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Recasting Commodity and Spectacle in the Indigenous Americas
Features color illustrations throughout, examines the ways in which contemporary indigenous peoples in different parts of the Americas have harnessed performance practices to resist imposed stereotypes and shape their own complex identities.
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Seeing Red: New economic and social perspectives on Gallo-Roman terra sigilata (BICS Supplement 102)
Mass produced at a variety of locations, principally in Gaul and Germany, between the beginning of the first century and the mid third century CE, Gallo-Roman terra sigillata was consumed in very large quantities across the western provinces of the Roman Empire.The large number of records – over ...
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Epigraphic Landscape of Roman Italy (BICS Supplement 73)
With contributions from Edward Bispham, Guy Bradley, Alison E. Cooley, Fay Glinister, Valerie Hope, Mark Pobjoy and Benet Salway.The Epigraphic Landscape presents a series of case-studies in which a new generation of scholars examines the significance of interpreting inscriptions in terms of thei...
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Ancient History and the Antiquarian
ContentsINTRODUCTION by M. H. CRAWFORD T. J. CORNELL: Ancient History and the Antiquarian Revisited: Some Thoughts on Reading Momigliano's Classical Foundations ..... 1 ANTHONY GRAFTON: Tradition and Technique in Historical Chronology ..... 15 JEAN– LOUIS FERRARY: Naissance d'un aspect de la rech...
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Vernacular Aristotelianism in Italy from the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Century
This volume is based on an international colloquium held at the Warburg Institute, London, on 21–2 June 2013, and entitled ‘Philosophy and Knowledge in the Renaissance: Interpreting Aristotle in the Vernacular’. It situates and explores vernacular Aristotelianism in a broad chronological context,...
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Reading, Gender and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England
Offering a more complete picture of women’s reading experiences in seventeenth-century England, this book examines attitudes to women’s reading both within early modern gender discourse and from women readers themselves. It draws on diaries, letters, annotated books and other archival sources to ...
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The Concept of the Book: The Production, Progression and Dissemination of Information
If we push the definition of a ‘book’ beyond the traditional form of the codex to encompass cuneiform tablets, papyri, as well as the printed and digital book- just what is the essence of its purpose? The volume analyses the role of the book as a tool of communication. It covers an impressive tim...
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The Terms of Our Surrender
Canada is seen as a liberal democracy and staunch upholder of human rights across the world. Yet the domestic scene is different when it comes to indigenous peoples. Based on extensive fieldwork and oral history, The Terms of Our Surrender is a powerful critical appraisal of unceded indigenous la...
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The Optics of Ibn al-Haytham Books IV–V
The Optics by Ibn al-Haytham, perhaps the greatest mathematician and physicist of the medieval Arabic/Islamic world, set the scene for the entire development of the science of optics both within the Islamicate realm and subsequently in the Western world. This new English translation of Books IV–V...
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Talking History
A fascinating overview of the history and practice of seminars held at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) at the University of London over the twentieth and early twenty-first century. This original book delivers fresh insight into the evolution of historical research and its role in wide...
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Masculinity and Danger on the Eighteenth-Century Grand Tour
The Grand Tour was a journey to continental Europe undertaken by British nobility and wealthy landed gentry during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. As a rite of passage, the Tour also played an important role in the formation of contemporary notions of elite masculinity. Examining letter...
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Menander 'Perikeiromene' or 'The Shorn Head'
Menander’s Perikeiromene, or the ‘Woman with shorn head’ tells the story of the soldier Polemon, who returns home from service to discover, as he thinks, that his girl, Glykera, has found another lover. Blindly jealous, he shears off her hair and goes off to drown his sorrows with companions. But...
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Electronic Signatures in Law
This fourth edition of the well-established practitioner text sets out what constitutes an electronic signature, the form an electronic signature can take, and discusses the issues relating to evidence – illustrated by analysis of relevant case law and legislation from a wide range of common law ...
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Mapping the State
Mapping the State leads to a fundamental rethinking of the 1832 Reform Act by demonstrating how boundary reform underpinned this turning point in the development of the British political nation. Using significant new archival discovery, digital methods and ‘big data’, it provides a major reassess...
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A Nicaraguan Exceptionalism?
In recent years, child migrants from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador have made the perilous journey to the United States in unprecedented numbers, but their peers in Nicaragua have remained at home. Nicaragua also enjoys lower murder rates and far fewer gang problems when compared with her ne...
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A history of the French in London
This book examines, for the first time, the history of the social, cultural, political and economic presence of the French in London, and explores the multiple ways in which this presence has contributed to the life of the city. The capital has often provided a place of refuge, from the Huguenots...
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Medieval Arabic Thought: Essays in Honour of Fritz Zimmermann
CONTENTS Preface Galen and al-Rāzī on time / Peter Adamson The Ḥikam or aphorisms of al-Ghazālī: some examples / M. Afifi al-Akiti Some Syriac pseudo-platonic curiosities / Sebastian Brock Al-Jāḥiẓ on Aṣḥāb al-Jahālāt and the Jahmiyya / Patricia Crone Jawhar and Dhāt in some medieval Arabic philo...
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Obama's Washington
Examines the array of challenges facing the Obama administration and the president himself. This volume includes topics that range from how best to manage a ruptured economy to controlling the budget, the green agenda, foreign policy, and the recalibration of US relations with Britain.
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Persuasive Language in Cicero’s Pro Milone: A close reading and commentary
This innovative approach to Cicero's persuasive language analyses the style and structure of one of his important speeches in more detail than has ever been done before. It applies ideas from modern linguistics and explores the possibilities and limitations of quantitative analysis in the areas o...
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Wars, Parties and Nationalism
The five papers presented in this volume discuss various aspects of the politics of Latin America during the nineteenth century. Although the scope of the essays is wide including topics such as civil wars, political parties and the use of travel narratives for partisan purposes the overriding co...
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Names on Terra Sigillata. Volume 7 P to RXEAD (BICS Supplement 102.7)
Names on Terra Sigillata, the product of 40 years of study, records over 5,000 names and some 300,000 stamps and signatures on Terra Sigillata (samian ware) manufactured in the 1st to the 3rd centuries AD in Gaul, the German provinces and Britain.To be published in 10 volumes, the work has been s...
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Books, Readers and Libraries in Fiction
This volume explores the depiction of books, libraries and reading in fiction from the medieval period to the present. Its varied case studies address common themes such as gender, genre and the relation between reading and writing itself and examine what fictional representations of reading tell...
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The Margins of Late Medieval London, 1430-1540
This book explores the complexity of medieval London’s urban fringe communities. Going beyond London’s institutional structures, it casts new light on urban life at the level of the neighbourhood and considers the differences in economy, society and sociability which existed in different areas of...
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The new refugees: crime and forced displacement in Latin America
In Latin America, recent years have seen an unprecedented rise in the number of people forced to flee from their homes due to the activities of organised criminal groups. What are the reasons behind this emerging crisis of forced displacement in the Americas? Who are these criminal groups and how...
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Vita Vigilia Est: Essays in Honour of Barbara Levick (BICS Supplement 100)
The new millennium sees both Pliny the Elder and his massive encyclopaedic Natural History being studied more seriously and holistically than at any time in the preceding century. The essays in this volume, which honour the seminal work of Barbara Levick on the politics and society of imperial Ro...
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Classical Books: Scholarship & publishing in Britain since 1800 (BICS Supplement 101)
Classical Books explores the interface between the history of books and the history of classical scholarship. Its contributors investigate the background to the production of texts, editions, histories and dictionaries many of which are now taken for granted by scholars. Abandoned authors blind a...
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Codices Boethiani: Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland v. 1: A Conspectus of Manuscripts of the Works of Boethius
This is part a catalogue of all Latin manuscripts of the works of Beothius, including his translations of Aristotle and Porphyry. The six volumes are arranged geographically and are accompanied by a general index, although each volume is also indexed separately. The conspectus includes fragmentar...
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Philosophy, Science & Exegesis: In Greek, Arabic & Latin Commentaries (BICS Supplement 83.1)
This two volume Supplement to the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies represents the proceedings of a conference held at the Institute on 27-29 June, 2002 in honour of Richard Sorabji.These volumes, which are intended to build on the massive achievement of Professor Sorabji’s Ancient C...
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Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940
Atlantic Isles examines the cultural and political prominence of the ‘westward gaze’ in late-nineteenth century Britain and Ireland. The book reveals how imagined geographies from the Cornish cliffs to the Connemara highlands were spaces of modern enchantment while also central to notions of Brit...
