A Mad, Bad, And Dangerous People? Av Boyd (professor Of Modern British History University Of Cambridge And Fellow Of Trinity College) Hilton

This book examines England''s plural and protracted Reformations through the novel prism of the generations. Approaching generation as a biological unit and a social cohort, it demonstrates that the tumultuous religious developments that stretched...

The first history of the West End of London, showing how the nineteenth-century growth of theatres, opera houses, galleries, restaurants, department stores, casinos, exhibition centres, night clubs, street life, and the sex industry shaped modern culture...

Modernity and the Victorians diagnoses a disorder in the scholarship on Victorian Britain, and proposes an interpretative remedy. It argues that the ''modernization theory'' beloved of twentieth-century social scientists cannot be...

Unlike most existing textbooks on the economic history of modern Europe, which offer a country-by-country approach, The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe rethinks Europe''s economic history since 1700 as unified and pan-European, with...