Despite the best efforts of the English government, Elizabethan Ireland remained resolutely Catholic. Hutchinson examines this ‘failure’ of the Protestant Reformation. He argues that the emerging political concept of the absolutist state forms a crucial link between English policy in Ireland and the..
Spanning the development of France across four centuries, the second edition of this definitive history has been carefully revised to take account of the very latest research, without losing the original book' s balance between a compelling narrative and an fascinating examination of the period's ma..
The book deals with various aspects of captivity and forced migration during the First World War, including the experiences of military POWs, civilian internees, deportees from occupied territories, colonial troops and forced labourers...
The book deals with various aspects of captivity and forced migration during the First World War, including the experiences of military POWs, civilian internees, deportees from occupied territories, colonial troops and forced labourers...
The book deals with various aspects of captivity and forced migration during the First World War, including the experiences of military POWs, civilian internees, deportees from occupied territories, colonial troops and forced labourers...
In this highly readable work that engages topics in American cultural and business history, Fabian details gambling in industrializing America and explores its moral and cultural implications...
This title, first published in 1943, aims to discover and discuss the convictions which the philosopher Thomas Carlyle believed to be of importance for his time, and the ways in which he personally entertained these ideas. In doing this F. A. Lea has concentrated attention on the works which Carlyle..