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City of beasts

How animals shaped Georgian London
This book offers a panoramic view of Georgian London, redefining the city's role in the industrial, agricultural and consumer revolutions. It does this by examining, for the first time, the huge co...
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105,54 zł

This is your hour

Christian intellectuals in Britain and the Crisis of Eu...
This book examines responses of a Christian intellectual group in 1930s and 1940s Britain to totalitarianism and war. Seeking 'middle ways' through what has been called the 'age of extremes', the g...
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158,75 zł

Affective medievalism

Love, abjection and discontent
The book argues that the temporal privilege of the medieval masks the extent to which the medieval and medievalistic are mutually constitutive and ultimately dependent not on absolutist epistemolog...
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161,84 zł

Forms of faith

Literary form and religious conflict in early modern En...
This collection of essays opens a new perspective on the interplay of religious conflict and literary culture in early modern England. Focusing on negotiation instead of escalation, thirteen distin...
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159,92 zł

Knowledge, mediation and empire

James Tod's journeys among the Rajputs
Studies Tod's relationships with particular Rajput leaders and with the Rajputs as a group in general, in order to better understand his attempts to portray their history, geographical moorings and...
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159,64 zł

Law in popular belief

Myth and reality
This book looks at the relationship between statute law and legal practice. It examines how law is applied in reality and more precisely how law is perceived by the general public in ...
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160,71 zł

Labour, British radicalism and the First World War

This book provides a concise set of thirteen essays looking at various aspects of the British left, movements of protest and the cumulative impact of the First World War.
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159,69 zł

Confronting crisis in the Carolingian empire

Paschasius Radbertus' funeral oration for Wala of Corbie
This is the translation of an extraordinary and enigmatic narrative of Carolingian history, which should interest historians of politics, religion and literature in equal measure. Radbertus' 'Epita...
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157,21 zł

Citizenship, nation, empire

The politics of history teaching in England, 1870-1930
Autor: Peter Yeandle
Details contemporary debates about the purpose of history teaching and the influence of late-Victorian and Edwardian educational culture, and goes on to examine how pedagogical developments shape...
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160,71 zł

Race and riots in Thatcher's Britain

Autor: Simon Peplow
Through exploration of black British community activism in three geographical case studies, this book argues that the 1980-1 anti-police disturbances should be viewed as 'collective bargaining by r...
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159,69 zł

The politics of freedom of information

How and why governments pass laws that threaten their p...
Autor: Ben Worthy
This book explores the implementation of the UK's FOI law under Tony Blair, showing how the radical policy was weakened by compromises and clandestine agreements before reaching the statute book, t...
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160,36 zł

Civilising rural Ireland

The co-operative movement, development and the nation-s...
Autor: Patrick Doyle
Civilising rural Ireland challenges predominant narratives of Irish history that explain the emergence of the nation-state through the lens of political conflict and violence. Instead the bo...
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176,24 zł

The 'desegregation' of English schools

Bussing, race and urban space, 1960s-80s
This detailed study is the first ever book on English bussing, an integrationist policy introduced in places like Southall and Bradford in the 1960s. It reveals the failure of dispersal, which segr...
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160,36 zł

Spenser and Virgil

The pastoral poems
Autor: Syrithe Pugh
An engaging study that offers new and provocative re-readings of Spenser's pastoral poems, with a focus on Spenser's acknowledged debt to Virgil and his Eclogues. Reception studies, politics and cl...
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161,68 zł

The European Union and its eastern neighbourhood

Europeanisation and its twenty-first-century contradict...
Autor: Mike Mannin
This volume explores key issues that are currently at the forefront of the EU's relations with its eastern neighbours. It considers the impact of a more assertive Russia, the significance of Turkey...
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175,42 zł

Battle-scarred

Mortality, medical care and military welfare in the Bri...
Battle-scarred examines mortality, medical care and military welfare during the British Civil Wars. Its focus on the victims of war and their means of survival provides a series of case stud...
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159,92 zł

Hermits and anchorites in England, 1200-1550

This book provides an unprecedented range of sources for the solitary life in late-medieval England, including many that have never before been published, alongside a scholarly introduction and com...
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146,93 zł

Writing the Welsh borderlands in Anglo-Saxon England

Autor: Lindy Brady
An ambitious book which argues that the March of Wales, as it existed as a legally defined space in the period after 1066, had a long pre-history as a place of encounter and interchange from the ea...
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160,82 zł

Gendered transactions

The white woman in colonial India, <i>c</i>. 1820-1930
Autor: Indrani Sen
Explores Indian gender issues through diverse sources including letters, memoirs, fiction, housekeeping manuals, and forgotten texts from the colonial archives.
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160,36 zł

Environment, labour and capitalism at sea

'Working the ground' in Scotland
This book combines phenomenology and political economy to offer new approaches for analyses of human-environment relations and technologies. It contributes to the social studies of fisheries throug...
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160,22 zł
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