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Bücher der Reihe Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain

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  • - Essays in the Cultural and Social History of Early Modern London c. 1500- C.1750
     
    38,00 €

    In this history of early modern London, the essays range widely, covering the themes of polis and the police, gender and sexuality, space and place, and material culture and consumption.

  • von Elad Carmel
    144,00 €

    This book offers a new study of Hobbes's reception among seventeenth- and eighteenth- century deists and freethinkers, showing how influential Hobbes was for anticlerical thinking through a close analysis of the works of a large number of writers, including Charles Blount, John Toland, Antony Collins, Matthew Tindal, Thomas Morgan, and many others.

  • - Preaching, polemic and Restoration nonconformity
    von David Appleby
    34,00 €

    Black Bartholomew's Day is the first comprehensive study of the politicised preaching and polemical literature surrounding the mass ejection of Puritan ministers from the Church of England in 1662 - a pivotal event in the history of religion in Britain

  • - Print, Reading and Social Change in Early Modern Ireland
    von Raymond Gillespie
    37,00 €

    An innovative book revealing the impact of print on social change in early modern Ireland -- .

  • von Neil Younger
    57,00 €

    Reassesses the national war effort during the Elizabethan wars against Spain (1585-1603). Drawing on a mass of hitherto neglected sources, it finds a political system in much better health than has been thought, revising many existing assumptions about the weaknesses of the state in the face of military change. -- .

  • - The mental world of a seventeenth-century Catholic gentleman
    von Geoff Baker
    34,00 - 147,00 €

    This book examines the activities of William Blundell, a seventeenth-century Catholic gentleman, and using the approaches of the history of reading provides a detailed analysis of his mindset. The findings of the study challenge a historical determinism which removes Catholics from the mainstream of early-modern society.

  • - A Royal City in a Time of Revolution
    von J. F. Merritt
    58,00 €

    Explores the history of the royal city during the civil war and interregnum -- .

  • von John Walter
    37,00 €

    This collection of essays offers a radical re-evaluation of the nature of crowds and popular protest in the early modern period -- .

  • - Gender, the Family and Political Argument in England, 1680-1714
    von Rachel Weil
    34,00 €

    Ideas about marriage, gender and the family were central to political debate in late Stuart England. This book shows how political argument became an arena in which the proper relations between men and women, parents and children, public and private were defined and contested.

  • - 'Orthodoxy', 'Heterodoxy' and the Politics of the Parish in Early Stuart London
    von Peter Lake
    41,00 €

    Analyses the tensions and contradictions within the 'religion of protestants' that dominated great swathes of the early Stuart church. This book studies puritan theology and intra-puritan theological dispute. It also studies lay clerical relations and the politics of the parish.

  • - Tolerance and Intolerance in England, 1500-1700
    von Alexandra Walsham
    41,00 €

    Charitable hatred presents a challenging new perspective on religious tolerance and intolerance in early modern England. Instead of charting a path of linear progress from persecution to toleration, it emphasises the complex interplay between these two impulses throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. -- .

  • von Nicholas Tyacke
    42,00 €

    This volume brings together 12 essays by Nicholas Tyacke about English Protestantism, which range from the Reformation itself, and the new market-place of ideas opened up, to the establishment of freedom of worship for Protestant nonconformists in 1689.

  • - Public Persons and Popular Spirits
     
    36,00 €

    Including contributions from key early modern historians, this book uses and critiques the notion of the public sphere to produce a new account of England in the post-reformation period from the 1530s to the early eighteenth century. Makes a substantive contribution to the historiography of early modern England. -- .

  • - Godly Government During the English Revolution
    von Christopher Durston
    36,00 €

    This is a study of the rule of Cromwell's major-generals over England and Wales during the 1655 and 1656, a period which had a dramatic impact upon contemporaries and has remained a powerful symbol of military rule down to the 21st century.

  • - Networks, Place, Rhetoric
    von Alexandra Shepard
    37,00 €

    How were cultural, political and social identities formed in the early modern period? This book looks at community and networks, the importance of place and the value of rhetoric in generating "community".

