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Soldier and Peasant in French Popular Culture, 1766-1870
A study of the differing views of the conscript based on evidence along the eastern border of France. The popular idea of the swaggering military folk-hero, a potent image for the …
Lollardy and Orthodox Religion in Pre-Reformation England
An account of how, in certain parts of sixteenth-century England, challenges to conventional piety anticipated the Reformation. Here is a richly detailed account of the …
Patterns of Philanthropy
A study of the debate over the control of civic charities during the era of municipal reform. The nineteenth-century city was characterised by the development of a wide variety of …
Power and Border Lordship in Medieval France
The emergence of the northern French county of the Perche, and the rise of the Rotrou family from obscure origins to princely power, 11-13c. This is the first modern account of the …
Scottish Public Opinion and the Anglo-Scottish Union, 1699-1707
The Anglo-Scottish union crisis is used to demonstrate the growing influence of popular opinion in this period. The common perception of the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707 as a …
Electoral Reform at Work
The Reform Act of 1832 is shown to have politicised the electorate at all levels, laying the constitutional foundations for the representative democracy of the Victorians. This …
The Moravian Church and the Missionary Awakening in England, 1760-1800
The influence of the Moravian Church on the missionary awakening in England and its contribution to the movement's nature and vitality. The Moravian Church became widely known and …
Trade and Trust in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Shows how merchants sought to minimise losses by forging strong bonds of interpersonal trust amongst a range of employees, partners, and clients. Fruitfully combining approaches …
Land and Nation in England
New examination of how land politics were closely entwined with the idea of Englishness. The land question loomed large in late Victorian and Edwardian politics, playing a major …
Massacre at the Champ de Mars
The massacre exposed the widely differing ways in which post-Revolutionary Parisians construed the word "patriotism", and why the great Revolutionary goal of political unanimity …
The Scottish Middle March, 1573-1625
A new investigation of James I and VI's policy in the troubled Border region between England and Scotland. The Scottish Borders experienced dramatic change on James VI's succession …
Religious Patronage in Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1135
Anglo-Norman aristocratic patronage of Anglo-Saxon monasteries in post-Conquest England examined. Although the Norman Conquest of 1066 swept away most of the secular and …