Christianity and Social Criticism in the Highlands of Scotland 1843-1893
Author: Allan W. Maccoll
This book probes the deep-rooted links between the land, the people and the religious culture of the Scottish Highlands and Islands in the nineteenth century. The responses of the clergy to the social crisis which envelo ... |
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Author: Richard M. Smith, Jan De Vries, Paul Johnson & others
These essays in Land, Kinship and Life-Cycle present detailed case studies from English rural communities over the period 1250-1850, these essays reveal that much land was transferred between living persons who were rela ... |
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Author: Gershon Shafir
Gershon Shafir challenges the heroic myths about the foundation of the State of Israel by investigating the struggle to control land and labor during the early Zionist enterprise. He argues that it was not the imported Z ... |
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Ten Daniel Thorner Memorial Lectures
Author: Alice Thorner
As a specialist on India, the economist Daniel Thorner is remembered for his deep commitment to the cause of Indian nationalism, and his understanding of the country's social, economic and political complexity. As a trib ... |
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Ten Daniel Thorner Memorial Lectures
Author: Alice Thorner
This collection reflects the breadth of Thorner's own range of interests, encompassing themes in the social sciences and issues in the fields of public policy and human rights. 'Land, Labour and Rights' is comprised of n ... |
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Two Years in Victoria: With Visits to Sydney and Van Diemen's Land
Author: William Howitt
In 1852 William Howitt (1792-1879) set sail for Australia with two of his sons in order to try his luck in the goldfields of Victoria. By then he was already a prolifically published author of both prose and verse. He wa ... |
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Two Years in Victoria: With Visits to Sydney and Van Diemen's Land
Author: William Howitt
In 1852 William Howitt (1792-1879) set sail for Australia with two of his sons in order to try his luck in the goldfields of Victoria. By then he was already a prolifically published author of both prose and verse. He wa ... |
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Author: John Hudson
This is an important new interpretation of the development of land law in England during the century after the Norman Conquest. Norman society was based on land and lordship, and the relative power of lord and vassal was ... |
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Author: Chris Alden & Ward Anseeuw
This book offers an analysis of the origins of the crisis in Zimbabwe and why it has had such a profound impact on both the land issue and democratic politics in the Southern African region. The analysis contributes to t ... |
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Author: T.P. Power
This is a scholarly new study of Ireland during the eighteenth century. In the first full-scale examination of an entire Irish county, Thomas P. Power sets out to reconstruct in detail the economic, social, and political ... |
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Bronze Age Field Systems in Southern England
Author: D. Yates
A major phase of economic expansion occurred in southern England during the second and early first millennium BC, accompanied by a fundamental shift in regional power and wealth towards the eastern lowlands. This book of ... |
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The Landless Movement and the Struggle for Agrarian Reform in Brazil
Author: Gabriel Ondetti
Brazil is a country of extreme inequalities, one of the most important of which is the acute concentration of rural land ownership. In recent decades, however, poor landless workers have mounted a major challenge to this ... |
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An Alternative Transition to Capitalism?
Author: Julie Marfany
This monograph makes a fresh contribution to a longstanding but far from exhausted debate concerning the transition to capitalism in Europe. The work investigates key aspects of this transformation: the changes on the la ... |
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Proceedings of a Conference on Viking-period Settlement
Author: John Hines, Alan Lane & Dr Mark Redknap
The 28 papers in this volume explore the practical life, domestic settings, landscapes and seascapes of the Viking world. Their geographical horizons stretch from Iceland to Russia, with particular emphasis on new discov ... |
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Military Priorities - Historical Choices
Author: Michael D. Hobkirk
The author recalls those occasions in European history when states had to choose whether to wage war on land, or on the sea, and latterly in the air as well. He describes the results of their decisions about allocating d ... |
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Author: J. M Bumsted
In contrast to most previous works on the subject, this is not a local or regional history, but a book in colonial and/or imperial history which focuses on Prince Edward Island. This broader perspective allows Bumsted to ... |
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Regional Evolution in India Since 1850
Author: Brian Stoddart
This book explains how access to and use of land, water and language helped shape Andhra politics in India from 1850 down to the present day. After independence, the debate over land reform and policies on irrigation has ... |
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Author: HANSON
Focusing on love's importance to power, Hanson suggests new interpretations of the history of Buganda. She traces an African habit of thought - the idea that people ought to be tied by bonds of affection - to show how ... |
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Author: Ann Kramer
The impact of the land girls cannot be ignored. It was not just that women were working and farms had more women than men, women who were not part of the family or, for some of them, had even lived in the countryside bef ... |
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