and non-white subjects abroad. They mobilized their...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-05-09
Format(s) : ePub
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Eighteenth-century London was teeming with humanity, and poverty was never far from politeness. Legend has it that, on his daily commute through this thronging metropolis, Captain Thomas Coram witnessed one of the city's most shocking sights-the widespread abandonment...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-04-11
Format(s) : PDF
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This book explores the ways that families were formed and re-formed, and held together and fractured, in Britain from the sixteenth to twentieth century. The chapters build upon the argument, developed in the 1990s and 2000s, that the nuclear family form, the bedrock of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-04-03
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Democracy and Political Culture: Studies in Modern British History attempts to give a total picture of the political-social culture of Great Britain in the twentieth century. To do so it chooses a number of particular subjects which nonetheless stand for this culture as...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-02-21
Format(s) : ePub
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Democracy and Political Culture: Studies in Modern British History attempts to give a total picture of the political-social culture of Great Britain in the twentieth century. To do so it chooses a number of particular subjects which nonetheless stand for this culture as...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-02-07
Format(s) : PDF
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This book analyses the significance of the special correspondent as a new journalistic role in Victorian print culture, within the context of developments in the periodical press, throughout the second half of the nineteenth century. Examining the graphic reportage...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-02-06
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media
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This book examines how the fall of France in the Second World War has been recorded by historians and remembered within society. It argues that explanations of the fall have usually revolved around the four main themes of decadence, failure, constraint and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-02-01
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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For some time before his death in July 2015, former colleagues and students of Paul Langford had discussed the possibility of organising a festschrift to celebrate his remarkable contribution to eighteenth-century history. It was planned for 2019 to commemorate the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-01-31
Format(s) : ePub
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For some time before his death in July 2015, former colleagues and students of Paul Langford had discussed the possibility of organising a festschrift to celebrate his remarkable contribution to eighteenth-century history. It was planned for 2019 to commemorate the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-01-31
Format(s) : PDF
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Homicide has a history. In early modern England, that history saw two especially notable developments: one, the emergence in the sixteenth century of a formal distinction between murder and manslaughter, made meaningful through a lighter punishment than death for the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-01-31
Format(s) : PDF
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Eighteenth-century London was teeming with humanity, and poverty was never far from politeness. Legend has it that, on his daily commute through this thronging metropolis, Captain Thomas Coram witnessed one of the city's most shocking sights-the widespread abandonment...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-01-31
Format(s) : ePub
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Homicide has a history. In early modern England, that history saw two especially notable developments: one, the emergence in the sixteenth century of a formal distinction between murder and manslaughter, made meaningful through a lighter punishment than death for the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-01-10
Format(s) : ePub
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This book explores the rise of the aesthetic category of addiction in the nineteenth century, a century that saw the development of an established medical sense of drug addiction. Drugs and the Addiction Aesthetic in Nineteenth-Century Literature focuses especially on...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-01-08
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This unusual book explores the historical assumptions at work in the style of literary criticism that came to dominate English studies in the twentieth century. Stefan Collini shows how the work of critics renowned for their close attention to 'the words on the page'...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-01-03
Format(s) : ePub
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This unusual book explores the historical assumptions at work in the style of literary criticism that came to dominate English studies in the twentieth century. Stefan Collini shows how the work of critics renowned for their close attention to 'the words on the page'...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-01-03
Format(s) : PDF
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This book examines the fraught political relationship between British governments, which wanted information about peoples’ lives, and the people who desired privacy. To do this it looks at something that Britain only experienced in wartime, a centralized and up-to-date...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-12-11
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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