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Material Powers: Cultural Studies, History and the Material Turn (Hardback - 23 Feb 2010)

Material Powers
This edited collection is a major contribution to the current development of a ‘material turn’ in the social sciences and humanities.  It does so by exploring new understandings of how power is made up and exercised by examining the role of material infrastructures in the organisation of state power and the role of material cultural practices in the organisation of colonial forms of governance.  A...

Edited by Tony Bennett; Patrick Joyce

ISBN-13: 9780415483032 ; ISBN-10: 0415483034

Price: £80.00 £70.50 Not Available

OCR A Level History B: Different Interpretations of British Imperialism 1850-1950 (Mixed media product - 29 Apr 2010)

OCR A Level History B: Different Interpretations of British Imperialism 1850-1950
As part of the 14-19 curriculum change, Heinemann has been working in partnership with OCR to produce an exciting suite of resources tailored to the new OCR A Level History B specification. Written by experienced examiners and teachers, this accessible, engaging student resource is tailored to the new specification. Interactive LiveText with additional activities, sources and resources helps students to achieve...

By (author) Mr Andrew Holland; Mr Alex Holland

ISBN-13: 9780435312480 ; ISBN-10: 0435312480

Price: £18.24 Not Available

Medieval Blood (Paperback / softback - 15 Mar 2010)

Medieval Blood

By (author) Bettina Bildhauer

ISBN-13: 9780708321973 ; ISBN-10: 0708321976

Price: £29.99 £29.49 Not Available

The Byzantine World (Hardback - 12 Feb 2010)

The Byzantine World
The Byzantine World presents the latest insights of the leading scholars in the fields of Byzantine studies, history, art and architectural history, literature, and theology. Those who know little of Byzantine history, culture and civilization between AD 700 and 1453 will find overviews and distillations, while those who know much already will be afforded countless new vistas. Each chapter offers an innovative...

Edited by Paul Stephenson

ISBN-13: 9780415440103 ; ISBN-10: 0415440106

Price: £140.00 £108.70 UK delivery 2 to 4 days

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Human Geography of Spain (Hardback - 1 Apr 2010)

Human Geography of Spain
This volume starts by placing Spain within the new political and economic context of Europe and then traces Spain's own political evolution from dictatorship to democracy and the autonomous regions. Subsequent chapters deal with demography, the agricultural crisis, industrial restructuring, the growth of the service economy, mass tourism, the welfare state, transport and urban systems. The text concludes with an...

By (author) J M Martinez; R King

ISBN-13: 9781898723912 ; ISBN-10: 1898723915

Price: £49.50 £33.71 Not Available

Truly Beyond Wonders: Aelius Aristides and the Cult of Asklepios (Hardback - 1 Feb 2010)

Truly Beyond Wonders
A fully illustrated study of healing pilgrimage in the Roman empire during the second century AD. The focus is upon one particular pilgrim, the famous orator Aelius Aristides, whose Sacred Tales is examined in the context of the sanctuary of Asklepios at Pergamon, where the author spent two years in search of healing. In Truly Beyond Wonders Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis investigates texts and material evidence...

By (author) Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis

ISBN-13: 9780199561902 ; ISBN-10: 0199561907

Price: £80.00 £64.90 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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The Cambridge Companion to Tacitus (Hardback - 21 Jan 2010)

The Cambridge Companion to Tacitus
Accessible introduction to the work and influence of ancient Rome’s greatest writer of history. Tacitus is universally recognised as ancient Rome’s greatest writer of history, and his account of the Roman Empire in the first century AD has been fundamental in shaping the modern perception of Rome and its emperors. This Companion provides a new, up-to-date and authoritative assessment of his work and influence...

Edited by A. J. Woodman

ISBN-13: 9780521874601 ; ISBN-10: 0521874602

Price: £60.00 £47.50 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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The Cambridge Companion to Tacitus (Paperback / softback - 21 Jan 2010)

The Cambridge Companion to Tacitus
Accessible introduction to the work and influence of ancient Rome’s greatest writer of history. Tacitus is universally recognised as ancient Rome’s greatest writer of history, and his account of the Roman Empire in the first century AD has been fundamental in shaping the modern perception of Rome and its emperors. This Companion provides a new, up-to-date and authoritative assessment of his work and influence...

