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Through an analysis of the eighteenth-century debate about luxury, this book traces the shaping of a language of political economy. By charting the development of political economy in Italy, and the methods of transmission of the ideas, it argues that the focus on economic thought is characteristic of the Italian enlightenment.

The West German Communist Party was banned only 11 years after it had emerged from Nazi persecution. Using material available only since the end of the Cold War, Patrick Major shows how the once-powerful KPD foundered on the unrealistic aims of its East German masters, as well as the anti-communism of the Anglo-American occupiers and the Adenauer government.

Examines the agricultural settlement of a great number of refugees in Greek Macedonia against the background of forced migration and refugee studies more generally.

The Canary Islands after the Conquest The Making of a Colonial Society in the Early-Sixteenth Century

Combining urban theory with postcolonial methodology, this book argues that modern Beirut is the outcome of persistent social and intellectual struggles over the production of space. Drawing on several Ottoman government documents, Arabic sources, and European archival material, it traces the urban experience of modernity in the Ottoman Empire.

The early Quakers denounced the clergy and social elite, but how did that affect Friends' relationships with others? Drawing upon the insights of sociologists and anthropologists, this study sets out to discover the social consequences of religious belief.

This original study examines the interrelationship between the construction of national identity and the transformation of political thought in Germany before the First World War. By analysing Wilhelmine depictions of the French Third Republic, Hewitson revises accepted interpretations of German politics and nationalism.

This new study examines the political, racial, and economic attitudes of an important group of British businessman in India between 1850 and 1960. In explaining the reasons for their decline, it casts new light on British colonial society in India and makes an important contribution to the current debate on the role of race and culture in the erosion of British imperial power.

An examination of the rise of the anti-tuberculosis movement in Britain and the development of a new public health service and medical specialism, discussed within a social and political context.

This study of London's foreign community in the 16th century examines the impact of the first major influx of foreign refugees to England: the Protestant exiles of the Reformation era.

Analyses the process of reform that led to the formation of the London County Council, the forces that shaped it, and the role played by local and national politicians in its establishment. This work, an account of the economic, social, and administrative complexities of Victorian London, is for all those interested in the 'metropolitan problem.'

The Reformation of Heretics The Waldenses of the Alps, 1480-1580

A study of the relationship between political change and the law in late 19th century Germany, which examines the civil code of 1896, the links between political thought and practice and the strengths and weaknesses of German liberalism and the German state.

The Excise Crisis Society and Politics in the Age of Walpole

This study of the Irish Unionists in the Edwardian House of Commons examines the role of parliamentary action within the political strategies of Edwardian loyalism. It considers the development of organized Unionism in Ireland and the bond between loyalism and British Conservatism.

From Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages Urban Public Building in Northern and Central Italy, AD 300-850

The Cotton Masters 1830-1860

Looking in detail at 14th-century Gloucestershire, the author examines the role of the gentry in their communities, government, military service, and the economy.

Contributes to our understanding of the Church of England, in the period between 1660 and 1828. Through a study of the diocese of the archbishops of Canterbury, this book explores the political, economic, cultural, intellectual and pastoral functions of the established Church. It argues that we should see the Church in a far more positive light.

Chronicling the changing fortunes of the aristocratic elite in Victorian Wales, this study explores the extensive influence of this class on the agricultural, political and religious life of one county, Carmarthenshire, and the reasons for its decline by 1895.

This is a study of the religious practices of lay people in the diocese of Salisbury during the late middle ages. Andrew Brown explores lay piety in its contexts of landscape, society and the church, and assesses the impact of the Reformation on the region and its people.

This is a study of how political ideas travel across languages and cultures. It examines the reception in Germany of the civic theories of the Scottish Enlightenment thinker Adam Ferguson, and shows how German intellectuals misread his work, but in a way which opened up many fruitful insights.

This is a pioneering comparative study of the British Labour Party and the German Social Democratic Party. Its controversial conclusions about the degree of similarity between the two will open up a new perspective on old debates.

Uncovers the interplay between central and local institutions which lay at the heart of the late-Hanoverian polity, and shows how the the transformation of local government in the early-19th century had a strong influence on the political culture and institutional framework of modern Britain.

This examination of the impact of the English Reformation at parish level provides a perceptive exploration of the role of the Catholic priesthood in the church and in the life of the community. Using a range of contemporary sources, it demonstrates the practical consequences of the Reformation.

This is the first comparative study of the agrarian systems of the frontier lands of Argentina and Canada in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Jeremy Adelman challenges much received wisdom about the economic `success' of North America and the `failure' of Latin America. His book opens up important new directions for the future research in economic history.

A study of the political role and activities of the peerage, both inside and outside Parliament, the late 19th and early 20th century. Andrew Adonis reassesses the strengths and weaknesses of the House of Lords, and shows how its members were able to justify themselves by their work.

A study of the manuscripts of Salisbury Cathedral and their writers in the period 1075-1125, tracing the interests and activities of the canons of the cathedral from the evidence of their books.

A scholarly history of the rise of the Townshends, the most famous landowning family in Norfolk, telling the story of individual members of the family and setting the dynasty in its context. Their activities reveal much about the role of the gentry in late medieval and early Tudor England.

An exploration of how the Victorians perceived and explained female crime, and how they responded to it - both in penal theory and in practice. It examines the extent to which gender-based ideologies, social values and concerns influenced attitudes to female criminality.