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Hace 3 días · The essential thesis is that 19th–century Spain was not characterized by a sort of fervent nationalism of the sort that could be said have pre-shadowed the Franco dictatorship; rather the precise opposite was the case: Spain was marked by the relative failure of the nationalist programme.
Hace 2 días · Histories of British socialism are nothing new, with classic studies in the field going back to G. D. H. Cole. Mark Bevir’s new book, however, comes from a slightly different perspective, in that it focuses on the ‘making’ of British socialism in, broadly, the final quarter of the 19th century.
Hace 5 días · Munda Rebellion History. The most well-known tribal uprising movement in the Indian subcontinent during the 19th century was the Munda Rebellion. In the years 1899–1900, Birsa Munda served as the movement’s coordinator in the area south of Ranchi. The “Great Tumult” known as the Ulgulan worked to establish independence and Munda Raj.
Hace 2 días · This same period saw, in the person of Lord Nelson, perhaps the greatest admiral in history. For the rest of the 19th century, the Royal Navy helped enforce what became known as the Pax Britannica—i.e., the long period of relative peace arising from a balance of power between the major European states that depended ultimately on the use of British maritime supremacy.
24 de may. de 2024 · The ambitious scope of The Culture of Nature in Britain 1680–1860 justifies a comparison with such magisterial works as Keith Thomas’ Man and the Natural World, Donald Worster’s Nature’s Economy, and Raymond Williams’ The City and the Country. (1) An urge ‘for system, order and design’ defined the unity of 18th-century thought ...
Hace 2 días · Price: £16.99. The quest for saltpeter, the ‘inestimable treasure’ of Tudor and Stuart monarchs, crucial for the production of gunpowder, is the subject of David Cressy’s work, which spans the reign of the first Tudor, Henry VII, to the industrialised warfare of the 20th century. Cressy boldly sets out the importance of his topic ...
Hace 2 días · The influence of the coal trade upon the development of the mercantile marine and the foreign trade of Great Britain during the second half of the 19th century. E. Pritchard. Oxford B.Litt. 1924. Changes in the pattern of the British export trade (with special reference to the continent) between 1851 and 1873.
