History of English

This book opens readers' eyes to something they see all the time but take for granted: street signs. It is a portrait of the signs on modern Englis...

Challenges the argument that the English Pale was contracting during the early Tudor period.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdAuthor(s): Professor Ste...

DescriptionThis book examines the powerful influence of civil law on understandings and responses to madness in England and in New Jersey. The infl...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Sir Sir Winston S. ChurchillNumber of pages: 632Collection: Bloomsbury RevelationsPublication date: ...

Friends, Neighbours, Sinners shows the crucial role of religious difference in shaping English culture and society after 1689. By throwing into rel...

This volume elucidates the craft practices, cultural conventions and literary attitudes of scribes of late medieval English manuscripts to students...

Reducere. DescriptionFirst published in 1202, Fibonacci's Liber abaci was one of the most important books on mathematics in the Middle Ages, introducing Arab...

This volume establishes how English language constructs were measured in Cambridge English examinations over the period 1913 to 2012.Publisher: Cam...

Reducere. Bonds of Empire presents an account of slave law that is entirely new: one in which English law imbued plantation slavery with its staying power ev...

Measured Constructs: A History of Cambridge English Examinations, 1913–2012 - Cyril J. Weir, Ivana Vidakovic, Evelina D. Galaczi

This book, the second volume in A Linguistic History of English, describes the development of Old English from Proto-Germanic. It is an internal hi...

Reducere. Discover the story of the English Church from its earliest times to the present day. Having taken root in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, it emerged in t...

This is the first volume to capture the literary history of the English short story. Written by international experts, it seeks to overcome obstacl...

DescriptionThe study of the history of the English language (HEL) encompasses a broad sweep of time and space, reaching back to the fifth century a...

Reducere. The Society of St John the Evangelist, otherwise known as the Cowley Fathers, was the first men's religious order to be founded in the Church of En...

An original exploration of how the English Civil War has been portrayed over the centuries.

A Handbook exploring how the events of the English Revolution grew out of, and resonated, in the politics and interactions of the each of the Three...

Reducere. The table constitutes a kind of tie between the bargainer and the bargained-with, and makes the diners more willing to receive certain impressions,...

This comprehensive anthology collects together primary texts and documents relevant to the literature, culture, and intellectual life in England be...

This clear and thought-provoking examination of the years from Queen Victoria's accession to the close of the century, pays particular attention to...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work w...

Publisher: Reaktion BooksAuthor(s): Malcolm AndrewsIllustration(s): 64 color plates, 65 halftonesNumber of pages: 356Publication date: 2021Dimensio...

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Publisher: Linden Publishing Co IncAuthor(s): Richard SorskyNumber of pages: 267Publication date: 2007Dimensions: 160 x 237 x 23Cover type: Hardbac...

One Hundred Years of Social Work is the first comprehensive history of social work as a profession in English Canada. Organized chronologically, it...

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The purpose of this research is to examine the theatrical functions of medieval English stage directions as records of earlier performance. Example...

An atlas of English archaeology covering the period from the middle Bronze Age (c. 1500 BC) to Domesday Book (AD 1086), encompassing the Bronze and...

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The Cambridge History of the English Novel chronicles an ever-changing and developing body of fiction across three centuries. An interwoven narrati...

Publisher: The Library of AmericaAuthor(s): Kelly WisecupNumber of pages: 1300Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 133 x 208 x 45Cover type: HardbackR...

Reducere. The IRA has been a much richer, more complexly layered, and more protean organization than is frequently recognized. It is also more open to balanc...

Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Ruth DaltonIllustration(s): 88 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 240Publication dat...

Reducere. DescriptionMy research has revealed that there are two separate and opposing powers in Freemasonry. One, headquartered in London, subscribes to and...

A History of English Literature has received exceptional reviews. Tracing the development of one of the world's richest literatures from the Old En...

Reducere. Former Bishop and President of the English District of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, Reverend Dr. David P. Stechholz provides a rich vantage ...

Reducere. First published in 1895, Sir Frederick Pollock and Frederic William Maitland's legal classic The History of English Law before the Time of Edward I...

Irish inhabitants of the 'four obedient shires' - a term commonly used to describe the region at the heart of the English colony in the later Middl...

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A major study of ideas of truth and falsehood in early modern England from the advent of the Reformation to the aftermath of the failed Gunpowder P...

Want to learn about the history of Korea quickly and easily? Dive into our vivid photo book and take a trip to the historical palaces in Korea and ...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

This book opens readers' eyes to something they see all the time but take for granted: street signs. It is a portrait of the signs on modern Englis...

Reducere. Set along both the physical and social margins of the British Empire in the second half of the seventeenth century, Everyday Life in the Early Engl...

Routledge Language Workbooks provide absolute beginners with practical introductions to core areas of language study. Books in the series provide c...

Monty and the Canadian Army details the lasting influence of General B.L. Montgomery, whose military competence shaped the Canadian Army in the Sec...

DescriptionThe Man Who Laughs is a novel by Victor Hugo, originally published in April 1869 under the French title L'Homme qui rit. There have been...

The Old English History of the World, produced around the year 900, is an anonymous translation and adaptation of Paulus Orosius's immensely popula...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Publisher: Helion & CompanyAuthor(s): Andrew AbramIllustration(s): 43 b/w ills, 4 b/w photos, 9 maps, 53 tables; 43 b/w ills, 4 b/w photos, 9 maps,...

Publisher: James Clarke & Co LtdNumber of pages: 195Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 232 x 155 x 18Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera far...

Reducere. In 1277 the recently crowned king of England, Edward I, invaded Wales; his army, large for the time, was none the less modest by his later standard...

English Begins at Jamestown explores how people tell and have told the story of English, from its Indo-European origins to its present-day status a...

An insightful exploration of English in South Africa, ideal for scholars and students concerned with forms of contemporary English. The volume inve...

A history of Great Britain and its former colonies and possessions, from Caesar's invasions to the beginning of the First World War.

This book tells the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its beginnings in the middle of the nineteenth century to the present. Drawing ex...

"This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues - its narrative power, its fin...

A history of Great Britain and its former colonies and possessions, from Caesar's invasions to the beginning of the First World War.

There is evidence of the practice of Kuji for some centuries, but unfortunately we have received few historical documents with reference to all asp...

DescriptionThis lively account of the making of Canadian English traces the variety's conceptual, social and linguistic developments from the twent...

This book examines the role of civil law in determining mental capacity over a five hundred year period in England and in New Jersey. -- .Publisher...

A stream of dissent, protest, uprising and rebellion is a central part of UK history. Taking key events from both the past and modern times John Ho...

The first full-length examination of the medieval Charlemagne tradition in the literature and culture of medieval England, from the Chanson de Rola...

Reducere. The Islamic Revolution of 1979 was an unmitigated disaster for the women of Iran. That fact is well known. What is less well-known and what Manda Z...

In the early years of the thirteenth century the Danish writer Saxo Grammaticus provided his people with a History of the Danes, an account of thei...

Reducere. A rollicking tour of the English country home after World War II, when swinging London collided with aristocratic valuesAs the sun set slowly on th...

Reducere. Sounds Like Teen Spirit provides hundreds of pairings of songs that appear to have "borrowed" their melodies from earlier songs. Readers wil discov...

Informative but light-hearted social and cultural history of our obsession with drinking and bathing in spa waters. Beautifully illustrated with pa...