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The Tudors
By: Guy, John
Published by: Oxford University Press
This history of the Tudors offers a short introduction to this age in British history. It includes a compelling account of the political, religious and economic changes of the country under such leading monarchs as Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.
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Price: $12.99
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Academic Patronage in the Scottish Enlightenment
By: Emerson, Roger Lee
Published by: Edinburgh University Press
This book considers the politics of patronage appointments at the universities in Glasgow, Edinburgh and St Andrews. Emerson explores the ways in which 388 men secured posts in three Scottish universities between 1690 and 1806; from the purge following the Revolution of 1688 to the end of Henry Dundas's political career. Most professors were political appointees vetted and supported by political factions and their leaders.
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Price: $299.99
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The Accession of James I
By: Burgess, G.; Wymer, R.; Lawrence, J.
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan, Ltd.
This book analyzes the consequences of the accession of James I in 1603 for English and British history, politics, literature and culture. Questioning the extent to which 1603 marked a radical break with the past, the book explores the Scottish, Welsh, and wider European and colonial contexts, to this crucial date in history.
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Price: $79.95
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Adam Ferguson
By: Heath, Eugene (ed.); Merolle, Vincenzo (ed.)
Published by: Pickering & Chatto Publishers
Included essays range across all of Ferguson’s works to investigate his engagement with contemporary events and his contributions to our understanding of history and human action.
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Price: $99.00
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Aelfric and the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-Saxon England
By: Gretsch, Mechthild; Keynes, Simon; Orchard, Andy
Published by: Cambridge University Press
The cult of saints was one of the most important aspects of life in the Middle Ages, and it often formed the nucleus of developing group identities in a town, a province or a country. This book examines five of Aelfric's saints' Lives in their contemporary political and intellectual setting.
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Price: $77.00
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The Age of Shakespeare
By: KERMODE, FRANK
Published by: Random House Publishing Group
In The Age of Shakespeare , Frank Kermode uses the history and culture of the Elizabethan era to enlighten us about William Shakespeare and his poetry and plays. Opening with the big picture of the religious and dynastic events that defined England in the age of the Tudors, Kermode takes the reader on a tour of Shakespeare’s England, vividly portraying London’s society, its early capitalism, its court, its bursting population, and its epidemics, as well as its arts—including, of course, its theater.
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Price: $9.95
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Agrarian Capitalism and Poor Relief in England, 1500-1860
By: Patriquin, Larry
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan, Ltd.
This book examines the evolution of public assistance for the poor in England from the late medieval era to the Industrial Revolution. Placing poor relief in the context of the unique class relations of agrarian capitalism, it considers how and why relief in England in the early modern period was distinct.
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Price: $74.95
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Aliens in Medieval Law
By: Kim, Keechang; Baker, John H.
Published by: Cambridge University Press
Keechang Kim makes full use of medieval and early modern sources in this original reinterpretation of the legal aspects of feudalism, proposing a radical new understanding of the genesis of the modern legal regime. This innovative study will interest academics, lawyers, and students of legal history, immigration and minority issues.
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Price: $72.00
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