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A study of the political role and activities of the peerage, both inside and outside Parliament, the late 19th and early 20th century. Andrew Adonis reassesses the strengths and weaknesses of the House of Lords, and shows how its members were able to justify themselves by their work.

This is the first comparative study of the agrarian systems of the frontier lands of Argentina and Canada in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Jeremy Adelman challenges much received wisdom about the economic `success' of North America and the `failure' of Latin America. His book opens up important new directions for the future research in economic history.

Uncovers the interplay between central and local institutions which lay at the heart of the late-Hanoverian polity, and shows how the the transformation of local government in the early-19th century had a strong influence on the political culture and institutional framework of modern Britain.

This is a study of how political ideas travel across languages and cultures. It examines the reception in Germany of the civic theories of the Scottish Enlightenment thinker Adam Ferguson, and shows how German intellectuals misread his work, but in a way which opened up many fruitful insights.

This is a study of the religious practices of lay people in the diocese of Salisbury during the late middle ages. Andrew Brown explores lay piety in its contexts of landscape, society and the church, and assesses the impact of the Reformation on the region and its people.

Contributes to our understanding of the Church of England, in the period between 1660 and 1828. Through a study of the diocese of the archbishops of Canterbury, this book explores the political, economic, cultural, intellectual and pastoral functions of the established Church. It argues that we should see the Church in a far more positive light.

Looking in detail at 14th-century Gloucestershire, the author examines the role of the gentry in their communities, government, military service, and the economy.

The Cotton Masters 1830-1860

From Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages Urban Public Building in Northern and Central Italy, AD 300-850

This study of the Irish Unionists in the Edwardian House of Commons examines the role of parliamentary action within the political strategies of Edwardian loyalism. It considers the development of organized Unionism in Ireland and the bond between loyalism and British Conservatism.

The Excise Crisis Society and Politics in the Age of Walpole

A study of the relationship between political change and the law in late 19th century Germany, which examines the civil code of 1896, the links between political thought and practice and the strengths and weaknesses of German liberalism and the German state.

The Reformation of Heretics The Waldenses of the Alps, 1480-1580

This first biography of Richard, third Duke of York, examines the political opposition of a great lord to Henry VI's regime. Although at one stage an active member of government, the main interest in his career lies in the increasing isolation of a once loyal subject.

An examination of the rise of the anti-tuberculosis movement in Britain and the development of a new public health service and medical specialism, discussed within a social and political context.

A study of the relationship between native secular law and the Church in medieval Wales. It assesses the influence of the Church on Welsh law and considers the extent to which the law defended the authority and possessions of the Church.

Newspapers were hugely influential in late eighteenth-century England, yet little is known about how they operated. This new study examines both London and provincial newspapers, their successful operation and influence upon politics, and their relationship with politicians, readers, and public opinion.

Carl Peters (1856-1918) ranked among Germany's most prominent imperialists in the nineteenth century. He became known as the founder of Deutsch-Ostafrika, a region many Germans saw as the pearl of their overseas possessions, and his memory was revered in Nazi Germany. This biography reveals his role in Germany's colonial expansion.

This is the first systematic study of civil law in late Imperial Russia. It shows how efforts to reform the civil law provoked conflict within and between the state administration, the Orthodox Church, and society in general. It incorporates many sources only recently made available, and is an important contribution to the history of late Imperial Russia.

This volume studies the alarm about 'mental defectives' in Britain between 1870 and 1959, and the policies of segregation, community care,and sexual sterilization. It examines the origins of these central government policies, showing how they were practiced by health professionals and local authorities. In the OXFORD HISTORICAL MONOGRAPHS series.

A study of the late Victorian and Edwardian peace movement, the campaigns of which made a significant impact on political debate. It focuses on the specialized associations at the heart of the peace movement and offers an interpretation of the reaction of peace campaigners to war in 1914.

Edmund Burke, eighteenth-century Irishman and politician, was no 'C/conservative', yet 'Burkean conservatism' is seen as the core of modern C/conservatism. For the first time, this volume shows how Burke's legacy was transformed over the course of the nineteenth century to create one of our most significant theories of modern politics and thought.

The seventeenth-century witnessed a radical and far-reaching transformation of English architecture as new forms of classical design swept away earlier fashions. Paul Hunneyball's ground-breaking interdisciplinary study reveals how this dramatic change came about, by reconstructing for the first time a complete cross-section of building activity in a single county.

This is the first detailed scholarly study of conscription in the years immediately following the Second World War, when for the first time in Britain peacetime conscription was practised. It is a valuable analysis of an important political question and of changing assumptions about British defence priorities in the pivotal post-war years.

This is a historical study on Jewish women's experience of childbirth and infant care. It assesses the extent to which the stereotype of Jewish mothers reflected the reality of their experience in East London between 1870 and 1939.

Cheshire 1630-1660 County Government and Society during the `English Revolution'

A scholarly study of Sir Robert Cotton as antiquary and politician. It examines his antiquarian writings, the building of his library, his relations with European scholars, his place at court, in parliament, and in the literary society of Renaissance London.

A detailed analysis of English barristers and the Inns of Court in the period 1680-1730. This was a significant stage in the development of the legal profession, and the narrative also touches on many other aspects of life, hence offering a new perspective of England at the time.

This book discusses the relationship between religion and medicine around 1300. Ziegler analyses the spiritual writings of two physicians in the light of their medical background. He examines the use of medical knowledge for non-medical purposes, and by clerics who did not engage in medical practice.

This is an analysis of late 18th-century Irish patriot thought and its development into 1790s radical republicanism. Its exploration of the ideology of the movements for legislative independence, parliamentary reform, Catholic relief and separation from Britain sheds light on the Rebellion of 1798 and the origins of Irish republican nationalism.