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Public medicine, popular education, state employment agencies, the diffusion of scientific and technical knowledge, the dissemination of information by the government--all these things are an indispensable part of the modern state. All were proposed in the seventeenth century by Theophraste Renaudot, who felt they were necessary to meet the new soc

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This illuminating collection of essays assesses the seventeenth century, interpreting what used to be called 'The Puritan Revolution', the ideas which helped to produce it and resulted from it, and the relation between these ideas and the political and economic events of the day.

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The arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the head of the Yukos oil company, in October 2003, was a key turning point in modern Russian history. In this book, the author examines the rise and fall of Yukos and considers the relationship between Putin's state and big business during Russia's traumatic shift from the Soviet planned economy to capitalism.

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Acclaimed for their dramatic rendering of the personalities and forces that shaped Elizabethan politics, Wallace T. MacCaffrey's three volumes thoroughly chronicle the Queen's decision making throughout her reign in a way that combines pleasurable reading with subtle analysis. Together in paperback for the first time, these books will find a wide r

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Explores the life and thinking of the Edinburgh phrenologist George Combe. This book traces the development of Combe's intellectual interests and provides a prism through which to view Victorian culture, science and politics, covering themes of class, religion, sex, crime, art and the theatre.

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Looks at the lives of successive Queens, Princesses of Wales and royal daughters, and considers how they used their powers of patronage and operated within the confines of royal family politics. This book presents fresh approaches in gender history and court studies.

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In the first comprehensive survey of Medieval queenship, Earenfight reveals how queens and empresses were fundamental to monarchies across Europe from 300 CE to the Renaissance. An engaging introduction to the study of queenship which presents key research and source material, and examines issues of gender, authority and power in Medieval society.

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A comprehensive exploration of racialization and racism in Russia that spans the Imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet periods.

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'The present state of the old world is running up like parchment in the fire.' So declaimed Gerrard Winstanley, charismatic leader of radical religious group the Diggers, in mid-seventeenth century England: one of the most turbulent periods in that country's history. This title presents ideas and popular movements which emerged during this period.

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This edited collection addresses the issue of radicalism by focusing on the media that contributed to its diffusion in the early modern era, using innovative interdisciplinary research that draws on a wide range of primary material. -- .

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This edited collection addresses the issue of radicalism by focusing on the media that contributed to its diffusion in the early modern era, using innovative interdisciplinary research that draws on a wide range of primary material. -- .

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The nineteenth-century's steam railway epitomised modernity's relentlessly onrushing advance. In Railways and culture in Britain Ian Carter delves into the cultural impact of train technology, and how this was represented in British society. -- .

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From the bestselling author of Elizabeth and Mary, the remarkable love story of Dorothy Osborne and Sir William Temple, set against the turbulence and romance of 17th-century England.

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This book examines the activities of William Blundell, a seventeenth-century Catholic gentleman, and using the approaches of the history of reading provides a detailed analysis of his mindset. The findings of the study challenge a historical determinism which removes Catholics from the mainstream of early-modern society. -- .

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This book examines the activities of William Blundell, a seventeenth-century Catholic gentleman, and using the approaches of the history of reading provides a detailed analysis of his mindset. The findings of the study challenge a historical determinism which removes Catholics from the mainstream of early-modern society. -- .

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An innovative book revealing the impact of print on social change in early modern Ireland -- .