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This book focuses, from a legal perspective, on a series of events which make up some of the principal episodes in the legal history of religion in Ireland: the anti-Catholic penal laws of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century; the shift towards the removal...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-10-29
Collection :
Palgrave Modern Legal History
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Based on five years of archival research, this book offers a radical reinterpretation of Britain and Spain’s relationship during the growth, apogee and decline of the British Empire. It shows that from the early nineteenth century Britain turned Spain into an ‘informal’...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-09-25
Collection :
Britain and the World
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book demonstrates that the common belief that humanity is naturally disposed to religion did not disappear with the emergence of the Enlightenment. Going beyond a narrow focus on John Locke’s empiricism, this vivid analysis reconstructs the vociferous, multivocal...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-09-20
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book, part media history and part group biography, tells the story of the BBC’s attempts to reach out to listeners in Nazi Germany at a time when Anglo-German relations were particularly strained. Who were the individuals behind the microphone, whose names...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-09-16
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media
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This book offers the first in-depth intellectual and cultural history of British subversive propaganda during the Second World War. Focussing on the Political Warfare Executive (PWE), it tells the story of British efforts to undermine German morale and promote...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-08-11
Collection :
Britain and the World
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Offering a unique account of identity formation in Ireland and Central Europe, this book explores and contextualises transfers and comparisons between Ireland and the successor states of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It reveals how Irish perceptions of borders and...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-07-29
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The People's Peace: Britain since 1945 is the first comprehensive study by a professional historian of British history from 1945 to the present day. It examines the transformation of post-war Britain from the planning enthusiasm of 1945 to the rise of New Labour. Its...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2021-07-29
Format(s) : ePub
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The People's Peace: Britain since 1945 is the first comprehensive study by a professional historian of British history from 1945 to the present day. It examines the transformation of post-war Britain from the planning enthusiasm of 1945 to the rise of New Labour. Its...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2021-07-29
Format(s) : PDF
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This book is an exploration of the way in which the characters in Rudyard Kipling’s short stories use superior knowledge, which often involves deception and the playing of practical jokes. There was early critical hostility to the stance adopted by Kipling’s characters,...
Editeur : NBN International
Parution : 2021-06-18
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Islands are not just geographical units or physical facts; their importance and significance arise from the human activities associated with them. The maritime routes of sailing ships, the victualling requirements of their sailors, and the strategic demands of seaborne...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2021-06-17
Format(s) : ePub
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Islands are not just geographical units or physical facts; their importance and significance arise from the human activities associated with them. The maritime routes of sailing ships, the victualling requirements of their sailors, and the strategic demands of seaborne...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2021-06-17
Format(s) : PDF
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This book is a study of British official attitudes towards the Danubian countries (Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Yugoslavia) from Hitler’s rise to power in 1933 to the year 1941, a period that marked serious but fruitless British political and economic efforts to...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-03-24
Collection :
Britain and the World
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book explores national attitudes to remembering colonialism in Britain and France. By comparing these two former colonial powers, the author tells two distinct stories about coming to terms with the legacies of colonialism, the role of silence and the breaking...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-03-12
Collection :
Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Deniable Contact provides the first full-length study of the secret negotiations and back-channels that were used in repeated efforts to end the Northern Ireland conflict. The analysis is founded on a rich store of historical evidence, including the private papers of...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2021-03-11
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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An eye-opening interpretation of the infamous Gallipoli campaign that sets it in the context of global trade.
In early 1915, the British government ordered the Royal Navy to force a passage of the Dardanelles Straits-the most heavily defended waterway in the world....
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2021-02-05
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This handbook is the most comprehensive and up-to-date single volume on the history and memory of the Holocaust in Britain. It traces the complex relationship between Britain and the destruction of Europe’s Jews, from societal and political responses to persecution in...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-01-19
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The Norman Conquest in English History, Volume 1: A Broken Chain? pursues a central theme in English historical thinking over seven centuries. Covering more than half a millennium, this first volume explains how and why the experience of the Norman Conquest prompted...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-12-02
Format(s) : PDF
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The Norman Conquest in English History, Volume 1: A Broken Chain? pursues a central theme in English historical thinking over seven centuries. Covering more than half a millennium, this first volume explains how and why the experience of the Norman Conquest prompted...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2020-12-02
Format(s) : ePub
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This book examines Britain and Norway in Europe from 1945 through to the former's departure from the European Union in 2020. It compares their European relations and investigates their bilateral relationship within the contexts of security, trade and, above all,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-12-01
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book examines the 1583 voyage of Sir Humphrey Gilbert to North America.This was England's first attempt at colonization beyond the British Isles, yet it has not been subject to thorough scholarly analysis for more than 70 years. An exhaustive examination of the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-11-20
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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