Libros de: Boydell Press
Mostrando 29 libros encontrados. (2 páginas).
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Agricultural Knowledge Networks in Rural Europe, 1700-2000
Segers, Yves Van Molle, Leen
Boydell Press (2022)
- EAN: 9781783277124
- Páginas: 247
- Fecha de edición: 2022
pvp.112,95 €
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An examination of how farming expertise could be shared and extended, over four centuries. All kinds of knowledge, from traditional know-how to modern science, are socially contingent and the product of an age-long and permanent ...
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Landless Households in Rural Europe, 1600-1900
Fertig, Christine French, Henry Paping, Richard
Boydell Press (2022)
- EAN: 9781783277223
- Páginas: 336
- Fecha de edición: 2022
pvp.119,95 €
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First comparative study of landless households brings out their major role in European history and society. The numbers of landless people - those lacking formal rights to land, or possessing only tiny smallholdings - grew ...
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Ports in the Medieval European Atlantic "Shipping, Transport and Labour"
Rivera Medina, Ana María
Boydell Press (2021)
- EAN: 9781783276158
- Páginas: 222
- Fecha de edición: 2021
pvp.99,95 €
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This book responds to the increasing interest of maritime historians in the study of ports. These enclaves offer significant insights into a variety of subjects, including ships and shipping; trade, commodities, and consumption patterns; the ...
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The Court of Richard II and Bohemian Culture "Literature and Art in the Age of Chaucer and the Gawain Poet"
Thomas, Alfred
Boydell Press (2020)
- EAN: 9781843845669
- Páginas: 225
- Fecha de edición: 2020
pvp.49,95 €
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First detailed exploration of the role played by Bohemian tradition and customs in the court of Richard II. Bohemian culture exercised an important influence on the court of King Richard II, but it has been ...
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British Catholic Merchants in the Commercial Age "1670-1714"
Pizzoni, Giada
Boydell Press (2020)
- EAN: 9781783274383
- Páginas: 230
- Fecha de edición: 2020
pvp.94,50 €
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British Catholic merchants in the long eighteenth century occupied an ambiguous social space. On the one hand, their religion made them marginal and suspect figures in a nation increasingly defining itself by its Protestantism against ...
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Merchant Crusaders in the Aegean "1291-1352"
Carr, Mike
Boydell Press (2019)
- EAN: 9781783274055
- Páginas: 214
- Fecha de edición: 2019
pvp.27,95 €
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The period from the fall of Acre until the end of the Crusade of Smyrna signified a dramatic shift in crusade impetus, as expeditions to liberate the Holy Land were superseded by those aimed at ...
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Singapore, Chinese Migration and the Making of the British Empire, 1819-67
Neal, Stan
Boydell Press (2019)
- EAN: 9781783274239
- Páginas: 203
- Fecha de edición: 2019
pvp.89,95 €
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The transformation of Singapore, founded by Stamford Raffles in 1819, from a trading post to a major centre for international trade was a huge commercial and colonial success for Britain. One key factor in all ...
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The English East India Company's Silk Enterprise in Bengal, 1750-1850 "Economy, Empire and Business"
Hutkova, Karolina
Boydell Press (2019)
- EAN: 9781783273942
- Páginas: 275
- Fecha de edición: 2019
pvp.96,95 €
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This book examines the silk-processing activities of the English East India Company in Bengal and presents the Company as a manufacturer rather than a trading body or political agent. Silk was one of the first ...
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The Medieval Clothier "Working in the Middle Ages "
Lee, John S.
Boydell Press (2018)
- EAN: 9781783273171
- Páginas: 365
- Fecha de edición: 2018
pvp.35,10 €
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Cloth-making became England's leading industry in the late Middle Ages; clothiers co-ordinated its different stages, in some cases carrying out the processes themselves, and found markets for their finished cloth, selling to merchants, drapers and ...
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Luis De Góngora and Lope De Vega "Masters of Parody"
Kerr, Lindsay G.
Boydell Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781855663176
- Páginas: 219
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.83,95 €
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Co-Winner of the 2014 Publication Prize awarded by the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland Kerr traces the processes and paradoxes at work in the late parodic poetry of Luis de Góngora and ...
