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The Best American History Essays 2006
Edited by Joyce Appleby for the Organization of American Historians
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This collection brings to the public ten of the best articles in American history published in the last year and selected from over three hundred learned and...
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Information History in the Modern World
Histories of the information Age
Themes in Focus
Edited by Toni Weller
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Information has a rich but under explored history. The information age of the late twentieth century witnessed the emergence of a new history of information...
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Cromwell's Legacy
Edited by Jane A. Mills
Manchester University Press
Cromwell’s Legacy is an exciting collection of essays by scholars who are well-known in their fields of research, most of whom have a proven track record of...
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The Library and Archive Collections of the University of Aberdeen
Edited By Iain Beaven;, Peter Davidson and Jane Stevenson
Manchester University Press
This volume commences with the books and manuscripts given at the foundation of King's College in 1495, continues with the collections which accrued to...
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History and the Media
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History is everywhere in the media. Television viewers can spend every evening watching a different historian expound upon Empire, Witchcraft, the Civil War or...
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The Land of the Thunderbolt Mountains
The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Albanian National Identity
Dora d'Istria and Morelle Smith
I.B. Tauris/Centre for Albanian Studies
Dora d'Istria was a distinguished Albanian-Romanian aristocrat whose unusual and stimulating ideas offer a fascinating perspective on 19th-century European...
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Life, Laughter and the Law
Oliver Popplewell; Foreword by Stephen Fry
I.B. Tauris
Sir Oliver Popplewell’s career goes a long way to explode myths and to show what judges are really like: impartial, skilled in the law, above party politics...
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Has Devolution Worked?
The Verdict from Policy-makers and the Public
The Devolution Series
Edited by John Curtice and Ben Seyd
Manchester University Press
Devolution to Scotland and Wales represented the most fundamental reform of the British state for almost a century. Ten years on, how successful has the...
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Impostures in Early Modern England
Representations and Perceptions of Fraudulent Identities
Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain
Tobias B. Hug
Manchester University Press
Impostors and impostures featured prominently in the political, social and religious life of early modern England. Who was likely to be perceived as impostor,...
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Silk and Empire
Studies in Imperialism
Brenda M. King
Manchester University Press
In this book, Brenda M. King challenges the notion that Britain always exploited its empire. Creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship were all part of the...
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The Civil Service and the Revolution in Ireland 1912-38
'Shaking the Blood-stained Hand of Mr Collins'
Martin Maguire
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This book is a history of the Irish civil service and its response to revolutionary changes in the State. It examines the response of the civil service to the...
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The Rise and Fall of the Scottish Cotton Industry, 1778-1914
'The Secret Spring'
Anthony Cooke
Manchester University Press
This is the first full-length history of the Scottish cotton industry, from its beginnings in the late eighteenth century to its premature decline in the years...
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The Alderley Sandhills Project
An Archaeology of Community Life in (Post-) Industrial England
Eleanor Conlin Casella and Sarah K. Croucher
Manchester University Press
How did the rise of consumer society impact the domestic lives of ordinary workers? Funded by English Heritage, this study offers the first book-length...
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Empire and Nation-building in the Caribbean
Barbados, 1937-66
Studies in Imperialism
Mary Chamberlain
Manchester University Press
Empire and Nation-building in the Caribbean is an original and exciting book that examines the processes of nation building in the British West Indies. It...
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States and Statistics in the Nineteenth Century
Europe by Numbers
Nico Randeraad
Manchester University Press
In this fascinating study, Nico Randeraad vividly describes the turbulent history of statistics in nineteenth-century Europe. The book deals not only with...
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The Tide of Democracy
Shipyard Workers and Social Relations in Britain, 1870-1950
Alastair J. Reid
Manchester University Press
This comprehensive study examines British shipbuilding and industrial relations from 1870 to 1950, addressing economic, social and political history to provide...
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Household Servants in Early Modern England
R. C. Richardson
Manchester University Press
This lively socio-cultural history examines household service, one of the largest, multi-layered, mobile and most indispensable sectors of employment in early...
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Petra and the Lost Kingdom of the Nabataeans
Jane Taylor
I.B. Tauris
The Nabataean Arabs, one of the most remarkable peoples of the ancient world, are today known only for their hauntingly beautiful rock-carved capital - Petra....
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Race, Nation and Empire
Making Histories, 1750 to the Present
Edited by Catherine Hall and Keith McClelland
Manchester University Press
The essays in this collection show how histories written in the past, in different political times, dealt with, considered, or avoided and disavowed Britain’s...
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Popular Culture and Working-class Taste in Britain, 1930-39
A Round of Cheap Diversions?
Studies in Popular Culture
Robert James
Manchester University Press
This book examines the relationship between class and culture in 1930s Britain. Focusing on the reading and cinema-going tastes of the working classes, Robert...
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Scotland, the Caribbean and the Atlantic World, 1750-1820
Douglas Hamilton
Manchester University Press
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Making Peace with the Past?
Memory, Trauma and the Irish Troubles
Graham Dawson
Manchester University Press
This book explores the psychic, cultural, and political ramifications of memory within the Irish Troubles. It investigates the traumatic impact of the violence...
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Love and Authority in the Work of Paula Rego
Narrating the Family Romance
Ruth Rosengarten
Manchester University Press
Rosengarten explores the narrative operations of Rego’s work by mobilizing both psychoanalytic theory and social history. She confronts, as case studies, three...
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The Blaze in the Balkans
Selected Writings 1903-1941
M. Edith Durham and Edited By Robert Elsie and Bejtullah Destani
I.B. Tauris
M. Edith Durham is best known for her classic travel books about the Balkans. However, she was also a passionate, articulate, and well-informed commentator on...
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