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  • af D. Rogers
    576,95 kr.

    `The demise of the Cold War requires that we look back to the moment and place of its birth in order to reassess those institutions most affected by it. Politics After Hitler is a significant contribution to this scholarly reappraisal and is must reading for students of German history.' - James F. Tent, The University of Alabama at Birmingham This book concerns the efforts of Britain, France and the United States to reshape German party politics immediately after the Second World War. Based on extensive archival research in the four countries involved, it concludes that interference by the occupiers made a stable and moderate party system in the Federal Republic of Germany much more likely than has been previously assumed. This interference was propelled not by concrete Allied plans for a German political revival, but by fears of reaction, revolution, nationalism and political fragmentation.

  • af F. Parsons
    990,95 kr.

    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).

  • - British Policy and World Power in the Twentieth Century
    af David Reynolds
    654,95 - 1.806,95 kr.

    This title provides an overview of 20th century British foreign policy. It brings together the often separated histories of diplomacy, defence, economics and empire in a provocative reinterpretation of British 'decline'. It also offers a broader reflection on the nature of international power and the mechanisms of policymaking.

  • af Bruce J. Dierenfield & J. White
    498,95 - 1.855,95 kr.

    Previous ed.: Black leadership in America: from Booker T. Washington to Jesse Jackson / John White. London; New York: Longman, 1990.

  • af Hugh Cunningham
    398,95 - 2.398,95 kr.

    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.

  • - An Open Elite?
    af K. Schutte
    573,95 - 837,95 kr.

    Through an analysis of the marriage patterns of thousands of aristocratic women as well as an examination of diaries, letters, and memoirs, this book demonstrates that the sense of rank identity as manifested in these women's marriages remained remarkably stable for centuries, until it was finally shattered by the First World War.

  • af W. Hay
    1.206,95 kr.

    Between 1808 and 1830, the Whigs made a remarkable transition from opposition to office that highlights important trends in early Nineteenth-Century Britain.

  • af Joseph Tendler
    572,95 - 944,95 kr.

    Based on analysis of archival and published sources, Opponents of the Annales School examines for the first time those who have dared to criticise and ignore one of the most successful currents of thought in modern historiography. It offers an original contribution to the understanding of an unavoidable chapter in modern intellectual history.

  • af James Bell
    1.070,95 kr.

    Transplanted to the New World without the traditional hierarchical structure of the church - no bishop served in the colonies during the colonial period - at the time of the American Revolution it was neither an English-American, or American-English church, yet modified in a distinctive manner.

  • - Reform in England, 1808-30
    af R. Follett
    1.100,95 kr.

    Following the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807, a group of politicians began to agitate for reform of England's "bloody code" of criminal statutes. This examines the politics and propaganda of criminal law reform from 1808 to the Whig succession to power in 1830.

  • af M. Morgan
    1.241,95 kr.

    This book analyses English social and occupational behavioural ideals from the courtesy book's demise in 1774 to the Medical Act's passage in 1858.

  • - The Social and Cultural Dimensions of Political Interaction, 1521-1622
    af Karin J. MacHardy
    770,95 - 775,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Popular Protest in Northern France 1940-45
    af L. Taylor
    1.277,95 kr.

    This work explores the various means by which the local population both protested the hardships brought about by the Nazi occupation of northern France, and evaded the plethora of regulations, political and economic, when the authorities were unable or unwilling to act.

  • - Essays in Intellectual History
    af A. Waterman
    1.702,95 kr.

    Political economy and Christian theology coexisted happily in the intellectual world of the eighteenth century. These fourteen essays by Anthony Waterman serve as snapshots of the history of this estrangement, and illustrate the gradual replacement of the discourse of theology by that of economics as the rational framework of political debate.

  • - Admiration and Support in the English-Speaking World for Jews, 1840-1939
    af W. Rubinstein
    1.431,95 kr.

    The first is to draw attention to the existence of a persisting and virtually unrecognised tradition of 'philosemitism' which manifested itself in Britain and elsewhere in the English-speaking world during every significant international outbreak of antisemitism during the century after 1840.

  • - Treason and National Identity, 1608-1820
    af Lisa Steffen
    1.100,95 - 1.105,95 kr.

    Explores the formation of the British state and national identity from 1603-1820 by examining the definitions of sovereignty and allegiance presented in treason trials. The king's person remained central to national identity and the state until republican challenges forced prosecutors in treason trials to innovate and redefine sovereign authority.

  • - The Struggle for Stability
    af Mark Greengrass
    799,95 - 1.796,95 kr.

    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.

  • - From Consent to Command
    af David Lemmings
    576,95 - 880,95 kr.

    Over the long eighteenth century English governance was transformed by large adjustments to the legal instruments and processes of power. This book documents and analyzes these shifts and focuses upon the changing relations between legal authority and the English people.

  • - Contingency and Choice in French Politics, 1918-45
    af Nimrod Amzalak
    568,95 - 880,95 kr.

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  • af Eveline Cruickshanks & Howard Erskine-Hill
    577,95 - 770,95 kr.

    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.

  • af J. Clark & H. Erskine-Hill
    1.703,95 kr.

    In one of the more sudden shifts of perspective, and hotly contested controversies of recent historical and literary scholarship, our view of Johnson has been fundamentally changed. This volume offers the best up-to-the-moment account of what has been achieved, and points to the new directions in which scholarship is developing.

  • af M. Morgan
    1.100,95 kr.

    This book explores components of national identity in Victorian Britain by analyzing travel literature.

  • - Jacobites at Home and Abroad
     
    990,95 kr.

    This collection of essays provides a series of fresh approaches to a fascinating subject: Jacobitism. The contributors focus on issues of identity and memory among Jacobites in Scotland, Ireland, England and Europe. They examine Jacobitism as an integral aspect of culture and society in the British Isles and beyond during the century after 1688.

  • af N. LoPatin
    847,95 kr.

    This book is the first on the creation, development and influence of popular politics, specifically the role of Political Unions, on the Great Reform Act of 1832. Political Unions and the force of public opinion played a vital role in seeing the Reform Bill through Parliament and setting England on the path of peaceful, legislative reform.

  • - An Exiled Court in Transition
    af E. Corp
    880,95 kr.

    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.

  • - The Revival of Paternalism in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain
    af K. Lawes
    1.694,95 kr.

    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.

  • - Popular Protest in Northern France 1940-45
    af L. Taylor
    1.110,95 kr.

    Between Resistance and Collaboration explores the various means by which the local population both protested the hardships brought about by the Nazi occupation of Northern France, often forcing the authorities to do something about them, and evaded the plethora of regulations, political and economic, when the authorities were unable or unwilling to act.

  • af M. Baer
    1.100,95 - 1.114,95 kr.

    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.

  • af James Bell
    1.110,95 kr.

    Transplanted to the New World without the traditional hierarchical structure of the church - no bishop served in the colonies during the colonial period - at the time of the American Revolution it was neither an English-American, or American-English church, yet modified in a distinctive manner.

  • - Essays in Intellectual History
    af A. Waterman
    1.695,95 kr.

    Political economy and Christian theology coexisted happily in the intellectual world of the eighteenth century. These fourteen essays by Anthony Waterman serve as snapshots of the history of this estrangement, and illustrate the gradual replacement of the discourse of theology by that of economics as the rational framework of political debate.