Author: Graham Jevon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107177839
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
This study uses the private papers of Glubb Pasha to rethink the end of Britain's imperial presence in the Middle East.
English Historical Linguistics
Author: Laurel J. Brinton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107113644
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Uniquely organized in terms of theoretical approaches, this is an advanced textbook on the study of English historical linguistics.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107113644
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Uniquely organized in terms of theoretical approaches, this is an advanced textbook on the study of English historical linguistics.
Unwritten Verities
Author: Sebastian I. Sobecki
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780268041458
Category : Common law
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sobecki argues that the commitment by English common law to an unwritten tradition generated a vernacular legal culture that challenged the textual practices of English humanism and the early Reformation.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780268041458
Category : Common law
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Sobecki argues that the commitment by English common law to an unwritten tradition generated a vernacular legal culture that challenged the textual practices of English humanism and the early Reformation.
Victorian Jesus
Author: Ian Hesketh
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442663596
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Ecce Homo: A Survey in the Life and Work of Jesus Christ, published anonymously in 1865, alarmed some readers and delighted others by its presentation of a humanitarian view of Christ and early Christian history. Victorian Jesus explores the relationship between historian J. R. Seeley and his publisher Alexander Macmillan as they sought to keep Seeley’s authorship a secret while also trying to exploit the public interest. Ian Hesketh highlights how Ecce Homo's reception encapsulates how Victorians came to terms with rapidly changing religious views in the second half of the nineteenth century. Hesketh critically examines Seeley’s career and public image, and the publication and reception of his controversial work. Readers and commentators sought to discover the author’s identity in order to uncover the hidden meaning of the book, and this engendered a lively debate about the ethics of anonymous publishing. In Victorian Jesus, Ian Hesketh argues for the centrality of this moment in the history of anonymity in book and periodical publishing throughout the century.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442663596
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Ecce Homo: A Survey in the Life and Work of Jesus Christ, published anonymously in 1865, alarmed some readers and delighted others by its presentation of a humanitarian view of Christ and early Christian history. Victorian Jesus explores the relationship between historian J. R. Seeley and his publisher Alexander Macmillan as they sought to keep Seeley’s authorship a secret while also trying to exploit the public interest. Ian Hesketh highlights how Ecce Homo's reception encapsulates how Victorians came to terms with rapidly changing religious views in the second half of the nineteenth century. Hesketh critically examines Seeley’s career and public image, and the publication and reception of his controversial work. Readers and commentators sought to discover the author’s identity in order to uncover the hidden meaning of the book, and this engendered a lively debate about the ethics of anonymous publishing. In Victorian Jesus, Ian Hesketh argues for the centrality of this moment in the history of anonymity in book and periodical publishing throughout the century.
Thatcher's Progress
Author: Guy Ortolano
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110848266X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Horizons -- Planning -- Architecture -- Community -- Consulting -- Housing.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110848266X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Horizons -- Planning -- Architecture -- Community -- Consulting -- Housing.
The English and Their History
Author: Robert Tombs
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101873361
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1106
Book Description
Named a Book of the Year by the Daily Telegraph, Times Literary Supplement, The Times, Spectator, and The Economist The English first materialized as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived in even had a name. From the armed Saxon bands that descended onto Roman-controlled Britain in the fifth century to the travails of the Eurozone plaguing the prime-ministership of today's multicultural England, acclaimed historian Robert Tombs presents a momentous and challenging history of a people who have a claim to be the oldest nation in existence. Drawing on a wealth of recent scholarship, Tombs sheds light on the strength and resilience of English governance, the deep patterns of division among the people who have populated the British Isles, the persistent capacity of the English to come together in the face of danger, and not the least the ways the English have understood their own history, have argued about it, forgotten it and yet been shaped by it. Momentous and definitive, The English and Their History is the first single-volume work on this scale for more than half a century.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101873361
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1106
Book Description
Named a Book of the Year by the Daily Telegraph, Times Literary Supplement, The Times, Spectator, and The Economist The English first materialized as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived in even had a name. From the armed Saxon bands that descended onto Roman-controlled Britain in the fifth century to the travails of the Eurozone plaguing the prime-ministership of today's multicultural England, acclaimed historian Robert Tombs presents a momentous and challenging history of a people who have a claim to be the oldest nation in existence. Drawing on a wealth of recent scholarship, Tombs sheds light on the strength and resilience of English governance, the deep patterns of division among the people who have populated the British Isles, the persistent capacity of the English to come together in the face of danger, and not the least the ways the English have understood their own history, have argued about it, forgotten it and yet been shaped by it. Momentous and definitive, The English and Their History is the first single-volume work on this scale for more than half a century.
