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Norman John Greville Pounds - An Historical Geogra phy of Europe, 1500-1840 (1980).jpg

This book, like its companion volume, An Historical Geography of Europe 450 BC-AD 1330, seeks to examine the complex of natural and man-made features that have influenced the course of history and have been influenced by it. It follows the general pattern of the earlier volume and spans the period from the early sixteenth century to the eve of the Industrial Revolution in continental Europe, approximately 1500 to 1840. It first presents a picture of the geography of Europe - political, social and economic - in the early sixteenth century, and it ends with a similar picture of continental Europe in the early nineteenth. The intervening period of about three centuries is too short to be presented in a series of cross-sections. Instead, between these two horizontal pictures a series of vertical studies has been inserted. These trace the development of the main facets of European geography during this period. There are chapters on population, urban development, agriculture, manufacturing and trade and transport. As in the earlier volume, no attempt has been made to include either the British Isles or Russia, and these are referred to only incidentally.

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Lisa Hopkins - Drama and the Succession to the Cro wn, 1561-1633 (2011).jpg

The succession to the throne, Lisa Hopkins argues here, was a burning topic not only in the final years of Elizabeth but well into the 1630s, with continuing questions about how James' two kingdoms might be ruled after his death. Because the issue, with its attendant constitutional questions, was so politically sensitive, Hopkins contends that drama, with its riddled identities, oblique relationship to reality, and inherent blurring of the extent to which the situation it dramatizes is indicative or particular, offered a crucial forum for the discussion. Hopkins analyzes some of the ways in which the dramatic works of the time - by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Webster and Ford among others - reflect, negotiate and dream the issue of the succession to the throne.

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Elizabeth Havercroft - A Year in the World of Dino saurs (2009).jpg

Look out for the Allosaurus! Would you like to see what happens during a year in the world of dinosaurs? Then come spend the next twelve months in the Jurassic period. Check out eight action-packed scenes for a bird's-eye view of babies hatching, plesiosaurs swimming, and dinosaurs escaping from a forest fire. Keep your eye on the calendar too. By spending a whole year in the world of dinosaurs, you can watch events unfold as the seasons change.

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Elizabeth Havercroft - A Year in the World of Dino saurs (2009).pdf

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Milton W. Meyer - Asia; A Concise History (1997).jpeg

This comprehensive introduction to Asia offers readers a clear overview of the continent from ancient times to the present. Meyer begins by explaining the general scope and geographic setting of the continent, then explores each nation in detail. The final chapter provides an overall historical perspective. "Asia: A Concise History" will be an indispensable text for all students first discovering the region.

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Milton W. Meyer - Asia; A Concise History (1997).epub

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Matthew Grant - After The Bomb; Civil Defence and Nuclear War in Cold War Britain, 1945-68 (2009).jpg

Civil defence was an integral part of Britain’s modern history. Throughout the cold war it was a central response of the British Government to the threat of war. This book is the first history of the preparations to fight a nuclear war taken in Britain between the end of the Second World War and 1968.

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Angel Smith - The Agony of Spanish Liberalism; Fro m Revolution to Dictatorship 1913-23 (2010).jpg

An exploration of the causes of the growing schism within Spanish society between 1914-1923, and the political polarisation and social violence that culminated in the Spanish Civil War. Essays analyse the crisis and eventual downfall of Spain’s elitist liberal order and its replacement by an authoritarian dictatorship.

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Angel Smith - The Agony of Spanish Liberalism; Fro m Revolution to Dictatorship 1913-23 (2010).pdf

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Allan Potofsky - Constructing Paris in the Age of Revolution (2009).jpg

Examining the social and political history of workers and entrepreneurs engaged in constructing the French capital from 1763-1815, this book argues that Paris construction was a core sector in which 'archaic' and 'innovative' practices were symbiotically used by guilds, the state, and enterprises to launch the commercial revolution in France.

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Weipin Tsai - Reading Shenbao; Nationalism, Consum erism and Individuality in China 1919-37 (2010).jpg

Reading Shenbao focuses on three dimensions of Chinese modernity, as reflected through the image of Shanghai urbanites in the Shenbaonewspaper's readership. The first is nationalism; the second the penetration of consumerism into the middle class of the Chinese urban society; and the third, the emergence of a new concept of citizenship, in which the individual was treated as the basic unit composing the nation.