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Lucian of Samosata Vivus Et Redivivus
The essays in this volume bring together, in a revised and updated form, papers presented at a colloquium held at the Warburg Institute in December 1995. As the title suggests, Lucian is considered both in his contemporary environment and in his Nachleben, and the overall purpose is to show the f...
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The Poets Laureate of the Long Eighteenth Century, 1668–1813
In the eighteenth century the office of the poet laureate of Britain and the British court were evolving and entwined with one another. This book examines the office’s institutional changes and public reception, the mechanics of each laureate’s appointment, and the works they produced before and ...
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Los Nuevos Desplazados
In recent years Latin America has seen an unprecedented rise in the number of people forced to flee their homes due to the activities of organized criminal groups. What are the reasons behind this emerging crisis of forced displacement in the Americas? Who are these criminal groups and how do the...
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Ancient approaches to Plato’s ‘Republic’
Plato's Republic covers a very wide range of philosophical topics, many of them also addressed in other Platonic dialogues. The papers in this volume, arising from the Institute of Classical Studies research seminar in ancient philosophy in 2007-2008, illustrate the range and diversity of respon...
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A Matter of Trust
Producing high-quality data is necessary for progress on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals initiative to be measured accurately. Flawed statistics can result in misguided decisions. This book explores the substantial challenges for assembling reliable data and statistics to address...
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Organized Labour and Politics in Mexico
Analyzing the changes, continuities, and contradictions characterizing labor politics in Mexico, this book provides an assessment of organized labor's role in contemporary Latin America.
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The Clinical Legal Education Handbook
The Clinical Legal Education Handbook is a good practice guide and practical resource for those engaged in the design and delivery of clinical legal education programmes at university law schools. Primarily aimed at clinics in England and Wales, it is likely to have content that is of interest to...
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The Victoria History of Hampshire: Cliddesden, Hatch and Farleigh Wallop
This volume traces the history of Cliddesden, Hatch, and Farleigh Wallop, which lie to the south of Basingstoke. Each settlement has a common manorial descent from the 15th century onwards and they were managed as components of a single estate under the lordship of the Wallop family from their se...
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Hidden Paths: Self & Characterization in Greek Tragedy: Euripides’ Bacchae (BICS Supplement 99)
Hidden paths analyses the representation of character in Greek tragedy, focusing on one of the most important and controversial theatre plays of all times the Bacchae. Euripides’ last play has always been a favourite, enjoying an enormous success for centuries on and off the stage. This book argu...
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The Victoria History of Shropshire: Wem
Wem lies on the North Shropshire Plain, about nine miles north of Shrewsbury. This book reveals that it was a planted medieval castle-town, and details important historical events in the locale, such as when it became a Parliamentarian stronghold during the Civil War, and the ‘great fire’ of 1677...
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Giving Birth in Eighteenth-Century England
This fascinating new book radically rewrites all that we know about eighteenth-century childbirth by placing women’s voices at the centre of the story. Utilising an extensive and under-researched body of materials, such as letters, diaries and recipe books, the volume explores the rituals of chil...
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The East Pediment of the Parthenon - From Perikles to Nero
The sculptural decoration of the Parthenon, conceived at the height of Athens’ power, was deeply rooted in the culture and aspirations of the city-state. The group of huge figures carved completely in the round and set in the triangular gable at the east end, the front of the temple, were perhaps...
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The Rule of Law in Latin America
This collection analyses the experience, success and failure of judicial reform processes funded by international donor organisations in Latin America. It also addresses the question of the connection between rule of law reform and broader processes of regime consolidation and state building.
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Palaeography, Manuscript Illumination and Humanism in Renaissance Italy: Studies in Memory of A. C. de la Mare
Albinia de la Mare (1932–2001), OBE, FBA, Professor of Palaeography at King's College London, was one of the last century's outstanding palaeographers and the world's leading authority on Italian Renaissance manuscripts. In November 2011 a conference was held at King's College and the Warburg Ins...
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Law, Humanities and the COVID Crisis
This book views the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of the law, history, ethics, technology, economics and gender studies. By focusing on the implications of the virus in a wider interdisciplinary context, and looking at responses to the virus in Europe, South America, Asia and beyond, these e...
