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

Название: English vocabulary in use.: Upper-intermediate & advanced
Автор: Michael McCarthy, Felicity O'Dell
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 1994
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 303
Размер: 15 MB
Язык: English

English Vocabulary in Use is a vocabulary book for upper-intermediate and advanced learners of English, primarily designed as a self-study reference and practice book, but can also be used for classroom work. Firmly based on current learning theory, its emphasis is on the practical needs of the learner. It aims not only to present and explain words but to demonstrate how to use them and how to work out rules for using them