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Offers an evaluation of the political role of the Church of England in inter-war Britain. This book argues that, at a time of crises such as the General Strike of 1926, the Prayer Book controversy of 1929, the Abdication Crisis of 1936 and the rise of Hitler, religion remained central to political thought and debate.

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa were increasingly drawn together by an imperial press system. This is a scholarly study of the development of that system, challenging earlier nationalist accounts.

Based on research into political, personal, and general correspondences across a period of significant social and political change, this book explores the gendered nature of politics and political life in eighteenth-century England by focusing on the political involvement of female members of the political elite.

With the dawn of Romanticism, be it in the realms of science, religion, or poetry, the interest in physiognomy rekindled. This book interprets the way in which books on physiognomy were read, tracing the wider intellectual, social, and cultural changes that contributed to the metamorphosis of this way of beholding oneself and the natural world.

Combining urban theory with postcolonial methodology, this book argues that modern Beirut is the outcome of persistent social and intellectual struggles over the production of space. Drawing on several Ottoman government documents, Arabic sources, and European archival material, it traces the urban experience of modernity in the Ottoman Empire.

This book explains why governments decided to make trade unions legal, and protect strikers from the criminal law. Drawing on previously unused source material, Curthoys brings to light some of the workings of the ninteenth-century state.

This book examines the relationship between social science and public policy in left-wing politics. It focuses on the time period between the end of the Second World War and the end of the first Wilson government through the figure of the policy maker, sociologist and social innovator Michael Young.

Floris Verhaart examines how scholars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries defended the relevance of classical learning after the emergence of rationalism and empiricism called the authority of the ancients into question.

Monika Baar examines the work of five prominent East-Central European historians in the nineteenth century, analyzing and contrasting their body of work, their promotion of a national culture, and the contributions they made to European historiography.

This is the first legal and financial history of bankruptcy in nineteenth-century England. V. Markham Lester offers a full statistical analysis and detailed account of bankruptcy, imprisonment for debt, and company winding-up, and is able to demonstrate the validity of the Victorians' notion that financial failure was a significant problem for English society.

Focusing on the family of Ealdorman Leofwine, which retained power throughout an extraordinary period of political and dynastic upheaval, Stephen Baxter reassesses fundamental elements of late Anglo-Saxon government and society, offering a fresh interpretation of the structure of the late Anglo-Saxon polity and the origins of the Norman Conquest.

An analysis of the processes by which the West German government negotiated the Moscow Treaty with the Soviet Union in 1970 - the foundation of West German Ostpolitik.

This book provides three case studies of British foreign policy in Vienna, Budapest, and Prague in the interwar period. It focuses on British diplomatic initiatives aimed at promoting political and economic integration in central Europe.

A full scholarly study of British anticolonialism. The text evaluates the changing ways in which, arising out of the experience of Empire and decolonization, more general ideas about imperialism, nationalism, and underdevelopment were developed during the years 1918-1964.

This work is intended for scholars and students of early modern England, especially those interested in the history of the press, in bibliography, and in cultural change. It concerns Benjamin Collins and his involvement with the newspaper trade in the 18th century.

This is a detailed scholarly study of culture and sociability in Colombia during the period 1850 to 1930. The author gives a picture of some of the factors that reduced social distances in the province of Antioquia during this period of relative harmony and prosperity.

The Business of Decolonization provides a fresh perspective on the end of the British Empire in Africa. It examines the transfer of power in the Gold Coast (Ghana) from the viewpoint of British companies and businessmen, investigating their involvement in nationalist politics and their place in British imperial policy during decolonization.

During the 1920s and 30s, Labour embarked on a series of campaigns to take the message of socialism to the farms and villages. This book re-examines common perceptions of an antagonism between Labour policies and rural Britain in a study of politics and culture in the early twentieth century.

This is the first biography of T. G. Jackson, an architect who transformed the image of Oxford, rebuilt public schools, and became a leading architect of the arts and crafts movement. Although many of his buildings are famous, until now he has been little known. Yet his work illuminates a whole society as well as an individual.

Men Versus the State is a study of the political philosophy of Herbert Spencer and of the ideas of the Individualists, a group of thinkers inspired by Spencer to uphold the policy of laissez-faire during the 1880s and 1890s, whose important contribution to nineteenth-century political debate has been hitherto neglected by historians.

This study reframes our understanding of the Palestinian and Zionist national movements, arguing that Palestinian and Hebrew pedagogy could only be truly understood through an analysis of the conscious or unconscious dialogue between them, by examining the way Arabs and Zionists thought, taught, and wrote about their past.

The Canary Islands after the Conquest The Making of a Colonial Society in the Early-Sixteenth Century

This work considers the ideological development of English Catholicism in the 16th century, from the complementary perspectives of history, theology, and literature. It shows that Catholicism was neither a defunct tradition, nor one merely reacting to Protestantism, but a strong intellectual movement responding to the reformist impulse of the age.

A scholarly study of the polemical press of the 1740s, and a substantial investigation of the complex politics of that decade for a generation. The book contributes to knowledge of political ideology and party strife in the 18th century, and of the working press.

This text is a study of the Black Country in the 19th century, when the area was at the forefront of Britain's industrial development. It aims to enhance the reader's understanding of Victorian society through this researched analysis of the urban elites of the region.

A study of the debate surrounding crime and madness in France from 1840-1914, which argues that the French penal system was undermined by psychiatric theories of human behaviour and sociological interpretations of crime. Case studies are featured on which this discussion was based.

This study of London's foreign community in the 16th century examines the impact of the first major influx of foreign refugees to England: the Protestant exiles of the Reformation era.

Analyses the process of reform that led to the formation of the London County Council, the forces that shaped it, and the role played by local and national politicians in its establishment. This work, an account of the economic, social, and administrative complexities of Victorian London, is for all those interested in the 'metropolitan problem.'

Chronicling the changing fortunes of the aristocratic elite in Victorian Wales, this study explores the extensive influence of this class on the agricultural, political and religious life of one county, Carmarthenshire, and the reasons for its decline by 1895.

This is a pioneering comparative study of the British Labour Party and the German Social Democratic Party. Its controversial conclusions about the degree of similarity between the two will open up a new perspective on old debates.