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The 1922 General Election Reconsidered
Making use of newly available archival collections and digitised resources, this book captures the high and low politics of the pivotal 1922 General Election to show how it marked the birth of the modern British general election as we know it today.
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European Religious Cultures
First published in 2008, European Religious Cultures is now reissued as an Open Access edition with a new introduction. These essays address a variety of practices in religious life -- among them pilgrimage and the urban cult of saints, the monastic performance of liturgy, the choice to enter the...
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Mapping Crisis
Since the rise of Google Earth in 2005, there has been an explosion in the use of mapping tools to quantify and assess the needs of those in crisis, including those affected by climate change and the wider neo-liberal agenda. Yet, while there has been a huge upsurge in the data produced around th...
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The Creighton Century, 1907-2007
This volume offers a selection of ten lectures from the first 100 years of the University of London’s prestigious Creighton Lecture series. Each of the chosen lectures is introduced and set in context by a historian of the modern-day University, providing a fascinating insight into the developmen...
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Ptolemy's Geography in the Renaissance
The rediscovery of Ptolemy’s Geography has long been hailed as a key moment in the emergence of Renaissance culture, symbolizing a new rational spatiality, and preparing the way for the Age of Discovery. And yet, the process of the Geography’s introduction, integration and impact in western Europ...
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Excess and Restraint: Propertius, Horace and Ovid's 'Ars Amatoria' (BICS Supplement 89)
Ovid’s Ars Amatoria has long had a reputation for ‘excess’, both moral and stylistic. Augustus’ banishment of the poet to Romania in 8 AD – for teaching ‘foul adultery’ in the Ars – is partly responsible for this reputation, along with Roman love elegy’s well-known predilection for immoderate att...
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The Pinochet Case
Senator Augusto Pinochet was arrested in 1998 in London on the orders of a Spanish judge seeking his extradition for human rights crimes. Here, political scientists and lawyers analyse the political and historical context of the case and its progress through the courts in the UK and Chile.
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Wolf Liebeschuetz Reflected (BICS Supplement 91)
Wolf Liebeschuetz is one of the most distinguished, creative and best-liked of contemporary Ancient Historians. In his fifty-year career of teaching and publication Wolf, German-born and British-educated, has informed generations of scholars – collaborating, instructing, disputing and commenting ...
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Judicial Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
The relevance of lawyers and jurists in the process of state-building in nineteenth-century Latin America has been widely acknowledged. This collection of essays assembles a series of studies dealing with the interaction between the legal world and the wider political, economic, social and cultur...
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Supervivencia indígena en la Nicaragua colonial
Acompañada de una nueva introducción, esta traducción al español del clásico libro, Indian Survival in Colonial Nicaragua, ofrece una descripción detallada de los cambios demográficos y culturales que la conquista española y el dominio colonial trajeron a las sociedades indígenas de Nicaragua.
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Territories, Commodities and Knowledges
Examines emerging methodologies and conceptual debates within the environmental history of Latin America. Issues addressed include the territorial expansion of the state and its impact on environmental resources and indigenous populations; environmental transformation; and landscape ""improvement...
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Philosophy and Medicine in the Formative Period of Islam
Many of the leading philosophers in the Islamic world were doctors, yielding extensive links between philosophy and medicine. The twelve papers in this volume explore these links, focusing on the classical or formative period (up to the eleventh century AD). They also explore the Arabic reception...
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Natural Resource Development and Human Rights in Latin America
This multidisciplinary collection links local, national, regional and transnational levels of inquiry into the interaction of state and non-state actors involved in promoting or opposing natural resource development.
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Providing for the Poor
The Old Poor Law dispensed benefits to paupers in a uniquely comprehensive, pre-modern system of relief. Providing for the Poor re-examines the micro-politics of poverty in the long eighteenth century. It bridges the gaps in our understanding of the experiences of people across the social spectru...
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The Secret of Secrets: The East Slavic Version
The Secret of Secrets, purportedly the advice of Aristotle to Alexander the Great on all the knowledge needed by a great king, has been translated into many languages from its original Arabic. The Hebrew version was translated into a variety of East Slavic, probably in Kiev before 1483. This idio...
