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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society

Volume 25:
Andrew Pettegree, University of St Andrews, Scotland
November 2015
25
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9781107143388
£78.00
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    Transactions of the Royal Historical Society is an annual collection of major articles based on papers given to the society by distinguished invited speakers, and by winners of the Society's prizes. Volume 25 of the sixth series includes the following articles: 'Presidential Address: Educating the Nation: II. Universities', 'Apocalyptic and Eschatological Thought in England around the Year 1000', 'Minding their Own Business: Married Women and Credit in Early Eighteenth-Century London', 'Making History Online', 'Richard Wagner and the German Nation', 'Traitors and the Meaning of Treason in Austria-Hungary's Great War', 'The Uses of Foreigners in Mao-Era China: 'Techniques of Hospitality' and International Image-Building in the People's Republic, 1949–76', ''Cramped and Restricted at Home'? Scottish Separatism at Empire's End', and ''Beamed Directly to the Children': School Broadcasting and Sex Education in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s'.

    • An annual collection of major articles that represents some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians
    • Covers a wide range of topics looking at both social and political contexts
    • This is volume 25 of the sixth series

    Product details

    November 2015
    Hardback
    9781107143388
    220 pages
    223 × 143 × 16 mm
    0.39kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • 1. Presidential address: educating the nation II: universities Peter Mandler
    • 2. Apocalyptic and eschatological thought in England around the year 1000 Catherine Cubitt
    • 3. Minding their own business: married women and credit in early eighteenth-century London Alexandra Shepard
    • 4. Making history online Tim Hitchcock and Robert Shoemaker
    • 5. Richard Wagner and the German nation Tim Blanning
    • 6. Traitors and the meaning of treason in Austria-Hungary's Great War Mark Cornwall
    • 7. The uses of foreigners in Mao-era China: 'techniques of hospitality' and international image-building in the People's Republic, 1949–76 Julia Lovell
    • 8. 'Cramped and restricted at home'? Scottish separatism at Empire's end Jimmi Østergaard Nielsen and Stuart Ward
    • 9. 'Beamed directly to the children': school broadcasting and sex education in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s Mara Gregory.
      Contributors
    • Peter Mandler, Catherine Cubitt, Alexandra Shepard, Tom Hitchcock, Robert Shoemaker, Tim Blanning, Mark Cornwall, Julia Lovell, Jimmi Østergaard Nielsen, Stuart Ward, Mara Gregory

    • Editor
    • Andrew Pettegree , University of St Andrews, Scotland