Peter Lake: 7 books
How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage
Power and Succession in the History Plays
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
A masterful, highly engaging analysis of how Shakespeare’s plays intersected with the politics and culture of Elizabethan England With an ageing, childless monarch, lingering divisions due to the Reformation, and the threat of foreign enemies, Shakespeare’s England was fraught with unparalleled...
Bad Queen Bess?
Libels, Secret Histories, and the Politics of Publicity in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Bad Queen Bess? analyses the back and forth between the Elizabethan regime and various Catholic critics, who, from the early 1570s to the early 1590s, sought to characterise that regime as a conspiracy of evil counsel. Through a genre novel - the libellous secret history - to English political discourse,...
The Trials of Margaret Clitherow
Persecution, Martyrdom and the Politics of Sanctity in Elizabethan England
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2019
Thoroughly updated with newly discovered archival material, this second edition of The Trials of Margaret Clitherow demonstrates that the complicated and controversial life story of Margaret Clitherow is not as unique as it was once thought. In fact, Peter Lake and Michael Questier argue that her...
Guide to Cloud Computing
Principles and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
This book describes the landscape of cloud computing from first principles, leading the reader step-by-step through the process of building and configuring a cloud environment. The book not only considers the technologies for designing and creating cloud computing platforms, but also the business...
by Peter Lake, Robert Drake
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
This timely text/reference explores the business and technical issues involved in the management of information systems in the era of big data and beyond. Topics and features: presents review questions and discussion topics in each chapter for classroom group work and individual research assignments;...
Concise Guide to Databases
A Practical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
This easy-to-read textbook/reference presents a comprehensive introduction to databases, opening with a concise history of databases and of data as an organisational asset. As relational database management systems are no longer the only database solution, the book takes a wider view of database technology,...
The Trials of Margaret Clitherow
Persecution, Martyrdom and the Politics of Sanctity in Elizabethan England
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
This is a new biography of a Catholic martyr exploring the complicated and controversial story of her demise. The story of Margaret Clitherow represents one of the most important yet troubling events in post-Reformation history. Her trial, execution and subsequent legend have provoked controversy...