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Children And Childhood In Western Society Since 1500

by Hugh Cunningham

56,77€ + 10% CARD

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 Incorporating recent scholarship on the subject, this new edition of Hugh Cunninghamâ€™s classic text investigates the relationship between ideas about childhood and the actual experience of being a child, and assesses how it has changed over the span of five hundred years.
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Children And Childhood In Western Society Since 1500

by Hugh Cunningham

55,64€ + 10% CARD

 Incorporating recent scholarship on the subject, this new edition of Hugh Cunninghamâ€™s classic text investigates the relationship between ideas about childhood and the actual experience of being a child, and assesses how it has changed over the span of five hundred years.
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Children And Childhood In Western Society Since 1500

by Hugh Cunningham

55,64€ + 10% CARD

 Incorporating recent scholarship on the subject, this new edition of Hugh Cunninghamâ€™s classic text investigates the relationship between ideas about childhood and the actual experience of being a child, and assesses how it has changed over the span of five hundred years.
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Children And Childhood In Western Society Since 1500

by Hugh Cunningham

277,13€ + 10% CARD

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 Incorporating recent scholarship on the subject, this new edition of Hugh Cunninghamâ€™s classic text investigates the relationship between ideas about childhood and the actual experience of being a child, and assesses how it has changed over the span of five hundred years.
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Anglicans, Dissenters And Radical Change In Early New England, 1686â€“1786

by James B. Bell

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 This book considers three defining movements driven from London and within the region that describe the experience of the Church of England in New England between 1686 and 1786.
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Political Rhetoric In The Oxford And Cambridge Unions, 1830â€“1870

by Taru Haapala

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 This book offers much-needed insight into the Oxford and Cambridge Unions and the important role they have played in nineteenth-century British political culture.
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Manners, Morals And Class In England, 1774-1858

by M. Morgan

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 Analyzes English social and occupational behavioural ideals from the courtesy book's demise in 1774 to the Medical Act's passage in 1858. Ideals from conduct and etiquette books mix with those displayed by professional groups, particularly medical practitioners, in this analysis of class relations.
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Bolingbroke'S Political Writings - The Conservative Enlightenment

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 In turn, Tory minister, Jacobite renegade, English philosopher and anti-minister, Bolingbroke has elicited mixed reactions from his compatriots, both contempories and historians. Bernard Cottret discusses here his political writings in the context of contemporary thought in England and France. His analyses of ''A'' Dissertation upon Parties'' and ''The Idea of a Patriot King'' are supported by a full mid-eighteenth-century political thought.
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American Republicanism - Roman Ideology In The United States Constitution

by Mortimer N.S. Sellers

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 This book examines what ''republicanism'' meant to the Americans who drafted and ratified the United States Constitution, guaranteeing a ''republican form of government'' to every state in the Union. M.N.S.Sellers compares the writings and speeches of the founders with the authors they read and imitated to identify the central tenets of American republicanism, and to demonstrate that American republican though directly reflected classical models, rather than a mediating tradition of English or continental political theory.
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Right To Be King - The Succession To The Crown Of England, 1603-1714

by Howard Nenner

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 This book examines the theory and practice of the English monarchical succession from the end of Elizabeth''s reign to the accession of George I. Tracing the transition from an uncertain rule to a crown in the disposal of parliament, Nenner focuses on the major routes to the throne over the long seventeenth century: hereditary right, conquest, and election. It is a study of the competing principles of parliamentary sovereignty and fundamental law, and the ways in which tension between dynastic expectations and national needs were addressed and resolved.
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Philosemitism - Admiration And Support In The English-Speaking World For Jews, 1840-1939

by W. Rubinstein

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 This work focuses on the tradition of "philosemitism" which manifested itself in Britain and elsewhere in the English-speaking world during every significant international outbreak of anti-semitism during the century after 1840.
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Men Of No Property

by Jim Smyth

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 The paperback edition of the extremely popular The Men of No Property is a study of the popular dimensions of Irish radicalism in the age of the French revolution. It focuses on the lower-class secret society, the Defenders, and the more familiar face of radicalism in this period, the Society of United Irishmen. Particular attention is paid to the vigorous traditions of street protest in eighteenth-century Dublin. The picture which emerges is of a revolutionary movement which was both more radical in its rhetoric and objectives and more popular in its social base than has previously been allowed.
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John Adams And The Constitutional History Of The Medieval British Empire

