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Pierrot and his world
The stock theatrical character Pierrot is an enduring figure in French visual art, where he emerges at the intersection of theatricality and the marketplace. This book offers an account of Pierrot’s recurrence in painting, prints, photography and film, tracing this distinctive type from the art o...
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Political culture in later medieval england
An important collection of essays on the subjects of kingship, lordship, warfare and sanctity, penned by the highly respected historian of late medieval England, the late Professor Simon Walker
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Hariulf’s history of st riquier
A new translation of an important source for medieval monastic history that provides interesting insights the background to the Norman Conquest of England.
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History and memory
Supplies an accessible and readable introduction to recent work on memory in history and other disciplines, and contributes to debate on the nature and significance of history as an intellectual discipline.
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Saints and cities in medieval italy
This book offers full translations of the Lives of seven saints (five men and two women) who lived in Italian cities between about 1150 and 1315. It will interest both students and other readers curious about medieval Italian history and about medieval popular religion and sainthood.
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Male witches in early modern europe
This is the first ever full book on the subject of male witches addressing incidents of witch-hunting in both Britain and Europe.Uses feminist categories of gender analysis to critique the feminist agenda that mars many studies. Advances a more bal. Critiques historians’ assumptions about witch-h...
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A defence of witchcraft belief
This edition of a previously unpublished manuscript defence of witchcraft belief offers a unique insight into learned opinion on the subject in Elizabethan England. It includes a comprehensive analytical introduction and will appeal to scholars with an interest in witchcraft across disciplinary b...
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Dangerous amusements
Drawing on an extensive range of sources, from newspapers and institutional records to oral histories and autobiography, Dangerous amusements explores the beginnings of a distinct youth culture in the streets and neighbourhood spaces of late nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain.
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British civilian internees in germany
This book tells the forgotten story of four to five thousand British civilians who were interned at the Ruhleben camp near Berlin during the First World War. Together they formed a unique community in the heart of enemy territory, based on a diverse and extremely rich culture of enduring signific...
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Political passions
Ideas about marriage, gender and the family were central to political debate in late Stuart England. Newly available in paperback, this book shows how political argument became an arena in which the proper relations between men and women, parents and children, public and private were defined and ...
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Repeal and revolution
Repeal and revolution. 1848 in Ireland examines the events that led up to the 1848 rising and examines the reasons for its failure. It places the rising in the context of political changes outside Ireland, especially the links between the Irish nationalists and radicals and republicans in Britain...
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The annals of lampert of hersfeld
Lampert is widely regarded as 'the unrivalled master among medieval historians' and 'a superb story-teller', noted for his vivid characterisation and narrative. This English translation of his work is of the greatest value to teachers and students of medieval history and also of interest to the g...
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Child, nation, race and empire
In the second half of the nineteenth century, prominent English child rescuers, reconstituted the vulnerable body of the child at risk as central to the survival of nation, race and empire. The book explains how the project contributed to the neglect and abuse disclosed in recent enquiries into t...
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Redefining the french republic
Redefining the French Republic is an innovative work. Explicitly adopting a multidisciplinary approach, the book investigates continuity and change in contemporary French politics, society and culture.
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Monasticism in late medieval england, c.1300–1535
Monasticism in Late Medieval England provides an ideal introduction to this subject for students and scholars alike. It combines translated sources relating to every aspect of late medieval monastic life with the first extended overview of pre-Reformation monasticism in England for a generation.
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The derby philosophers
This book focuses upon the activities of a group of Midland intellectuals who strove to promote social, political and urban improvements which had national and international consequences. It examines a turbulent period of British history, an age of political and industrial revolution in which the...
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John wyclif
This new collection of translations represents the first attempt to offer a representative sample of Wyclif’s Latin works in translation in a single volume.
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The relic state
Explores the evolving shape of a series of Catholic festivals that took place throughout the duration of Portuguese colonial rule in Goa (1510–1961)
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City of beasts
This book offers a panoramic view of Georgian London, redefining the city’s role in the industrial, agricultural and consumer revolutions. It does this by examining, for the first time, the huge contribution that horses, cattle, sheep, pigs and dogs made to the world’s first modern metropolis, as...
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Sites of imperial memory
Addresses imperial memory across various empires, different forms of commemoration and over two centuries
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The reign of edward ii, 1307–27
This volume presents a concise history of the reign of Edward II, as well as essential sources in translation that allow for comparison of the scattered evidence available from this significant period in English history.
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Social change and everyday life in ireland, 1850–1922
This book covers the social and economic history of Ireland from the aftermath of the famine to the years leading up to Home Rule. It combines synthesis with new research into poverty, public health, religion and marginalisation, reproducing the voices and stories of the people and questioning mu...
