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The Irish famine peaked in Black '47, but it brought misery and increased mortality to Ireland for several years. This title presents the Great Irish Famine from a variety of perspectives. It concentrates on fresh insights available through interdisciplinary and comparative methods. It highlights several economic and sociological features.

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An unparalleled study of the black British experience, unearthing its crucial yet largely forgotten role in shaping British history.

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Russia today is a world in a dark limbo. The body politic is diseased, the state in collapse. Yet for all the signs of encroaching doom, Russians do not fear the future. They fear the past. Russians have long known theirs is not a land that develops and progresses. It careens, heaves, and all too often sinks.

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It was 'Black Tom' Fairfax, not Oliver Cromwell, who created and commanded Parliament's New Model Army during the English Civil War. This is his first biography by a modern academic. -- .

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Examines the activities, adventures, publications, and influence of the most venomous critics of the Bourbon monarchy - French exile libellistes who flocked to London to publish scandalous or sexually salacious pamphlets hoping to extort lavish suppression fees.

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Tells the tale of one of the most peculiar incidents of medieval history, and the background to the real Blondel and his fellow troubadours. This title also talks about the courts of love, the Holy Grail, emergence of gothic cathedrals like Notre Dame and Chartres, and the moment of tolerance in the West when Europe shared a language, and more.

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In Paris during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the practice of adopting children was strongly discouraged by cultural, religious, and legal authorities on the grounds that it disrupted family blood lines. In fact, historians have assumed that adoption had generally not been practiced in France or in the rest of Europe since late antiquity

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Reissued with a fantastic cover, Bombers and Mash is a stunning collection of words, photographs, posters and recipes from the Second World War, this is a book about the women's war.

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Boudica, or Boadicea, queen of the Iceni, led a famous revolt against Roman rule in Britain in AD 60, sacking London, Colchester and St Albans and throwing the province into chaos. This title gives an account of what we know about the real woman from classical literature. It also traces her posthumous career as the famous woman in British history.

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This memorial book honours the legacy of Eric Richardss work in an interplay of academic essays and personal accounts of Eric Richards. Following the Eric Richards methodology, it combines micro- and macro-perspectives of British migration history and covers topics such as diasporas, religious, labour and wartime migrations.

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Britain and Europe 1500-1780 explores the history of Britain, emphasizing political relations and important connections between its three kingdoms and the continental powers. Houlbrooke analyzes political and religious events, locating them in the broader picture of the society, economics and culture of the time.

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This book breaks new ground in tracing the evolving and contested understandings both of Britain and of Europe on the part of politicians, diplomats, historians and travelers in the centuries since the French Revolution.

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Offers a challenging perspective on the nature of history by analysing the character, role, functioning and wider uses of historiography. Taking British policies towards European integration since the Second World War as a case study, this book demonstrates how its interpretation and reportage over time is subject to changing trends.

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This collection examines relations between France and Britain, in particular their conflicting memories of key episodes in their recent past.

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This collection examines relations between France and Britain, in particular their conflicting memories of key episodes in their recent past.

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The history of British-German relations in the twentieth century has been characterized by a remarkable dichotomy of friendship and hostility. This book considers the critical aspects of this relationship: the rivalry at sea before World War I, David Lloyd George and the Weimar Republic, and the British attitude toward the new Germany post-1990.

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"An exploration of British foreign policy towards interwar Danubian Europe"--

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Some of the topics: The System of Classes, General Relation of Society and State, Parliament and its Relation to the Cabinet, the Monarchy, English System of Law, Religion and the Churches in Britain, Education, Press and Broadcasting, the Arts, Sports, Various Forms of Public Social Service.

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Donald Matthew describes the interactions between Britain and the Continent during the period 1000-1300, and cogently assesses what advantage was taken of these opportunities on the broadest possible front.