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Seeking Sanctuary explores a curious aspect of premodern English law: the right of felons to shelter in a church or ecclesiastical precinct, remaining safe from arrest and trial in the king's courts. This is the first volume in more than a century to examine sanctuary...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-06-30
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The Fear of Invasion presents a new interpretation of British preparation for War before 1914. It argues that protecting the British Isles from invasion was the foundation upon which all other plans for the defence of the Empire were built up. Home defence determined...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-06-30
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'The glories of the Age of Anne' -- the union of England and Scotland to form 'this island of Britain', and its establishment as a European and a global power -- were the achievements of two men above all: Queen Anne's captain-general, John Churchill, the first Duke of...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-06-29
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'The glories of the Age of Anne' -- the union of England and Scotland to form 'this island of Britain', and its establishment as a European and a global power -- were the achievements of two men above all: Queen Anne's captain-general, John Churchill, the first Duke of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-29
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Seeking Sanctuary explores a curious aspect of premodern English law: the right of felons to shelter in a church or ecclesiastical precinct, remaining safe from arrest and trial in the king's courts. This is the first volume in more than a century to examine sanctuary...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-23
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The City of London and Social Democracy examines the relationship between the financial sector and the state in post-war Britain.
The key argument made in Aled Davies's study is that changes to the financial sector during the 1960s and 1970s undermined the state's...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-15
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The Littlehampton Libels tells the story of a poison-pen mystery that led to a miscarriage of justice in the years following the First World War. There would be four criminal trials before the real culprit was finally punished, with the case challenging the police and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-09
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How do you remember the summers of your childhood? For Laurie Lee they were flower-crested,...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2017-06-08
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The City of London and Social Democracy examines the relationship between the financial sector and the state in post-war Britain.
The key argument made in Aled Davies's study is that changes to the financial sector during the 1960s and 1970s undermined the state's...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-03
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The Littlehampton Libels tells the story of a poison-pen mystery that led to a miscarriage of justice in the years following the First World War. There would be four criminal trials before the real culprit was finally punished, with the case challenging the police and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-02
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Between 1880 and 1930, the British Empire’s vast infrastructural developments facilitated the incorporation of large parts of the globe into not only its imperial rule, but also the capitalist world-system. Throughout this period, colonial literary fiction, in recording...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2017-05-26
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The story of Oxford University Press spans five centuries of printing and publishing. Beginning with the first presses set up in Oxford in the fifteenth century and the later establishment of a university printing house, it leads through the publication of bibles,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-05-26
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This book explores the new types of political organization that emerged in Western Europe and the United States during the nineteenth century, from popular meetings to single-issue organizations and political parties. The development of these has often been used to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-05-20
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The story of Oxford University Press spans five centuries of printing and publishing. Beginning with the first presses set up in Oxford in the fifteenth century and the later establishment of a university printing house, it leads through the publication of bibles,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-05-19
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This is the first edition ever of the Queen’s correspondence in Italian. These letters cast a new light on her talents as a linguist and provide interesting details as to her political agenda, and on the cultural milieu of her court.This book provides a fresh analysis...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-05-04
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The high society of Stuart England found Frances Coke Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck (1602-1645) an exasperating woman. She lived at a time when women were expected to be obedient, silent, and chaste, but Frances displayed none of these qualities. Her determination to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-05-04
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Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613-1718 is a reconstruction of the wayHugo Grotius (1583-1645) was read and used by English political and religious writers in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Engaging with the reception of all of Grotius's...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-04-28
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Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613-1718 is a reconstruction of the wayHugo Grotius (1583-1645) was read and used by English political and religious writers in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Engaging with the reception of all of Grotius's...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-04-28
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This book is about the rise of a new ethos in British mountaineering during the late nineteenth century. It traces how British attitudes to mountains were transformed by developments both within the new sport of mountaineering and in the wider fin-de-siècle culture. The...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-04-18
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This book explores English single sheet satirical prints published from 1780-1820, the people who made those prints, and the businesses that sold them. It examines how these objects were made, how they were sold, and how both the complexity of the production process and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-04-06
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