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In the club
A comprehensive examination of social clubs across South Asia
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Personal narratives of irish and scottish migration, 1921–65
Drawing predominantly on personal narratives, this book compares Irish and Scottish migration to North America and Australasia between 1921 and 1965.
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The northern ireland troubles in britain
This book investigates the history of responses to, engagements with and memories of the Northern Irish conflict in Britain, exploring the lessons to be learned from post-conflict efforts to 'deal with the past' in Northern Ireland and providing a starting point for wider academic and public deba...
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Women, workplace protest and political identity in england, 1968–85
This book revisits women’s workplace protest from an historical perspective to deliver a new account of working-class women’s political identity in England between 1968 and 1985.
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From silent screen to multi-screen
The book is the first comprehensive survey charting the development of cinema exhibition and cinema-going in Britain from the first public film screening – the Lumière Brothers’ showing of their Cinématographe show at London’s Regent Street Polytechnic in February 1896 – through to the developmen...
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Rhetorics of empire
An investigation of the place of imperialist rhetoric in the history of twentieth century empires. Issues examined include discourses of imperialist modernization, the language of colonial ‘civilizing’, and the rhetorical justifications advanced for violent colonial practices.
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Fighting fascism: the british left and the rise of fascism, 1919–39
A new work that looks at the struggle against fascism in Britain between the wars, argues that the British left have been overlooked in studies of anti-fascism, and maintains that the Labour Party, the Communist Party and other left-wing currents developed sophisticated analyses of fascism on a p...
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Tuairim, intellectual debate and policy formulation: rethinking ireland, 1954–75
Explores how from its formation in 1954 the intellectual movement Tuairim (‘opinion’ in Irish) was at the vanguard of the challenge to orthodoxy and conservatism.
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European empires and the people
The first book to survey, in comparative form, the transmission of imperial ideas to the public in six European countries. It provides fascinating parallel studies of France, Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Italy, examining the media and the content through which events in colonial...
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Leicester and the court
A collection of sixteen essays by Simon Adams on Elizabethan history, centring around Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.
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Reconsidering gallipoli
The British cultural history of the Gallipoli campaign has been overlooked until now – this is a significant book as it offers the first real opportunity for this important campaign to be included in undergraduate courses on WWI. The commemoration of war is a particularly vibrant area of study – ...
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Colonial india and the making of empire cinema
This book examines the empire cinema made in Hollywood and Britain during the turbulent 1930s and 1940s.. It shows how the empire cinema constructed the colonial world, its rationale for doing so, and the manner in which such constructions were received by the colonized people.. Unique approach t...
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Writing local history
This book describes the development of local history in England from its origins in the Middle Ages to its practise in the early twenty-first century. It looks also at how local history is related to archaeology, landscape, and family history.
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Colonial naval culture and british imperialism, 1922–67
Naval forces from fifteen colonial territories fought for the British Empire during the Second World War, providing an important new lens for understanding imperial power and colonial relations on the eve of decolonisation.
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Assembling cultures
Assembling cultures charts the development of workplace activism in the British motor industry between 1945 and 1982.
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Sodomy in early modern europe
This fascinating collection of essays reflects closely the main areas of debate within gay historiography. For the last twenty years scholars have argued over the nature of early modern sodomy, responding in a number of different and contradictory ways. Questions addressed in the book include: wa...
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1820
Integrating in detail the experiences of both Britain and Ireland, 1820 provides a compelling narrative and analysis of the United Kingdom in a year of European revolution. It charts the events and forces that tested the government almost to its limits, and the processes and mechanisms through wh...
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History and politics in late carolingian and ottonian europe
This is the first English translation of two chronicles of long-acknowledged importance to European history in the period c.850-c.950. This period, which is widely taught in European and North American universities, saw the collapse of the Carolingian Empire and the rise in Germany of the ‘First...
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Mobilizing nature
Mobilizing nature traces the environmental history of war and militarisation in France. It offers a fresh perspective on the well-known conflicts whilst uncovering the largely 'hidden' history of the numerous military bases and other installations that pepper the French countryside.
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Falling from grace
This original new study examines how members of the English medieval nobility and their families fell from position and power in the period 1075-1455. Based on extensive research in chronicle, administrative, artistic and other interdisciplinary sources, the study spans from the Earls’ Revolt of...
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Rethinking norman italy
This volume on Norman Italy (southern Italy and Sicily, c. 1000–1200) honours the pioneering scholarship of Graham A. Loud. An international group of scholars reassesses the paradigm by which Norman Italy has been understood, addressing subjects across four key themes: historiographies, identitie...