Edited by A. J. Woodman

ISBN-13: 9780521697484 ; ISBN-10: 0521697484

Price: £18.99 £17.09 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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Walter Ullmann on Medieval Political Theory - 3 Volumes (Routledge Revivals) (Multiple copy pack - 30 Jan 2010)

Walter Ullmann on Medieval Political Theory - 3 Volumes (Routledge Revivals)
Celebrated Austrian-Jewish scholar Walter Ullmann (1910-1983) was a leading authority in the field of medieval political thought, and in particular legal theory. He settled in the United Kingdom after leaving Austria in the late 1930s and went on to hold positions at the University of Leeds and Trinity College, Cambridge as Professor of Medieval History. Featured in this Routledge Revivals collection are the works:...

By (author) Walter Ullmann

ISBN-13: 9780415571548 ; ISBN-10: 0415571545

Price: £195.00 £148.85 UK delivery 2 to 4 days

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Aspects of Greek History 750–323BC: A Source-Based Approach (Hardback - 29 Jan 2010)

Aspects of Greek History 750–323BC
Aspects of Greek History 750- 323 BC: A Source-Based Approach offers an indispensable introduction to the central period of Greek History for all students of classics, from pre-university to undergraduate level. Chapter by chapter, the relevant historical periods from the age of colonization to Alexander the Great are reconstructed. Emphasis is laid on the interpretation of the available sources, and the book sets...

By (author) Terry Buckley

ISBN-13: 9780415549769 ; ISBN-10: 0415549760

Price: £70.00 £57.10 UK delivery 2 to 4 days

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After Khomeini: Iran Under His Successors (Undefined - 28 Jan 2010)

After Khomeini
Iran has not ceased to surprise the world since the American ambassador's famous "thinking the unthinkable" 1978 cable about the imminent fall of the Shah and the coming of Islamic revolution. The apparent sequence of moderate government of President Hashemi-Rafsanjani (1989-97) and democratic reform under President Khatami (1997-2005) was followed by the return of the hardliners and revolutionary populism coupled...

By (author) Saïd Amir Arjomand

ISBN-13: 9780195391794 ; ISBN-10: 0195391799

Price: £14.99 £13.49 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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Responses to Oliver Stone�s Alexander: Film, History, and Cultural Studies (Paperback / softback - 20 Jan 2010)

Responses to Oliver Stone�s Alexander
The charismatic Alexander the Great of Macedon (356ª323 B.C.E.) was one of the most successful military commanders in history, conquering Asia Minor, Egypt, Persia, central Asia, and the lands beyond as far as Pakistan and India. Alexander has been, over the course of two millennia since his death at the age of thirty-two, the central figure in histories, legends, songs, novels, biographies, and, most recently,...

Edited by Paul Cartledge; Fiona Rose Greenland; Afterword by Oliver Stone

ISBN-13: 9780299232849 ; ISBN-10: 0299232840

Price: £23.95 £21.17 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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Principles of Government and Politics in the Middle Ages (Routledge Revivals) (Hardback - 15 Jan 2010)

Principles of Government and Politics in the Middle Ages (Routledge Revivals)
In many respects this book, first published in 1961, marked a somewhat radical departure from contemporary historical writings. It is neither a constitutional nor a political history, but a historical definition and explanation of the main features which characterised the three kinds of government which can be discerned in the Middle Ages – government by the Pope, the King, the People. The author’s enviable...

By (author) Walter Ullmann

ISBN-13: 9780415571562 ; ISBN-10: 0415571561

Price: £75.00 £60.75 UK delivery 2 to 4 days

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The Medieval Idea of Law as Represented by Lucas de Penna (Routledge Revivals) (Hardback - 15 Jan 2010)

The Medieval Idea of Law as Represented by Lucas de Penna (Routledge Revivals)
Upon its original publication in 1946, this work represented a new approach to medieval studies, offering indispensable analysis to the historian of legal, political and social ideas. Research into the original sources leads the author through unexplored realms of medieval thought. By contrasting contemporary opinions with those of his central figure, Lucas de Penna, he comprehensively presents the medieval idea of...

