Defoe's Tour and Early Modern Britain. Panorama of the Nation, New ed, Hardback - ***

This first comprehensive account of Daniel Defoe's Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain explores the content, sources, form, and historical...

Through the untold stories of the biracial children born from the encounter between Italian women and Black Allied soldiers in the immediate afterm...

Providing close readings of Shakespeare's history plays, compelling insights into late Elizabethan politics and renewed attention to neglected cont...

This study will appeal to students and scholars of literature, history, and culture who are interested in Rome's persistence in medieval and early ...

The first book to tell the history of Britain through its headwearIllustrations: 120 Illustrations, unspecified

The sixteen women discussed in this collection were world-makers whose craft influenced cultural practice so incisively that their shaping authorit...

This book makes lesser-known philosophical texts on freedom of the will after Kant available in English for the first time, and will provide a valu...

This provocative new history of early modern Europe explores the 'information revolution' over the period 1450-1700, when changes in the generation...

This study argues that the female voice occupied a key role in the early Stuart political imaginary as a means of signalling resistance to tyranny....

Drawing on family and communal records, diaries, memoirs, literary works, and other sources, the author reconstructs the fascinating story of how P...

In-depth new history of the nineteenth-century wars fought between the British and the Asante people of West Africa.Illustrations: 30 black and whi...

Ten years after it was initiated, this book provides the definitive account of the 'age of austerity' from high politics to everyday life and how i...

This collection brings together the most significant, influential and still current articles from Applied Theatre Researcher 2000-11, predecessor o...

Drawing on first-hand accounts from several players and original research, respected rugby writer Chris Schoeman marks the 50th anniversary of this...

From the prize-winning cycling writer Matt Rendell comes a superb, uplifting book on the incredible rise of Colombian cycling

The illustrated story of the past 100 years of the women's movement, from suffrage, alleged bra burning and the politics of hair to Beyonce, body p...

Now in its second edition, Transnational France takes a transnational approach to the history of modern France that draws the reader into a key asp...

Brings together the early histories of the development of the turbojet, turboprop and turboshaft engines. This work describes the work of twelve na...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 8 colour & 74 bw illusNumber of pages: 328Collection: Material Culture of Art and DesignPublic...

This Element covers the art produced in early medieval England from the departure of the Romans to the early twelfth century, an art that shows the...

Reducere. For many years scholars have sought to explain why the European states that emerged in the period before the French Revolution developed along such...

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This introductory textbook is a wide-ranging, accessible survey of the political, social, cultural and economic history of early modern Britain. Th...

The idea of ghost is more than an enduring source of imagination, fear, and even entertainment in human society. It is an alternative key to decons...

A parody that includes 12 detailed Where's Wally-esque illustrations featuring many of the UK's best-known politicians from Dom Cummings and Boris ...

Taking a multilingual and comparative approach to the origin legends of early medieval Britain and Ireland in Latin and vernacular languages, this ...

How does the current nationalist moment within British political culture, most acutely evidenced in the recent Brexit result, capture such a broad ...

As chaste women devoted to God, nuns are viewed as the purest of the pure. Yet, as females who reject courtship, sex, marriage, child bearing, and ...

Celluloid Classicism provides a rich and detailed history of two important modern South Indian cultural forms: Tamil Cinema and Bharatanatyam dance.

Does the BBC represent the voice of Britain? Historian Simon J. Potter explores the hundred year history of the British Broadcasting Corporation, i...

Publisher: Peter Lang International Academic PublishersIllustration(s): 25 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 440Collection: Writing and Cu...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Michael A. VerneyIllustration(s): 16 halftonesNumber of pages: 312Collection: American Beginni...

Adopting a broader conception of politics which focuses on daily interactions between the state and society, this study offers a fresh interpretati...

Publisher: Anthem PressAuthor(s): Roni WeinsteinNumber of pages: 262Collection: Anthem Intercultural Transfer StudiesPublication date: 2022Dimensio...

Building on the previous edition's success, this book tells the story of English from its early stages to today's still-evolving language, using re...

This work is Volume 2 of an extensive two-volume monograph on the interplay of science and literature in Europe from the eighteenth to the early tw...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Kate GuthrieIllustration(s): 14 music examples, 10 b-w illustrationsNumber of pages: 306Collect...

This book investigates the role of exemplarity as a rhetorical device in late Elizabethan and Jacobean literature and culture. Ullyot argues that e...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Richard VinenNumber of pages: 592Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 164 x 242 x 41Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

Marcus Collins writes for anyone interested in the Beatles, the sixties and the relationship between the two. This book's extensive research shows ...

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncNumber of pages: 218Collection: Popular Culture and Everyday LifePublication date: 2007Dimensions: 159 x 237 x ...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Owen HatherleyNumber of pages: 608Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 182 x 266 x 62Cover type: HardbackRedesc...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Modern Language Association of AmericaNumber of pages: 396Collection: Options for Teaching 25Publication date: 2010Cover type: HardbackE...

A charming travelogue exploring the little-understood world of British agriculture

A major study into mental disorder in English and Irish prisons between 1840 and 1900, Disorder Contained investigates the relationship between pri...

Defines the economic history of early modern Britain. This book describes about the basic institutions and relationships of economic life, tracing ...

An original, 360-degree re-telling of the Battle of Britain through 17 of the iconic (and some less well-known) aircraft and the pilots who flew th...

An academic analysis of the foundations and structures of modern-day Scotland that provides insight into Scottish politics, society and culture. -- .

From the Norman Conquest to the Battle of Bosworth Field - how Britain was invaded and become a nation. The first volume in the stunning four-volum...