This volume explores the practices of shopping in Europe during the long eighteenth century, a period during which consumption choices expanded to encompass much larger groups than before.
In classic abecedarian fashion A B C Et Cetera, originally published in 1985, takes from the rich Roman cornucopia more than enough to demonstrate the fact that sixty percent of our working vocabulary descends directly from the Latin.
This study examines the visual productions of the German Peasants' War - pamphlets, banners, and clothing - to argue for the disruptive and radical visual legacy in which hierarchies and modes of subjection were overturned.
This study examines the visual productions of the German Peasants' War - pamphlets, banners, and clothing - to argue for the disruptive and radical visual legacy in which hierarchies and modes of subjection were overturned.
In classic abecedarian fashion A B C Et Cetera, originally published in 1985, takes from the rich Roman cornucopia more than enough to demonstrate the fact that sixty percent of our working vocabulary descends directly from the Latin.
This account of the National Army during the Irish civil war tells its story from the divides created in the Republican movement by the Anglo-Irish Treaty to the development of a new military organisation capable of upholding the Treaty provisions and facilitating the establishment of a new state.
Originally published in 1957 and as a revised edition in 1970, this is a fascinating survey of many of the major events in Britain between the Armistice of 1918 and the Great Depression of 1929.
This account of the National Army during the Irish civil war tells its story from the divides created in the Republican movement by the Anglo-Irish Treaty to the development of a new military organisation capable of upholding the Treaty provisions and facilitating the establishment of a new state.
This book reviews the research that has been generated by the Abbey complex on the eastern cliff-top, and relates it to the 'heritage' context, the subject of a major new initiative by English Heritage and Scarborough Borough Council.
This book reviews the research that has been generated by the Abbey complex on the eastern cliff-top, and relates it to the 'heritage' context, the subject of a major new initiative by English Heritage and Scarborough Borough Council.
Originally published in 1985, this study by Polish authors was the first in the English language to cover Poland's economic development from 1900 to the mid-1980s and it was published at a time when the Polish economy was in crisis and before the fall of the Iron Curtain.
First published in 1967, Europe in Conflict offers a comprehensive exploration of Europe's turbulent history during a period marked by profound political, social, and military upheaval.
First published in 1972, England, France and Christendom, 1377-99 is the study of the most fiercely fought portion of the Hundred Years' War and describes the nature of the wars that took place during the reigns of Charles VI of France and Richard II of England.
Originally published in 1965, this book recaptures the major events of the years between 1949 and 1960 including: Austerity and rationing in the UK, the Festival of Britain, the expansion of television and flying saucers, as well as the Korean war, the threat of nuclear war, Suez, the renaissance of British playwriting, the expansion of British airlines and the emergence of the so-called 'age of affluence'.
Situated fatefully between the peaks of the Caucasus Mountains and the waters of the Caspian Sea, the republic of Azerbaijan's journey to modern statehood has been an eventful one, influenced by the great empires and cultures of world history.
Drawing on extensive archival research at the UK National Archives, this volume examines how "e;London"e; (primarily British diplomats in Spain and officials at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office) perceived the radical Basque nationalist group ETA's campaign of violence from 1968 to 1993.
Originally published in 1986, for the second edition of this standard text (previously only covering up to 1970) in A Social History of Housing 1815-1985, John Burnett has extended his study to take account of the next fifteen years.
Drawing on Jeffrey Schnapp's conceptual framework, this book examines political exhibitions organised by the Portuguese Estado Novo between 1934 and 1940 as spaces where regimes manipulated national history to legitimise their authority, crafting myths of origin and narratives of national pride.
This book examines how the Iberian empires of the early-modern period were structured around population control, segregation, and racial policies rather than nation-state characteristics.
This book explores the social history of the radical religious community of Old Believer-Wanderers during the period of rapid Late Imperial, Early Soviet, and Stalinist modernization.
Reading Faces is the first book to discuss the historical contexts and theoretical underpinnings of the artificial intelligence (AI) systems that identify individuals, or purport to ascribe emotions and characteristics to them based on their facial features.
Through the lens of the Balkan nations, this volume makes a valuable and significant contribution to the fields of European and Southeast European studies by reconsidering the East/West dichotomy - both in terms of the Orient-Occident divide and the Eastern-Western Europe binary.
Liminal Spaces and Spatial Practices in Byzantium offers a novel twist, combining intra-/inter-disciplinary research across the humanities and social sciences by transforming two distinct disciplinary concepts (liminality from social anthropology and space from cultural geography) into methodological devices for historical investigation.
This collection of essays represents the very first effort to assess the importance of Bridget Manningham's Rivall Friendship, a seventeenth-century manuscript that concerns the English Civil War, surviving in only one copy at the Newberry Library, Chicago, IL.
The History of Trade Union Organisation in the North Staffordshire Potteries (1931) is an account, by a potter and trade unionist, of trade unionism in the pottery industry of North Staffordshire.
The book explores the neglected role and social dynamics of informal communication - interpersonal channels not controlled 'from above' - in the region of Upper Silesia under the German occupation during the Second World War (1939-1945).
Intervention in the Mixed Economy (1974) examines the problem of state intervention in mixed economies by analysing some of the most important aspects of British industrial policy of the early 1970s.
The book explores the neglected role and social dynamics of informal communication - interpersonal channels not controlled 'from above' - in the region of Upper Silesia under the German occupation during the Second World War (1939-1945).
This book explores the development of sexual ethics in medieval Poland, focusing on how the process of Christianization integrated Poland into the Western European cultural sphere, and how the adoption of Christian norms and practices significantly shaped its moral and legal views on sexuality.
This book explores the development of sexual ethics in medieval Poland, focusing on how the process of Christianization integrated Poland into the Western European cultural sphere, and how the adoption of Christian norms and practices significantly shaped its moral and legal views on sexuality.
This collection of essays represents the very first effort to assess the importance of Bridget Manningham's Rivall Friendship, a seventeenth-century manuscript that concerns the English Civil War, surviving in only one copy at the Newberry Library, Chicago, IL.
This monograph presents a microstudy of a crucially important and profoundly revealing location: the territory around the modern city of Lecco, which lies on the eastern branch of Lake Como, in Lombardy (northern Italy).
The History of Trade Union Organisation in the North Staffordshire Potteries (1931) is an account, by a potter and trade unionist, of trade unionism in the pottery industry of North Staffordshire.
Intervention in the Mixed Economy (1974) examines the problem of state intervention in mixed economies by analysing some of the most important aspects of British industrial policy of the early 1970s.
This monograph presents a microstudy of a crucially important and profoundly revealing location: the territory around the modern city of Lecco, which lies on the eastern branch of Lake Como, in Lombardy (northern Italy).
Through the lens of the Balkan nations, this volume makes a valuable and significant contribution to the fields of European and Southeast European studies by reconsidering the East/West dichotomy - both in terms of the Orient-Occident divide and the Eastern-Western Europe binary.
Religious and Identity-Based Roots of the War in Ukraine critically analyses the religious and identity-based roots of the Russo-Ukrainian War from a long-term historical perspective.
China in Later Enlightenment Political Thought examines the ideas of China in the works of mid- to late-eighteenth century European Enlightenment political thinkers.
This volume explores the practices of shopping in Europe during the long eighteenth century, a period during which consumption choices expanded to encompass much larger groups than before.