by James Muldoon

118,59€ + 10% CARD

 The Novanglus essays (1774-75), traced the origin of the colonies, demonstrating that Parliament played no role in their establishment and so had no role in their internal governance without the colonistsâ€™ subsequent consent.
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Anglicans, Dissenters And Radical Change In Early New England, 1686-1786

by James B. Bell

106,00€ + 10% CARD

 This book considers three defining movements driven from London and within the region that describe the experience of the Church of England in New England between 1686 and 1786.
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Imperial Meridian - The British Empire And The World 1780-1830

by C. A. Bayly

128,51€ + 10% CARD

 In this impressive and ambitious survey Dr Bayly studies the rise, apogee and decline of what has come to be called `the Second British Empire'' -- the great expansion of British dominion overseas (particularly in Asia and the Middle East) during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic era that, coming between the loss of America and the subsequent partition of Africa, constitutes the central phase of British imperial history.
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Imperial Meridian - The British Empire And The World 1780-1830

by C. A. Bayly

128,51€ + 10% CARD

 In this impressive and ambitious survey Dr Bayly studies the rise, apogee and decline of what has come to be called `the Second British Empire'' -- the great expansion of British dominion overseas (particularly in Asia and the Middle East) during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic era that, coming between the loss of America and the subsequent partition of Africa, constitutes the central phase of British imperial history.
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Language Of Politics In Seventeenth-Century England

by Conal Condren

186,16€ + 10% CARD

 This is a study of the words of political discourse in seventeenth-century England from which we now reconstruct its theories. Part 1 presents an overview of the political domain in the seventeenth century arguing that what we see as the political was fugitive and subject to reductionist pressures from better established fields of discourse.
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Catholicism In A Protestant Kingdom - A Study Of The Irish Ancien Régime

by C.D.A. Leighton

118,59€ + 10% CARD

 Escaping from narrative history, this book takes a deep look at the Catholic question in eighteenth-century Ireland. In doing this, Dr Cadoc Leighton provides a study of very wide appeal, which offers new and thought-provoking ways of looking not only at the eighteenth century but at modern Irish history in general.
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Giambattista Vico - Imagination And Historical Knowledge

by Cecilia Miller

171,59€ + 10% CARD

 The theories of language and society of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) are examined in this textual analysis of the full range of his theoretical writings, with special emphasis on his little-known early works. Vico''s fundamental importance in the history of European ideas lies in his strong anti-Cartesian, anti-French and anti-Enlightenment views. In an age in which intellectuals adopted a rational approach, Vico stressed the nonrational element in man - in particular, imagination - as well as social and civil relationships, none of them reducible to the scientific theories so popular in his time.
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Political Rhetoric In The Oxford And Cambridge Unions, 1830-1870

by Taru Haapala

121,90€ + 10% CARD

 This book offers much-needed insight into the Oxford and Cambridge Unions and the important role they have played in nineteenth-century British political culture.
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Britain And Latin America In The 19th And 20th Centuries

by Rory Miller

277,13€ + 10% CARD

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 Part of the "Studies in Modern History" series, this text examines the relationship between Latin America and Britain during the 19th- and 20th-centuries.
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British In The Americas 1480-1815, The

by Anthony Mcfarlane

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 This text aims to provide not simply an account of Anglo-American colonial development, but to blend narration of the major moments and movements in its evolution with an analysis of the major structures of colonial economy and society both in North American and the Caribbean.
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The Rule Of Law, 1603-1660 - Crowns, Courts And Judges

by James S. Hart Jr

270,38€ + 10% CARD

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 The English Revolution of the seventeenth century was driven by lawyers. The struggle between the monarchy and Parliament was legal in its character and impact. 'The Rule of Law' explores this central theme in early modern history.
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John Adams And The Constitutional History Of The Medieval British Empire

by James Muldoon

121,66€ + 10% CARD

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 The Novanglus essays (1774-75), traced the origin of the colonies, demonstrating that Parliament played no role in their establishment and so had no role in their internal governance without the colonistsâ€™ subsequent consent.
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