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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society

Sixth Series
Volume 17:
Ian W. Archer, University of Oxford
May 2009
17
Out of stock in print form with no current plan to reprint
Hardback
9780521896054
$52.99
USD
Hardback

    The Transactions of the Royal Historical Society publish an annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians. The volume includes the following articles: Presidential Address: Britain and Globalisation since 1850: II. The Rise of Insular Capitalism, 1914–1939, King Henry I and Northern England, Aristocratic Widows and the Medieval Welsh Frontier: The Shropshire Evidence, The Burden and Conscience of Government in the Fifteenth Century, 'Representing' Africa: Ambassadors and Princes from Christian Africa to Renaissance Italy and Portugal, 1402–1608, How Scientific Conversation Became Shop Talk and Théodore Vacquer and the Archaeology of Modernity in Haussmann's Paris.

    • Annual collection of major articles that represents some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians
    • Covers a wide range of topics looking at both social and political contexts

    Product details

    May 2009
    Hardback
    9780521896054
    232 pages
    222 × 143 × 16 mm
    0.39kg
    14 b/w illus.
    Out of stock in print form with no current plan to reprint

    Table of Contents

    • Presidential Address: Britain and Globalisation since 1850: II. The Rise of Insular Capitalism, 1914–1939 Martin Daunton
    • King Henry I and Northern England Judith Green
    • Aristocratic Widows and the Medieval Welsh Frontier: The Shropshire Evidence (The Rees Davies Prize Essay) Emma Cavell
    • The Burden and Conscience of Government in the Fifteenth Century (The Prothero Lecture) Jeremy Catto
    • 'Representing' Africa: Ambassadors and Princes from Christian Africa to Renaissance Italy and Portugal, 1402-1608 Kate Lowe
    • How Scientific Conversation Became Shop Talk James A. Secord
    • Théodore Vacquer and the Archaeology of Modernity in Haussmann's Paris Colin Jones
    • Report of Council for 2006–2007.
      Contributors
    • Martin Daunton, Judith Green, Emma Cavell, Jeremy Catto, Kate Lowe, James A. Secord, Colin Jones

    • Editor
    • Ian W. Archer , University of Oxford