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“andreas gestrich”

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  • The Hanoverian Succession

    Dynastic Politics and Monarchical Culture

    by Andreas Gestrich, Michael Schaich ...
    The Hanoverian succession of 1714 brought about a 123-year union between Britain and the German electorate of Hanover, ushering in a distinct new period in British history. Under the four Georges and William IV Britain became arguably the most powerful nation in the world with a growing colonial Empire, a muscular economy and an effervescent artistic, social and scientific culture. And yet history ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Poverty and Sickness in Modern Europe

    Narratives of the Sick Poor, 1780-1938

    Edited by Andreas Gestrich, Elizabeth Hurren, Steven King ...
    This book provides a genuinely pan-European analysis of pauper narratives, focusing on the experiences of the sick poor in England, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Wales. The contributions highlight the value of pauper narratives for exploring the agency, rhetoric and experiences of the poor and sick poor, significantly enhancing our understanding of ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

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    How the World Came to Know About Itself

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    "A fascinating account of the gathering and dissemination of news from the end of the Middle Ages to the French Revolution" and the rise of the newspaper (Glenn Altschuler, The Huffington Post).Long before the invention of printing, let alone the daily newspaper, people wanted to stay informed. In the pre-industrial era, news was mostly shared through gossip, sermons, and proclamations. The age of ... Read more

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  • God's Fury, England's Fire

    A New History of the English Civil Wars

    by Michael Braddick ...
    A brilliantly researched and vividly written history of the English Civil Wars, from one of Britain's most prominent Civil War historiansThe sequence of civil wars that ripped England apart in the seventeenth century was the single most traumatic event in this country between the medieval Black Death and the two world wars. Indeed, it is likely that a greater percentage of the population were ... Read more

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  • The Invention of Tradition

    Edited by Eric Hobsbawm, Terence Ranger ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    Many of the traditions which we think of as very ancient in their origins were not in fact sanctioned by long usage over the centuries, but were invented comparatively recently. This book explores examples of this process of invention – the creation of Welsh and Scottish 'national culture'; the elaboration of British royal rituals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; the origins of imperial ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Our First Revolution

    The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America's Founding Fathers

    by Michael Barone ...
    The ideals of freedom and individual rights that inspired America’s Founding Fathers can be traced directly back to one of the most pivotal events in British history: the late-seventeenth-century uprising known as the Glorious Revolution.In this work of popular history,Michael Barone brings the story of this unlikely and largely bloodless revolt to American readers and reveals that, without the ... Read more

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  • 1688: The First Modern Revolution

    by Steve Pincus ...

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  • Restoration

    Charles II and His Kingdoms, 1660-1685

    by Tim Harris ...
    The late seventeenth century was a period of extraordinary turbulence and political violence in Britain, the like of which has never been seen since. Beginning with the Restoration of the monarchy after the Civil War, this book traces the fate of the monarchy from Charles II's triumphant accession in 1660 to the growing discontent of the 1680s. Harris looks beyond the popular image of Restoration ... Read more

    $17.89 USD

  • The Catholics

    The Church and its People in Britain and Ireland, from the Reformation to the Present Day

    by Roy Hattersley ...
    The story of Catholicism in Britain from the Reformation to the present day, from a master of popular history – 'A first-class storyteller' The TimesThroughout the three hundred years that followed the Act of Supremacy – which, by making Henry VIII head of the Church, confirmed in law the breach with Rome – English Catholics were prosecuted, persecuted and penalised for the public expression of ... Read more

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  • Puritanism & Revolution

    by Christopher Hill ...
    This illuminating collection of essays assesses the seventeenth century, interpreting what used to be called 'The Puritan Revolution', the ideas which helped to produce it and resulted from it, and the relation between these ideas and the political and economic events of the day. Each essay approaches the subject from a different angle, looking at aspects of the revolution - whether religious, ... Read more

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  • All Things Made New

    The Reformation and Its Legacy

    by Diarmaid MacCulloch ...
    The most profound characteristic of Western Europe in the Middle Ages was its cultural and religious unity, a unity secured by a common alignment with the Pope in Rome, and a common language - Latin - for worship and scholarship. The Reformation shattered that unity, and the consequences are still with us today. In All Things Made New, Diarmaid MacCulloch, author of the New York Times bestseller ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Eighteenth-Century Ireland (New Gill History of Ireland 4)

    The Isle of Slaves – The Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland

    by Ian McBride ...
    Series Book 4 - New Gill History of Ireland
    The eighteenth century is in many ways the most problematic era in Irish history. Traditionally, the years from 1700 to 1775 have been short-changed by historians, who have concentrated overwhelmingly on the last quarter of the period. Professor Ian McBride's survey, the fourth in the New Gill History of Ireland series, seeks to correct that balance. At the same time it provides an accessible and ... Read more

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