By (author) Walter Ullmann

ISBN-13: 9780415571555 ; ISBN-10: 0415571553

Price: £75.00 £60.75 UK delivery 2 to 4 days

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The Carolingian Renaissance and the Idea of Kingship (Routledge Revivals) (Hardback - 15 Jan 2010)

The Carolingian Renaissance and the Idea of Kingship (Routledge Revivals)
In his Birkbeck Lectures, first published in 1969, Professor Ullmann throws new light on a familiar subject. He shows that the Carolingian renaissance had a wider and deeper meaning than has often been thought, especially in its political and ideological aspects. Displaying his mastery of both primary and secondary sources, Professor Ullmann presents an integrated history. He shows an epoch which holds a key to the...

By (author) Walter Ullmann

ISBN-13: 9780415571593 ; ISBN-10: 0415571596

Price: £75.00 £60.75 UK delivery 2 to 4 days

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The Individual and Society in the Middle Ages (Routledge Revivals) (Hardback - 15 Jan 2010)

The Individual and Society in the Middle Ages (Routledge Revivals)
Originally published in 1967, these lectures delivered at The Johns Hopkins University focus attention on the historically and politically crucial distinction between the individual as a mere subject of higher authority and the individual as an autonomous and independent citizen. The author’s command of the source material enables him to show why the conception of the individual as a subject predominated in the...

By (author) Walter Ullmann

ISBN-13: 9780415571586 ; ISBN-10: 0415571588

Price: £75.00 £66.00 Not Available

Parents of Poor Children in England 1580-1800 (Hardback - 18 Feb 2010)

Parents of Poor Children in England 1580-1800
The first sustained study of the mothers and fathers of poor children in early modern England, drawing upon a wide range of archival material, including quarter session records, petitions for assistance, applications for places in the London Foundling Hospital, and evidence from criminal trials in London's Old Bailey. Parents of Poor Children is the first sustained study of the mothers and fathers of poor children...

By (author) Patricia Crawford

ISBN-13: 9780199204809 ; ISBN-10: 0199204802

Price: £35.00 £30.55 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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Australia's Empire (Paperback / softback - 7 Jan 2010)

Australia's Empire
Australia's Empire is the first collaborative evaluation of Australia's imperial experience in more than a generation. Bringing together poltical, cultural, and aboriginal understandings of the past, it argues that the legacies of empire continue to influence the fabric of modern Australian society. This is the first major collaborative reappraisal of Australia's experience of empire since the end of the British...

By (author) Deryck Schreuder; Stuart Ward

ISBN-13: 9780199563739 ; ISBN-10: 019956373X

Price: £19.99 £17.99 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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The Oxford History of the Laws of England, Volumes XI, XII, and XIII: 1820-1914 (Multiple copy pack - 25 Feb 2010)

The Oxford History of the Laws of England, Volumes XI, XII, and XIII
A landmark series, The Oxford History of the Laws of England is the first full-length history of the English law that takes unpublished sources into account. The thirteen volumes provide not merely a history of law, but also a history of the impact of law on English society. Volumes XI, XII, and XIII cover the period from 1820 to 1914. A landmark series, The Oxford History of the Laws of England is the first...

By (author) William Cornish; J Stuart Anderson; Ray Cocks; Michael Lobban; Patrick Polden; Keith Smith

ISBN-13: 9780199258833 ; ISBN-10: 019925883X

Price: £450.00 £369.00 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names: Volume VA. Coastal Asia Minor: Pontos to Ionia (Hardback - 1 Feb 2010)

A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names
A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names offers scholars a comprehensive listing of all named individuals from the ancient Greek-speaking world. The present volume, VA, covers Asia Minor (modern Turkey), a particularly interesting area because of its ethnic and cultural diversity. A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names offers scholars a comprehensive listing of all named individuals from the ancient Greek-speaking world. The...

Edited by T. Corsten

ISBN-13: 9780199567430 ; ISBN-10: 0199567433

Price: £125.00 £106.50 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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