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It was shit. Then the shit hit the fan. Would someone find a way of making it worse? Of course they would! Welcome to THE SHITSHOW...'There's a lot going on these days. Trump, Brexit, Call the Midwife . . . The rise of the robots . . . The rise of Easy Peelers . . .The...
Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2019-10-31
Format(s) : ePub
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Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830 explores what literate British people understood by the word 'Europe' in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. WasEurope unified by shared religious heritage? Where were the edges of Europe? Was...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-10-03
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Europe and the British Geographical Imagination, 1760-1830 explores what literate British people understood by the word 'Europe' in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. WasEurope unified by shared religious heritage? Where were the edges of Europe? Was...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-10-03
Format(s) : ePub
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Despite not being an active participant in the English Civil War, seventeenth-century political thinker James Harrington exercised an important influence on the ideas and politics of that crucial period of history. In The Commonwealth of Oceana he sought to explain why...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-10-03
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Despite not being an active participant in the English Civil War, seventeenth-century political thinker James Harrington exercised an important influence on the ideas and politics of that crucial period of history. In The Commonwealth of Oceana he sought to explain why...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-10-03
Format(s) : ePub
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This book discusses the quality of life of early modern Britons emigrating to the New World, which became possible with advances in shipbuilding and long-distance sailing. It examines the status and quality of life of those crossing the Atlantic Ocean under legal...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-10-01
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research
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The Battle of Britain has held an enchanted place in British popular history and memory throughout the modern era. Its transition from history to heritage since 1965 confirms that the 1940 narrative shaped by the State has been sustained by historians, the media,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-09-26
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Many commentators tell us that, in today's world, everyday life has become selfish and atomised--that individuals live only to consume. But are they wrong?
In Me, Me, Me, Jon Lawrence re-tells the story of England since the Second World War through the eyes of...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-09-01
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This issue of History of Universities, Volume XXXII / 1-2, contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. Guest edited by Professor John Watts, this volume...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-08-21
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This issue of History of Universities, Volume XXXII / 1-2, contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. Guest edited by Professor John Watts, this volume...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-08-21
Format(s) : ePub
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In England from the 1670s to the 1820s a transformation took place in how smell and the senses were viewed. The role of smell in developing medical and scientific knowledge came under intense scrutiny, and the equation of smell with disease was actively questioned. Yet...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-08-13
Format(s) : ePub
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In England from the 1670s to the 1820s a transformation took place in how smell and the senses were viewed. The role of smell in developing medical and scientific knowledge came under intense scrutiny, and the equation of smell with disease was actively questioned. Yet...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-08-13
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This collection examines the afterlives of early modern English and French rulers. Spanning five centuries of cultural memory, the volume offers case studies of how kings and queens were remembered, represented, and reincarnated in a wide range of sources, from...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-08-06
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This book examines the connections between the British Empire and French colonialism in war, peace and the various stages of competitive cooperation between, in which the two empires were often frères ennemis. It argues that in crucial ways the British and French...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-08-02
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This book explores how different constituencies influenced the development of nineteenth-century swimming in England, and highlights the central role played by swimming professors. These professionals were influential in inspiring participation in swimming, particularly...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2019-07-22
Format(s) : PDF
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On 16 August, 1819, at St Peter's Field, Manchester, armed cavalry attacked a peaceful rally of some 50,000 pro-democracy reformers. Under the eyes of the national press, 18 people were killed and some 700 injured, many of them by sabres, many of them women, some of...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-07-18
Format(s) : ePub
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On 16 August, 1819, at St Peter's Field, Manchester, armed cavalry attacked a peaceful rally of some 50,000 pro-democracy reformers. Under the eyes of the national press, 18 people were killed and some 700 injured, many of them by sabres, many of them women, some of...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-07-18
Format(s) : PDF
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This is the story of modern Britain, focusing on twelve formative days in the history of the United Kingdom over the last five decades. By describing what happened on those days and the subsequent consequences, Andrew Hindmoor paints a suggestive - and to some perhaps...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-07-11
Format(s) : ePub
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This is the story of modern Britain, focusing on twelve formative days in the history of the United Kingdom over the last five decades. By describing what happened on those days and the subsequent consequences, Andrew Hindmoor paints a suggestive - and to some perhaps...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2019-07-11
Format(s) : PDF
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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
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