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'Colonization through a process of affection', wrote the London-based Barbadian novelist George Lamming in 1960, was 'the worst form of colonization'. Lamming's London was marked by the violent currents of racism—some seen, many disavowed. But the operations of race,...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-09-29
Format(s) : PDF
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Just days into the miners' strike of 1984-1985, a few women in coalfield communities around Britain began to meet to consider how they could support the strike, a clash with the Thatcher government over the future of the coal industry. Women ultimately formed a national...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-09-20
Format(s) : PDF
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'Colonization through a process of affection', wrote the London-based Barbadian novelist George Lamming in 1960, was 'the worst form of colonization'. Lamming's London was marked by the violent currents of racism—some seen, many disavowed. But the operations of race,...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-09-05
Format(s) : ePub
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Just days into the miners' strike of 1984-1985, a few women in coalfield communities around Britain began to meet to consider how they could support the strike, a clash with the Thatcher government over the future of the coal industry. Women ultimately formed a national...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-09-05
Format(s) : ePub
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The Victorian period may have come to an end over 120 years ago, but the Victorians continue to be a vital presence in the modern world. Contemporary Britain is still in large part Victorian in its transport...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-08-09
Format(s) : PDF
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The story of the British army, from its inception in the late seventeenth century to the present.
This new concise history by one of Britain's leading military historians explores the British army from the creation of a permanent standing army in the seventeenth...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-07-25
Format(s) : ePub
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The Victorian period may have come to an end over 120 years ago, but the Victorians continue to be a vital presence in the modern world. Contemporary Britain is still in large part Victorian in its transport...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-07-25
Format(s) : ePub
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The expansion of the British Empire facilitated movement across the globe for both the colonizers and the colonized. Waiting on Empire focuses on a largely forgotten group in this story of movement and migration: South Asian travelling ayahs (servants and nannies), who...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-07-19
Format(s) : PDF
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This book provides an overview of the inception, development and achievements of British socialist and workers theatre – a feat which has not been attempted before. It explores the connections between politics and culture (specifically theatre) and between political...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-07-07
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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The story of the British army, from its inception in the late seventeenth century to the present.
This new concise history by one of Britain's leading military historians explores the British army from the creation of a permanent standing army in the seventeenth...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-07-07
Format(s) : PDF
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The expansion of the British Empire facilitated movement across the globe for both the colonizers and the colonized. Waiting on Empire focuses on a largely forgotten group in this story of movement and migration: South Asian travelling ayahs (servants and nannies), who...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-07-04
Format(s) : ePub
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This book offers a spatial history of the decades in which women entered the universities as students for the first time. Through focusing on several different types of spaces – such as learning spaces, leisure spaces, and commuting spaces – it argues that the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-06-07
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2023-05-11
Format(s) : ePub
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As he prepared to embark for India in 1774, Alexander Mackrabie's excitement at the sights to be seen and novelties to be experienced was palpable. Mackrabie's journey was conducted under the auspices of the London-based East India Company and was one of the many...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-05-11
Format(s) : PDF
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As he prepared to embark for India in 1774, Alexander Mackrabie's excitement at the sights to be seen and novelties to be experienced was palpable. Mackrabie's journey was conducted under the auspices of the London-based East India Company and was one of the many...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-05-02
Format(s) : ePub
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?This book is a study of the representation of the Persian empire in English drama across the early modern period, from the 1530s to the 1690s. The wide focus of this book, encompassing thirteen dramatic entertainments, both canonical and little-known, allow it to trace...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-05-01
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Dieser Band bietet eine umfassende Geschichte der Soziologie in Großbritannien und verfolgt die Entwicklungen der Disziplin im institutionellen und politischen Kontext.Nachdem er die frühe Entwicklung des Fachs als intellektuelles Feld in empirischer und idealistischer...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2023-03-01
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This book examines the lives and tenures of the consorts of the Hanoverian, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Windsor monarchs from 1727 to the present. Some of the consorts examined in this volume—such as Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, consort to George VI—are well known...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-02-24
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book covers the discovery and the results of the analytical study of the composition of the Farnley Hall service, involving both the embossed moulding and the decorative compositions. The discovery of this missing porcelain service, which was manufactured...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2023-02-22
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book examines England's plural and protracted Reformations through the novel prism of the generations. Approaching generation as a biological unit and a social cohort, it demonstrates that the tumultuous religious developments that stretched across the sixteenth...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-01-25
Format(s) : PDF
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