American History

First published in 1984. Coming as it did after the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1834, in many respects indentured labour can be regarded as a replacement of the slave labour system. This book is comprehensive and far-reaching in its scope and the complex issues which it raises...

First published in 1986. Independent Spirits is about the intellectual world of the humbly-born in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain, focussing on plebeian, or working- and lower middle-class spiritualists. This book is an important study which throws light on the idealism and sea..

Examines metropolitan French-language representations of India from the period between the recall of Dupleix to France to the Second Treaty of Paris. This book explores what a European power, territorially peripheral in India, thought of both India and the administrative rule there of its rival, Bri..

Indulgences have been synonymous with corruption in the Catholic Church ever since Martin Luther nailed his ninety-five theses to the church door in Wittenberg in 1517. Tingle explores the nature and evolution of indulgences in the Counter Reformation and how they were used as a powerful tool of per..

Indulgences have been synonymous with corruption in the Catholic Church ever since Martin Luther nailed his ninety-five theses to the church door in Wittenberg in 1517. Tingle explores the nature and evolution of indulgences in the Counter Reformation and how they were used as a powerful tool of per..

Industrial Development in Pre-Communist China..

Industrial Development in Pre-Communist China..

Two hundred years of industry have transformed the landscape. This book enables the reader to reconstruct the landscape of past industry and to study the former working conditions of men and women...

Two hundred years of industry have transformed the landscape. This book enables the reader to reconstruct the landscape of past industry and to study the former working conditions of men and women...

Using a wide range of contemporary sources, Lewis presents a nuanced study into the changing nature of infanticide in Germany over three centuries. Infanticide and abortion were complex crimes with a variety of causes, perpetrators and punishments. These crimes and the reaction to them are placed in..

Written by the lead authors of the C3 Framework, Inquiry-Based Practice in Social Studies Education presents a conceptual base for shaping the classroom experience through inquiry-based teaching and learning...

Written by the lead authors of the C3 Framework, Inquiry-Based Practice in Social Studies Education presents a conceptual base for shaping the classroom experience through inquiry-based teaching and learning...