Britain And Its Neighbours

Author : Dirk H. Steinforth,Charles C. Rozier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000365375

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Britain and its Neighbours by Dirk H. Steinforth,Charles C. Rozier Pdf

Britain and its Neighbours explores instances and periods of cultural contact and exchanges between communities in Britain with those in other parts of Europe between c.500 and 1700. Collectively, the twelve case studies highlight certain aspects of cultural contact and exchange and present neglected factors, previously overlooked evidence, and new methodological approaches. The discussions draw from a broad range of disciplines including archaeology, history, art history, iconography, literature, linguistics, and legal history in order to shine new light on a multi-faceted variety of expressions of the equally diverse and long-standing relations between Britain and its neighbours. Organised chronologically, the volume accentuates the consistency and continuity of social, cultural, and intellectual connections between Britain and Continental Europe in a period that spans over a millennium. With its range of specialised topics, Britain and its Neighbours is a useful resource for undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars interested in cultural and intellectual studies and the history of Britain’s long-standing connections to Europe.

Author : Great Britain. Appendix. - History & Politics. - I.,David Frew,Laurence Hogg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:316341252

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Britain and Her Neighbours by Great Britain. Appendix. - History & Politics. - I.,David Frew,Laurence Hogg Pdf

Author : David Frew,Laurence Hogg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OCLC:892508105

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Britain and Her Neighbours by David Frew,Laurence Hogg Pdf

Author : David Brown,Robert Crawcroft,Gordon Pentland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198714897

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The Oxford Handbook of Modern British Political History, 1800-2000 by David Brown,Robert Crawcroft,Gordon Pentland Pdf

A new title in the Oxford Handbooks in History series, offering an authoritative view of British political history from 1800 to 2000, engaging with the sweeping changes in the ways in which Britain was governed, the duties of the state, and its role in the wider world, and suggesting avenues of future research.

Author : Sara M. ElGaddari
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780755640911

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Britain and the Regency of Tripoli by Sara M. ElGaddari Pdf

By the early 1820s, British policy in the Eastern Mediterranean was at a crossroads. Historically shaped by the rivalry with France, the course of Britain's future role in the region was increasingly affected by concern about the future of the Ottoman Empire and fears over Russia's ambitions in the Balkans and the Middle East. The Regency of Tripoli was at this time establishing a new era in foreign and commercial relations with Europe and the United States. Among the most important of these relationships was that with Britain. Using the National Archive records of correspondence of the British consuls and diplomats from 1795 to 1832, and within the context of the wider Eastern Question, this book reconstructs the the Anglo-Tripolitanian relationship and argues that the Regency played a vital role in Britain's imperial strategy during and after the Napoleonic Wars. Including the perspective of Tripolitanian notables and British diplomats, it contends that the activities of British consuls in Tripoli, and the networks they fostered around themselves, reshaped the nature and extent of British imperial activity in the region.

Author : S. H. Rigby
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780470998779

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A Companion to Britain in the Later Middle Ages by S. H. Rigby Pdf

This authoritative survey of Britain in the later Middle Ages comprises 28 chapters written by leading figures in the field. Covers social, economic, political, religious, and cultural history in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales Provides a guide to the historical debates over the later Middle Ages Addresses questions at the leading edge of historical scholarship Each chapter includes suggestions for further reading

Author : John Adams Brendon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Europe
ISBN : OCLC:809574678

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Britain and Her Neighbours by John Adams Brendon Pdf

Author : Allan I. Macinnes,Jane H. Ohlmeyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015051559014

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The Stuart Kingdoms in the Seventeenth Century by Allan I. Macinnes,Jane H. Ohlmeyer Pdf

These essays offer fresh and exciting research, often by younger scholars, and innovative insights from regional, national, and international perspectives.

Author : Marc Brodie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192603210

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Neighbours, Distrust, and the State by Marc Brodie Pdf

Neighbours, Distrust, and the State overturns many of our ideas about how the poorer working class lived together, and thought about each other, from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. The reality was quite different to what has been the accepted historical belief; that of an unbreakable solidarity between neighbours against 'outsiders', particularly in rejecting any interference by government in their lives and communities. But the views of women and others who were less powerful in these neighbourhoods have often been ignored. This study shows the diversity of opinion-and tensions and fears-that existed. In fact, many of the poor wanted the authorities to have a bigger role, particularly to deal with neighbourhood problems and the personal failings and untrustworthiness of those they saw around them. Many people also just wanted better provision of services by the state. As well as being a direct challenge to much that has been written about this issue, this study is also timely because of its contemporary political relevance. Many of the points it makes are important to challenge the idea that comprehending a 'lost' solidarity of working-class neighbourhoods is the only way to understand current political developments in those areas. It looks at issues such as: relationships with the police; friendly societies; housing; compulsory education; and the extent to which Labour politicians did or did not represent the views of the poor.

Author : Barbara Yorke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317868309

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The Conversion of Britain by Barbara Yorke Pdf

The Britain of 600-800 AD was populated by four distinct peoples; the British, Picts, Irish and Anglo-Saxons. They spoke 3 different languages, Gaelic, Brittonic and Old English, and lived in a diverse cultural environment. In 600 the British and the Irish were already Christians. In contrast the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons and Picts occurred somewhat later, at the end of the 6th and during the 7th century. Religion was one of the ways through which cultural difference was expressed, and the rulers of different areas of Britain dictated the nature of the dominant religion in areas under their control. This book uses the Conversion and the Christianisation of the different peoples of Britainas a framework through which to explore the workings of their political systems and the structures of their society. Because Christianity adapted to and affected the existing religious beliefs and social norms wherever it was introduced, it’s the perfect medium through which to study various aspects of society that are difficult to study by any other means.

