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  • av Ali (Lecturer in Celtic History Bonner
    1 229

    The Myth of Pelagianism is a ground-breaking interdisciplinary work that combines textual research with sociological analysis and evidence from previously unpresented manuscripts. It offers a revision to our understanding of Pelagius and the formation of Christian doctrine.

  • - A Quarter-Century of Multiparty Politics
    av Derek S. (Associate Professor Hutcheson
    999

    In the first long-term analysis of Russian parliamentary elections, Hutcheson explores the country's seven rounds of election since 1993. Through the twists and turns of political reform, he combines official data, primary material and in-depth analysis to investigate the changes in Russia's political system.

  • - The Making of the Judiciary in Contemporary Europe and Beyond
    av Cristina E. (Associate Member and Research Fellow Parau
    1 169

    Judiciary institutions in Central and Eastern Europe have become patterned on a template that maximises judicial empowerment to the detriment of national parliaments. Transnational Networks and Elite Self-Empowerment explores this new social class of elite legal professionals who make public policy in place of formal democratic institutions.

  • av Queen Mary University of London) Poleg, Eyal (Senior Lecturer in Material History & Senior Lecturer in Material History
    515 - 1 029

    This study of hundreds of manuscripts and early printed books reveals that the Bible has never been an abstract text. This book offers a new history of the Bible in England, putting the advent of moveable-type print and religious reform in a new perspective.

  • - Subversive Authors and Criminal Justice in Early Seventeenth-Century France
    av Adam (Lecturer in French Horsley
    1 385

    This study sheds new light on the trials of 'libertine' authors (a term for religious, sexual, social or moral subversion), by considering them primarily as legal defendants.

  • - A History of British House Names
    av Laura (Reader in English Language Wright
    379,-

    This book discusses developments in the history of British house names from the earliest written evidence to the twentieth century.

  • - Autonomy, Automation, and Art After the Internet
    av Cadence (University College London) Kinsey
    1 305

    This book analyses the relationship between art and the Internet from 2008 to 2016. As well as offering a critical account of the field, it also proposes a wider historical argument about what it means to live, work, and make art with the Internet in the twenty first century.

  • - Educational Travel and Family Strategy, 1650-1750
    av Richard (University of Leicester) Ansell
    1 415,-

    This is the first study to look beyond the Italian Grand Tour to the wider culture of educational travel that thrived among British and Irish landowners between 1650 and 1750. Based on deep archival research, it explores the meanings of continental travel for social mobility, elite formation, landed identity, masculinity and Englishness.

  • - Frechulf of Lisieux
    av Graeme (University of Oxford) Ward
    1 075

    History, Scripture, and Authority is the first book-length study of the ninth-century historian Frechulf of Lisieux in any language. It uses the creation of Frechulf's monumental Histories to explore how the past was read and interpreted in Carolingian Europe.

  • - The Social and Political Order of Peripheral Urban Communities from the Twelfth to Sixteenth Centuries
     
    1 329,-

    Towns on the Edge in Medieval Europe offers comparative research on the emergence and development of medieval chartered towns within northern European territories subjected to conquest and colonisation, namely Ireland, Wales, Prussia, and Livonia.

  • av Rin Ushiyama
    1 019

    This is the first comprehensive study of the competing memories of Aum Shinrikyo's religious terrorism. Interrogating an array of primary sources including original interviews with victims and ex-members, this book reveals how clashing representations of the 'Aum Affair' have hindered social repair and reconciliation.

  • av Matthijs (University Paul Valery Montpellier) Gardenier
    1 059,-

    Gardenier aims to shed light on what appears to be the emergence of a new society of vigilance, especially around borders in Calais and Dover. Based on field research on both sides of the Channel, he aims to understand the dynamics of anti-migrants groups whose action is halfway between classical social movement and vigilantism.

  • av Jane (Lecturer in History and Fellow Freeland
    1 525

    Feminist Transformations examines the history of feminist activism against domestic violence in divided Berlin. Centred on this key issue of gender inequality, the book explores how feminists advanced women's rights in Germany. More broadly, it reflects critically on what these advancements have meant for feminism and gender justice.

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