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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 : 2023-01-10
Format(s) : ePub
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This book shows how in nineteenth-century Britain, confronted with the newly industrialized and urbanized modern world, writers, artists, journalists and impresarios tried to gain an overview of contemporary history. They drew on two successive but competing conceptual...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-01-06
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Literature and Justice in Mid Twentieth Century Britain: Crime and War Crimes examines how ideas about crime, criminality, and judicial procedure that had developed in a domestic context influenced the representation and understanding of war crimes trials, victims of...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2023-01-04
Format(s) : PDF
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Many women wrote philosophy in nineteenth-century Britain, and they wrote across the full range of philosophical topics. Yet these important women thinkers have been left out of the philosophical canon and many of them are barely known today. The aim of this book is to...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-12-29
Format(s) : PDF
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Literature and Justice in Mid Twentieth Century Britain: Crime and War Crimes examines how ideas about crime, criminality, and judicial procedure that had developed in a domestic context influenced the representation and understanding of war crimes trials, victims of...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-12-20
Format(s) : ePub
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Many women wrote philosophy in nineteenth-century Britain, and they wrote across the full range of philosophical topics. Yet these important women thinkers have been left out of the philosophical canon and many of them are barely known today. The aim of this book is to...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-12-14
Format(s) : ePub
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Constitutions of Self in Contemporary Irish Poetry explores the figure of the lyrical self in the work of six contemporary Irish poets: Paul Muldoon, Vona Groarke, Sinéad Morrissey, Caitríona O’Reilly, Alan Gillis and Nick Laird. By focusing on the self, this study...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-11-22
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book traces the social backgrounds, educational experiences and subsequent lives of women who attended the university colleges in Wales from their inception to the outbreak of the Second World War. Using a sample of 2,000 graduates, the book foregrounds the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-11-07
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book investigates emotion in early modern Scotland, and provides the first exploration of a Scottish individual’s life and writing in light of the recent major advances in the study of emotion. It does this through the example of James Melville, a minister in the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-11-03
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2022-10-06
Format(s) : ePub
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This book traces the emergence of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) from 1955 to 1963 amid the broader reshaping of the institutional architecture of post-war Europe. It considers the ill-fated Free Trade Area (FTA) proposal, the subsequent creation of EFTA,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-09-28
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Sick Note shows how the question of 'who is really sick?' has never been straightforward and will continue to perplex the British state.
Sick Note is a history of how the British state asked, 'who is really sick?' Tracing medical certification for absence from work...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-08-11
Format(s) : PDF
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Sick Note shows how the question of 'who is really sick?' has never been straightforward and will continue to perplex the British state.
Sick Note is a history of how the British state asked, 'who is really sick?' Tracing medical certification for absence from work...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-08-11
Format(s) : ePub
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Modernity and the Victorians diagnoses a disorder in the scholarship on Victorian Britain, and proposes an interpretative remedy. It argues that the 'modernization theory' beloved of twentieth-century social scientists cannot be made to fit the facts of...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-07-21
Format(s) : PDF
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Modernity and the Victorians diagnoses a disorder in the scholarship on Victorian Britain, and proposes an interpretative remedy. It argues that the 'modernization theory' beloved of twentieth-century social scientists cannot be made to fit the facts of...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-07-21
Format(s) : ePub
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This book examines the lives and tenures of all the consorts of the Tudor and Stuart monarchs of England between 1485 and 1714, as well as the wives of the two Lords Protector during the Commonwealth. The figures in Tudor and Stuart Consorts are both incredibly...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-07-20
Collection :
Queenship and Power
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Dickens and Victorian Psychology: Introspection, First-Person Narration, and the Mind positions Charles Dickens's fiction in the midst of Victorian psychological debate, tracking Dickens's increasing reliance over the course of his career on the introspective mode,...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-07-14
Format(s) : PDF
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Dickens and Victorian Psychology: Introspection, First-Person Narration, and the Mind positions Charles Dickens's fiction in the midst of Victorian psychological debate, tracking Dickens's increasing reliance over the course of his career on the introspective mode,...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2022-07-14
Format(s) : ePub
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A refreshing guide to discovering the hidden details of London with 10 fully guided walking routes from London's leading tour guide Look Up London. Have you ever noticed London's tiniest public sculpture? Or wondered why there are strange cone-shaped structures on the...
Editeur : Greenfinch
Parution : 2022-05-26
Format(s) : ePub
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This book addresses one the most contentious issues of postwar Western Europe, namely the organization of the primary and secondary stages of schooling in state education systems. In examining the politics of continuity and change in postwar schooling in Britain...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-05-16
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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