Author : Harry Mount
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780670919154

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How England Made the English by Harry Mount Pdf

Harry Mount's How England Made the English: From Why We Drive on the Left to Why We Don't Talk to Our Neighbours is packed with astonishing facts and wonderful stories. Q. Why are English train seats so narrow? A. It's all the Romans' fault. The first Victorian trains were built to the same width as horse-drawn wagons; and they were designed to fit the ruts left in the roads by Roman chariots. For readers of Paxman's The English, Bryson's Notes on a Small Island and Fox's Watching the English, this intriguing and witty book explains how our national characteristics - our sense of humour, our hobbies, our favourite foods and our behaviour with the opposite sex - are all defined by our nation's extraordinary geography, geology, climate and weather. You will learn how we would be as freezing cold as Siberia without the Gulf Stream; why we drive on the left-hand side of the road; why the Midlands became the home of the British curry. It identifies the materials that make England, too: the faint pink Aberdeen granite of kerbstones; that precise English mix of air temperature, smell and light that hits you the moment you touch down at Heathrow. Praise for Harry Mount: 'Highly readable, encyclopeadic, marvellous, illuminating. Mount portrays England via dextrous excavations of its geography, geology, history and weather' Independent 'Fascinating. Mount's an intelligent, funny and always interesting companion' Daily Mail 'Charming and nerdily fact-stuffed' Guardian Harry Mount is the author of Amo, Amas, Amat and All That, his best-selling book on Latin, and A Lust for Window Sills - A Guide to British Buildings. A journalist for many newspapers and magazines, he has been a New York correspondent and a leader writer for the Daily Telegraph. He studied classics and history at Oxford, and architectural history at the Courtauld Institute. He lives in north London.

Author : R. Alan Williams
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781803273792

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Boom and Bust in Bronze Age Britain: The Great Orme Copper Mine and European Trade by R. Alan Williams Pdf

The Great Orme copper mine in North Wales is one of the largest surviving Bronze Age mines in Europe. This book presents new interdisciplinary research to reveal a copper mine of European importance, dominating Britain’s copper supply from c. 1600-1400 BC, with some metal reaching mainland Europe - from Brittany to as far as the Baltic.

Author : David Urquhart
Publisher : Glasgow : J. Smith
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Boundaries Great Britain
ISBN : MINN:31951001788826Q

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Exposition of the Boundary Differences Between Great Britain and the United States, Subsequently to Their Adjustment by Arbitration by David Urquhart Pdf

Author : Helen Ramscar,Michael Clarke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788319201

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Tipping Point by Helen Ramscar,Michael Clarke Pdf

Britain is facing big security challenges in the 2020s. The decade to come will not be as favourable as the two past decades. For a country as 'globalised' as Britain, security challenges cover a wide spectrum - from terrorism, international crime and cyber attack through to the prospects of war in its own continent or even, again, for its own survival. Brexit has entered these equations and turned them into a political tipping point, from which there is no hiding and no turning back. Tipping Point looks at the immediate and long-term security challenges Britain faces - from security and foreign policy to the crisis of liberal democracy - as well as Britain's security capabilities.

Author : John Igbino
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781664118638

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Britain’s Killing Fields by John Igbino Pdf

Britain kept meticulous records of its casualties in Southern Nigeria, but it did not collect and keep any coherent records of the casualties it inflicted on the so-called natives. Britain's failure to collect and keep "natives"' casualty statistics was not an unconscious omission. Instead it was a deliberate policy because it placed considerably less value on the lives of "natives" compared to European lives. It held that a drop of European blood was worth four times more than “natives’” blood. The death of a District Officer on active duty was worth the lives of up to two hundred “natives” and it took twenty “natives” to service a Political Officer on the field. Additionally, it accepted the arguments of its top commander, Colonel Arthur Montanaro, that "natives" were engaged in illegal resistance to His Majesty’s Government, therefore while he had a duty to crush their resistance to the British Government he was not duty bound to account for their deaths. Accordingly, the book explores these untold aspects of British History, particularly the computation of the number of Indigenous people of the landmass which became Southern Nigeria who were killed between 1900 and 1930 during one of the bloodiest periods in the history of Southern Nigeria as British troops of the West African Frontier Force (WAFF) and the West African Service Brigade (WASB) rampaged through Southern Nigeria. In its explorations the book posed and addressed the following questions: how many Indigenous people of Southern Nigeria were killed by the British Army between 1900 and 1930? What were the names of the people who were killed? Were there women and children among the dead? How old were they when they died? Where were they buried? Who buried them there? What were the prevailing political circumstances when they were killed? Under what military circumstances were they killed? Was there a state of war between the Indigenous people of Southern Nigeria and Britain when they were killed? The book’s sources were unpublished original archival documents at the National Archives. These document sources included Ordinances, Proclamations, Admiralty’s and Crown Agents’ papers, High Commissioners’, Governor-General’s and Lieutenant-Governor’s Correspondences and Despatches. The Correspondences and Despatches included field reports compiled by British Army Officers, Field Commanders, British Police Commissioners, Political Officers, District Officers (DO), District Commissioners, Divisional Officers, Divisional Commissioners and Provincial Commissioners. These sources are kept in the following Colonial Office Documents series: Southern Nigeria (CO520/series) and Nigeria (CO583/series).