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PaperbackEngels9780521020145
29-9-2005
The history of Ireland has been conceived in two ways: as the history of the English in Ireland or as the history of Gaelic Ireland, but both kinds have been concerned with personalities and institutions rather than with society as a whole. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521090803
27-11-2008
This book is based on the Wiles lectures for 1981 delivered at the Queen's University of Belfast in October 1981. It is not a history of Anglo-American relations in the century; its theme deals with how the United States of America came to replace Britain as the primary world and oceanic power confronting a grouping of land-based continental powers, the position Britain occupied throughout the nineteenth century. Meer
GebondenEngels9780521841788
12-1-2006
What came before 'postmodernism' in historical studies? By thinking through the assumptions, methods and cast of mind of English historians writing between about 1870 and 1970, this book reveals the intellectual world of the modernists and offers a full analysis of English historiography in this crucial period. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521088084
11-12-2008
To understand the growth of Western constitutional thought, we need to consider both ecclesiology and political theory, ideas about the Church as well as ideas about the state. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521530491
3-10-2002
This book examines the historical context of the earliest Christian martyrs, and anchors their grisly and often wilful self-sacrifice to the everyday life and outlook of the cities of the Roman empire. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521273800
29-4-1983
This volume presents Professor Cohen's original interpretation of the revolution that marked the beginnings of modern science and set Newtonian science as the model for the highest level of achievement in other branches of science. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521278898
8-3-1984
In his Wiles Lectures for 1977 Professor Roberts examines some of the problems raised by Sweden's brief career as a great power, and seeks to answer some of the questions that flow from them. Meer
GebondenEngels9780521419161
9-3-1995
This book investigates the problems that committed Catholics allegedly faced if they sought careers in state employment under the Third French Republic. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521535861
16-9-2004
In this magisterial study, Peter Burke explores the social and cultural history of the languages spoken or written in Europe between the invention of printing and the French Revolution, arguing that, from a linguistic point of view, 1450 to 1789 should be regarded as a distinct period. Meer
GebondenEngels9780521496650
24-11-1995
General histories of the twentieth century will have much to say about the establishment, spread, maintenance and sudden collapse of Soviet Communism. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521029773
2-11-2006
This book, a revised and extended version of Professor Davies's 1988 Wiles Lectures, explores the ways in which the kings and aristocracy of England sought to extend their domination over Ireland, Scotland and Wales in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521296519
12-9-1979
Intellectual eminence apart, what did Kant, Clausewitz, Marx and Engels, and Tolstoy have in common? Professor Gallic argues that they made contributions to 'international theory' – to the understanding of the character and causes of war and of the possibility of peace between nations – which were of unrivalled originality in their own times and remain of undiminished importance in ours. Meer
GebondenEngels9780521886376
24-4-2008
A unique comparative account of the roots of Communist revolution in Russia and China. Steve Smith examines the changing social identities of peasants who settled in St Petersburg from the 1880s to 1917 and in Shanghai from the 1900s to the 1940s. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521567657
24-11-1995
General histories of the twentieth century will have much to say about the establishment, spread, maintenance and sudden collapse of Soviet Communism. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521095679
This book is an extended version of the Wiles lectures given at the Queen's University, Belfast, in 1954. It illustrates the rise, scope, methods and objectives of the history of historiography. Meer
GebondenEngels9780521878326
17-3-2008
How did people of the medieval period explain physical phenomena, such as eclipses or the distribution of land and water on the globe? What creatures did they think they might encounter: angels, devils, witches, dogheaded people? Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521135825
30-7-2009
Sir George Clark discusses war as a factor for good and ill in European society in the seventeenth century. In particular, he shows how war helped to determine the emergence of modern Europe from a society geographically, politically and doctrinally confused: what Sir George calls the mêlée of the early part of the century. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521135832
30-7-2009
The study of ecclesiastical history presents unique problems: the events it deals with are not ordinary events and fundamental questions of faith may be involved in their interpretation. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521135849
30-7-2009
Four hundred years ago the pattern of human life and thought was strikingly different from our own. What main features led to the change in that pattern? Meer
PaperbackEngels9780521291040
21-1-1977
Professor Hay provides a clear picture of what the Renaissance was, what it meant and how it spread. He shows the Renaissance as a growing and changing series of attitudes and ideas, rooted firmly in the general history of the period, and not as a static and isolated phenomenon. Meer