ISBN: 9780198184546 | Hardcover
A reconsideration of John Ruskin's legacy, suggesting that his late work played an important role in shaping the 20th-century mind. It focuses on such... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780192854032 | Paperback
First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Blair's Very Short Introduction to the Anglo-Saxon Age cov... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780192802231 | Paperback
A great deal of the world's history is the history of empires. Indeed it could be said that all history is colonial history, if one takes a broad enou... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780192801449 | Paperback
Explores the place and importance of literature in Russian culture. How and when did a Russian national literature come into being? What shaped its cr... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780198206200 | Paperback
This study of Anglo-French relations in the century before the Hundred Years War, examines the legacy of continental rule bequeathed by the Angevin ki... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780199241170 | Hardcover
Britain's semi-detached geographical position has helped to give it the world's strongest peace movement. Secure enough from invasions to be influence... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780198208464 | Paperback
Covering the centuries between the disintegration of the Carolingian empire and the rise of the French monarchy, this book traces the long period of g... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780198226741 | Hardcover
This original book makes a stimulating contribution to international relations and British political history. It fills a major gap in the historiogra... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780198884712 | Paperback
The reign of Henry VII is important but mysterious. He ended the Wars of the Roses and laid the foundations for the strong governments of Henry VIII a... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780198219828 | Hardcover
This study of Petrograd in the period immediately following the Russian Revolution provides new insights into the progress of the revolution and the e... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780198201755 | Hardcover
his study argues that permissive legislation facilitated ocal initiative and debate, and that local initiatives were ften more effective than national... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780198202646 | Hardcover
An exploration of how the Victorians perceived and explained female crime, and how they responded to it - both in penal theory and in practice. It exa... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780199659838 | Hardcover
Reconstructs the lives of Henry VII's new men - low-born ministers with legal, financial, political, and military skills who enforced the king's will ... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780198159407 | Hardcover
This text studies the place and meaning of pilgrimage in European Renaissance culture. It offers perspectives on a variety of canonical writers, explo... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780199265497 | Paperback
What might it mean to think of philosophy as being in the condition of modernism -- in which its relation to its own past, and hence its sense of its ... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780199654512 | Hardcover
Diverting Authorities examines the glossing of a variety of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century texts by authors including Lydgate, Douglas, Chaloner, Ba... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780198112228 | Hardcover
A wide-ranging study of the myth of "The Last of the Race" as it develops in a range of literary and non-literary texts from the late-17th to late-19t... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780198117896 | Hardcover
The funeral elegy is a quintessential English Renaissance genre. This book charts the history of the elegy from the mid-16th century up to the 1630's,... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780198184485 | Hardcover
Supported by an enduring critical paradigm, the traditional account of Conrads career privileges his public image as man of the sea, addressing himsel... Meer informatie
ISBN: 9780198129820 | Hardcover
What did it mean to be a `Patriot' during the Walpole administration? This is the first full-length study of the so-called Patriot opposition to Walpo... Meer informatie
