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Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Challenging current perspectives of urbanisation, The Routledge History Handbook of Gender and the Urban Experience explores how our towns and cities have shaped and been shaped by cultural,spatial and gendered influences. This volume discusses gender in an urban context in European,North American...
by Dr David Gates
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Known collectively as the 'Great War', for over a decade the Napoleonic Wars engulfed not only a whole continent but also the overseas possessions of the leading European states. A war of unprecedented scale and intensity, it was in many ways a product of change that acted as a catalyst for upheaval...
Prophets of Rebellion
Millenarian Protest Movements against the European Colonial Order
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Adas explores the relationship between millenarianism and violent protest by focusing on five case studies representing a wide range of social, political, and economic systems. The rebellions examined are: Netherlands East Indies (1825-30), New Zealand (c. 1864-67), Central India (1895-1900), German...
Diplomacy in Renaissance Rome
The Rise of the Resident Ambassador
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Diplomacy in Renaissance Rome is an investigation of Renaissance diplomacy in practice. Presenting the first book-length study of this subject for sixty years, Catherine Fletcher substantially enhances our understanding of the envoy's role during this pivotal period for the development of diplomacy....
by Paul Dukes
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Revised and expanded, the second edition of this fascinating study surveys the first two centuries of Romanov rule from the foundation of the dynasty by Michael Romanov in 1613 to the accession of Alexander I in 1801.
The central theme of the book is the growth of absolutism in Russia throughout...
In the Shadow of the Iron Curtain
Central and Eastern European Alterglobalists
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
This book examines the alterglobalist activists in Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary. Based on lengthy ethnographic fieldwork and numerous in-depth interviews with key figures of the movement, it covers mobilizations and actions between 1998 and 2011 and analyzes the process of adapting the...
by Brian Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Celtic is a club like no other. Its story is a unique one, of a football club founded to raise money to help alleviate poverty within the predominantly Irish immigrant community of Glasgow’s East End. Yet, from its inception, Celtic has been a club open to all. From those humble and charitable origins,...
by Terry Gourvish
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Commissioned by the Cabinet Office and using hitherto untapped British Government records, this book presents an in-depth analysis of the successful project of 1986-94.
This is a vivid portrayal of the complexities of quadripartite decision-making (two countries, plus the public and private...
Fire and Ice
Classic Nordic Cooking: A Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
2016 James Beard Award nominee, 2016 International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) nominee for Best International Cookbook, and 2016 Art of Eating Prize longlist finalist
Bringing the best of Scandinavian home-cooking into your kitchen, Fire and Ice: Classic Nordic Cooking offers...
The Modern World-System II
Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, 1600–1750
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Immanuel Wallerstein’s highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century’s greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
The Modern World-System I
Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Immanuel Wallerstein’s highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century’s greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
The Rise and Decline of an Iberian Bourgeoisie
Manresa in the Later Middle Ages, 1250–1500
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
The Rise and Decline of an Iberian Bourgeoisie is one of the first long-term studies in English of an Iberian town during the late medieval crisis. Focusing on the Catalonian city of Manresa, Jeff Fynn-Paul expertly integrates Iberian historiography with European narratives to place the city's social,...
Political Thought in the Age of Revolution 1776-1848
Burke to Marx
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
The years between the American Revolution of 1776, the French Revolution of 1789 and the European Revolutions of 1848 saw fundamental shifts from autocracy to emerging democracy. It is a vital period in what may be termed 'modernity': that is of the western societies that are increasingly industrial,...
The Bourgeois
Between History and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
"I am a member of the bourgeois class, feel myself to be such, and have been brought up on its opinions and ideals," wrote Max Weber, in 1895. Who could repeat these words today?
Thus begins Franco Moretti’s study of the bourgeois in modern European literature, where a gallery...