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  • Heraldry as art

    An account of its development and practice, chiefly in England

    by George William Eve ...
    In dealing with heraldry from the artist’s point of view, as a decorative subject which offers interesting scope for technical effort, it will not be necessary to go overmuch into the question of its origin, nor to elaborate its history beyond what is needed to give such knowledge of its methods as may help the doing of present work or the intelligent appreciation of the old. Nevertheless, the ... Read more

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  • Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law

    Essays in Comparative Legal History from the Twelfth to the Twentieth Centuries

    Edited by William Eves, John Hudson, Ingrid Ivarsen, Sarah B. White ...
    Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law builds upon the legal historian F.W. Maitland's famous observation that history involves comparison, and that those who ignore every system but their own 'hardly came in sight of the idea of legal history'. The extensive introduction addresses the intellectual challenges posed by comparative approaches to legal history. This is followed by twelve essays ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Am I a Hen?

    by Marcia J. (Eves) Williams ...
    Charity is a new hen in the hen house. She doesn't quite look like all the other hens, and Willow the cat makes her aware of that. Willow leads Charity to think that perhaps she is an owl, a bird, or even a duck. Charity tries to fit in but quickly realizes she doesn't have the skills of the others. She finds that she doesn't need to be concerned that she looks different from all the other hens. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790

    by Ritchie Robertson ...
    A magisterial work of intellectual history that recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practical means to achieve greater human happiness.One of the formative periods of European and world history, the Enlightenment is the fountainhead of modern secular Western values: religious tolerance, freedom of thought, speech and the ... Read more

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  • Adam Smith

    An Enlightened Life

    by Nicholas Phillipson ...
    Adam Smith is celebrated all over the world as the author of The Wealth of Nations and the founder of modern economics. A few of his ideas - that of the 'Invisible Hand' of the market and that 'It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest' - have become icons of the modern world. Yet Smith saw himself ... Read more

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  • 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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  • The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution

    Edited by Michael J. Braddick ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This Handbook brings together leading historians of the events surrounding the English revolution, exploring how the events of the revolution grew out of, and resonated, in the politics and interactions of the each of the Three Kingdoms - England, Scotland, and Ireland. It captures a shared British and Irish history, comparing the significance of events and outcomes across the Three Kingdoms. In ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Crime in Medieval Europe

    1200-1550

    by Trevor Dean ...
    Series series The Medieval World
    What is the difference between a stabbing in a tavern in London and one in a hostelry in the South of France? What happens when a spinster living in Paris finds knight in her bedroom wanting to marry her? Why was there a crime wave following the Black Death? From Aberdeen to Cracow and from Stockholm to Sardinia, Trevor Dean ranges widely throughout medieval Europe in this exiting and innovative ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of European Legal History

    Edited by Markus D. Dubber, Mark Godfrey, Heikki Pihlajamäki ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    European law, including both civil law and common law, has gone through several major phases of expansion in the world. European legal history thus also is a history of legal transplants and cultural borrowings, which national legal histories as products of nineteenth-century historicism have until recently largely left unconsidered. The Handbook of European Legal History supplies its readers with ... Read more

    $172.99 USD

  • The Prospect Before Her

    A History of Women in Western Europe, 1500 - 1800

    by Olwen Hufton ...
    Already hailed by English critics as "one of the most important works of history to be published since the Second World War, " Olwen Hufton's fascinating and brilliantly learned study begins, in this first of two volumes, with a wide ranging exploration of women's fate in Western Europe from medieval times to the early modern age. of illustrations. ... Read more

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  • Empire and Revolution

    The Political Life of Edmund Burke

    by Richard Bourke ...
    A major new account of one of the leading philosopher-statesmen of the eighteenth centuryEdmund Burke (1730–97) lived during one of the most extraordinary periods of world history. He grappled with the significance of the British Empire in India, fought for reconciliation with the American colonies, and was a vocal critic of national policy during three European wars. He also advocated reform in ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • A Social History of Disability in the Middle Ages

    Cultural Considerations of Physical Impairment

    by Irina Metzler ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    What was it like to be disabled in the Middle Ages? How did people become disabled? Did welfare support exist? This book discusses social and cultural factors affecting the lives of medieval crippled, deaf, mute and blind people, those nowadays collectively called "disabled." Although the word did not exist then, many of the experiences disabled people might have today can already be traced back ... Read more

    $66.99 USD