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What’s New?: A Closer Look at the Process of Innovation
1st Edition
Edited
By Sander E. van der Leeuw, Robin Torrence
October 01, 2025
First published in 1989, What’s New? puts innovation firmly back on the agenda of archaeological interpretation. This book revives interest in the process of innovation and reinterprets it by drawing on original work done in a variety of disciplines. It demonstrates that the study of the components...
William Turner: Tudor Naturalist, Physician and Divine
1st Edition
By Whitney R. D. Jones
October 01, 2025
First published in 1988, this biography of William Turner aims to present a balanced account of his career, writings, and, above all, Turner as a person. It offers a fairly comprehensive overview of his eventful life. The book begins by examining Turner as a naturalist, focusing on his career and ...
Writing and Politics in Franco’s Spain
1st Edition
By Barry Jordan
October 01, 2025
Between 1940 and 1965, Spain was almost entirely cut off from the intellectual life of western Europe. Within Spain itself, opposition writers believed that a committed literature could take over the role of the press in a democratic society, dealing with daily realities and social issues as well ...
A History of Czechoslovakia Since 1945
1st Edition
By Hans Renner
September 01, 2025
First published in 1989, A History of Czechoslovakia Since 1945 is a comprehensive account of Czechoslovakia under Communist rule, tracing events from 1945 to 1990. The author focuses on the last twenty years in particular, when the Prague Spring offered a brief period of liberalization, but was ...
An Introduction to Musical History
1st Edition
By J.A. Westrup
September 01, 2025
First published in 1955, An Introduction to Musical History is not just another short history of music, but a discussion of its sources and background. It explains how we derive our knowledge of the music of the past, and how music has been affected by its social and political background. Such ...
An Ungovernable People: The English and Their Law in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
1st Edition
Edited
By John Brewer, John Styles
September 01, 2025
How ungovernable were seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Englishmen? Certainly, the historical evidence attests to an unruly and contumacious populace: riot was widespread, such criminal activities as the counterfeiting of coin flourished, disorder pervaded even London’s gaols, and men at all ...
Barnardo of Stepney: The Father of Nobody's Children
1st Edition
By A. E. Williams
September 01, 2025
First published in 1943, this third edition of Barnardo of Stepney was published in 1966, when it was a hundred years since a young man of twenty arrived in London on his way from Dublin to China. A change of plan delayed his departure and, instead of becoming a missionary in the foreign field, he ...
Cloak of Charity: Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philanthropy
1st Edition
By Betsy Rodgers
September 01, 2025
First published in 1949, Cloak of Charity provides a short history of philanthropy in the eighteenth-century. The author asserts that the history of charity is the history of the changes which have occurred in the attitude of the rich towards the poor. The character of philanthropy changed ...
Colour Prejudice in Britain: A Study of West Indian Workers in Liverpool, 1941-1951
1st Edition
By Anthony H. Richmond
September 01, 2025
First published in 1954, Colour Prejudice in Britain is an account of the assimilation and adjustment of 345 West Indian workers who came to England between 1941 and 1943, many of whom have stayed to the present day. The study endeavours to trace the relationships between this group of West Indians...
Daily Experience in Residential Life: A Study of Children and Their Care-Givers
1st Edition
By Juliet Berry
September 01, 2025
First published in 1975, Daily Experience in Residential Life, based on questionnaires completed by students during their residential placements, breaks new ground with fresh implications for social work training and practice. The author first examines daily life experiences of children in a wide ...
England and the Discovery of America, 1481-1620: From the Bristol Voyages of the Fifteenth Century to the Pilgrim Settlement at Playmouth: The Exploration, Exploitation and Trial-and-Error Colonization of North America by the English
1st Edition
By David B. Quinn
September 01, 2025
First published in 1974, England and the Discovery of America places the early explorations of the English in North America in the broad context of 15th and 16th century history. Marshalling evidence that cannot be pushed aside and sifting a mass of fascinating detail (including problems of ...
England's Sea Empire, 1550-1642
1st Edition
By David B. Quinn, A N Ryan
September 01, 2025
First published in 1983, England’s Sea Empire was originally part of the Early Modern Europe Today book series. It explores the relationships between the increase of English merchant shipping, the growth of naval power and the early experiments in overseas trade and colonisation. No other book ...