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The Reign of Mary I
3rd EditionRobert Tittler, Judith Richards
Paperback, Apr 2013ISBN13: 9781408245347
ISBN10: 1408245345
Until recently, the reign of Mary Tudor was generally seen as a ‘sterile interlude’ in the Tudor century, with Mary herself dismissed as ‘Bloody Mary’. Extensive research in...
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Jews, The
A HistoryJohn Efron, Steven Weitzman, Matthias Lehmann, Joshua Holo
Paperback, Jul 2008ISBN13: 9780131786875
ISBN10: 0131786873
New research has conspired to unsettle many established ideas about the Jewish past, challenging how historians have thought about and described it, and sometimes making it appear less accessible t...
What is time? How does our sense of time lead us to approach the world? How did the peoples of the past view time? This book answers these questions through an investigation of the cultures of time...
Religion and Society in Twentieth-Century Britain
Callum Brown
Paperback, Jun 2006ISBN13: 9780582472891
ISBN10: 058247289X
During the twentieth century, Britain turned from one of the most deeply religious nations of the world into one of the most secularised nations. This book provides a comprehensive account of relig...
Crime in Early Modern England 1550-1750
2nd EditionJ. Sharpe
Paperback, Nov 1998ISBN13: 9780582238893
ISBN10: 0582238897
Still the only survey of current research available, this exploration of the incidence, causes and control of crime in Early Modern England throws a vivid light on the times. It uses court archives to...
The Devil's World
Heresy and Society 1100-1300Andrew Roach
Paperback, Aug 2005ISBN13: 9780582279605
ISBN10: 0582279607
Exploring the relationship of heresy, dissent and society in the 12th and 13th Centuries,The Devil’s World shows how people made conscious choices between heresy and orthodoxy in the middle...
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Living World of the Old Testament
4th EditionB. Anderson
Paperback, Nov 1988ISBN13: 9780582025615
ISBN10: 0582025613
The standard introduction to the subject, this major work of scholarship uses a wealth of historical, archaelogical, literary and theological sources to analyse and interpret the familiar Biblical nar...
The Global Seven Years War 1754-1763
Britain and France in a Great Power ContestD.A. Baugh
Paperback, Jun 2011ISBN13: 9780582092396
ISBN10: 0582092396
The Seven Years War was a global contest between the two superpowers of eighteenth century Europe, France and Britain. Winston Churchill called it “the first World War”. Neith...
Revolutionary Europe, 1780-1850
Jonathan Sperber
Paperback, Jun 2000ISBN13: 9780582294462
ISBN10: 0582294460
Providing a continent-wide history, this major survey covers the key political events of this turbulent period. Jonathan Sperber also looks at lives of ordinary people and considers broad social...
The Medieval Military Orders
1120-1314Nicholas Morton
Paperback, Nov 2012ISBN13: 9781408249581
ISBN10: 1408249588
This new addition to the popular Seminar Studies series looks at the origins, development and organisation of the Military Orders during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, showing how the...
Robin Walz’s updated Modernism, now part of the Seminar Studies series, has been updated to include significant primary source material and features to make it more accessible f...
Anti-Semitism before the Holocaust
Albert S. Lindemann
Paperback, Jan 2000ISBN13: 9780582369641
ISBN10: 0582369649
An important new study on a complex and highly controversial topic...
The War of American Independence
1775-1783R. Middleton
Paperback, Sep 2011ISBN13: 9780582229426
ISBN10: 0582229421
Wars rarely turn out as expected. This book shows how Britain entered a conflict that it believed could not be lost. The American Patriots were similarly optimistic about their martial prospects. A...
The Holocaust
The Third Reich and the Jews2nd Edition
David Engel
Paperback, Oct 2012ISBN13: 9781408249949
ISBN10: 1408249944
David Engel’s book is a taut, compact narration that appeals to the intellect as much, if not more, than to the emotions. It is sure to be welcomed by students in departments of History, Poli...
