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by Emma Constantine
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
An OCR endorsed textbook
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Slavery and the slavery business have cast a long shadow over British history. In 1833, abolition was heralded as evidence of Britain’s claim to be the modern global power. Yet much is still unknown about the significance of the slavery business and emancipation in the formation of modern imperial...
Ill Composed
Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2015
In the first in-depth study of how gender determined perceptions and experiences of illness in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, Olivia Weisser invites readers into the lives and imaginations of ordinary men and women. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including personal diaries, medical...
by Oliver Zimmer
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2003
While nationalism had become politically significant well before the late nineteenth century, it was between 1890 and 1940 that it revealed its political explosiveness and destructive potential.
Organised around specific themes, many of which are currently hotly debated among experts in the...
by Mark Hewitson
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
The German Empire before 1914 had the fastest growing economy in Europe and was the strongest military power in the world. Yet it appeared, from a reading of many contemporaries' accounts, to be lagging behind other nation-states and to be losing the race to divide up the rest of the globe. This book...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Through a range of case studies from eastern and western Europe, this book breaks new ground in investigating the extent to which European peoples living within Europe were also subjected to the ideologies and practices of colonialism.
by Aly Boniface, Lizzy James, Catherine Priggs
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Exam board: OCR
Level: GCSE
Subject: History
First teaching: September 2016
First exams: Summer 2018
Target success in OCR GCSE (9-1) History A with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam-style questions, revision tasks and practical...
by Robert Connolly
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Over Your Dead Body is a nonfiction book with a very personal narrative that reads like a novel.It takes in real life experiences, the science of death and caring for the dead, the after-death existence of pharoahs, kings and dictators, a recipe for medieval funeral cake, how 20,000 people in post-communist...
Modern South Africa in World History
Beyond Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
This book assesses South African history within imperial and global networks of power, trade and communication. South African modernity is understood in terms of the interplay between internal and external forces. Key historical themes, including the emergence of an industrialised economy, the development...
Trade and Contemporary Society along the Silk Road
An ethno-history of Ladakh
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
This book provides an ethno-historical study of the trade system in Ladakh (India), a busy entrepôt for Silk Route trade between Central and South Asia. Previously a part of global networks, Ladakh became an isolated border area as national boundaries were defined and enforced in the mid-20th century....
Major-General Thomas Harrison
Millenarianism, Fifth Monarchism and the English Revolution 1616-1660
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Thomas Harrison is today perhaps best remembered for the manner of his death. As a leading member of the republican regime and signatory to Charles I’s death warrant, he was hanged, drawn and quartered by the Restoration government in 1660; a spectacle witnessed by Samuel Pepys who recorded him...
The stadium century
Sport, spectatorship and mass society in modern France
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The stadium century traces the history of stadia and mass spectatorship in modern France from the vélodromes of the late nineteenth century to the construction of the Stade de France before the 1998 soccer World Cup. As the book demonstrates, the stadium was at the centre of debates over public health...
Jeremias Drexel's 'Christian Zodiac'
Seventeenth-Century Publishing Sensation. A Critical Edition, Translated and with an Introduction & Notes
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
First published in 1622, Jeremias Drexel's 'Zodiacus christianus' (or 'Christian Zodiac') was a remarkable work of religious iconography and spiritual self-help. Raised a Lutheran but converting to Catholicism in his youth, Drexel (1581-1638) was well placed to publish a book that appealed to Protestants...
Mapping Ethnography in Early Modern Germany
New Worlds in Print Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
As the first book-length examination of the role of German print culture in mediating Europe's knowledge of the newly discovered people of Africa, South Asia, and the Americas, this work highlights a unique and early incident of visual accuracy and an unprecedented investment in the practice of ethnography.