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  • The Democratic Developmental State: North-South Perspectives

    Series Libro 4 - CROP International Poverty Studies
    The idea of a democratic developmental state forms part of the current development discourse advocated by international aid agencies, deliberated on by academics, and embraced by policy makers in many emerging economies in the global South. What is noticeable in this discourse is how little attention has been paid to a discussion of the essence of a democratic developmental state, and much of what ... Leer más

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  • The Clergy in Early Modern Scotland

    From the early percolation of Protestant thought in the sixteenth century through to the controversies and upheaval of the civil wars in the seventeenth century, the clergy were at the heart of religious change in Scotland. By exploring their lived experiences, and drawing upon historical, theological, and literary approaches, the essays herepaint a fresh and vibrant portrait of ministry during ... Leer más

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  • Citizenship and Social Movements

    Perspectives from the Global South

    Series series Claiming Citizenship
    Debates over social movements have suffered from a predominate focus on North America and western Europe, often neglecting the significance of collective action in the global South. Citizenship and Social Movements seeks to partially redress this imbalance with case studies from Brazil, India, Bangladesh, Mexico, South Africa and Nigeria.This volume points to the complex relationships that ... Leer más

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    Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant

    Thomas Cromwell rose from very humble beginnings to become Henry VIII's chief minister, his right-hand man during the English Reformation. He wielded enormous power while he retained the king's favour, but the failure of Henry's marriage to Anne of Cleves, which Cromwell had arranged, led to his swift downfall and execution. John Schofield's biography reveals that the popular image of him as a ... Leer más

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  • Heretics and Believers

    A History of the English Reformation

    A sumptuously written people’s history and a major retelling and reinterpretation of the story of the English ReformationCenturies on, what the Reformation was and what it accomplished remain deeply contentious. Peter Marshall’s sweeping new history—the first major overview for general readers in a generation—argues that sixteenth-century England was a society neither desperate for nor allergic to ... Leer más

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  • The Stripping of the Altars

    Traditional Religion in England, 1400?1580, Second Edition

    de Eamon Duffy ...
    This prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay people’s experience of religion in fifteenth-century England. Eamon Duffy shows that late medieval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but was a strong and vigorous tradition, and that the Reformation represented a violent rupture from a popular and theologically respectable religious system. For this edition, Duffy ... Leer más

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  • Tudor England

    A History

    de Lucy Wooding ...
    A compelling, authoritative account of the brilliant, conflicted, visionary world of Tudor EnglandWhen Henry VII landed in a secluded bay in a far corner of Wales, it seemed inconceivable that this outsider could ever be king of England. Yet he and his descendants became some of England’s most unforgettable rulers, and gave their name to an age. The story of the Tudor monarchs is as astounding as ... Leer más

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  • The Stripping of the Altars

    Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580

    de Eamon Duffy ...
    This prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay people’s experience of religion, showing that late-medieval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but a strong and vigorous tradition. For this edition, Duffy has written a new introduction reflecting on recent developments in our understanding of the period.“A mighty and momentous book: a book to be read and re-read, ... Leer más

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  • The Burning Time

    Henry VIII, Bloody Mary and the Protestant Martyrs of London

    "This gruesomely entertaining book examines the Tudor zeal for burning people in the name of religion . . . it both 'purifies' and leaves little or no trace." — The Times of London, "Book of the Week"Smithfield, settled on the fringes of Roman London, was once a place of revelry. Jesters and crowds flocked for the medieval St. Bartholomew's Day celebrations, tournaments were plentiful and it ... Leer más

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  • Victorian Protestantism and Bloody Mary

    the legacy of religious persecution in Tudor England

    de Peter Wickins ...
    This is an important and intereseting book on aspects of our religious heritage which until now have escaped the investigation of scholars. History is all too often employed as a weapon for smiting the "infidel." By the beginning of the Victorian era after the somnolence of the 18th century, religious enthusiasm among both clergy and laity in the established Church arrived. This brought about such ... Leer más

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  • The Rise and Fall of Christian Ireland

    The Rise and Fall of Christian Ireland describes the emergence, long dominance, sudden division, and recent decline of Ireland's most important religion, as a way of telling the history of the island and its peoples. Throughout its long history, Christianity in Ireland has lurched from crisis to crisis. Surviving the hostility of earlier religious cultures and the depredations of Vikings, evolving ... Leer más

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  • Church, Politics and Society

    Scotland 1408–1929

    Edición de Norman Macdougall ...
    The essays in this volume, by distinguished historians, deal with the correlation of the Church and society in Scotland from the birth of Bishop Kennedy at the beginning of the fifteenth century to the reunion of the Church of Scotland with most of the United Free Church in 1929. This is not a comprehensive survey of the Church and its institutions; rather the book is concerned with the careers of ... Leer más

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