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This volume provides an historically grounded examination of the dynamics of contemporary society and state-society relations. The contributors explore the dynamics of economic reforms, socio-economic inequality and more. This work should be particularly interesting for students.

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What was it like to be poor in the Middle Ages In the past, the answer to this question came only from institutions and individuals who gave relief to the less fortunate. This book studies poverty in a premodern Jewish community - from the viewpoint of both the poor and those who provided for them.

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Provides a pan-European analysis of pauper narratives, focusing on the experiences of the sick poor in England, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Wales. This book highlights the value of pauper narratives for exploring the agency, rhetoric and experiences of the poor and sick poor.

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This book charts the growth of the university settlement movement, a fundamental influence in the shaping of the welfare state, from 1918 to Margaret Thatcher's election in 1979. It looks at the complex relationships between charities, the welfare state and individuals and the ways in which change was negotiated over the twentieth century.

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This book charts the growth of the university settlement movement, a fundamental influence in the shaping of the welfare state, from 1918 to Margaret Thatcher's election in 1979. It looks at the complex relationships between charities, the welfare state and individuals and the ways in which change was negotiated over the twentieth century.

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In May 1869, Major John Wesley Powell, geologist, enthnologist, and geographer set out from Green River, Wyoming, with nine men and four boats to explore the forbidding canyons of the Green and Colorado Rivers in Wyoming, Utah, and Arizona, which had blocked all central travel routes to the West Coast. Powell of the Colorado describes this explorat

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What has driven human beings throughout history

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This study presents a different approach to the question of power and influence after the Cold War. Inspired by the debate over German hegemony and drawing on fieldwork, it develops two cases of German relations with East-Central Europe to test competing arguments.

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When Sir Eldon Gorst succeeded Lord Cromer as Agent and Consul-General in Cairo in 1907, Britain effectively ruled Egypt and Sudan. The period Gorst spent in Egypt was critical in shaping Africa's history. This book offers an assessment of his contribution and argues that his was an honourable attempt to share government with the Egyptian people.

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This volume examines contemporary research on the history of old age, demonstrating many ways in which advanced age was associated with authority in the pre-industrial past, challenging existing literature's focus on the dependence and disability of older people in the period.

A fresh introductory study of late medieval Scotland. Includes: expert assessment of the period arranged in thematic chapters; fresh insights into the period that draw on a wide range of sources; extensive further reading lists.

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Using a range of local archives and reinterpreting published work, this book offers insights on power and people in early-modern English society.

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A study of the impact of power politics on the historical reputation of Charles D'Albert, duc de Luynes, a royal favourite at the court of Louis XIII in early seventeenth-century France -- .

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A comparative study of early post-1945 Central Europe on both sides of the Iron Curtain which puts the people back into Cold War history -- .

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