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  • Trade, Regulation and Empire State-building in Britain

    The Board of Trade’s Role in Building the British Regulatory State

    by Martha Prevezer, Perri 6, Ed Legon ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book explores the impact of the Board of Trade upon the British state from the early seventeenth century to the early twentieth century. The study argues that for too long historians have overlooked the Board, yet it was a critical force in shaping the British state and in developing its capacity both for economic regulation and for economic development. Focusing on the slave trade and on the ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

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  • The Land is Ours

    Black Lawyers and the Birth of Constitutionalism in South Africa

    by Tembeka Ngcukaitobi ...
    The Land Is Ours tells the story of South Africa’s first black lawyers, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In an age of aggressive colonial expansion, land dispossession and forced labour, these men believed in a constitutional system that respected individual rights and freedoms, and they used the law as an instrument against injustice.The book follows the lives, ideas and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Law in a Time of Crisis

    by Jonathan Sumption ...
    'Thoughtful, stimulating and even entertaining ... Lord Sumption's opinion is always worth listening to, even - or especially - if one disagrees with it.' Daily Telegraph'Time spent on Law in a Time of Crisis is time spent in the company of a brilliant mind considering interesting things' The TimesBrexit, the independence referendum, the pandemic: the UK is a country in crisis. And, in crises, we ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Britain's Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide

    by Hilary McD. Beckles ...
    Britain's Black Debt is the first scholarly work that looks comprehensively at the reparations discussion in the Caribbean. It looks at the origins and development of reparations as a regional and international process. ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • A Legal History for Australia

    by Dr Sarah McKibbin, Libby Connors, Marcus Harmes ...
    This is a contemporary legal history book for Australian law students, written in an engaging style and rich with learning features and illustrations. The writers are a unique combination of talents, bringing together their fields of research and teaching in Australian history, British constitutional history and modern Australian law.The first part provides the social and political contexts for ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Modern Britain, 1750 to the Present

    by James Vernon ...
    Series Book 4 - Cambridge History of Britain
    This wide-ranging introduction to the history of modern Britain extends from the eighteenth century to the present day. James Vernon's distinctive history is weaved around an account of the rise, fall and reinvention of liberal ideas of how markets, governments and empires should work. The history takes seriously the different experiences within the British Isles and the British Empire, and offers ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Tracing Your Pauper Ancestors

    A Guide for Family Historians

    by Robert Burlison ...
    Series series Tracing Your Ancestors
    A practical and informative guide for family historians interested in researching their British ancestry through social welfare records.Many family historians will come across direct links to ancestors who were affected by poverty. Yet despite the burgeoning interest in genealogy, the history of pauperism and of poor relief has rarely been written about. Tracing Your Pauper Ancestors provides a ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Common Sense

    by Andrew Hood, Tony Benn ...
    Do we need a Monarchy? Or does it represent everything that is hidebound and stifling about Britain? The headlines tell the story: every British Institution is in crisis As a nation we have lost our way, What we have always been smugly told, is false. Our constitution is NOT the best in the world, nor is our legal system the fairest, nor is our society more open, nor are we freer than other ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • The Constitution of the United Kingdom

    A Contextual Analysis

    by Peter Leyland ...
    Series series Constitutional Systems of the World
    This acclaimed book provides a topical and contextual outline of the principles, doctrines and institutions that underpin the United Kingdom constitution. The second edition of The Constitution of the United Kingdom has been extensively rewritten to take account of recent constitutional developments, particularly changes made following the 2010 general election. The chapters are written in ... Read more

    $15.29 USD

  • The War against the Commons

    Dispossession and Resistance in the Making of Capitalism

    by Ian Angus ...
    A unique historical account of poor peoples’ self-defence strategies in the face of the plunder of their lands and laborFor five centuries, the development of capitalism has been inextricably connected to the expropriation of working people from the land they depended on for subsistence. Through ruling class assaults known as enclosures or clearances, shared common land became privately-owned ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • AQA GCSE History: Power and the People

    by Alf Wilkinson ...
    Exam Board: AQALevel: GCSESubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2016First Exam: June 2018AQA approvedCreate a stimulating, well-paced teaching route through the 2016 GCSE History specification using this tailor-made series that draws on a legacy of market-leading history textbooks and the individual subject specialisms of the author t... ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • On the House

    An Inside Look at the House of Commons

    by Rob Walsh ...
    On a day-to-day basis, what does a newly elected Member of Parliament do? How does the House of Commons work? Drawing on his years of service to five majority and three minority parliaments, Rob Walsh shares first-hand insights into the inner workings of the House, beyond the political personalities that dominate its proceedings.Inside this unique public and political institution, laws are made, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD