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The English Poor in the Eighteenth Century - A Study in Social and Administrative History (Hardcover, New Ed): Dorothy Marshall The English Poor in the Eighteenth Century - A Study in Social and Administrative History (Hardcover, New Ed)
Dorothy Marshall
R6,130 Discovery Miles 61 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Prelates and People - Ecclesiastical Social Thought in England, 1783-1852 (Hardcover): R.A. Soloway Prelates and People - Ecclesiastical Social Thought in England, 1783-1852 (Hardcover)
R.A. Soloway
R5,419 Discovery Miles 54 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 2006. The reform of the Church of England in the first half of the nineteenth century was moulded considerably by the same pressures of industrialization, urbanization, and population growth that rapidly altered English society adn its institutions as a whole. The present work examines the responses of the episcopal leadership of the Church of England and Wales to the transformation of teh soceity to which they ministered. It considers primarily their social ideas and policies from teh decade preceding the French Revolution to the middle of the nineteenth century: from the period when a few bishops began to worry abotu the effectiveness of their abuse-ridden Church to the time when teh established Church,ecclesiastically reformed and spiritually revitalized, looked forward to evangelizing the multitudes who peopled the new age. The study concentrates on the attitudes and policies of those prelates installed in the years before 1783, between 1783 and 1812, between 1812 and 1830, and finally between 1830 and 1852. Professor Soloway also examines their socialconnections, showingthe predominantly aristocratic nature of the Church's leadership in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.He emphasises the importance of the role of these men in guiding, administering and reforming the established Church in a period of unprecedented economic and socialchange.

Religious Toleration in England - 1787-1833 (Hardcover): Ursula Henriques Religious Toleration in England - 1787-1833 (Hardcover)
Ursula Henriques
R5,394 Discovery Miles 53 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 2006. This book is a study of the political struggles over the repeal of laws restricting or penalizing religious minorities in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and of the opinions and ideas expressed in the controversies surrounding these struggles.

The British Officer - Leading the Army from 1660 to the present (Paperback): Anthony Clayton The British Officer - Leading the Army from 1660 to the present (Paperback)
Anthony Clayton
R1,239 Discovery Miles 12 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An Army officer must lead men into frightening and dangerous situations and sometimes make them do things that they never thought they could do. This book recounts how British officers have led their men, and commanded their respect, from the days of Marlborough to the Second Iraq war of 2003. Anthony Clayton explores who the officers, men and now women, have been and are, where they came from, what ideals or traditions have motivated them, and their own perceptions of themselves. His account tells the fascinating story of how the role of the military officer evolved, illustrated by a selection of captivating images, and the personal memoirs, biographies and autobiographies of officers.

The Global Seven Years War 1754-1763 - Britain and France in a Great Power Contest (Paperback, 2nd edition): Daniel Baugh The Global Seven Years War 1754-1763 - Britain and France in a Great Power Contest (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Daniel Baugh
R1,202 Discovery Miles 12 020 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

In this new edition of The Global Seven Years War, Daniel Baugh emphasizes the ways that sea power hindered French military preparations while also furnishing strategic opportunities. Special attention is paid to undertakings - always French - that failed to receive needed financial support. From analysis of original sources, the volume provides stronger evidence for the role and wishes of Louis XV in determining the main outline of strategy. By 1758, the French government experienced significant money shortage, and emphasis has been placed on the most important consequences: how this impacted war-making and why it was so worrying, debilitating and difficult to solve. This edition explains why the Battle of Rossbach in 1757 was a turning point in the Anglo-French War, suggesting that Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick's winter campaign revitalized the British war effort which was, before that time, a record of failures. With comprehensive discussion of events outside of Europe, the volume sets the conflict on a world stage. One of the world's leading naval historians, Baugh offers a detailed, evaluative and insightful narrative that makes this edition essential reading for students and scholars interested in military history, naval history, Anglo-French relations and the history of eighteenth-century Europe.

Women's Travel Writings in Revolutionary France, Part I (Hardcover): Stephen Bending Women's Travel Writings in Revolutionary France, Part I (Hardcover)
Stephen Bending
R8,717 Discovery Miles 87 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This seven-volume facsimile set comprises first-hand accounts of France in the 1790s. Helen Maria William's letters narrate the fall of Robespierre in 1794 and her 1798 book on Switzerland comments sceptically on the necessary coexistence of liberty with peace. Charlotte West (who, like Williams, celebrated the fall of the Bastille but was later imprisoned by the Republic) records the corruption, paranoia and violence of the Terror both in the provinces and in Paris. All texts, the majority of which have never been republished, are reproduced in full, augmented by a substantial general introduction to each set, headnotes, endnotes, and a consolidated index in the final volume. Selected for their rarity, the texts are drawn from the unparalleled Chawton House Library collection; each facsimile page has been digitally cleaned and enhanced, significantly improving on the quality and legibility of the original.