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Thomas Frederick Tout (1855–1929)
Thomas Frederick Tout (1855–1929) was arguably the most prolific English medieval historian of the early twentieth century. He also pioneered the use of archival research, welcomed women into academia and augmented the University of Manchester’s growing reputation for pioneering research. This bo...
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Pieter Geyl and Britain
Pieter Geyl (1887—1966) was undoubtedly one of the most internationally renowned Dutch historians of the twentieth century, but also one of the most controversial. Geyl was an early example of a ‘public intellectual’ and remains one of the most influential thinkers on history of all time. This vo...
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The Afterlife of Herodotus and Thucydides
This book seeks to explore the reception of the writings of Herodotus of Halicarnassus and Thucydides the Athenian from the Byzantine era until today, following the ups and downs of their scholarly reputations
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The Fevered Novel from Balzac to Bernanos: Frenetic Catholicism in Crisis, Delirium and Revolution
This book examines a corpus of frenetic novels – by Balzac, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Zola, Huysmans, Bloy and Bernanos – that foreground the motif of fever within a recurring masterplot: a pious young woman, just discovering her sexuality, finds herself torn between two father-figures, a doctor (typic...
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What Future for Human Rights in a Non-Western World?
The countries of the global north and west that have enjoyed hegemonic preponderance in international affairs over the last two centuries are seeing their relative influence on the world stage decline in favour of rising powers of other regions. As the ability of the global north and west to proj...
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Administering the Empire, 1801-1968
A user-friendly archival guide, Administering the Empire explains the organisation and potential information of the records of the British Colonial Office, and those of other departments responsible for colonial administration, currently held at the National Archives. The book also outlines the e...
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Democratising History
Democratising History interrogates the ways in which democracy has transformed modern Britain and how we teach its history. Nine research-led chapters offer new ways to think about the history of democracy in Britain since the early nineteenth century. These are complemented by six interludes tha...
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Mexican Soundings
Contains essays that convey the enduring nature of the questions raised by the work of David Brading. These essays reflect a range of his interests: from Mexican Baroque and post-Tridentine Catholicism to studies of the dynamics of state-building in nineteenth century Mexico.
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We Mark Your Memory: writings from the descendants of indenture
Indenture was the process whereby individuals entered, or were coerced, into an agreement to work in a colony in return for a fixed period of labour, but this was often open to abuses of power. Hidden within this little-known system of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Indian migration unde...
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Exploring ancient sculpture – essays in honour of Geoffrey Waywell (BICS Supplement 104)
From Caria to English country houses and iconography to architectural reconstruction, over the past 40 years Geoffrey Waywell has transformed our understanding of Greek sculpture and opened the way for new generations of scholars.In this volume, a celebration of his career on the occasion of his ...
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Azariah De'Rossi's Observations on the Syriac New Testament
Observations on the Syriac New Testament: A Sixteenth-Century Jew’s Critique of the Vulgate.
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Women and the Law
Originally published in 1984, Women And The Law is a pioneering study of the way in which the law has treated women – at work, in the family, in matters of sexuality and fertility, and in public life. It went on to inspire a legion of women lawyers and feminist legal rulings, from the Family Law ...
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Exclusion and Engagement
This collection offers a reappraisal of social policy in response to the scale of the challenges confronting Latin America. Divided into four sections it explores the functions of social policy and the prospects of its performing a new and more dynamic role.
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The Roman Sketchbook of Girolamo Da Carpi
Girolamo da Carpi’s sketchbook, here assembled and catalogued by Professor Canedy, comprises the largest single graphic repertory extant of the antiquities known to a fifteenth-or sixteenth-century artist. More than a thousand sketches survive in the album belonging to the Philip H. and A. S. Ros...
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Urban Microcosms 1789-1940
Urban microcosms are small-scale communal spaces that are integral to, or integrated into, city life. Some, such as railway stations or department stores, are typically located in city centres. Others, such as parks, are less quintessentially metropolitan, whilst harbours or beaches are often loc...
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The Victoria History of Gloucestershire: Yate
Yate is a town in South Gloucestershire, north-east of Bristol. Its ancient parish extended across a largely flat vale, which until the 13th century lay within Horwood forest, and was then cleared, inclosed and farmed as rich pasture by the tenants of the influential owners of its three manors. ...
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Right On?
Assesses George W Bush's presidency in terms of its historical context, first-term record, and second-term prospects. This book considers his administration from the perspective of its engagement in an ideologically driven project to consolidate conservative ascendancy over US politics and public...
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British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700
At a time when working-class writing is gaining long-overdue recognition and radical ideas are more important than ever, this collection examines the intersection of British working-class and radical writing from the eighteenth century to the present. Topics include the obstacles facing writers, ...
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Guilds and Association in Europe, 900-1900
This book is made up of a collection of papers from the 'Revisiting the livery companies of early modern London' conference held in April 2000 by the CMH, exploring the history of London livery companies from a variety of perspectives. Employing historical and interdisciplinary approaches, it exa...
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Children’s Experiences of Welfare in Modern Britain
This important book brings the history of childhood and welfare in Britain through the eyes of children to light. Focusing on the period 1830 to 1980, it demonstrates how the young were integral to the making, interpretation, delivery and impact of welfare services. The chapters consider a wide r...
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Sicilia Nutrix Plebis Romanae: Rhetoric, Law & Taxation in Cicero's Verrines (BICS Supplement 97)
Corruption in office, pervasive, subversive and perennial, requires the state to examine itself, its ethical values and its ways of working. The prosecution for corruption of Gaius Verres, governor of Sicily, has long been recognized for its exposure of ruthless depredation, of personal debaucher...
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Dilemmas of Political Change in Mexico
'Dilemmas of Political Change in Mexico' provides an assessment of Mexico's political dynamics at the turn of the 21st century.
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International Handbook on Clinical Tax Education
This practical handbook explores the benefits of a clinical tax education and equips readers in the profession with the tools needed to start a clinical tax project. It investigates the ways in which tax clinics can both educate and remedy tax positions for local communities in supporting those w...
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Christian Felix Weiße the Translator
Christian Felix Weiße (1726-1804) is best known as a dramatist and influential children’s writer of the Enlightenment period. This is the first book to explore his singularly extensive output as a literary translator, investigating the conditions which allowed Weiße to become the most prolific Ge...
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Names on Terra Sigillata. Volume 1 (A to AXO) (BICS Supplement 102.1)
Names on Terra Sigillata is the product of 40 years of study, and records over 5,000 names and some 300,000 stamps and signatures on Terra Sigillata (samian ware) manufactured in the first to the third centuries AD in Gaul, the German provinces, and Britain.With volume 9 the series is now complet...
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Shaping Knowledge: The Transmission of the 'Liber Floridus'
The encyclopedic compilation Liber Floridus, created by Lambert of Saint-Omer in the early twelfth century, survives not only in the form of his famous autograph, but also in several later manuscripts. These manuscripts transformed the knowledge assembled by him as their makers not only selected ...
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Codices Boethiani: Portugal and Spain v. 4
The number of Boethian manuscripts in the Iberian Peninsula is modest compared with those in the British Isles and Italy, partly, perhaps, because of the Arab domination there; the oldest manuscripts come from Ripoll in Catalonia, which was always under Christian control. The Portuguese manuscrip...
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Refugee Reception in Southern Africa
This book offers an original and unique perspective on refugee hosting in Southern Africa, through a comparative analysis of the politics surrounding the welcome afforded to refugees in Zambia and South Africa. While state-based reception is frequently framed as one-off moments, such as registrat...
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The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy
This important book is the first to outline Scotland’s colonial past and Glasgow’s direct links with the slave trade through sugar plantations. It traces how significant fortunes and investments made through chattel slavery percolated into the Scottish economy and wider society, and examines, via...
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Revisiting the Falklands-Malvinas Question
The conflict over possession of the Falklands-Malvinas Islands was waged in an area remote both geographically and geo-politically in an era of cold war and also of tensions within and between sovereign states of the supposed western bloc. It has been broadly perceived as an absurd confrontation,...
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Names on Terra Sigillata. Volume 8 (S to Symphorus) (BICS Supplement 102.8)
Names on Terra Sigillata, the product of 40 years of study, records over 5,000 names and some 300,000 stamps and signatures on Terra Sigillata (samian ware) manufactured in the 1st to the 3rd centuries AD in Gaul, the German provinces and Britain.To be published in 10 volumes, the work has been s...
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