English Heritage Historical Review 2006
Author: English Heritage
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781905624331
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
English Heritage Historical Review is a new source of historical research and interpretation set to become an annual publication from English Heritage. Ranging from prehistory to the present day, the journal focuses on discoveries from the English Heritage estate, including landscapes, structures and their contents. It reveals English Heritage's fundamental commitment to, and cores skills in, providing new historical interpretation which will stimulate further discussion and debate. The contributors to the journal include English Heritage historians, archaeologists and curators, and other experts writing on English Heritage properties. The research is previously unpublished and lavishly illustrated throughout.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781905624331
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
English Heritage Historical Review is a new source of historical research and interpretation set to become an annual publication from English Heritage. Ranging from prehistory to the present day, the journal focuses on discoveries from the English Heritage estate, including landscapes, structures and their contents. It reveals English Heritage's fundamental commitment to, and cores skills in, providing new historical interpretation which will stimulate further discussion and debate. The contributors to the journal include English Heritage historians, archaeologists and curators, and other experts writing on English Heritage properties. The research is previously unpublished and lavishly illustrated throughout.
The Origins of the English Parliament, 924-1327
Author: J. R. Maddicott
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199585504
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
A magisterial study of the evolution of the English parliament from its earliest origins in the late Anglo-Saxon period through to the fully fledged parliament of lords and commons which sanctioned the deposition of Edward II in 1327.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199585504
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
A magisterial study of the evolution of the English parliament from its earliest origins in the late Anglo-Saxon period through to the fully fledged parliament of lords and commons which sanctioned the deposition of Edward II in 1327.
An Historical Study of English
Author: Jeremy Smith
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134787324
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Through his analysis of selected major developments in the history of English, Jeremy Smith argues that the history of the language can only be understood from a dynamic perspective. He proposes that internal linguistic mechanisms for language change cannot be meaningfully explained in isolation or without reference to external linguistic factors. Smith provides the reader with an accessible synthesis of recent developments in English historical linguistics. His book: Looks at the theory and methodology of linguistic historiography . Considers the major changes in writing systems, pronunciation and grammar. Provides examples of these changes, such as the standardisation of spellings and accent and the origins of the Great Vowel Shift Focuses on the origins of two non-standard varieties; eighteenth century Scots and twentieth century British Black English.This book makes fascinating reading for students of English Historical linguistics, and is an original, important and above all, lively contribution to the field.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134787324
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Through his analysis of selected major developments in the history of English, Jeremy Smith argues that the history of the language can only be understood from a dynamic perspective. He proposes that internal linguistic mechanisms for language change cannot be meaningfully explained in isolation or without reference to external linguistic factors. Smith provides the reader with an accessible synthesis of recent developments in English historical linguistics. His book: Looks at the theory and methodology of linguistic historiography . Considers the major changes in writing systems, pronunciation and grammar. Provides examples of these changes, such as the standardisation of spellings and accent and the origins of the Great Vowel Shift Focuses on the origins of two non-standard varieties; eighteenth century Scots and twentieth century British Black English.This book makes fascinating reading for students of English Historical linguistics, and is an original, important and above all, lively contribution to the field.
