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Dorothy Watts - Boudicca's Heirs; Women in Early Britain (2005).jpg
Affording a clearer depiction of women in the Late Iron Age and Roman Britain than currently exists, Dorothy Watts examines archaeological, inscriptional and literary evidence to present a unique assessment of women and their place during the Romanization of ...
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This is the first work to begin to fill a gap: an understanding of discourse aimed to persuade within the Pre-Columbian Americas. The contributors in this collection offer glimpses of what those indigenous rhetorics might have looked like and how their influences remain. ...
Debbie Lewer - Post-Impressionism to World War II (2006).jpg
Post-Impressionism to World War II is an exciting anthology of the best art history writings of the Post-Impressionist period. Several key essays by critics including Benjamin, Greenberg and Bürger knit together primary sources and classic, “canonical” ...
E.H.H.Green - The Crisis of Conservatism; The Politics.jpg
The Crisis of Conservatism 1880-1914 offers a new interpretation of Conservative politics in the period 1880-1914 and comes to the startling conclusion that, but for the intervention of the First World War, there may well have been a 'Strange Death of Tory England.
Walter D. Mignolo - The Darker Side of the Renaissance; Literacy.jpg
The Darker Side of the Renaissance weaves together literature, semiotics, history, historiography, cartography, and cultural theory to examine the role of language in the colonization of the New World. Exploring the many connections among writing, social ...
Paul Basu - Highland Homecomings (2006).jpg
The first full-length ethnographic study of its kind, Highland Homecomings examines the role of place, ancestry and territorial attachment in the context of a modern age characterized by mobility and rootlessness.With an interdisciplinary approach, speaking to ...
Hugh M. Thomas - The English and the Normans; Ethnic Hostility.jpg
This is an important new study of the impact of the Norman Conquest. It provides the first full explanation of how the English and the Normans merged to become the same people. The author draws on anthropological theory, the latest scholarship on Anglo-Norman England, and ...
Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos - The Culture of Giving; Informal Support and Gift-Exchange in Early Modern England (2010).jpg
An innovative study of gift-giving, informal support and charity in England between the late sixteenth and early eighteenth centuries. Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos examines the adaptation and transformation of varied forms of informal help, challenging long-held views ...
Justin Jennings - Globalizations and the Ancient World (2010).jpg
In this book, Justin Jennings argues that globalization is not just a phenomenon limited to modern times. Instead he contends that the globalization of today is just the latest in a series of globalizing movements in human history. Using the Uruk, Mississippian, and Wari ...
Bruce Louden - Homer's Odyssey and the Near East (2011).jpg
The Odyssey's larger plot is composed of a number of distinct genres of myth, all of which are extant in various Near Eastern cultures (Mesopotamian, West Semitic, Egyptian). Unexpectedly, the Near Eastern culture with which the Odyssey has the most parallels is the Old ...
Roger Morriss - The Foundations of British Maritime Ascendancy; Resources.jpg
British power and global expansion between 1755 and 1815 have mainly been attributed to the fiscal-military state and the achievements of the Royal navy at sea. Roger Morriss here sheds new light on the broader range of developments in the infrastructure of the state needed ...
S. J. D. Green - The Passing of Protestant England; Secularisation and Social Change.jpg
In The Passing of Protestant England, S. J. D. Green offers an important new account of the causes, courses and consequences of the secularisation of English society. He argues that the critical cultural transformation of modern English society was forged in the agonised ...
Hilary M. Carey -- God's Empire; Religion and Colonialism in the British World.jpg
In God's Empire, Hilary M. Carey charts Britain's nineteenth-century transformation from Protestant nation to free Christian empire through the history of the colonial missionary movement. This wide-ranging reassessment of the religious character of the second ...
Jon Parkin - Taming the Leviathan; The Reception of the Political and Religious Ideas of Thomas Hobbes in England 1640-1700 (2010).jpg
Thomas Hobbes is widely acknowledged as the most important political philosopher to have written in English. Originally published in 2007, Taming the Leviathan is a wide-ranging study of the English reception of Hobbes's ideas. In the first book-length treatment of the ...
Robert Mack - The Genius of Parody; Imitation and Originality in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century English Literature (2007).jpg
The stigmatisation of parody as "the worst enemy" of creativity has been pervasive in our literary culture. Although recent theoretical approaches have compelled critics to rethink many received notions regarding the significance of contemporary parodic activity, ...
Mary Wilson Carpenter - Health.jpg
In 1800, infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, cholera, syphilis, and smallpox were the primary causes of illness and death, but no one knew what caused them—they were generally believed to be inherited or to be the result of bad air. By 1905, the bacteria that causes ...
Ewart .Oakeshott - Records of the Medieval Swords (2000).jpg
Forty years of intensive research into the specialised subject of the straight two-edged knightly sword of the European middle ages are contained in this study. Spanning the period from the great migrations to the Renaissance, Oakeshott emphasises the original purpose ...
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The fifteen papers in this volume explore how human beliefs have been externalised and `stored' in material form, thus making very intangible ideas exist in a permanent, tangible form. The volume benefits from a culturally and temporally comparative approach. Contents: ...
Gary McCulloch - Philosophers and Kings; Education for Leadership in Modern England (1991).jpg
Philosophers and Kings examines how the theme of "education for leadership" has developed, changed and declined in English secondary education during the twentieth century. Gary McCulloch examines the contributions of significant educators such as Cyril Norwood, ...
Jan Goldstein - The Post-Revolutionary Self; Politics and Psyche in France.jpg
In the wake of the French Revolution, as attempts to restore political stability to France repeatedly failed, a group of concerned intellectuals identified a likely culprit: the prevalent sensationalist psychology, and especially the flimsy and fragmented self it ...