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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 18:
Ian W. Archer, University of Oxford
January 2009
18
Hardback
9780521429658
$76.99
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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: III. Creating the World of Bretton Woods, 1939–1958 Martin Daunton; High and Low: Ties of Dependence in the Frankish Kingdoms (The Alexander Prize Essay) Alice Rio; Text, Visualisation and Politics: London, 1150–1250 Derek Keene; Centre and Periphery in the European Book World Andrew Pettegree; A Tale of Two Episcopal Surveys: The Strange Fates of Edmund Grindal and Cuthbert Mayne Revisited (The Prothero Lecture) Peter Lake; The Language and Symbolism of Conquest in Ireland, c. 1790–1850 Jacqueline Hill; Writing War: Autobiography, Modernity and Wartime Narrative in Nationalist China, 1937–1946 Rana Mitter; The Death of a Consumer Society Matthew Hilton; Report of Council for 2007–2008.

    • 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

    January 2009
    Hardback
    9780521429658
    284 pages
    222 × 143 × 26 mm
    0.46kg
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    Table of Contents

    • Presidential address: Britain and globalisation since 1850: III. Creating the world of Bretton Woods, 1939–1958 Martin Daunton
    • High and low: ties of dependence in the Frankish kingdoms (The Alexander Prize Essay) Alice Rio
    • Text, visualisation and politics: London, 1150–1250 Derek Keene
    • Centre and periphery in the European book world Andrew Pettegree
    • A tale of two episcopal surveys: the strange fates of Edmund Grindal and Cuthbert Mayne revisited (The Prothero Lecture) Peter Lake
    • The language and symbolism of conquest in Ireland, c. 1790–1850 Jacqueline Hill
    • Writing war: autobiography, modernity and wartime narrative in nationalist China, 1937–1946 Rana Mitter
    • The death of a consumer society Matthew Hilton
    • Report of council for 2007–2008.
      Contributors
    • Martin Daunton, Alice Rio, Derek Keene, Andrew Pettegree, Peter Lake, Jacqueline Hill, Rana Mitter, Matthew Hilton

    • Editor
    • Ian W. Archer , University of Oxford