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Genteel women
This book examines the transfer and adaptation of British female gentility in various locations across the British Empire, including Africa, New Zealand and India, as expressed through their personal and household possessions, specifically their dress, living rooms, gardens and food.
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Aesthetics and subjectivity
Reconsiders the path of German philosophy from Kant to Nietzsche, in relation to consciousness, aesthetics and language. The book traces the beginning of modern debates on aesthetics and politics, as well as hermeneutics, paying attention to the significance of music in modern philosophy.
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Blackmail, scandal, and revolution
This important study, newly available in paperback, examines the activities, adventures, publications, and influence of the most venomous critics of the late Bourbon monarchy. These were the French exile libellistes who flocked to London to publish scandalous or sexually salacious pamphlets in t...
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Citizenship, nation, empire
Details contemporary debates about the purpose of history teaching and the influence of late-Victorian and Edwardian educational culture, and goes on to examine how pedagogical developments shaped the content of early-years reading books and textbooks.
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Elizabeth wolstenholme elmy and the victorian feminist movement
This book provides the first full-length biography of Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy (1833–1918) – someone referred to among contemporaries as ‘the grey matter in the brain’ of the late-Victorian women’s movement.
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My voice: werner conn
Werner's book is part of the My Voice Project, a collection of firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. Werner Conn spent his early childhood in Berlin and was sent to the UK on the Kindertransport when life became very difficult for Jews...
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The feminine public sphere
This investigation of women's part in civic life provides a fresh approach to the 'public sphere', illuminates women as agents of a middle-class identity and develops the notion of a 'feminine public sphere', or the web of associations, institutions and discourses used by disenfranchised middle-c...
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Power and reputation at the court of louis xiii
A study of the impact of power politics on the historical reputation of Charles D’Albert, duc de Luynes, a royal favourite at the court of Louis XIII in early seventeenth-century France
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The scots in early stuart ireland
This book charts key aspects of the Anglo-Scottish experience down to the Restoration and greatly improves understanding of that complex and troubled relationship.
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Chronicles of the investiture contest
The first English translation of Frutolf of Michelsberg's Chronicle, one of the most significant chronicles of the Middle Ages.
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Empire careers
This book examines the 11,000 foreign nationals who worked for the Chinese Customs Service1854-1949, exploring how their lives and careers were shaped by imperial ideologies, networks and structures. Looks at professional lives, social activities, private lives, and how these factors were influen...
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Women of letters
Women of letters writes a new history of English women's intellectual worlds using their private letters as evidence of hidden networks of creative exchange. The book argues that many women of this period engaged with a life of the mind and demonstrates the dynamic role letter-writing played in t...
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Belfast punk and the troubles: an oral history
This book is an oral history of punk in Belfast from the mid-70s to the mid-80s. It reads a small number of interviews in close detail to place them in the context of the Troubles and to draw out the imaginative ways that interviewees evoke the experience of growing up in Northern Ireland and pun...
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Hincmar of rheims
Brings together the latest international research on a crucial figure for all those interested in early medieval European history in general, and Carolingian history in particular.
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Home economics
Home economics provides the first comprehensive history of domestic service in southern Africa’s post-colonial cities. Theoretically innovative and empirically rich, the book offers essential insights into debates about gender, work, and urban economies that are critical to understanding southern...
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The politics of the public sphere in early modern england
Including contributions from key early modern historians, this book uses and critiques the notion of the public sphere to produce a new account of England in the post-reformation period from the 1530s to the early eighteenth century. Makes a substantive contribution to the historiography of ear...
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Crisis music
Marching to the beat of punk rock and reggae, Rock Against Racism fought alongside the Anti-Nazi League against a resurgence of racist and fascist politics in 1970s Britain. This book analyses one of the biggest and most effective political mobilisations of the post-war period, demonstrating that...
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Gentry culture and the politics of religion
Focusing on Cheshire, this book makes a major contribution to understanding the dynamics of the English Revolution from a provincial perspective.
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Missionary families
Presents an innovative argument for the significance of missionaries’ familial relations in the philosophy, conduct and outcomes of mission work during the nineteenth century.
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Distant sisters
The book tells a regional and international history of the Australian suffrage campaigns between 1880-1914, uncovering the networks of suffragists built to win the vote and sell its merits abroad. Situated at the nexus of feminist and imperial history, it examines the limits of cross border conne...
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A most diabolical deed'
This book examines the phenomenon of infanticide in Ireland from 1850 to 1900. It is based on a large sample of 4,645 individual cases of infant murder, attempted infanticide and concealment of birth. Through a variety of sources, attitudes towards the crime of infanticide and women accused of t...
