Auteur: Paul Slack

A multi-disciplinary analysis of the evolution of water politics and policy by an international team of distinguished experts. Water management in the Middle Ages in Europe, its evolution in the USA, …

Improvement was a new concept in seventeenth-century England; only then did it become usual for people to think that the most effective way to change things for the better was not a revolution or a r …

This collection of essays in English urban history covers a period which has been called  »the Dark Ages in English Economic History », on which it directs a revealing light. The essays range from a …

This collection of essays in English urban history covers a period which has been called  »the Dark Ages in English Economic History », on which it directs a revealing light. The essays range from a …

An outstanding collection, bringing together some of the leading historians of this period with some of the field’s rising stars, which examines key issues in popular politics, the negotiation of pow …

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Throughout history plague has been the cause of many major catastrophes. It was responsible for the ‘Plague of Justinian’ in 542, the Black Death …

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Throughout history plague has been the cause of many major catastrophes. It was responsible for the ‘Plague of Justinian’ in 542, the Black Death …

Between the early sixteenth and the early eighteenth centuries, the character of English social policy and social welfare changed fundamentally. Aspirations for wholesale reformation were replaced by …