A Companion to Global Environmental History, ed. J.R. McNeill and Erin Stewart Mauldin
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Archiv für August 2014
Attention is also drawn to the following publications:
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The Miraculous Conformist: Valentine Greatrakes, the Body Politic and the Politics of Healing in Restoration Britain, by Peter Elmer
Quelle: http://ehr.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/129/539/967?rss=1
Making Ireland English: The Irish Aristocracy in the Seventeenth Century, by Jane Ohlmeyer
Quelle: http://ehr.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/129/539/965?rss=1
Pius II in the Bath: Papal Ceremony and Cultural History
This article examines Pope Pius II (1458–1464) as a performer, receiving an ambassador while being undressed for the bath in May 1460 and directing the translation of St Andrew’s head to Rome in April 1462. An analytical comparison of anti…
Divided Conquerors: The Rump Parliament, Cromwell’s Army and Ireland
This article reassesses the relationship that existed in the period 1649–53 between war in Ireland and politics in England. Drawing upon a largely overlooked Irish army petition, it seeks to remedy an evident disconnect between the respective hi…
Adomnan’s De Locis Sanctis and the Seventh-Century Near East
De locis sanctis is a seventh-century description of Palestine and other regions in the Near East written by Adomnán, the ninth abbot of Iona. Adomnán claimed that he obtained much of his information from a Gaulish bishop called Arculf…
‚All Human Life is There‘: The John Hilton Bureau of the News of the World and Advising the Public, 1942-1969
This article considers the role of the John Hilton Bureau newspaper advice service, which ran under the auspices of the News of the World between 1942 and the late 1960s. The Bureau merits attention from historians on account of the light it can shed …
Charters of Glastonbury Abbey, ed. S.E. Kelly
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Liberalism, Scottish Nationalism and the Home Rule Crisis, c.1886-93
The present scholarly focus on Unionist-nationalism has obscured crucial features of late nineteenth-century Scottish political life. In a period of acute political crisis precipitated by the introduction of William Gladstone’s first Irish Home …