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By: Prof Ian Beckett

ISBN: 9781852855109
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The men of the Victorian army ruled a large part of the world. As the visible power behind the greatest empire there had ever been, they were involved in wars wherever British interests demanded it. This book looks at the men and their leaders from a variety of angles, using particular incidents and battles to show how the army lived and fought.


(Hardback)

By: Dr John Gardiner

ISBN: 9781852853853
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2002
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Ever since Lytton Strachey mocked Thomas Arnold, Florence Nightingale and General Gordon in "Eminent Victorians", the reputation of the Victorians and what they stood for has provoked vigorous debate. Subjects of abuse, satire, nostalgia and even adulation, they continue to defy easy definition.


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By: Michael Carter-Sinclair

ISBN: 9781526144867
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book presents a radical reconsideration of the role of key players in developing an organised, politically oriented antisemitism in Vienna in the decades leading to the 1938 Anschluss. It pays particular attention to the clergy and how their antisemitism fitted the worldview of an authoritarian, hierarchical society. -- .


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By: Mark Harrison

ISBN: 9781855323186
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1993
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A guide to the weapons, armour and tactics of the archetypical Viking warrior from his origins in Scandinavia through the devastating explosion into British history to the end of the Anglo-Danish monarchy at Hastings. The exploded and cutaway artwork shows details of armour and weaponry.


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By: Dr Ann Christys

ISBN: 9781474213752
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)

By: Dr Ann Christys

ISBN: 9781474213769
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Sarah Rubin Blanshei

ISBN: 9781498546331
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This collection examines crime and punishment in medieval and early modern Bologna. Drawing from the citys singularly rich archival resources and employing a variety of perspectives, the contributors analyze various types of violence and place the citys institutions of criminal justice within their social, political, and cultural contexts.


(Paperback)

By: Rosalind Crone

ISBN: 9780719086854
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2012
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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First book to bring together the wide range of violent entertainments that characterised popular culture in nineteenth-century London and seriously assesses their origins, functions and impact. Draws upon the methodologies of social and cultural history to better understand the texture of Victorian society, and the mental world of the lower orders.


(Hardback)

By: Rosalind Crone

ISBN: 9780719086847
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2012
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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First book to bring together the wide range of violent entertainments that characterised popular culture in nineteenth-century London and seriously assesses their origins, functions and impact. Draws upon the methodologies of social and cultural history to better understand the texture of Victorian society, and the mental world of the lower orders.


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By: Norbert Finzsch

ISBN: 9781859735213
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book explores the historical context surrounding various debates, decisions and beliefs about the future in recent centuries. Religious, political, literary and ecological visions of the future in America and Germany are addressed comparatively.


(Hardback)

By: Dr Robert Henderson

ISBN: 9781472578891
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Dr Robert Henderson

ISBN: 9781350094864
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2018
UK Publication Date: 27th December 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: John A. Wagner

ISBN: 9780313357404
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Voices of Shakespeare's England offers students and public library patrons over 50 primary documents that illuminate the character, personalities, and events of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.


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By: John A. Wagner

ISBN: 9781610696791
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This fascinating collection of primary source documents furnishes the accounts-in their own words-of those who initiated, advanced, or lived through the Reformation.


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By: John A. Wagner

ISBN: 9781440876035
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: John A. Wagner

ISBN: 9780313386886
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The Victorian age was a period of transition as Britain industrialized and society underwent profound changes. Here, contemporary voices provide students with an up-close look at this pivotal time.


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By: Sue Elliott

ISBN: 9781784750527
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Cornerstone
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Born into a world still reeling from the earth-shattering events of the Great War, they grew up during the appalling economic depression of the 1930s, and emerged from post-war austerity determined to create a society for their children. This book reveals the story of people who raised their families during the social upheaval of the 50s and 60s.


(Hardback)

By: I. C. Butnaru

ISBN: 9780313287985
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 1993
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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While some 400,000 Romanian Jews died in the "Final Solution" in World War II, some 300,000 others were rescued. In this volume, a continuation of "Silent Holocaust", Butnaru examines the Jewish underground resistance in Romania, and the efforts to save the Jewish population of that country.


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By: H. V. Bowen

ISBN: 9780719086205
Readership/Audience: Adult Education
Publication Date: Nov 2011
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This unique collection of essays examines the many relationships that existed between Wales and the expanding British overseas empire between 1650 and 1830. -- .


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By: H.V. Bowen

ISBN: 9781784993528
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This unique collection of essays examines the many relationships that existed between Wales and the expanding British overseas empire between 1650 and 1830. -- .


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By: Martin Johnes

ISBN: 9780719086670
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This ground-breaking book examines the story of Wales since 1939, giving voice to ordinary people and the variety of experiences within the nation. This is a history of not just a nation, but of its residents' hopes and fears, their struggles and pleasures and their views of where they lived and the wider world. -- .


(Paperback, Revised edition)

By: Jan Morris

ISBN: 9780140274844
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2000
UK Publication Date: 27th April 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Celebrates Wales and things Welsh. This study it reflects the bilingual literature and folklore of Wales, the buildings and varied landscapes, the national character and humour, the historical predicaments and the political condition of this small but extraordinary country.


(Hardback)

By: Itamar Levin

ISBN: 9780275976491
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2004
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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As Levin makes clear, the plunder of Jewish property became not only a product of murder, but also a tool of murder.

Because Hitler decided only in the Spring of 1941 on the mass murder of the Jews, the Warsaw case demonstratesat least in retrospecthow the seizure of property killed even before the first gas chambers were built.


(Paperback)

By: K. Michael Prince

ISBN: 9780739139448
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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