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Medicine and Justice
This monograph makes a major new contribution to the historiography of criminal justice in England and Wales by focusing on the intersection of the history of law and crime with …
Paul Merker, the GDR, and the Politics of Memory
This book presents ground-breaking research into the 'Merker affair,' a series of events that took place in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the early 1950s, which saw Paul …
Turning Points-Actual and Alternate Histories
This work is a creative approach to history that not only recounts what actually happened during the Civil War, but also imagines alternate outcomes had key events turned out …
Deprivation, State Interventions and Urban Communities in Britain, 1968–79
Focusing on a series of policy initiatives from the late 1960s through to the end of the 1970s, this book looks at how successive governments tried to address growing concerns …
Portrait Bust and French Cultural Politics in the Eighteenth Century
In The Portrait Bust and French Cultural Politics in the Eighteenth Century, Ronit Milano probes the rich and complex aesthetic and intellectual charge of a remarkably concise art …
Land and People in Nineteenth-Century Wales
First published in 1977. Essentially an economic history with strong emphasis on human factors, this title examines the reasons for the backwardness of much of the farming of Wales …
Christian Ritual and the Creation of British Slave Societies, 1650–1780
This study offers a new and challenging look at Christian institutions and practices in Britain’s Caribbean and southern American colonies. Focusing on the plantation societies of …
The Fencer's Guide; Being a Series of Every Branch Required to Compose a Complete System of Defence, ... In Four Parts. ... And to These are Added Particular Lessons for the Gentlemen of the Horse, ... By A. Lonnergan,
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its …
Evidence in Action between Science and Society
This volume is an interdisciplinary attempt to insert a broader, historically informed perspective into current political and academic debates on the issue of evidence and the …
Race and Real Estate
Through the lens of real estate transactions from 1890 to 1920, Kevin McGruder offers an innovative perspective on Harlem's history and reveals the complex interactions between …
Making India: Colonialism, National Culture, and the Afterlife of Indian English Authority
Compared to how it looked 150 years ago at the eve of the colonial conquest, today's India is almost completely unrecognizable. A sovereign nation, with a teeming, industrious …
Lincoln and the Civil War
In Lincoln and the Civil War, Michael Burlingame explores the experiences and qualities that made Abraham Lincoln one of America’s most revered leaders. This volume provides an …