Cultural Studies
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The Victoria History of the County of Oxford: Volume XII: Wootton Hundred (Southern Part) including Woodstock [Hardback]
Alan Crossley(Editor)
$120.00ISBN: 9780197227749
Published by : Victoria County History
Series: Victoria County History
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The Rise and Demise of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Atlantic World [Hardback]
Philip Misevich(Editor); Kristin Mann(Editor); Daniel B. Domingues da Silva(Contributor); David Richardson(Contributor); Jelmer Vos(Contributor); Phil Phil Misevich(Editor)
$135.00ISBN: 9781580465601
Published by : University of Rochester Press
Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
Volume: 71
Drawing on new quantitative and qualitative evidence, this study reexamines the rise, transformation, and slow demise of slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic world. The twelve essays here reveal the legacies and consequences of abolition an... .... Learn More -
Jenatsch's Axe: Social Boundaries, Identity, and Myth in the Era of the Thirty Years' War [Paperback]
Randolph C. Head(Author)
$29.95ISBN: 9781580465656
Published by : University of Rochester Press
Series: Changing Perspectives on Early Modern Europe
During the turbulent events of Europe's Thirty Years' War, both ruthlessness and adaptability were crucial ingredients for success. In this engaging volume, Randolph C. Head traces the career of an extraordinarily adaptable and ruthless figure, Ge... .... Learn More -
British Royal and State Funerals: Music and Ceremonial since Elizabeth I [Hardback]
Matthias Range(Author)
$99.00ISBN: 9781783270927
Published by : Boydell Press
British royal and state funerals are among the most elaborate and solemn occasions in European history. This book is the first in-depth study of the ceremonial and the music performed at these events over the past 400 years, fromthe funeral of Eli... .... Learn More -
The Writers' State: Constructing East German Literature, 1945-1959 [Hardback]
Stephen Brockmann(Author)
$90.00ISBN: 9781571139535
Published by : Camden House
Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Volume: Volume 171
Twenty-five years after the demise of the German Democratic Republic, there is perhaps more scholarship being produced on all aspects of that country than ever. This is true also in the field of literary studies, but especially in English-language... .... Learn More -
British Travellers and the Encounter with Britain, 1450-1700 [Hardback]
John Cramsie(Author)
$90.00ISBN: 9781783270538
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History
Volume: 23
This book recovers the encounter with a "multicultural" Britain by British travellers in the Tudor and Stuart periods. When William Camden, writing in the sixteenth century, set out to write the history of Britannia, he deliberately took... .... Learn More -
Harold Wilson's Cold War: The Labour Government and East-West Politics, 1964-1970 [Paperback]
Geraint Hughes(Author)
$25.95ISBN: 9780861933327
Published by : Royal Historical Society
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
Volume: 67
The then Labour government's efforts to promote East-West détente and to improve Anglo-Soviet relations from 1964 to 1970 have been largely overlooked; yet they were of huge significance. This book offers a major reappraisal. It chal... .... Learn More -
Protesting about Pauperism: Poverty, Politics and Poor Relief in Late-Victorian England, 1870-1900 [Paperback]
Elizabeth T. Hurren(Author)
$25.95ISBN: 9780861933297
Published by : Royal Historical Society
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
Volume: 60
The consequences of extreme poverty were a grim reality for all too many people in Victorian England. The various poor laws implemented to try to deal with it contained a number of controversial measures, one of the most radical and unpopular bein... .... Learn More -
Women and Violent Crime in Enlightenment Scotland [Paperback]
Anne-Marie Kilday(Author)
$25.95ISBN: 9780861933303
Published by : Royal Historical Society
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
Volume: 58
This book offers important new insights into the relationship between crime and gender in Scotland during the Enlightenment period. Against the backdrop of significant legislative changes that fundamentally altered the face of Scots law, Anne-Mari... .... Learn More -
Uvedale Price (1747-1829): Decoding the Picturesque [Paperback]
Charles Watkins(Author); Ben Cowell(Author)
$24.95ISBN: 9781783270231
Published by : Boydell Press
Series: Garden and Landscape History
Volume: 3
Uvedale Price achieved most fame as the author of the influential Essay on the Picturesque of 1794 in which he argued that the work of the greatest landscape artists, such as Salvator Rosa, Rubens and Claude, should be usedas models for the... .... Learn More
