Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Volume 26

ISBN-13: 9781107192478 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 200 str.

Andrew Spicer

Opis

A collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians.

Spis treści

1. Presidential address: educating the nation III. social mobility Peter Mandler; 2. 'Better off dead than disfigured'? The challenges of facial injury in the pre-modern past Patricia Skinner; 3. Who was Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester? John Maddicott; 4. 'Protestantism' as a historical category Alec Ryrie; 5. Tall histories: height and Georgian masculinity Matthew McCormack; 6. Slavery and the birth of working-class racism in England, 1814–1833 Ryan Hanley; 7. Between poise and power: embodied manliness in eighteenth and nineteenth-century British culture Joanne Begiato; 8. Last resort or key resource? Women workers from the Nazi-occupied Soviet territories, the Reich labour administration and the German war effort Elizabeth Harvey; 9. The Grail of original meaning: uses of the past in American constitutional theory Colin Kidd.