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  • von Frank O'Gorman & Diana Donald
    50,00 €

    The Eighteenth century is often represented, applying Tom Paine's phrase, as 'The Age of Reason': an age when progressive ideals triumphed over autocracy and obscurantism, and when notions of order and balance shaped consciousness in every sphere of human knowledge.

  • - The Working Class Experience 1780-1880
    von D. G. Wright
    84,00 €

  • von J. Bell
    52,00 €

    The book is a new study that examines the contrasting extension of the Anglican Church to England's first two colonies, Ireland and Virginia in the 17th and 18th centuries. It discusses the national origins and educational experience of the ministers, the financial support of the state, and the experience and consequences of the institutions.

  • von Mark Keay
    97,00 €

    Furthermore his rural education and up-bringing in the remote North of England explain his long-term shift from radical and whig reformer to tory placeman in the years 1789 to 1832 as well as his relative demise as a poet.

  • - Party Conflict in a Divided Society 1660-1715
    von Tim Harris
    120,00 - 238,00 €

    Part of the "Studies in Modern History" series, this text examines the origins and nature off party politics in England covering the period 1660 to 1715. Looks at the nature of the struggle between Whigs and Tories and the reasons why such rivalries cut so deep into English society at this time.

  • von James Muldoon
    97,00 - 99,00 €

    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 colonists' subsequent consent.

  • von James B. Bell
    99,00 €

    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.

  • - The Western Allies and the German Party System
    von D. Rogers
    50,00 €

    This interference was propelled not by concrete Allied plans for a German political revival, but by fears of reaction, revolution, nationalism and political fragmentation.

  • von Frank O'Gorman
    50,00 €

    The Eighteenth century is often represented, applying Tom Paine's phrase, as 'The Age of Reason': an age when progressive ideals triumphed over autocracy and obscurantism, and when notions of order and balance shaped consciousness in every sphere of human knowledge.

  • von Taru Haapala
    112,00 - 113,00 €

    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.

  • - Religion, Philosophy, and Politics, 1766-1816
    von Stephen Burley
    52,00 €

    Hazlitt the Dissenter is unique in providing the first book-length account of Hazlitt's early life as a dissenter. As the first multi-disciplinary account of Hazlitt's early literary career, it provides a new insight into the literary, intellectual, political and religious culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.

  • - Science and Political Style in Britain, c. 1790-1850
    von Joe Bord
    50,00 €

    Approaching the intersection of politics and science from the perspective of political history, this book looks at how nineteenth-century British Whigs used the themes of natural science to signal their identities, and how their devotion to a culture of liberality helped to define them. Offers a fresh take on a central theme in Victorian politics.

  • von Andrew August
    71,00 €

    Presenting a survey of working-class experience, this work offers an overview of scholarly debates about class, culture, and popular politics in the world's first industrial nation.

  • - The Revival of Paternalism in early Nineteenth-Century Britain
    von Kim Lawes
    50,00 €

    Against the background of an emerging industrial state, the popularization of liberal laissez-faire principles and the rise of a class-based society, it examines the revival of traditional paternal ideals and considers their influence upon the development of social policy.

  • von Rory Miller
    86,00 €

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

  • - 1815-1919
    von H. L. Wesseling
    82,00 - 238,00 €

    This volume is about the conquest, occupation, organization and exploitation of European colonies in the 19th century. It includes all of the major European powers, including the Netherlands, France, England, Belgium, Germany, Italy and Russia. Taking a comparative approach, the text looks at the successes and failures of each administration.

  • - The Struggle for Stability
    von Mark Greengrass
    98,00 €

    Providing a revision of historical perspective, this updated edition takes account of current research on the nature of propaganda, sectarian conflict, the operations of aristocratic patronage and the nature of provincial and municipal politics during the French civil wars.

  • - The Concept of Empire, 800-1800
    von J. Muldoon
    97,00 €

    This book examines the range of meanings attributed to the concept of empire in the medieval and early modern world, demonstrating how the concepts of empire and state developed in parallel, not sequentially.

  • - A History
    von Kevin Kenny
    122,00 €

    Provides a synthesis of Irish-American history starting from the beginnings of emigration in the early eighteenth century. This work incorporates the Ulster Protestant emigration of the eighteenth century and includes coverage of the twentieth century. It offers an analysis of the conditions in Ireland that led to mass migration.

  • von M. Linton
    97,00 €

    This is the first study to focus on the idea of virtue and its place in political thought in eighteenth-century France. There is also consideration of the ways in which numerous popular writers of the day, including clerics, eulogists, journalists, novelists and lawyers, employed the idea of virtue in polemical discussions in their writings.

  • - British Foreign Policy 1789-1914
    von Muriel E. Chamberlain
    75,00 €

    In this examination of Britain's political and diplomatic role on the international stage during the century of her imperial greatness, Muriel Chamberlain looks at how British foreign policy was affected, and to some extent dictated, by domestic political issues.

  • - The African-American Struggle for Civil Rights in the Twentieth Century
    von Robert Cook
    106,00 - 250,00 €

    A powerful and moving account of the campaign for civil rights in modern America. Robert Cook is concerned less with charismatic leaders like Martin Luther King, and more with the ordinary men and women who were mobilised by the grass-roots activities of civil-rights workers and community leaders.

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    50,00 €

    A major academic controversy has raged in recent years over the analysis of the political and religious commitments of Samuel Johnson, the most commanding of the 'commanding heights' of eighteenth-century English letters. This book, one of a trilogy from Palgrave, brings that debate to a decisive conclusion, retrieving the 'historic Johnson.'

  • von M. Baer
    97,00 €

    The Rise and Fall of Radical Westminster, 1780-1890 explores a critical chapter in the story of Britain's transition to democracy. Utilising the remarkably rich documentation generated by Westminster elections, Baer reveals how the most radical political space in the age of oligarchy became the most conservative and tranquil in an age of democracy.

  • - An Exiled Court in Transition
    von E. Corp
    67,00 €

    Following the Glorious Revolution the court of the exiled Stuarts was for many years based in France, until after the failure of the Jacobite rising of 1715, it was forced to move, eventually to be established in Rome. This book provides the first study of the court in transition, when exiled King James III lived in the Palazzo Ducale at Urbino.

  • von Eveline Cruickshanks & Howard Erskine-Hill
    60,00 €

    When Parliament met and the Habeas Corpus Act was suspended, he used show trials, decided by votes along party lines and depending on forged evidence, to curb the Tory party, to reuinted the Whig party and to consolidate his hold on power.

  • - Contingency and Choice in French Politics, 1918-45
    von Nimrod Amzalak
    50,00 €

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  • von F. Parsons
    51,00 €

    This book is a history of the emergence and development of the concept of proportional representation and its relation to political theory within the context of nineteenth-century British party politics focusing on Thomas Hare (1806-1891).

  • - The Social and Cultural Dimensions of Political Interaction, 1521-1622
    von Karin J. MacHardy
    50,00 €

    This case study of the causes of the Thirty Years' War suggests an alternative framework to that of Absolutism, and views statebuilding as an interactive bargaining process that can engender challenges to political authority.

  • von Hugh Cunningham
    67,00 - 284,00 €

    This book 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 500 years. Hugh Cunningham tells an engaging story of the development of ideas about childhood from the Renaissance to the present, including Locke, Rosseau, Wordsworth and Freud.

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