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Fin de Siècle Beirut
Postwar Beirut conjures up contradictory images of remarkable openness and inconceivable violence, of great antiquity and a bright future. The Lebanese capital stands for Arab …
The White Russian Army in Exile 1920-1941
Paul Robinson traces the fate of the tens of thousands of soldiers of the anti-Bolshevik White Armies who fled Russia at the end of the Russian civil war. Even as the troops …
Language and Enlightenment
What is the role of language in human cognition? Could we attain self-consciousness and construct our civilization without language? Such were the questions at the basis of …
Restoration, Reformation, and Reform, 1660-1828
This wide-ranging and original book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the Church of England in the long eighteenth century. It explores the nature of the …
The Reformation of Heretics
The Reformation of Heretics The Waldenses of the Alps, 1480-1580
Simon V of Montfort and Baronial Government, 1195-1218
Dissenter from the Fourth Crusade, disseised earl of Leicester, leader of the Albigensian Crusade, prince of southern France: Simon of Montfort led a remarkable career of ascent …
Religious Transformation in South Asia
In the last decades of the nineteenth century, urgent and unprecedented demands among oppressed peoples in colonial India drove what came to be called 'mass conversion movements' …
Designs on Democracy
Designs on Democracy examines a pivotal period in the formation of the modern profession of architecture in Britain. It shows how architects sought to meet the newly articulated …
Colonial America and the Earl of Halifax, 1748-1761
Colonial America and the Earl of Halifax, 1748-1761 examines the governance of British America in the period prior to the American Revolution. Focusing upon the career of George …
News and the British World
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa were increasingly drawn together by an imperial press system. …
Richard II
Richard II (1377-99) has long suffered from an unusually unmanly reputation. Over the centuries, he has been habitually associated with lavish courtly expenditure, absolutist …
Classical Learning in Britain, France, and the Dutch Republic, 1690-1750
For much of western history, the achievements of classical antiquity were seen as unsurpassable, and works by Latin and Greek authors were viewed as treasure troves of information …