An Orthodox Festival Book in the Habsburg Empire - Zaharija Orfelin's Festive Greeting to Mojsej Putnik (1757) (Hardcover,... An Orthodox Festival Book in the Habsburg Empire - Zaharija Orfelin's Festive Greeting to Mojsej Putnik (1757) (Hardcover, New Ed)
Jelena Todorovic
R4,212 Discovery Miles 42 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A transcription and translation of Zaharje Orfelin's 1757 festival book, Festive Greeting to Mojsej Putnik, this book is one of the most comprehensive accounts of the festival life of the Orthodox hierarchy in the Habsburg lands. While the Festive Greeting remained just an outline for the spectacle and was never publicly performed in its entirety, it remains a fascinating embodiment of Church politics, an issue too dangerous to be made public in the political arena of the Catholic Empire. In addition to the transcription and translation of the festival book, Jelena Todorovic provides a full account of the background to the Mojsije Putnik's episcopal investiture, beginning with a study of the political and historical context to the foundation and establishment of the Orthodox Archbishopric in the Austrian Habsburg and moving on to an examine the religious politics of the Orthodox Archbishops during this period. With detailed surveys of the book's illustrations, proposed scenography and music, it concludes with an assessment of the place of the Festive Greeting in the history of spectacles in the Archbishopric as well as in the history of the Orthodox Church.

Cambridge International AS Level History Modern Europe, 1750-1921 Coursebook (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Graham Goodlad,... Cambridge International AS Level History Modern Europe, 1750-1921 Coursebook (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Graham Goodlad, Patrick Walsh-Atkins, Russell Williams; Edited by Patrick Walsh-Atkins
R885 Discovery Miles 8 850 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This series is for the Cambridge International AS History syllabus (9489) for examination from 2021. Written by an experienced author team that includes examiners, a practising teacher and trainer, this coursebook supports the Cambridge International AS History syllabus. With increased depth of coverage, this coursebook helps build confidence and understanding in language, essay-writing and evaluation skills. It develops students' conceptual understanding of history with the five new 'Key concepts', for example exploring similarity and difference in the aims/achievements of Witte and Stolypin. In addition, it encourages individuals to make substantiated judgments and reflect on their learning. Students can consolidate their skills though exam-style questions with source material and sample responses.

The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - History, Memory, Legacy (Paperback): Andrzej Chwalba, Krzysztof Zamorski The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - History, Memory, Legacy (Paperback)
Andrzej Chwalba, Krzysztof Zamorski
R1,265 Discovery Miles 12 650 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This volume provides a fresh perspective of the history and legacy of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, as well as the often-disputed memory of it in contemporary Europe. The unions between the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania have fascinated many readers particularly because many solutions that have been implemented in the European Union have been adopted from its Central and Eastern European predecessor. The collection of essays presented in this volume are divided into three parts - the Beginnings of Poland-Lithuania, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Legacy and Memory of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - and represent a selection of the papers delivered at the Third Congress of International Researchers of Polish History which was held in Cracow on 11-14 October 2017. Through their application of different historiographical perspectives and schools of history they offer the reader a fresh take on the Commonwealth's history and legacy, as well as the memory of it in the countries that are its inheritors, namely Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus and Ukraine. An exploration of one of the biggest countries in Early Modern Europe, this will be of interest to historians, political scientists, cultural anthropologists and other scholars of the history of Central and Eastern Europe in the Early Modern period.

The Jews of Denmark in the Holocaust - Life and Death in Theresienstadt Ghetto (Paperback): Silvia Tarabini Fracapane The Jews of Denmark in the Holocaust - Life and Death in Theresienstadt Ghetto (Paperback)
Silvia Tarabini Fracapane
R1,257 Discovery Miles 12 570 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Based on never previously explored personal accounts and archival documentation, this book examines life and death in the Theresienstadt ghetto, seen through the eyes of the Jewish victims from Denmark. "How was it in Theresienstadt?" Thus asked Johan Grun rhetorically when he, in July 1945, published a short text about his experiences. The successful flight of the majority of Danish Jewry in October 1943 is a well-known episode of the Holocaust, but the experience of the 470 men, women, and children that were deported to the ghetto has seldom been the object of scholarly interest. Providing an overview of the Judenaktion in Denmark and the subsequent deportations, the book sheds light on the fate of those who were arrested. Through a micro-historical analysis of everyday life, it describes various aspects of social and daily life in proximity to death. In doing so, the volume illuminates the diversity of individual situations and conveys the deportees' perceptions and striving for survival and 'normality'. Offering a multi-perspective and international approach that places the case of Denmark into the broader Jewish experience during the Holocaust, this book is invaluable for researchers of Jewish studies, Holocaust and genocide studies, and the history of modern Denmark.

