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Series: British Politics and Society
Reginald McKenna has never been the subject of scholarly attention. This was partly due to his own preference for appearing at the periphery of events even when ostensibly at the centre, and the absence of a significant collection of private papers. This new book redresses the neglect of this...
To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Sports Reference Series
Providing a social, economic and political study of field sports and those other activities and customs labelled as rural sports, from the earliest of times to the present day in all of the United Kingdom and Ireland.This book brings together several distinct types of traditional rural sports with...
To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Revivals
This title, first published in 1979, was ground-breaking in its exploration of the understudied area of the Tudor law of treason. Bellamy first examines the scope of that law, noting the inheritance from the Middle Ages, the effectiveness of the new statutes and interpretation of the law by the...
To Be Published June 23rd 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Revivals
This title, first published in 1989, was one of the first to directly address the legal dimension of bastard feudalism. John Bellamy explores the role and vulnerability of local officials and juries, the nature of the endemic land wars and the interference in the justice system by those at the top...
To Be Published June 23rd 2013 by Routledge
Garden design began in West Asia and spread through Europe. This book tells how, in the British Isles, it flourished to an extraordinary degree. Following the historical method in Tom Turner’s books on Asian gardens (2010) and European gardens (2011), it uses almost 1000 colour photographs,...
To Be Published June 24th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Revivals
Annie Abram was born in London in 1869 and died in Sussex in 1930. As an historian, she contributed significantly to the twentieth-century historiography of late medieval England, researching the social, cultural and religious mores of the English laity and clergy. This title, first published in...
To Be Published July 7th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Worlds
This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated collection of essays conveys a vivid picture of a fascinating and hugely significant period in history. Featuring contributions from thirty-eight international scholars, the book takes a thematic approach to a period which saw the defeat of the Spanish...
To Be Published July 16th 2013 by Routledge
The period from 1865 to 1900 was the golden age for European travel in the United States. A journey to America was far from the stale and predictable European tour, promising encounters with vast, wild terrain, and people whose culture was similiar enough to theirs to be familiar, but different...
To Be Published July 18th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Revivals
This edited collection, first published in 1991, focuses on the commercial relations, marketing structures and development of consumption that accompanied early industrial expansion. The papers examine aspects of industrial structure and work organisation, including women’s work, and highlight the...
To Be Published July 21st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Rewriting Histories
Early North American history is a field in flux. In the last thirty years, the field of Atlantic History has transformed scholarly studies of colonial America, bringing to light the many connections linking the Americas to Africa and Europe. Recently, though, historians have begun to question the...
To Be Published August 25th 2013 by Routledge
