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This is the first book to investigate how constitutional monarchy could survive in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, during which many monarchies were overthrown by revolutions or coups d’état in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe. Today we have about 200...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2024-07-01
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book examines the succession debate in England during the reign of Elizabeth I. It considers the succession question in its entirety, instead of dividing the topic into early or late periods as has been typically the case. Commencing with a consideration of the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-06-21
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, for many English men and women of Welsh origin the idea of being in some part 'Welsh' reaffirmed their own understanding of what it meant to 'be British'. Wales in England, 1914-1945 is the first cultural history of this...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-05-10
Format(s) : ePub
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The Spiritual Lives and Manuscript Cultures of Eighteenth-Century English Women explores the vital and unexplored ways in which women's life writings acted to undergird, guide, and indeed shape religious communities. Through an exploration of various significant but...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-05-01
Format(s) : ePub
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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 on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
The period between the 1960s and the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-04-22
Format(s) : PDF
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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 on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
The period between the 1960s and the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-04-22
Format(s) : ePub
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This book deals with the role, development, and legacy of the first Constitution of independent Ireland within the wider context of the establishment of the State. After decades of relative neglect, the 1920s have been receiving increased attention from historians...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-03-12
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book examines the efforts of the government in Scotland to manage the increase of migrants travelling to Britain at the end of the nineteenth century. Focussing on the period between 1885 and 1939, the book explores how the Scottish machinery of government handled...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-02-29
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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In London in 1984 two very different cities came into conflict, one rooted in radical politics and the other shaped by Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative government. This was a city poised between two eras and identities, remoulded in conflicting ways by social...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-02-16
Format(s) : PDF
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In this book, Farhaan Wali offers an historical investigation of how the Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir rose and fell in Britain. Although the book focuses on the UK, it is contextualized in the globalised nature of the group.In other words, Hizb ut-Tahrir was...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2024-02-15
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Child abuse casts a long shadow over the history of childhood. Across the centuries there are numerous accounts of children being beaten, neglected, sexually assaulted, or even killed by those closest to them. This book explores this darker side of childhood history,...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-02-07
Format(s) : ePub
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This book examines how enlightened Scottish social theorists c.1740 to c.1800 understood the origin and development of religion. Challenging scholarly disregard for the topic, it shows how most prominent thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment thought deeply about the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-02-05
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book provides the first history of the British and American Intelligence Divisions (IDs) in occupied Germany and the liaison between them. It reveals that after the fall of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich, much of Germany was controlled by an Anglo-American secret...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-01-24
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In London in 1984 two very different cities came into conflict, one rooted in radical politics and the other shaped by Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative government. This was a city poised between two eras and identities, remoulded in conflicting ways by social...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-01-22
Format(s) : ePub
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Thomas Hobbes and Political Thought in Ireland, c.1660-1730 is a history of political thought in Ireland, told from the perspective of the reception in that country ofThomas Hobbes, the English philosopher. Unlike Hobbes, political thought in Ireland has received little...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-01-10
Format(s) : PDF
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This book gathers contributions on the later Stuart queens and queen consorts. It seeks to re-insert Henrietta Maria, Catherine of Braganza, Mary of Modena, Mary II, Anne, and Maria Clementina Sobieska into the mainstream of Stuart and early Georgian studies,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-01-04
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This book explores how New Zealand, a small country almost as far from Western Europe as it is possible to be, assumed political importance in Britain’s accession to the European Community vastly out of proportion to its size, proximity and strategic position. At...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-12-26
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Thomas Hobbes and Political Thought in Ireland, c.1660-1730 is a history of political thought in Ireland, told from the perspective of the reception in that country ofThomas Hobbes, the English philosopher. Unlike Hobbes, political thought in Ireland has received little...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-12-26
Format(s) : ePub
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During the 1840s and 1850s, the British government financed a world-wide investigation into how the Earth's magnetic phenomena operated, consisting of a network of naval expeditions and colonial observatories. Questions surrounding terrestrial magnetism were not just...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-12-06
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book explores the role of the Cyprus regiment, a military unit of the British Army, in the Second World War. Highlighting the contribution of Cyprus to the war effort, the book contributes to the limited historiography on the military engagement of Cyprus in the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-11-27
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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