In Stevenson'S Samoa (Hardcover): Marie Fraser In Stevenson'S Samoa (Hardcover)
Marie Fraser
R5,075 Discovery Miles 50 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 2006. A traveller's tale set in the islands of Samoa with the legendary traveller Robert Louis Stevenson as guide, this book is valuable not only for its enjoyment as a tale of adventure, but also for its record of Stevenson himself - a literacy figure more commonly seen as author and not subject.

Pathogens Crossing Borders - Global Animal Diseases and International Responses, 1860-1947 (Hardcover): Cornelia Knab Pathogens Crossing Borders - Global Animal Diseases and International Responses, 1860-1947 (Hardcover)
Cornelia Knab
R3,988 Discovery Miles 39 880 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The increasing globalization of trade, travel and transport since the mid-19th century had unwelcome consequences - one of them was the spread of contagious animal diseases over greater distances in a shorter time than ever before. Borders and national control strategies proved to be insufficient to stop the pathogens. Not surprisingly, the issue of epizootics (epidemics of animals) was among the first topics to be addressed by international meetings from the 1860s onwards. Pathogens Crossing Borders explores the history of international efforts to contain and prevent the spread of animal diseases from the early 1860s to the years after the Second World War. As an innovative contribution to global history and the history of internationalism, the book investigates how disease experts, politicians and state authorities developed concepts, practices and institutional structures at the international level to tackle the spread of animal diseases across borders. By following their activities in dealing with a problem area which was - and is today - of enormous political, social, public health and economic relevance, the book reveals the historical challenges of finding common international responses to complex and pressing global issues for which there are no easy solutions.

English Landed Society in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover, New Ed): F. M. L. Thompson English Landed Society in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover, New Ed)
F. M. L. Thompson
R6,432 Discovery Miles 64 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 2006. This book contributes towards a more just appreciation of the relative importance of the different major social groups in the life of the country. It deals in the main with the economic history of the landed interest, and with its role as a social group and includes much agrarian and some industrial history as seen from the landowners' point of view. The first seven chapters of the book aim to present an analysis and description of the main elements in the institutions and way of life of the landed classes, suggesting their significance for society at large, and emphasizing the forces of change which were at work within an order which in many ways presented a remarkably stable appearance to the outside world. The last five chapters take up the theme of change and examine the dynamic elements in the economic social and political life of the group, in a sequence of chronological subdivisions of the century and a half with which this book is concerned.

Economic Development in the Nineteenth Century - France, Germany, Russia and the United States (Hardcover): L. C. A. Knowles Economic Development in the Nineteenth Century - France, Germany, Russia and the United States (Hardcover)
L. C. A. Knowles
R5,406 Discovery Miles 54 060 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Taken in conjunction the author's earlier Industrial and Commercial Revolutions in Great Britain during the Nineteenth Century, this classic volume provides a thoroughly workmanlike study of the rise and progress of industrialism. Here she surveys the main developments in the agricultural, industrial, mechanical transport and commercial policy of France. Germany, Russia and the United States. It provides the handiest manual available of the comparative history of industrialism. It is an absolute godsend to students. This book was first published in 1932.

The Industrial & Commercial Revolutions in Great Britain During the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover): L. C. A. Knowles The Industrial & Commercial Revolutions in Great Britain During the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
L. C. A. Knowles
R5,414 Discovery Miles 54 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First Published in 2005. In this book, the author seeks to bring out the causes which led to the coming of machinery and which made Great Britain the workshop of the world for a large part of the nineteenth century. Knowles especially stresses the world position of the United Kingdom during the past century owing to the developments of mechanical transport which were the inevitable outcome of the mass production by machines. This title also aims to account for the great change in public opinion after 1870, which led to the growth of State control, not merely in industry, but in commerce, agriculture, transport and imperial relations.

Industrial England, 1776-1851 (Hardcover, illustrated edition): Dorothy Marshall Industrial England, 1776-1851 (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
Dorothy Marshall
R5,387 Discovery Miles 53 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Dr Dorothy Marshall covers a vital period in English social development, during which the traditional social hierarchy of order and degree was giving place to a class society marked by the growth of a self-conscious working class.
The author shows how, between 1776 and 1851, industrialization brought about major changes in the structure of society, so that by 1851 the outlines of modern urban and industrial society had been irrevocably drawn. She examines the social implications of the Industrial Revolution, referring in particular to the growth of urban society, the repercussions on the rural community and the resulting alterations in the social structure. She examines upper-, middle- and working-class opinions on such topics as religion and education, and traces the effect of the economic and social changes on the constitution and on political life. In the final chapter Dr Marshall describes the way in which the abuses of the new society brought about the demand for parliamentary legislation to deal with the injustices of the Poor Law, the factory system, and the problem of sanitation. This fascinating book was first published in 1973.

