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Forty Days: Quarantine and the Traveller, c. 1700 –1900 provides a timely reminder that no traveller in past centuries could return from the East without spending up to 40 days in a lazaretto to ensu …

In this book, which closely examines the techniques used by the polemists of the Dreyfus Affair, much is learned not only about the Mair itself, but also about the polemic of the age in which it was …

Covering the period from 1558–1603, The Reign of Elizabeth I looks at all the important aspects of the reign of the last of the Tudor monarchs. The volume gives students the critical tools to enable …

Unlike his contemporaries, who saw Europe s prosperity as confirmation of a utopian future, the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher Adam Ferguson saw a reminder of Rome s lesson that egalitarian democ …

First Published in 1972. Forming part of the ”Russia through European Eyes” this text offers a series of letters written by Mrs Atkinson about her adventures and observation of the Kirghis female s …

State, Economy and the Great Divergence provides a new analysis of what has become the central debate in global economic history: the ”great divergence” between European and Asian growth. Focusing …

An updated edition of David Lu”s acclaimed ‘Sources of Japanese History’, this two volume book presents in a student-friendly format original Japanese documents from Japan”s mythological beginnings …

Since its publication in 1965, Brian Barry”s seminal work has occupied an important role in the revival of Anglo-American political philosophy. A number of ideas and terms in it have become part of …

Spain and the Great Powers in the Twentieth Centuryexamines the international context to, and influences on, Spanish history and politics from 1898 to the present day. Spanish history is necessarily …

This volume profiles a dozen British men and women, who, for varying reasons, opposed the policy of the British government towards its 13 colonies before and during the American Revolution. Their act …