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Winston Churchill: at war and thinking of war before 1939
In: Routledge studies in modern British history
Parliamentarism: from Burke to Weber
In: Ideas in context 121
The eighteenth-century House of Commons -- Edmund Burke's theory of parliamentary politics -- The French Revolution and the liberal parliamentary turn -- Reinventing parliamentarism : the significance of Benjamin constant -- Democracy in America, parliamentarism in France : Tocqueville's unconventional parliamentary liberalism -- John Stuart Mill and the Victorian theory of parliament.
Policing the home front 1914-1918: the control of the British population at war
In: Routledge Studies in First World War history
Introduction -- The police before the Great War -- Controversies over the war separation allowance -- Policing alcohol -- The rise of women? -- Living costs -- Pensions and philanthropy -- Conscription and the police -- Policing sexual morality -- The police as ploughmen and farm workers -- Flashpoints and tensions -- Youth crime -- The police and food control -- The corrupting effects of the cinema -- Conclusions to policing the home front 1914-1918 -- Appendix 1: The work of michal foucault (1926-1984) -- Index
The uses of justice in global perspective, 1600-1900
Introduction / Manon van der Heijden and Griet Vermeesch -- The Sinitic justice system, past and present in a global perspective / Philip C. C. Huang -- Threads of the legal web : Dutch law and everyday colonialism in eighteenth-century Asia / Alicia Schrikker and Dries Lyna -- Facing the law in eighteenth-century Galle / Nadeera Rupesinghe -- Legal pluralism in the cities of the early modern Kingdom of Poland : the jurisdictional conflicts and uses of justice by Armenian merchants / Alexandr Osipian -- The use and abuse of legal services in nineteenth-century Russia / Elizaveta Blagodeteleva -- Skipping court : civil disputes in sixteenth-century Rouen / Katherine Godwin -- In hope of agreement : norm and practice in the use of institutes for dispute settlement in late seventeenth-century Leiden / Aries van Meeteren and Griet Vermeesch -- Justice and the confines of the law in early modern Spain / Tomás Mantecón -- Lo extrajudicial : between court and community in the Spanish empire / Bianca Premo -- Legal pluralism, hybridization and the uses of everyday criminal law in Quebec, 1760-1867 / Donald Fyson
The George Bell-Gerhard Leibholz correspondence: in the long shadow of the Third Reich, 1938-1958
In: The selected letters and papers of George Bell, Bishop of Chichester
A cultural history of famine: food security and the environment in India and Britain
In: Routledge environmental humanities
Introduction : a cultural history of famine / Ayesha Mukherjee -- Famine and food security in early modern England : popular agency and the politics of dearth / John Walter -- Subsistence crises and economic history : a study of eighteenth century Bengal / Rajat Datta -- Climate signals, environment, and livelihoods in the long seventeenth century in India / Vinita Damodaran, James Hamilton, and Rob Allan -- Famine chorography : Peter Mundy and the Gujarat famine, 1630-32 / Ayesha Mukherjee -- Rivers, inundations, and grain scarcity in early colonial Bengal / Ujjayan Bhattacharya -- Chaotic interruptions in the economy : droughts, hurricanes and monsoons in Harriet Martineau's illustrations of political economy / Lesa Scholl -- Poorhouses and gratuitous famine relief in colonial North India / Sanjay Sharma -- Farming tales : narratives of farming and food security in mid-twentieth century Britain / Michael Winter -- The economy of hunger : representing the Bengal famine of 1943 / Amlan Das Gupta -- Are we performing dearth or is dearth performing us, in modern productions of William Shakespeare's Coriolanus? / Julie Hudson.
The Cambridge companion to medieval English law and literature
In: Cambridge companions
In: Literature
Memory, the city and the legacy of World War II in East Central Europe: the ghosts of others
In: BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies
The Cambridge companion to nineteenth-century thought
In: Cambridge companions to literature
State and Individual in Political Thought / Georgios Varouxakis -- Remaking Theology: Orthodoxies and their Critics / John E. Wilson -- Philosophy in the Wake of Hegel / Norbert Waszek -- The Origins of the Social Sciences / Mike Gane -- Historical Methods in Europe and America Adam Budd -- Capitalism and Its Critics Keith Tribe -- Individuality, the Self, and Concepts of Mind Roger Smith -- Social Darwinism / Gregory Claeys -- Feminist Thought / Wendy Hayden -- Race and Empire in the Nineteenth Century / Saree Makdisi -- Patterns of Literary Transformation / Norman Vance.
The right to rule and the rights of women: Queen Victoria and the women's movement
"Bracing words indeed, yet considered in isolation they actually tell us very little about how Queen Victoria figured in 19th-century conversations about women's rights in Britain. Victoria's opinions about female emancipation, after all, were initially registered in private, not public. While her opposition to women's rights would have been well known to her correspondents and a small circle of friends and associates, it was not conveyed to a broader public until decades later. The Queen's letter of 1852 to her Uncle Leopold, for example, only came to public attention in 1876, when it was included in Theodore Martin's The Life of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort"--