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Writers and Revolution
The revolution of 1848 has been described as the revolution of the intellectuals. In France, the revolution galvanised the energies of major romantic writers and intellectuals. …
The Real and the Sacred
The figure of Jesus appears as a character in dozens of nineteenth-century novels, including works by Balzac, Flaubert, Dickens, Dostoevsky, and others. The Real and the Sacred …
Homo Faber and Homo Economicus in the Scientific Revolution
This book tells the story of how the "e;servile arts"e; turned into the "e;mechanical arts,"e; which in turn developed into a kind of philosophical apparatus that …
War, Strategy and the Modern State, 1792–1914
This book is a comparative study of military operations conducted my modern states between the French Revolution and World War I. It examines the complex relationship between …
Jews, Labour and the Left, 1918-48
This title was first published in 2000. With the advent of the Second World War, fascism became inextricably associated with anti-Semitism. It is hardly surprising, therefore, to …
Scots and the Union
An updated edition on the 1707 Union between Scotland and England in a modern context The Scots and the Union: Then and Now is a refreshed, revised and extended edition of The …
Patrons, Clients, and Empire
Patrons, Clients, and Empire challenges the stereotypes of despotic imperial power in Asian, African, and Pacific colonies by analysing the relationship between rulers and rulers …
The Inquisition
The Inquisition was the most powerful disciplinary institution in the early modern world, responsible for 300,000 trials and over 1.5 million denunciations. How did it root itself …
Women, Work And Sexual Politics In Eighteenth-Century England
The author offers a reassessment of how women's experience of work in 18th- century England was affected by industrialization and other elements of economic, social and …
Science, Race Relations and Resistance
By exploring the dimensions of race, race relations and resistance, this book offers a new account of the British Empire's greatest failure and its most disturbing legacy. Using a …
Mr. William Lilly's History of his Life and Times, From the Year 1602, to 1681. Written by Himself in the 66th Year of his age, to his Worthy Friend Elias Ashmole, Esq; ... The Second Edition
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 …
The Memoirs of Lieut. Henry Timberlake, (who Accompanied the Three Cherokee Indians to England in the Year 1762) Containing Whatever he Observed ... During his Travels to and From That Nation; ... Illustrated With an Accurate Map
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 …