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Weipin Tsai - Reading Shenbao; Nationalism, Consum erism and Individuality in China 1919-37 (2010).pdf

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Barrington Barber - Through the Eyes of Vincent Va n Gogh (2006).jpg

View the world as seen through the eyes of the legendary artist Vincent Van Gogh in this follow-up to the wildly successful Through the Eyes of Leonardo da Vinci. Beautiful color illustrations by Van Gogh are accompanied by informative and captivating text. Learn about the themes, motives, and meanings behind the drawings and paintings of one of the most fascinating artists of the nineteenth century. All of Van Gogh's major works are here, from portraits such as that of postman Joseph-Etienne Roulin to the best-known landscape "Starry Night."

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Keith Laybourn - British Political Leaders; A Biog raphical Dictionary (2001).jpg

This volume offers serious Anglophiles 198 entries covering the British leaders who filled "the top four offices of state and the post of secretary of state for the colonies between 1730 and the present," the four top offices being prime minister, chancellor of the exchequer, foreign secretary, and home secretary. Arrangement of entries is alphabetical, either by name or by title depending on how the individual was best known. For example, Benjamin Disraeli is listed under his given name, not as the Earl of Beaconsfield. In cases where official titles have evolved over the centuries, the editors have, for the sake of consistency, used the modern title.

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Keith Laybourn - British Political Leaders; A Biog raphical Dictionary (2001).chm

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Tom MacFaul - Poetry and Paternity in Renaissance England; Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne and J onson (2010).jpg

All History - Tom MacFaul - Poetry and Paternity in Renaissance Eng...d Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne and Jonson 2010.jpg

Becoming a father was the main way that an individual in the English Renaissance could be treated as a full member of the community. Yet patriarchal identity was by no means as secure as is often assumed: when poets invoke the idea of paternity in love poetry and other forms, they are therefore invoking all the anxieties that a culture with contradictory notions of sexuality imposed. This study takes these anxieties seriously, arguing that writers such as Sidney and Spenser deployed images of childbirth to harmonize public and private spheres, to develop a full sense of selfhood in their verse, and even to come to new accommodations between the sexes. Shakespeare, Donne and Jonson, in turn, saw the appeal of the older poets' aims, but resisted their more radical implications. The result is a fiercely personal yet publicly-committed poetry that wouldn't be seen again until the time of the Romantics.

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Tom MacFaul - Poetry and Paternity in Renaissance England; Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne and J onson (2010).pdf

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Craig Muldrew - Food, Energy and the Creation of I ndustriousness; Work and Material Culture in Agrar ian England, 1550-1780 (2011).jpg

All History - Craig Muldrew - Food, Energy and the Creation of Indu...Material Culture in Agrarian England, 1550-1780 2011.jpg

Until the widespread harnessing of machine energy, food was the energy which fuelled the economy. In this groundbreaking study of agricultural labourers' diet and material standard of living, Craig Muldrew uses new empirical research to present a much fuller account of the interrelationship between consumption, living standards and work in the early modern English economy than has previously existed. The book integrates labourers into a study of the wider economy and engages with the history of food as an energy source and its importance to working life, the social complexity of family earnings, and the concept of the 'industrious revolution'. It argues that 'industriousness' was as much the result of ideology and labour markets as labourers' household consumption. Linking this with ideas about the social order of early modern England, the author demonstrates that bread, beer and meat were the petrol of this world, and a springboard for economic change.

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David Feldman - Structures and Transformations in Modern British History (2011).jpg

This major collection of essays challenges many of our preconceptions about British political and social history from the late eighteenth century to the present. Inspired by the work of Gareth Stedman Jones, twelve leading scholars explore both the long-term structures - social, political and intellectual - of modern British history, and the forces that have transformed those structures at key moments. The result is a series of insightful, original essays presenting new research within a broad historical context. Subjects covered include the consequences of rapid demographic change in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; the forces shaping transnational networks, especially those between Britain and its empire; and the recurrent problem of how we connect cultural politics to social change. An introductory essay situates Stedman Jones's work within the broader historiographical trends of the past thirty years, drawing important conclusions about new directions for scholarship in the twenty-first century.

