Accompanied by numerous illustrations and information boxes, and also an extensive selection of documents with questions to challenge readers, Britain and Ireland is a handbook on the history of the British Isles from prehistory to the present.
Examining the commonalities and differences in addressing a notionally 'Celtic' Shakespeare, this collection brings together the best scholarship on t..
Taking into consideration the political and literary issues hanging upon the circulation of Machiavelli's works in England, this volume highlights how..
This is the first work to systematically examine the British occupation of Indonesia and, contrary to previous studies, demonstrates that the occupati..
Despite the popularity of Buddhism in Britain, there has so far been no study documenting the full range of teachings and practices. This book fills t..
This book analyses the transplantation, development and adaptation of the two largest Tibetan and Zen Buddhist organisations currently active on the B..
This new survey looks at the impact in Britain of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic aftermath, across all levels of British society. Jennifer M..
Concerned with the intermingled thematic and formal preoccupations of romantic thought and literary practice in works by twentieth-century British, Ir..
Britain’s two recent referenda - on Brexit (2016) and on Scottish independence (2014) - have raised in the public mind fundamental questions about the..
This is Volume II of Professor Parker's authoritative Official History of Privatisation, covering the period from the re-election of Margaret Thatcher..
Examining the commonalities and differences in addressing a notionally 'Celtic' Shakespeare, this collection brings together the best scholarship on t..
Taking into consideration the political and literary issues hanging upon the circulation of Machiavelli's works in England, this volume highlights how..
In the information society, is the community focused library a real possibility? This book reappraises the relationship between the library and its co..