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Book Bibliography of British History  Stuart Period  1603 1714

Download or read book Bibliography of British History Stuart Period 1603 1714 written by Godfrey Davies and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1928 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Geographical Teacher

Download or read book The Geographical Teacher written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sweet   Maxwell s Complete Law Book Catalogue  A bibliography of English law to 1650  including books dealing with that period  printed from 1480 to 1925

Download or read book Sweet Maxwell s Complete Law Book Catalogue A bibliography of English law to 1650 including books dealing with that period printed from 1480 to 1925 written by Sweet & Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Bibliography of English Law

Download or read book A Bibliography of English Law written by Sweet & Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book  The Damned Fraternitie   Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England  1500   1700

Download or read book The Damned Fraternitie Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England 1500 1700 written by Frances Timbers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Damned Fraternitie': Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500–1700 examines the construction of gypsy identity in England between the early sixteenth century and the end of the seventeenth century. Drawing upon previous historiography, a wealth of printed primary sources (including government documents, pamphlets, rogue literature, and plays), and archival material (quarter sessions and assize cases, parish records and constables's accounts), the book argues that the construction of gypsy identity was part of a wider discourse concerning the increasing vagabond population, and was further informed by the religious reformations and political insecurities of the time. The developing narrative of a fraternity of dangerous vagrants resulted in the gypsy population being designated as a special category of rogues and vagabonds by both the state and popular culture. The alleged Egyptian origin of the group and the practice of fortune-telling by palmistry contributed elements of the exotic, which contributed to the concept of the mysterious alien. However, as this book reveals, a close examination of the first gypsies that are known by name shows that they were more likely Scottish and English vagrants, employing the ambiguous and mysterious reputation of the newly emerging category of gypsy. This challenges the theory that sixteenth-century gypsies were migrants from India and/or early predecessors to the later Roma population, as proposed by nineteenth-century gypsiologists. The book argues that the fluid identity of gypsies, whose origins and ethnicity were (and still are) ambiguous, allowed for the group to become a prime candidate for the 'other', thus a useful tool for reinforcing the parameters of orthodox social behaviour.

Book Trade and Banking in Early Modern England

Download or read book Trade and Banking in Early Modern England written by Eric Kerridge and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Medicine in an Age of Revolution

Download or read book Medicine in an Age of Revolution written by Peter Elmer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Medicine in an Age of Revolution is the first major attempt since the 1970s to challenge the idea that the essential engine of medical (and scientific) change in seventeenth-century Britain was puritanism. While Peter Elmer seeks to reaffirm the crucial role of the period of the civil wars and their aftermath in providing the most congenial context for a re-evaluation of traditional attitudes to medicine, he rejects the idea that such initiatives were the special preserve of a small religious elite (puritans), claiming instead that enthusiasm for change can be found across the religious spectrum. At the same time, Elmer seeks to show that medical practitioners were increasingly drawn into contemporary religious and political debates in a way that led to a fundamental politicization of the 'profession'. By the end of the seventeenth century, it was commonplace to see doctors, apothecaries, and surgeons fully engaged in everyday political and civic life. At the same time, religious and political orientation often became an important factor in the career development of medics, especially in towns and cities, where substantial benefits might accrue to those who found themselves in favour with the ruling elites, be they Whig or Tory. The body politic, a Renaissance commonplace, was now peopled by medical practitioners who often claimed a special authority when it came to diagnosing the ills of late seventeenth century society.

Book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library  1911 1971

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library 1911 1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book War  Religion and Service

Download or read book War Religion and Service written by Matthew Glozier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Glorious Revolution of 1688 Huguenot soldiers were at the forefront of William of Orange's army. Their role was an important one and they are, with justification, best remembered for this act among British historians and the public alike. Yet Huguenot soldiering existed long before this event, and French Protestants and their descendants featured prominently in European armies long afterwards. This volume is the first attempt to bring together in a scholarly study essays treating the Huguenots as soldiers in Europe and globally. Their story is often fascinating and sometimes poignant as they aided international Protestantism against Catholic foes across Europe and in the New World, while remaining 'under the cross' in their homeland of France. The book is divided into three sections, the first analysing the period prior to the 1685 Revocation of the Edict of Nantes which sealed their fate in France. Their role as mercenaries and freedom fighters receives attention, as does the complex political motivation that underscored their involvements abroad in the pre-Revocation era. Chapters examine the Huguenot rationale for foreign service and the dynamics of the Protestant international of which they were such a prominent part. Their role in European armies after that date is covered in the second section of the volume with a number of expert studies of Huguenot refugees in the armies of Britain, the Netherlands and Russia. A third section treats the Huguenot legacy, focusing on the aging generation of refugees and their descendants' contributions to the countries of their adoption. This book contains studies of the Huguenots serving in armies in various countries, and examines the lives and actions of a number of individual French refugee commanders who led armies consisting of their compatriots. By combining biographical studies of eminent figures with broader considerations of group experience, the volume presents a wide-ranging and thought provoking collection of material, making this the first study of its kind to consistently treat the military contribution made by the Huguenots to Europe at the high point of their importance as a historical group.

Book A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations  English law to 1800   including Wales  the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man 2nd ed

Download or read book A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations English law to 1800 including Wales the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man 2nd ed written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations

Download or read book A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations written by William Harold Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliography of British History

Download or read book Bibliography of British History written by Conyers Read and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A London Bibliography of the Social Sciences  2nd suppl

Download or read book A London Bibliography of the Social Sciences 2nd suppl written by and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 1396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A New Bibliography of British Genealogy with Notes

Download or read book A New Bibliography of British Genealogy with Notes written by Marion J. Kaminkow and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: