The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain, ed. Roderick Floud, Jane Humphries and Paul Johnson
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Archiv für Mai 2016
The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History, ed. Alvin Jackson
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Status Interaction During the Reign of Louis XIV, by Giora Sternberg
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Gibbon on Islam
A strand in current scholarship examines early Islam and the Caliphate against a late antique backdrop of Sasanid–Roman tension, dogmatic strife in the Church, and the maturation of rabbinic Judaism. Gibbon long ago insisted that there had been …
Revisiting the ‚Violence We Have Lost: Homicide in Seventeenth-Century Cheshire
It is now generally accepted that there was a fall in the number of homicide prosecutions in early modern England, perhaps signifying broader shifts in violent behaviour. So far, however, apart from J.S. Cockburn’s 1991 study of long-term develo…
Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans, by Malcolm Gaskill
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‚To Vote or not to Vote: Charity Voting and the Other Side of Subscriber Democracy in Victorian England
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Back in Old Rus and the USSR: Archaeology, History and Politics
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Kissing for Virtuosi: William Stukeleys Philosophy of Pleasure (1757)
The intellectual career of William Stukeley (1687–1765) has received much attention. However, one manuscript by Stukeley has never been discussed. In 1757 he composed a short treatise, ‘On the Philosophy of Pleasure’, in which he arg…
The Ruin of Roman Britain: An Archaeological Perspective, by James Gerrard
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