Provides readers with unrivalled access to a comprehensive range of sources on the provision of medical care during the nineteenth centrury -- .
On Monday 19 September 1803, the most significant trial in the history of Ireland took place in Dublin. At... Læs mere
This book discusses the discipline and morale in the British army during the Great War by using a case-study of the Irish regiments -- .
Designed to accompany the OU course "From Enlightenment to Romanticism", this anthology provides primary and secondary sources on the death of the Old... Læs mere
This study critically surveys the changing and highly contoversial literature surrounding the American Civil War era, from contemporary interp retations up to the present.
An approach to contemporary Latin America, this volume brings together a diverse range of experts to discuss people and the core significance in the region.
This 50-year overview examines both the evolution of Britain's welfare state, and the varying attitudes towards it. The text concentrates on the five core services of the welfare state: health care, education, social security and the personal social services.
A study of Georges Melies, who directed, edited, produced, designed and starred in over 500 films between 1896 and 1912. Elizabeth Ezra explodes several myths about Melies's role in film history and locates the roots of modern narrative cinema in Melies's work.
This book explores the contribution that five conservative, voluntary and popular women’s organisations made to women’s lives and to the campaign for women’s rights throughout the period 1928–64. -- .
E. P. Thompson and English radicalism celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of The Making of the English Working Class, one of the most influential history books of the... Læs mere
Examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean -- .
Explores the complexities of France's role in Africa over the past century -- .