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Starvation and the State
Sudan has historically suffered devastating famines that have powerfully reshaped its society. This study shows that food crises were the result of exploitative processes that …
Masters and Servants on the Cape Eastern Frontier, 1760–1803
This important study sheds light on the history of the South African interior during the eighteenth century, virtually a lost century in South African historiography, and yet one …
New Labour in Power
New Labour in Power combines historical, political and practical approaches to the questions raised by the Labour election victory. Addressing core themes such as Europe, the …
Lake George and Lake Champlain
Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with …
Remarks on M. de Voltaire's History of Charles XII. King of Sweden. ... Interspersed With the Characters and History of Several Grand Visirs, and Other Officers of the Ottoman Empire. Written by Count Poniatowski, ... Translated Into English
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 …
Private Fortunes and Company Profits in the India Trade in the 18th Century
This collection of essays, two of which appear in print for the first time, documents the late Holden Furber's discovery that private ventures, most manifestly deployed in the …
True Women and Westward Expansion
Expansion was the fever of the early nineteenth century, and women burned with it as surely as men, although in a different way. Subscribing to the ""cult of true womanhood,"" …
Capital and Labour in Victorian England
Despite extensive scholarship on the social and cultural history of industrial England there is little work that explores how new forms of capitalist production were understood and …
Humanitarian Governance and the British Antislavery World System
How the suppression of the slave trade and the "e;disposal"e; of liberated Africans shaped the emergence of modern humanitarianism Between 1808 and 1867, the British navy's …
Coucils and Ecclesiastical Documents relating to Great Britain and Ireland
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Short Account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the Late Sir John Hill,
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 …
Topography and Strategy in the War
Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with …