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David Feldman - Structures and Transformations in Modern British History (2011).pdf

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Harry Liebersohn - The Return of the Gift; Europea n History of a Global Idea (2010).jpg

This book is a history of European interpretations of the gift from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Reciprocal gift exchange, pervasive in traditional European society, disappeared from the discourse of nineteenth-century social theory only to return as a major theme in twentieth-century anthropology, sociology, history, philosophy, and literary studies. Modern anthropologists encountered gift exchange in Oceania and the Pacific Northwest and returned the idea to European social thought; Marcel Mauss synthesized their insights with his own readings from remote times and places in his famous 1925 essay on the gift, the starting-point for subsequent discussion. The Return of the Gift demonstrates how European intellectual history can gain fresh significance from global contexts.

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Harry Liebersohn - The Return of the Gift; Europea n History of a Global Idea (2010).pdf

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Douglas Moggach - The Philosophy and Politics of B runo Bauer (2003).jpg

This is the first comprehensive study in English of Bruno Bauer, a leading philosopher of the 1840s. Inspired by the philosophy of Hegel, Bauer led an intellectual revolution that influenced Marx and shaped modern secular humanism. In the process he offered a republican alternative to liberalism and socialism, criticized religious and political conservatism and set out the terms for the development of modern mass and industrial society.

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Rebecca J. Pulju - Women and Mass Consumer Society in Postwar France (2010).jpg

Women and Mass Consumer Society in Postwar France examines the emergence of a citizen consumer role for women during postwar modernization and reconstruction in France, integrating the history of economic modernization with that of women and the family. This role both celebrated the power of the woman consumer and created a gendered form of citizenship that did not disrupt the sexual hierarchy of home, polity, and marketplace. Redefining needs and renegotiating concepts of taste, value, and thrift, women and their families drove mass consumer society through their demands and purchases at the same time that their very need to consume came to define them.

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Rebecca J. Pulju - Women and Mass Consumer Society in Postwar France (2010).pdf

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Tapan K. Sarkar - History of Wireless (2006).jpg

Important new insights into how various components and systems evolved
Premised on the idea that one cannot know a science without knowing its history, History of Wireless offers a lively new treatment that introduces previously unacknowledged pioneers and developments, setting a new standard for understanding the evolution of this important technology.
Starting with the background-magnetism, electricity, light, and Maxwell's Electromagnetic Theory-this book offers new insights into the initial theory and experimental exploration of wireless. In addition to the well-known contributions of Maxwell, Hertz, and Marconi, it examines work done by Heaviside, Tesla, and passionate amateurs such as the Kentucky melon farmer Nathan Stubblefield and the unsung hero Antonio Meucci. Looking at the story from mathematical, physics, technical, and other perspectives, the clearly written text describes the development of wireless within a vivid scientific milieu.

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Tapan K. Sarkar - History of Wireless (2006) [PDF].rar

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John F. Naylor - A Man and an Institution; Sir Mau rice Hankey, the Cabinet Secretariat and the Custo dy of Cabinet Secrecy (2009).jpg

All History - John F. Naylor - A Man and an Institution Sir Maurice...t Secretariat and the Custody of Cabinet Secrecy 2009.jpg

The controversy surrounding the publication of Richard Crossman's Cabinet Diaries (1975) brought to the fore opposing concepts of 'open' and 'closed' government within Britain's free society. While a balance has for the moment been struck concerning the secrecy of Cabinet proceedings, a historical question remains: by what process, and with what results, has official secrecy come to envelop the practices of modern Cabinet government? This book tackles that key question, drawing upon a uniquely wide range of official and private papers to examine the historical development of the Cabinet Office, the custodian of Cabinet secrecy. Established by Lloyd George in the administrative chaos of 1916, the Cabinet Secretariat - as it was first known - emerged as the central agency for the management of Cabinet business, working closely with the Prime Minister himself. In Sir Maurice Hankey's twenty-two-year term as Cabinet secretary, he presided over the institutionalisation of the Secretariat as an office free from partisan taint and he personally served all Britain's inter-war Prime Ministers as confidant and influential advisor.

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David A. Valone - Ireland's Great Hunger, Volume 2 ; Relief, Representation, and Remembrance (2010).jpg

The papers collected here are a product of the second conference on Ireland's Great Hunger held at Quinnipiac University in 2005. This volume, focused on the theses of relief, representation, and remembrance, contains essays from a broad range of disciplines including works of history, literary criticism, anthropology, and art history.

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