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Absolute monarchy on the frontiers
This book deals with the French military occupations of Lorraine and Savoy during the personal rule of Louis XIV (1661–1715). It investigates the aims and intentions of the French monarchy in occupying these regions, the problems of administering them, and French relations with key local elite gr...
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Irish women in medicine, c.1880s–1920s
The first comprehensive history of Irish women in medicine in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It focuses on the debates surrounding women’s admission to Irish medical schools, the geographical and social backgrounds of early women medical students, their educational experiences...
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Jews and other foreigners
Drawing on a wide range documentary and oral sources, including interviews with refugees, this book explores the responses in Manchester to those threatened by the rise of Fascism in Europe.
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The pan-african pantheon
This book presents a series of sketches of lives, thought and impact of thirty-seven individuals in relation to Pan-Africanism. Offering overviews of movements, groups, and detailed biographies, the chapters provide insights into the individuals who have animated the 'Pan-African Pantheon'.
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The memory of catastrophe
Investigates the dynamic relationship between experiences of profound social and cultural disruption, and human memory. Critical comparisons are made across a wide variety of catastrophic experiences and memories; not just of war, but also of massacre, genocide, rebellion, famine, partition, ship...
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Neighbours and strangers
This book explores rural societies in western Europe from 700–1050. It focuses on the bottom of the social hierarchy, rejectingviews that see rural society exclusively through the structures of lordship and challenging the teleological idea of the residential group as the prototype of the late-me...
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Charity and poverty in england, c.1680–1820
This book explores responses to poverty in eighteenth-century England, with an eye to some of the odder manifestations of charity and poor relief.
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Emigrant homecomings
Return migration has long been a significant but neglected aspect of international population movements thorughout the centuries. Emigrant homecomings is the first study to rectify this imbalance by analyzing the motives, experiences and impact of returners in a wide range of locations over four ...
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Beyond the pale and highland line
This book explores how events within the Gaelic-speaking world of Ireland and the Highlands and Islands of Scotland shaped the affairs of the wider Irish and British Isles during the later medieval and early modern periods.
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Dusty bob
Dusty Bob provides a detailed and highly illustrated study of a trade central to the well-being of Victorian London - that of the metropolitan dustman. Using an wide range of sources, especially prints and illustrations, this book shows, for the first time, why dustmen provided a subject for so m...
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Brave community
This book is the first full-length modern study of the Diggers, who were among the most remarkable of the radical groups to emerge during the English Revolution of 1640-60. The book also provides a reassessment of the Digger leader Gerrard Winstanley, a figure who has attracted great interest in ...
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Doubtful and dangerous
Examines the pivotal influence of the succession question on the politics, religion and culture of the post-Armada years of Queen Elizabeth’s reign
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Gender and housing in soviet russia
This book explores the housing problem throughout the seventy years of Soviet history. It looks at changing political ideology on appropriate forms of housing under socialism, successive government policies on housing, and the meaning and experience of 'home' for Soviet citizens.
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Writing imperial histories
This book appraises the critical contribution of the Studies in Imperialism series to the writing of imperial histories as the series passes its 100th publication. The volume brings together some of the most distinguished scholars writing today to explore the major intellectual trends in Imperial...
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History on british television
A unique and overdue insight and study into how the landscape, institutions and collective memory has influenced the representation of the past on British television from 1946 to the present day, promoting a very singular view of what it means to be British.
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A history of the royal college of nursing 1916–90
This is the history of one of the largest nursing organizations in the world and one of the largest professional associations of women. The Royal College of Nursing began as a small professional association in 1916. Its work included nurses’ education, professional policy and labour relations. It...
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Negotiating relief and freedom
This book investigates both short- and long-term responses to disaster in the British Caribbean. It is the first to examine the informal negotiations that took place on the ground between the colonial authorities and the African-Caribbean population, and the formal negotiations undertaken by colo...
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Michael logue and the catholic church in ireland, 1879–1925
Examines the role of the Church in the dynamic of social and political change which will significantly contribute to our understanding of the relationship between Church and state in modern Ireland
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Learning femininity in colonial india, 1820–1932
WINNER of the Anne Bloomfield Triennial book prize awarded by the HES (UK) for best history of education book published between 2014 and 2017This book explores the colonial mentalities that shaped and were shaped by women living in colonial India between 1820 and 1932. Using a broad framework t...
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The other empire
This is a detailed study of the various ways in which London and India were imaginatively constructed by British observers during the nineteenth century.
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Bulletin of the john rylands library 98/2
The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is a long-running journal that publishes research complementary to the John Rylands Library’s extensive special collections.
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