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Almshouses in Early Modern England "Charitable Housing in the Mixed Economy of Welfare, 1550-1725"
Nicholls, Angela
Boydell Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781783271788
- Páginas: 291
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.28,00 €
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Almshouses providing accommodation for poor people are a common feature of the towns and villages of England, visible representations of historic attitudes towards the poor. The period after the Reformation saw not only the survival ...
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People, Places and Business Cultures " Essays in Honour of Francesca Carnevali"
Di Martino, Paolo Popp, Andrew Scott, Peter
Boydell Press (2017)
- EAN: 9781783272129
- Páginas: 282
- Fecha de edición: 2017
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This collection brings together new research into nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and European economic history, socio-cultural history and business history. It is inspired by the work and legacy of Francesca Carnevali who, throughout her career, ...
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Slavery Hinterland "Transatlantic Slavery and Continental Europe, 1680-1850"
Brahm, Felix
Boydell Press (2016)
- EAN: 9781783271122
- Páginas: 280
- Fecha de edición: 2016
pvp.25,25 €
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Slavery Hinterland explores a neglected aspect of transatlantic slavery: the implication of a continental European hinterland. It focuses on historical actors in territories that were not directly involved in the traffic in Africans but linked ...
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Population, Welfare and Economic Change in Britain, 1290-1834
Briggs, Chris Kitson, M.
Boydell Press (2014)
- EAN: 9781843839552
- Páginas: 368
- Fecha de edición: 2014
pvp.35,00 €
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Population, Welfare and Economic Change presents the latest research on the causes and consequences of British population change from the medieval period to the eve of the Industrial Revolution, in both town and countryside. Its ...
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The First Century of Welfare "Poverty and Poor Relief in Lancashire, 1620-1730 "
Healey, Jonathan
Boydell Press (2014)
- EAN: 9781843839569
- Páginas: 336
- Fecha de edición: 2014
pvp.28,00 €
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The English 'Old Poor Law' was the first national system of tax-funded social welfare in the world. It provided a safety net for hundreds of thousands of paupers at a time of very limited national ...
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Child Workers and Industrial Health in Britain, 1780-1850
Kirby, Peter
Boydell Press (2013)
- EAN: 9781843838845
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha de edición: 2013
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The book explores the deformities, fevers, respiratory complaints, industrial injuries and physical ill-treatment which have long been associated with child labour in the industrial workplace. The result is a more nuanced picture of child health ...
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Landlords and Tenants in Britain, 1440-1660 "Tawney's Agrarian Problem Revisited "
Whittle, Jane
Boydell Press (2013)
- EAN: 9781843838500
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2013
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This volume revisits a classic book by a famous historian: R.H. Tawney's Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century (1912). Tawney's Agrarian Problem surveyed landlord-tenant relations in England between 1440 and 1660, the period of emergent ...
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Ramiro de Maeztu and England "Imaginaries, Realities and Repercussions of a Cultural Encounter "
Jimenez Torres, David
Boydell Press (2016)
- EAN: 9781855663121
- Páginas: 191
- Fecha de edición: 2016
pvp.86,95 €
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Ramiro de Maeztu was one of the most influential Spanish intellectuals of the early twentieth century, as well as the first foreign correspondent for the Spanish press to be based in London. This book argues ...
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Crises in Economic and Social History "A Comparative Perspective"
Brown, A.T. Burn, Andy Doherty, Rob
Boydell Press (2015)
- EAN: 9781783270422
- Páginas: 420
- Fecha de edición: 2015
pvp.35,00 €
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This collection of essays brings together historians examining social and economic crises from the thirteenth century to the twenty-first. Crisis is an almost ubiquitous concept for historians, applicable across (amongst others) the histories of agriculture, ...
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Medieval Suffolk "An Economic and Social History 1200-1500"
Bailey, Mark
Boydell Press (2010)
- EAN: 9781843835295
- Páginas: 360
- Fecha de edición: 2010
pvp.24,95 €
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The late middle ages were without doubt the most interesting period in Suffolk's history. By the end of the eleventh century Suffolk was wealthy, densely populated, highly commercialised and urbanised; in the fourteenth century its ...