The Business of Decolonization provides a fresh perspective on the end of the British Empire in Africa. It examines the transfer of power in the Gold Coast (Ghana) from the viewpoint of British companies and businessmen, investigating their involvement in nationalist politics and their place in British imperial policy during decolonization.
The Business of Decolonization provides a fresh perspective on the end of the British Empire in Africa. It examines the transfer of power in the Gold ...
In this important study, reissued here in paperback along with a new historiographical essay, T.C. Barnard anatomizes the Irish problem of the mid-seventeenth century and connects it to the English politics and policies both before and after the interregnum. He looks closely at how and by whom Ireland was ruled and how its government was financed, and he explores in detail the primary Cromwellian goals in Ireland: propagating the Protestant gospel, providing English and Protestant education, advancing learning, and reforming the law.
In this important study, reissued here in paperback along with a new historiographical essay, T.C. Barnard anatomizes the Irish problem of the mid-sev...
This original study examines the interrelationship between the construction of national identity and the transformation of political thought in Germany before the First World War. By analyzing Wilhelmine depictions of the French Third Republic, Dr Hewitson revises accepted interpretations of German politics and nationalism.
This original study examines the interrelationship between the construction of national identity and the transformation of political thought in German...
This book considers the ideological development of English Catholicism in the sixteenth century, from the complementary perspectives of history, theology, and literature. The author shows that Catholicism in this period was neither a defunct tradition, nor one merely reacting to Protestantism, but a vigorous intellectual movement responding to the reformist impulse of the age. Her study makes an important contribution to the intellectual history of the Reformation.
This book considers the ideological development of English Catholicism in the sixteenth century, from the complementary perspectives of history, theol...
When barbarians invaded the Roman Empire in the years around 400 AD, Christian monks hid in their cloisters--or so it is often assumed. Conrad Leyser shows that monks in the early medieval West were, in fact, pioneers in the creation of a new language of moral authority. He describes the making of this tradition over two centuries from St. Augustine to St. Benedict and Gregory the Great.
When barbarians invaded the Roman Empire in the years around 400 AD, Christian monks hid in their cloisters--or so it is often assumed. Conrad Leyser ...
This book examines Russian genre painting in the first three quarters of the nineteenth century. It focuses on five major artists who made significant contributions to Russian intellectual life: Venetsianov, Bryullov, Ivanov, Fedotov, and Perov.
This book examines Russian genre painting in the first three quarters of the nineteenth century. It focuses on five major artists who made significant...
This is a social and political history of the Argentine landowners, Latin America's most affluent propertied class. Roy Hora explores the making and evolution of this new landowning class in the period c. 1860-1945, and examines the relationships between landowners, political power, and the state during this period.
This is a social and political history of the Argentine landowners, Latin America's most affluent propertied class. Roy Hora explores the making and e...
