Modern History 1750-1945

McLynn provides the first comprehensive view of crime and its consequences in the eighteenth century: why was England notorious for violence? Why did the death penalty prove no deterrent? Was it a crude means of redistributing wealth?..

This volume, first published in 1977, brings together eleven studies of crime and the administration of the criminal law in England during the early modern period. They represent a variety of approaches – legal, historical and sociological – to the study of historical crime. This book will be of par..

Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book traces the expansion of commodity culture and a mass consumer orientated market, and explores the wider social and cultural implications this had for society. The author emphasizes the key role women played in this evolution and, through a focus on reta..

Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book traces the expansion of commodity culture and a mass consumer orientated market, and explores the wider social and cultural implications this had for society. The author emphasizes the key role women played in this evolution and, through a focus on reta..

Crisis and Renewal in Twentieth Century Banking explores the history and archives of banks to discover examples of how banking is affected by political and social upheavals; how banks in turn may influence the outcome of such events; how banking has recovered from periods of intense political and so..

Crisis and Renewal in Twentieth Century Banking explores the history and archives of banks to discover examples of how banking is affected by political and social upheavals; how banks in turn may influence the outcome of such events; how banking has recovered from periods of intense political and so..

Crisis Banking in the East..

Crisis Banking in the East..

Covering the crucial period between 1936 and 1953, this book explains how new notions of propaganda as reciprocal exchange, cultural engagement, and enlightening information paved the way for innovations in U.S. diplomatic practice. Through a comparative analysis of the State Department’s Division o..

Suitable for courses on World War Two or Twentieth Century Europe. Dangerous Liaisons assesses how and why collaboration occurred and why it remains relevant today. A unique account that clarifies the meaning of a much misunderstood term, Dangerous Liaisons explores the mindset and political attitud..

Suitable for courses on World War II or 20th century Europe, "Dangerous Liaisons" assesses how and why collaboration occurred and why it remains relevant today. It investigates four different "types" of collaboration: political, financial, social and the Holocaust...

This book explores the relations between Christianity and politics, examines the analogy between divine and civil government and considers what images of God may legitimately be employed by Christians in the twentieth century...