Название: Law empire english renaissance literature Автор: Dr Brian C. Lockey Издательство: Cambridge University Press Год: 2006 Формат: pdf Страниц: 248 Размер: 1 MB Язык: English
Early modern literature played a key role in the formation of the legal justification for imperialism. As the English colonial enterprise developed, the existing legal tradition of common law no longer solved the moral dilemmas of the new world order, in which England had become, instead of a victim of Catholic enemies, an aggressive force with its own overseas territories. Writers of romance fiction employed narrative strategies in order to resolve this difficulty and, in the process, provided a legal basis for English imperialism
Название: Law, crime, and English society, 1660-1830 Автор: Norma Landau Издательство: Cambridge University Press Год: 2002 Формат: pdf Страниц: 278 Размер: 1 MB Язык: English
Written from Marxist and liberal perspectives, this study examines how eighteenth-century English law was defined and administered. It introduces current debates about British society in the era in which England became the world's leading nation. Contributions from leading international historians consider eighteenth-century legal institutions in relation to contemporary concepts of corruption, oppression and institutional efficiency
Название: Knowledge and Indifference in English Romantic Prose Автор: Tim Milnes Издательство: Cambridge University Press Год: 2003 Формат: pdf Страниц: 292 Размер: 1 MB Язык: English
This ambitious study sheds new light on the way the English Romantics dealt with the basic problems of knowledge. Kant complained that the failure of philosophy in the eighteenth-century to respond to empirical scepticism had produced a culture of ''indifferentism.'' Tim Milnes explores the tension between this epistemic indifference and a perpetual compulsion to know
Название: The Intellectual Foundations of the English Benedictine Reform Автор: Mechthild Gretsch Издательство: Cambridge University Press Год: 1999 Формат: pdf Страниц: 485 Размер: 2 MB Язык: English
This book explores the foundations of the intellectual renaissance in late-tenth-century England, including both the English Benedictine reform and the establishment by Г†thelwold, Bishop of Winchester, of his influential school. The early stages of Г†thelwold's scholarly career are explored and new light is shed on the role which King Г†thelstan's cosmopolitan court played. Two widely influential Old English texts are definitively attributed to Г†thelwold and his circle, which attest to the importance that the reformers attached to the vernacular
Название: Roman officers and English gentlemen Автор: Richard Hingley Издательство: Routledge Год: 2000 Формат: pdf Страниц: 241 Размер: 1 MB Язык: English
This landmark book shows how much Victorian and Edwardian Roman archaeologists were influenced by their own experience of empire in their interpretation of archaeological evidence. This distortion of the facts became accepted truth and its legacy is still felt in archaeology today. While tracing the development of these ideas, the author also gives the reader a throrough grounding in the history of Roman archaeology itself
Название: English-Spanish Dictionary of Plant Biology, including Plantae, Monera, Protoctista, Fungi, and Index of Spanish equivalents (Spanish Edition) Автор: David W. Morris, Marta Zetina Morris Издательство: Cambridge International Science Publishi Год: 2002 Формат: pdf Страниц: 653 Размер: 3 MB Язык: English
The dictionary has been written to fill a need for increase communication between English- and Spanish-speaking people who are working in or are being affected by the many sub-fields of plant biology..
Название: England's Troubles: Seventeenth-Century English Political Instability in European Context Автор: Jonathan Scott Издательство: Cambridge University Press Год: 2000 Формат: pdf Страниц: 560 Размер: 2 MB Язык: English
Seventeenth-century English history is known best for ''the English Civil War'' and ''the English Revolution.'' This highly original and wide-ranging study analyzes and explains both of these major historical events, and others, by setting them in their wider contexts in relation to political instability across the century; in relation to the history of religions and political ideas; and in relation to contemporary European events.
Название: Check Your English Vocabulary for Medicine Автор: Rawdon Wyatt Издательство: A&C Black Год: 2007 Формат: pdf Страниц: 65 Размер: 332 kB Язык: English
Check Your English Vocabulary for Medicine is a workbook designed to help learners of English improve their knowledge and understanding of core medical terminology..
Название: Catholicism, controversy, and the English literary imagination, 1558-1660 Автор: Alison Shell Издательство: Cambridge University Press Год: 1999 Формат: pdf Страниц: 323 Размер: 1 MB Язык: English
The Catholic contribution to English literary culture has been widely neglected or misunderstood. This book sets out to rehabilitate a wide range of Catholic imaginative writing, while exposing the role of anti-Catholicism as an imaginative stimulus to mainstream writers in Tudor and Stuart England. It discusses canonical figures such as Sidney, Spenser, Webster and Middleton alongside many lesser-known writers
Название: Allegories of Union in Irish and English Writing, 1790-1870: Politics, History, and the Family from Edgeworth to Arnold Автор: Mary Jean Corbett Издательство: Cambridge University Press Год: 2000 Формат: pdf Страниц: 240 Размер: 985 kB Язык: English
Corbett explores fictional and nonfictional representations of Ireland's relationship with England throughout the nineteenth century. She considers the uses of familial and domestic metaphors in structuring narratives that enact the ''union'' of England and Ireland. Corbett situates her readings of novels by Edgeworth, Gaskell, and Trollope, and writings by Burke, Engels, and Mill, within the varying historical contexts that shape them
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