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  • The Federalist Papers

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'A nation without a national government is an awful spectacle.' In the winter of 1787-8 a series of eighty-five essays appeared in the New York press; the purpose of the essays was to persuade the citizens of New York State to ratify the Constitution of the United States. The three authors - Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay - were respectively the first Secretary of the Treasury, ... Leer más

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  • Victorians and Numbers

    Statistics and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain

    A defining feature of nineteenth-century Britain was its fascination with statistics. The processes that made Victorian society, including the growth of population, the development of industry and commerce, and the increasing competence of the state, generated profuse numerical data. This is a study of how such data influenced every aspect of Victorian culture and thought, from the methods of ... Leer más

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  • The Life of R. H. Tawney

    Socialism and History

    R. H. Tawney was the most influential theorist and exponent of socialism in Britain in the 20th century and also a leading historian. Based on papers deposited at the London School of Economics including a collection of personal material previously held by his family, this book provides the first detailed biography. Lawrence Goldman shows that to understand Tawney's work it is necessary to ... Leer más

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  • Dethroning historical reputations: universities, museums and the commemoration of benefactors

    Edición de Jill Pellew, Lawrence Goldman ...
    Series series IHR Shorts
    The campaigns in universities across the world to reject, rename and remove historic benefactions have brought the present into collision with the past. In Britain the attempt to remove a statue of one of Oxford’s most famous benefactors, the imperialist Cecil Rhodes, has spread to other universities and their benefactors, and now also affects civic monuments and statues in towns and cities across ... Leer más

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  • Welfare and Social Policy in Britain Since 1870

    Essays in Honour of Jose Harris

    Edición de Lawrence Goldman ...
    This collection of twelve essays reviews the history of welfare in Britain over the past 150 years. It focuses on the ideas that have shaped the development of British social policy, and on the thinkers who have inspired and also contested the welfare state. It thereby constructs an intellectual history of British welfare since the concept first emerged at the end of the nineteenth century. The ... Leer más

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  • Magna Carta: history, context and influence

    Papers delivered at Peking University on the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta

    Edición de Lawrence Goldman ...
    Series Libro 2 - IHR Shorts
    This book examines the history and influence of Magna Carta in British and American history. In a series of essays written by notable British specialists, it considers the origins of the document in the political and religious contexts of the thirteenth century, the relevance of its principles to the seventeenth century disputes that led to the Civil War, the uses made of Magna Carta to justify ... Leer más

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    A Social History of the British State since 1800

    de Patrick Joyce ...
    What is the state? The State of Freedom offers an important new take on this classic question by exploring what exactly the state did and how it worked. Patrick Joyce asks us to re-examine the ordinary things of the British state from dusty government files and post offices to well-thumbed primers in ancient Greek and Latin and the classrooms and dormitories of public schools and Oxbridge colleges ... Leer más

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  • The Long Revolution

    Examining the gradual change that has shaped the political, economic, and cultural life of the 20th century, socialist thinker Raymond Williams offers interesting arguments that remain timely for contemporary readers. In this new edition of the classic text, Williams' study of education and the press traces the development of a common language, revealing links between ideas, literary forms, and ... Leer más

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    How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain

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  • Essays on Economics and Economists

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    Reflections on two centuries of economic history from a Nobel Prize winner in the field: "An accessible collection by a renowned economist."— Library JournalHow do economists decide what questions to address and how to choose their theories? How do they tackle the problems of the economic system and give advice on public policy? With these broad questions, Nobel laureate R. H. Coase, widely ... Leer más

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  • History and Political Economy

    Essays in Honour of P.D. Groenewegan

    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
    Impressive and authoritative, this essential book brings together a collection of essays in honour of Peter Groenewegen, one of the most distinguished historians of economic thought of a generation. His work on a wide range of economic theorists such as Adam Smith, François Quesnay and Alfred Marshall approaches a level of near insuperability. ... Leer más

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  • Reparations

    Slavery and the Tyranny of Imaginary Guilt

    de Nigel Biggar ...
    A Telegraph Book of the Year 2025'Compelling and timely' Tirthankar Roy'Essential reading' David EltisMany now claim that Western countries should pay reparations to former colonies for the lasting damage they caused, especially through slavery. Why is this claim being made now? How far does it make sense? And, more generally, how can historic wrongs be righted?Reparations removes the sloga... ... Leer más

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