  • - Essays on Elizabethan Politics
    von Simon Adams
    47,00 €

    A collection of sixteen essays by Simon Adams on Elizabethan history, centring around Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. -- .

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    153,00 €

    This collection offers bold reappraisals of the history of freedom of speech in the pre-modern Anglophone world. It addresses the aims and effectiveness of official policies, the thorny issues with which contemporaries grappled and the claims that were and were not made about freedom of expression. -- .

  • - Oral Culture in Britain, 1500-1850
     
    38,00 €

    Discussing the transition from a largely oral to a fundamentally literate society in the Early Modern period, this text examines English, Scottish and Welsh oral culture to provide a pan-British study, covering tradition, memories of the civil war, mechanics for settling debts and more.

  • - Mortality, Medical Care and Military Welfare in the British Civil Wars
     
    40,00 €

    Battle-scarred examines mortality, medical care and military welfare during the British Civil Wars. Its focus on the victims of war and their means of survival provides a series of case studies to demonstrate how these visceral conflicts drove developments in medical care and military welfare for servicemen and their families. -- .

  • - Jacobite Scotland and French Grand Strategy, 1701-8
    von Daniel Szechi
    57,00 - 148,00 €

  • - Religious Politics and Identity in Early Modern England
     
    158,00 €

    This collection of original essays combines the interests of leading 'Catholic historians' and leading historians of early modern English culture to pull Catholicism back into the mainstream of English historiography -- .

  • - Alternative Models of the Church in Britain and Ireland, C.1570-C.1700
     
    159,00 €

    This focused collection of essays on the alternative establishments which both Presbyterians and Catholics attempted to create in Britain and Ireland offers a dynamic new perspective on the evolution of post-reformation religious communities within Britain and Ireland. -- .

  • - Interdisciplinary Essays on Culture and Politics in the Caroline Era
     
    33,00 €

    An exciting collection of essays on the 'personal rule' of Charles I, whose inept and dangerous rule many historians feel put the country on the road to civil war -- .

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    158,00 €

    This volume offers a variety of fresh and exciting perspectives on Royalist politics, religion and culture during the Interregnum. Between them, these essays are an important milestone in the recovery of the Royalist experience of the 1650s. -- .

  • - The Digger Movement in the English Revolution
    von John Gurney
    35,00 - 147,00 €

    A full-length modern study of the Diggers, among the most remarkable of the radical groups to emerge during the English Revolution of 1640-60. Provides a reassessment of the Digger leader Gerrard Winstanley, a figure who has attracted great interest in recent years amongst historians, literary scholars, theologians and environmental activists.

  • - Essays on the English nation and Commonwealth in the sixteenth century
    von Patrick Collinson
    39,00 - 144,00 €

    A celebration of Englishness in the sixteenth century. Appeals equally to students of early modern history and its literary culture, presenting a view of 'Tudor England' and offering a firmer historical background to evaluating the English Renaissance.

  • - Religious Politics and Identity in Early Modern England
     
    34,00 €

    This collection of original essays combines the interests of leading 'Catholic historians' and leading historians of early modern English culture to pull Catholicism back into the mainstream of English historiography -- .

  • - Abbey, Court and Community, 1525-1640
    von J. F. Merritt
    35,00 - 143,00 €

  • - Sir Thomas Fairfax and the English Revolution
    von Andrew & QC Hopper
    37,00 €

    It was 'Black Tom' Fairfax, not Oliver Cromwell, who created and commanded Parliament's New Model Army during the English Civil War. This is his first biography by a modern academic. -- .

  • - Patriarchy, Piety, and Singlehood in Early Stuart England
    von Isaac Stephens
    143,00 €

    A highly original and detailed study of an individual single woman in early modern England, based on a recently discovered spiritual autobiography authored by a never-married gentlewoman, Elizabeth Isham. Provides new perspective on women's writing, identity and status in the early modern period. -- .

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