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  • Political Graffiti and Global Human Rights

    Take Another Look

    by Philip Hopper, Evan Renfro ...
    Political Graffiti and Global Human Rights: Take Another Look examines the role of political graffiti in the public spaces of Northern Ireland and occupied Palestine, highlighting the ways in which oppressed communities utilize this form of expression to convey resistance, foster community support, preserve the memory of armed struggle, and assert their presence. By drawing a comparative analysis ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • England's Fortress

    New Perspectives on Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax

    by Andrew Hopper, Philip Major ...
    Overshadowed in the popular imagination by the figure of Oliver Cromwell, historians are increasingly coming to recognize the importance of Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, in shaping the momentous events of mid-seventeenth-century Britain. As both a military and political figure he played a central role in first defeating Charles I and then later supporting the restoration of his son ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • The Astronomer and the Witch

    Johannes Kepler's Fight for his Mother

    by Ulinka Rublack ...
    Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was one of the most admired astronomers who ever lived and a key figure in the scientific revolution. A defender of Copernicus´ s sun-centred universe, he famously discovered that planets move in ellipses, and defined the three laws of planetary motion. Perhaps less well known is that in 1615, when Kepler was at the height of his career, his widowed mother Katharina was ... Read more

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  • A History of County Galway

    A comprehensive study of Galway's history, culture and people

    by Peadar O'Dowd ...
    Peadar O'Dowd's A History of County Galway is an enjoyable, accessible and informative study of Galway's history. A comprehensive book that begins with Galway's geological formation, O'Dowd's study of Ireland's second largest county progresses up to the present day and is the ideal book for anyone interested in the county of the Tribesmen. Galway is the largest county in the province of Connacht, ... Read more

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  • Who Wrote Shakespeare's Plays?

    by Professor William D. Rubinstein ...
    From an obscure family in a small provincial town, Shakespeare had no formal education after the age of thirteen. His surviving handwriting consists of six signatures on legal documents. His will makes no mention of his books or manuscripts. His two daughters were illiterate. There is, in other words, a seemingly enormous gap between the meagreness of Shakespeare's background and his achievements ... Read more

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  • The Sciences of Homosexuality in Early Modern Europe

    Edited by Kenneth Borris, George S. Rousseau ...
    The Sciences of Homosexuality in Early Modern Europe investigates early modern scientific accounts of same-sex desires and the shapes they assumed in everyday life. It explores the significance of those representations and interpretations from around 1450 to 1750, long before the term homosexuality was coined and accrued its current range of cultural meanings.This collection establishes that ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Edgehill 1642

    The Battle Reinterpreted

    by Christopher L. Scott, Alan Turton, Eric Gruber von Arni ...
    This seminal new study of a key battle of the Civil Wars re-examines one of England's most mysterious battlefields at Edgehill, and it combines the work of three outstanding military historians. Each is an expert in the areas of battlefield interpretation, military equipment and organization, and battle casualties and care. Their unique blend of knowledge gives a fascinating insight into one of ... Read more

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  • The First Century of Welfare

    Poverty and Poor Relief in Lancashire, 1620-1730

    by Jonathan Healey ...
    The English 'Old Poor Law' was the first national system of tax-funded social welfare in the world. It provided a safety net for hundreds of thousands of paupers at a time of very limited national wealth and productivity. The First Century of Welfare, which focusses on the poor, but developing, county of Lancashire, provides the first major regional study of poverty and its relief in the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Servants in Rural Europe

    1400-1900

    by Jane Whittle, Raffaella Sarti, Richard Paping, Sarah Holland, Thijs Lambrecht, Carolina Uppenberg, Charmian Mansell, Christina Prytz, Hanne Osthus, Jeremy Hayhoe0, Lies Vervaet1, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Christine Fertig2 ...
    This is the first book to survey the experience of servants in rural Europe from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. Live-in servants were a distinctive element of early modern society. They were typically young adults aged between 16 and 24 who lived and worked in other people's households before marriage. Servants tended to be employed for long periods, several months to years at a time, ... Read more

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  • Children of Wrath: Possession, Prophecy and the Young in Early Modern England

    by Anna French ...
    The spiritual status of the early modern child was often confused and uncertain, and yet in the wake of the English Reformation became an issue of urgent interest. This book explores questions surrounding early modern childhood, focusing especially on some of the extreme religious experiences in which children are documented: those of demonic possession and godly prophecy. Dr French argues that ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Satan and the Scots

    The Devil in Post-Reformation Scotland, c.1560-1700

    by Michelle D. Brock ...
    Series series St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
    Frequent discussions of Satan from the pulpit, in the courtroom, in print, in self-writings, and on the streets rendered the Devil an immediate and assumed presence in early modern Scotland. For some, especially those engaged in political struggle, this produced a unifying effect by providing a proximate enemy for communities to rally around. For others, the Reformed Protestant emphasis on the ... Read more

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  • Early Modern Jesuits between Obedience and Conscience during the Generalate of Claudio Acquaviva (1581-1615)

    by Silvia Mostaccio ...
    The Society of Jesus was founded by Ignatius Loyola on a principal of strict obedience to papal and superiors’ authorities, yet the nature of the Jesuits's work and the turbulent political circumstances in which they operated, inevitably brought them into conflict with the Catholic hierarchy. In order to better understand and contextualise the debates concerning obedience, this book examines the ... Read more

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