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  • England's Northern Frontier

    Conflict and Local Society in the Fifteenth-Century Scottish Marches

    by Jackson W. Armstrong ...
    Series Book 118 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
    The three counties of England's northern borderlands have long had a reputation as an exceptional and peripheral region within the medieval kingdom, preoccupied with local turbulence as a result of the proximity of a hostile frontier with Scotland. Yet, in the fifteenth century, open war was an infrequent occurrence in a region which is much better understood by historians of fourteenth-century ... Read more

    $48.79 CAD

  • Using Concepts in Medieval History

    Perspectives on Britain and Ireland, 1100–1500

    Edited by Jackson W. Armstrong, Peter Crooks, Andrea Ruddick ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book is the first of its kind to engage explicitly with the practice of conceptual history as it relates to the study of the Middle Ages, exploring the pay-offs and pitfalls of using concepts in medieval history. Concepts are indispensable to historians as a means of understanding past societies, but those concepts conjured in an effort to bring order to the infinite complexity of the past ... Read more

    $47.39 CAD

  • Print and Tourism

    Travel-Related Publications from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century

    by Caroline Archer-Parré, Malcolm Dick, Hazel Wilkinson ...
    Series Book 7 - Printing History and Culture
    This volume brings together academic scholars and book industry practitioners to explore some key moments in the history of travel writing and publishing through the use of case studies about Britain or British travellers. The emphasis is on the production, distribution and consumption of print cultural artefacts and considers the social and cultural impact that printed ephemera had on particular ... Read more

    $67.09 CAD

  • Cultures of Law in Urban Northern Europe

    Scotland and its Neighbours c.1350–c.1650

    Edited by Jackson W. Armstrong, Edda Frankot ...
    Series series Themes in Medieval and Early Modern History
    Drawing together an international team of historians, lawyers and historical sociolinguists, this volume investigates urban cultures of law in Scotland, with a special focus on Aberdeen and its rich civic archive, the Low Countries, Norway, Germany and Poland from c. 1350 to c. 1650.In these essays, the contributors seek to understand how law works in its cultural and social contexts by focusing ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

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  • Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources

    Edited by Laura Sangha, Jonathan Willis ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources
    Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources is an introduction to the rich treasury of source material available to students of early modern history. During this period, political development, economic and social change, rising literacy levels, and the success of the printing press, ensured that the State, the Church and the people generated texts and objects on an unprecedented scale. This book ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

  • Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law

    Essays in Comparative Legal History from the Twelfth to the Twentieth Centuries

    Edited by William Eves, John Hudson, Ingrid Ivarsen, Sarah B. White ...
    Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law builds upon the legal historian F.W. Maitland's famous observation that history involves comparison, and that those who ignore every system but their own 'hardly came in sight of the idea of legal history'. The extensive introduction addresses the intellectual challenges posed by comparative approaches to legal history. This is followed by twelve essays ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Literatures of Exile in the English Revolution and its Aftermath, 1640-1690

    by a foreword by Lisa Jardine ...
    Series series Transculturalisms, 1400-1700
    Original and thought-provoking, this collection sheds new light on an important yet understudied feature of seventeenth-century England's political and cultural landscape: exile. Through an essentially literary lens, exile is examined both as physical departure from England-to France, Germany, the Low Countries and America-and as inner, mental withdrawal. In the process, a strikingly wide variety ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Adam Ferguson: History, Progress and Human Nature

    Edited by Eugene Heath, Vincenzo Merolle ...
    Series series The Enlightenment World
    Unique among the leading figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Ferguson saw two eighteenth-century revolutions, the American and the French. This monograph contains essays that range across all of Ferguson's works to investigate his engagement with contemporary events and his contributions to our understanding of history and human action. ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Understanding Medieval Primary Sources

    Using Historical Sources to Discover Medieval Europe

    Edited by Joel T. Rosenthal ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources
    Medieval society created many kinds of records and written material which differ considerably, giving us such sources as last wills, sermons, manorial accounts, or royal biographies. Primary sources are an exciting way for students to engage with the past and draw their own ideas about life in the medieval period.Understanding Medieval Primary Sources is a collection of essays that will introduce ... Read more

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  • A Short History of British Architecture

    From Stonehenge to the Shard

    by Simon Jenkins ...
    'Provocative, elegant, intriguing - Jenkins is a bold, imaginative writer, brilliant at challenging old assumptions and encouraging you to look at British architecture in a new light' Rory StewartThe story of Britain is revealed through its buildings, and yet the language of architecture is a mystery to all but a few. In this enlightening history, spanning castles and cathedrals to factories and ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Máel Coluim III, 'Canmore'

    An Eleventh-Century Scottish King

    by Neil McGuigan ...
    Shortlisted for the Saltire Society History Book of the YearThe legendary Scottish king Máel Coluim III, also known as ‘Malcolm Canmore’, is often held to epitomise Scotland’s ‘ancient Gaelic kings’. But Máel Coluim and his dynasty were in fact newcomers, and their legitimacy and status were far from secure at the beginning of his rule. Máel Coluim’s long reign from 1058 until 1093 coincided with ... Read more

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  • The houses of history

    A critical reader in history and theory, second edition

    by Anna Green, Kathleen Troup ...
    The houses of history is a clear, jargon-free introduction to the major theoretical approaches employed by historians. This innovative critical reader provides accessible introductions to fourteen schools of thought, from the empiricist to the postcolonial, including chapters on Marxist history, Freud and psychohistory, the Annales, historical sociology, narrative, gender, public history and the ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD