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The Duke of Portland
Palgrave Macmillan 2002; US$ 135.00The Third Duke of Portland served twice as Prime Minster and had a long and distinguished political career from 1760s to the 1780s. This study details how he was transformed from a pillar of the grand Whiggery (he was the brother-in-law of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire) into the figurehead for would-be Tories. The book also examines how he played... more...
Anglo-Norman Studies 25
Boydell & Brewer 2003; US$ 95.00The Battle Conference celebrated its quarter-centenary in 2002 in Glasgow, and this volume, while ranging from Norman Sicily to Scandinavia, has a particular focus on Scottish themes. There are six papers on aspects of Scottish history from the eleventh to the early thirteenth century: on kings and their followers, on the building of burghs, and on... more...
The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 30.00Lynch explores eighteenth-century British conceptions of the Renaissance, and the historical, intellectual, and cultural uses to which the past was put during the period. Scholars, editors, historians, religious thinkers, linguists, and literary critics of the period all defined themselves in relation to 'the last age' or 'the age of Elizabeth'. more...
England's Troubles
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 40.00Seventeenth-century English history is known best for 'the English Civil War' and 'the English Revolution'. This study analyses and explains both events, and others, by setting them in their wider contexts in relation to political instability, the history of religions and political ideas, and contemporary European events. more...
Lord Salisbury's World
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 55.00Lord Salisbury (1830-1903) is now a subject of intense historical attention. But this important and accessible new study moves away from the conventional 'life' and reconstructs the thought-world of late-Victorian Conservatives for the first time, providing a new location within which Victorian politics and Salisbury himself can be evaluated. more...
Nineteenth-century Britain
Oxford University Press 2000; US$ 9.99An account of remarkable economic and social change and an even more remarkable political stability. The authors show the forces behind 19th-century Britain's rise to its imperial zenith, and the continuing tensions within the nations and classes of the "union state". more...
Stuart Britain
Oxford University Press 2000; US$ 9.99This history of Stuart Britain sets the Revolution into its political, religious, social, economic, intellectual and cultural contexts. It gives an account of the effects of 100 years during which population was growing inexorably and faster than both the food supply and the employment market. more...
The Anglo-Saxon Age
Oxford University Press 2000; US$ 9.99This title covers the Anglo-Saxon period in English history, from the emergence of the earliest English settlements to the Norman victory in 1066. It offers a brief introduction to the political, social, religious and cultural history of Anglo-Saxon England. more...
Changing Conceptions of National Biography
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 15.00In his Leslie Stephen Lecture the great historian Keith Thomas surveys the many earlier attempts at collective biography, considers the relationship of the Oxford DNB to them, and offers a preliminary assessment of the Oxford DNB itself, a project with which he himself has been closely involved since its inception. more...
The Early Stuart Kings, 1603-1642
Taylor and Francis 2001; US$ 26.95In 1603 King James I ascended the throne to become the first King of a united England and Scotland. There followed a period of increasing religious and political discord, culminating in the English Civil War. The Early Stuart Kings, 1603-1642 explores these complex events and the roles of the key personalities of the time - James I and VI, Charles... more...