African Slave Trade and Its Suppression - A Classified and Annotated Bibliography of Books, Pamphlets and Periodical Articles... African Slave Trade and Its Suppression - A Classified and Annotated Bibliography of Books, Pamphlets and Periodical Articles (Hardcover)
Peter C. Hogg
R6,292 Discovery Miles 62 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First Published in 2005. The task of compiling a bibliography of the African slave trade is a difficult one as the literature comprises books, pamphlets and periodical articles in a variety of languages from the sixteenth century to the present day. This title aspires to present a representative selection of the material available and serve as a guide to the main categories of printed material on the subject in western languages. Due to their pre-existing availability and overwhelming quantity, government publications have been kept to a minimum.

Chartist Movement - in its Social and Economic Aspects (Hardcover): Frank F. Rosenblatt Chartist Movement - in its Social and Economic Aspects (Hardcover)
Frank F. Rosenblatt
R5,387 Discovery Miles 53 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Professor Rosenblatt's The Chartist Movement was the first serious study of Chartism, using the techniques of modern scholarship, to appear in English. The book comprises a detailed account of the history of the movement, dealing mainly with the period from 1837 until the Chartist riots at Newport, South Wales, in November 1839.

As well as describing the political, industrial and social conditions that gave birth to the Chartist movement, this work contains extremely useful statistical tables of the 543 persons who were convicted for offences committed in the furtherance of Chartism between January 1839 and June 1840.

This is a particularly satisfactory piece of work as regards sketches of the leaders of the movement and of the spirit in which they preached the gospel of revolt.

- American Historical Review, 1916.

Foreign Finance in Continental Europe and the United States 1815-1870 - Quantities, Origins, Functions and Distribution... Foreign Finance in Continental Europe and the United States 1815-1870 - Quantities, Origins, Functions and Distribution (Hardcover)
D. C. M. Platt
R5,384 Discovery Miles 53 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First Published in 2005. This study uses the Baring archive to provide a professional and contemporary understanding of the foreign financial history of Continental Europe and the United States from the years 1815 to 1870. The material gathered in this book, for France, Russia, Austria, Spain and the United States, and the conclusions reached in all the chapters, go far towards supporting and confirming that the belief that capital exports give rise to growth is an inflated claim.

Human Documents of the Industrial Revolution In Britain (Hardcover): E. Royston pike Human Documents of the Industrial Revolution In Britain (Hardcover)
E. Royston pike
R5,407 Discovery Miles 54 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Industrial Revolution (Hardcover): Mary Beggs-Humphreys The Industrial Revolution (Hardcover)
Mary Beggs-Humphreys
R1,635 Discovery Miles 16 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

J.C. Fischer and his Diary of Industrial England - 1814-51 (Hardcover): W.O. Henderson J.C. Fischer and his Diary of Industrial England - 1814-51 (Hardcover)
W.O. Henderson
R5,382 Discovery Miles 53 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book was first published in 1966. It was surprising that so small and so remote a country as Switzerland should have played such an important part in the industrial revolution on the Continent in the nineteenth century. A lack of natural resources and basic raw materials and population of 1,687,000 in 1817, faraway trade ports, and until 1848 no real central government with the administrative structure to support expansion of manufacturers. However, the people were hardworking, thrifty and high standards of workmanship; and had good relations with France and Germany, which saw the watchmakers, silkweavers and chocolate crafters start to thrive. Johann Conrad Fischer was typical of the entrepreneurs who laid the foundations of Switzerland's prosperity with his steelworks.

England's Foreign Trade in the Nineteenth Century - Its Economic and Social Results (Hardcover): A. L. Bowley England's Foreign Trade in the Nineteenth Century - Its Economic and Social Results (Hardcover)
A. L. Bowley
R5,380 Discovery Miles 53 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Victorian Railwaymen - The emergence and growth of railway labour, 1830-1870 (Hardcover): P.W. Kingsford Victorian Railwaymen - The emergence and growth of railway labour, 1830-1870 (Hardcover)
P.W. Kingsford
R5,383 Discovery Miles 53 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Roots of American Economic Growth 1607-1861 - An Essay on Social Causation (Hardcover): Stuart Bruchey Roots of American Economic Growth 1607-1861 - An Essay on Social Causation (Hardcover)
Stuart Bruchey
R5,384 Discovery Miles 53 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First Published in 2005. In this book, the author seeks to apply a self-described broad approach to American economic growth and to place the process within the mainstream of American history. This approach establishes that economic growth involves far more than economics; most students of growth view that process as one which cuts across the boundaries of the disciplines within the social sciences. After a brief introduction of the subject of the book, Bruchey further discusses the need for such guidance and tries to make clear what it is that has directed his own path in this field.

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