The Varieties of History
Author: Fritz Stern
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 039471962X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
From Voltaire to Marx and Engels, this anthology explores history from the viewpoint of historians. The text includes influential works such as “The New Philosophical History” by Voltaire, “History as Biography” by Thomas Carlyle, and “A New Economic History” by R. W. Fogel. "I cannot imagine a more engaging and instructive introduction to the fascinations of historical writing than Fritz Stern's classic The Varieties of History."—Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., City University of New York "This book contains not only an excellent selection of passages which characterize the ideas and the work of leading historians from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, but the book in its entirety provides a stimulating survey of the entire development of modern historiography."—Felix Gilbert, The Institute for Advanced Study "It is by all odds the best kind of introduction to the study and, what is more, to the enjoyment, of history."—Crane Brinton
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 039471962X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
From Voltaire to Marx and Engels, this anthology explores history from the viewpoint of historians. The text includes influential works such as “The New Philosophical History” by Voltaire, “History as Biography” by Thomas Carlyle, and “A New Economic History” by R. W. Fogel. "I cannot imagine a more engaging and instructive introduction to the fascinations of historical writing than Fritz Stern's classic The Varieties of History."—Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., City University of New York "This book contains not only an excellent selection of passages which characterize the ideas and the work of leading historians from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, but the book in its entirety provides a stimulating survey of the entire development of modern historiography."—Felix Gilbert, The Institute for Advanced Study "It is by all odds the best kind of introduction to the study and, what is more, to the enjoyment, of history."—Crane Brinton
The Formation of the English Kingdom in the Tenth Century
Author: George Molyneaux
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191027758
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
The central argument of The Formation of the English Kingdom in the Tenth Century is that the English kingdom which existed at the time of the Norman Conquest was defined by the geographical parameters of a set of administrative reforms implemented in the mid- to late tenth century, and not by a vision of English unity going back to Alfred the Great (871-899). In the first half of the tenth century, successive members of the Cerdicing dynasty established a loose domination over the other great potentates in Britain. They were celebrated as kings of the whole island, but even in their Wessex heartlands they probably had few means to regulate routinely the conduct of the general populace. Detailed analysis of coins, shires, hundreds, and wapentakes suggests that it was only around the time of Edgar (957/9-975) that the Cerdicing kings developed the relatively standardised administrative apparatus of the so-called 'Anglo-Saxon state'. This substantially increased their ability to impinge upon the lives of ordinary people living between the Channel and the Tees, and served to mark that area off from the rest of the island. The resultant cleft undermined the idea of a pan-British realm, and demarcated the early English kingdom as a distinct and coherent political unit. In this volume, George Molyneaux places the formation of the English kingdom in a European perspective, and challenges the notion that its development was exceptional: the Cerdicings were only one of several ruling dynasties around the fringes of the former Carolingian Empire for which the late ninth, tenth, and eleventh centuries were a time of territorial expansion and consolidation.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191027758
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
The central argument of The Formation of the English Kingdom in the Tenth Century is that the English kingdom which existed at the time of the Norman Conquest was defined by the geographical parameters of a set of administrative reforms implemented in the mid- to late tenth century, and not by a vision of English unity going back to Alfred the Great (871-899). In the first half of the tenth century, successive members of the Cerdicing dynasty established a loose domination over the other great potentates in Britain. They were celebrated as kings of the whole island, but even in their Wessex heartlands they probably had few means to regulate routinely the conduct of the general populace. Detailed analysis of coins, shires, hundreds, and wapentakes suggests that it was only around the time of Edgar (957/9-975) that the Cerdicing kings developed the relatively standardised administrative apparatus of the so-called 'Anglo-Saxon state'. This substantially increased their ability to impinge upon the lives of ordinary people living between the Channel and the Tees, and served to mark that area off from the rest of the island. The resultant cleft undermined the idea of a pan-British realm, and demarcated the early English kingdom as a distinct and coherent political unit. In this volume, George Molyneaux places the formation of the English kingdom in a European perspective, and challenges the notion that its development was exceptional: the Cerdicings were only one of several ruling dynasties around the fringes of the former Carolingian Empire for which the late ninth, tenth, and eleventh centuries were a time of territorial expansion and consolidation.