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First published in 1979, The Second Coming is an experiment in the writing of popular history – a contribution to the history of the people who have no history and an exploration of some of the ideas, beliefs and ways of thinking of ordinary men and women in the late eighteenth and first half of...
To Be Published August 30th 2013 by Routledge
Series: History of Crime in the UK and Ireland
Crime in England 1688-1815 covers the ‘long’ eighteenth century, a period which saw huge and far-reaching changes in criminal justice history. These changes included the introduction of transportation overseas as an alternative to the death penalty, the growth of the magistracy, the birth of...
To Be Published September 3rd 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
Between August 1918 and March 1919 a flu pandemic spread across the globe and in just under a year 40 million people had died from the virus worldwide. This is the first book to provide a total history and seriously analyze the British experiences during that time.The book provides the most...
To Be Published September 14th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
Medicine is concerned with the most intimate aspects of private life. Yet it is also a focus for diverse forms of public organization and action. In this volume, an international team of scholars use the techniques of medical history to analyse the changing boundaries and constitution of the public...
To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
Gender and Power in Britain, 1640-1990 is an original and exciting history of Britain from the early modern period to the present, focusing on the interaction of gender and power in political, social, cultural, and economic life. Using a chronological framework, the book examines: * the roles,...
To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
This volume of eleven specially commissioned essays celebrates the work of Robert K. Webb, one of the foremost historians of modern Britain. The contributors address some of the central themes in the history of nineteenth-century religion....
To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
Based on the Ford Lectures, delivered at Oxford in 1960, the author describes some of the forces which created what we call `Victorian England'....
To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
Drawing heavily on the recollections and literature of the people themselves, Harrison places late Victorian Britain firmly in its social and political context....
To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
Womens Worlds in England presents a unique collection of source materials on womens lives in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. The book introduces a wonderfully diverse group of women and a series of voices that have rarely been heard in history, Drawing on unpublished, archival materials,...
To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
This book is an excellent introduction to this eventful period in history, offering students of history and the Middle Ages a fascinating insight into the reigns of three very different sovereigns:* Edward I – a confident and masterful conqueror of Wales* Edward II –...
To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
