Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Volume 17: Sixth Series (Royal Historical Society Transactions, Series Number 17)

Cambridge University Press, 5/11/2009
EAN 9780521896054, ISBN10: 0521896053

Hardcover, 232 pages, 21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm
Language: English

The Transactions of the Royal Historical Society publish an annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians. The volume includes the following articles: Presidential Address: Britain and Globalisation since 1850: II. The Rise of Insular Capitalism, 1914–1939, King Henry I and Northern England, Aristocratic Widows and the Medieval Welsh Frontier: The Shropshire Evidence, The Burden and Conscience of Government in the Fifteenth Century, 'Representing' Africa: Ambassadors and Princes from Christian Africa to Renaissance Italy and Portugal, 1402–1608, How Scientific Conversation Became Shop Talk and Théodore Vacquer and the Archaeology of Modernity in Haussmann's Paris.

Presidential Address
Britain and Globalisation since 1850
II. The Rise of Insular Capitalism, 1914–1939 Martin Daunton
King Henry I and Northern England Judith Green
Aristocratic Widows and the Medieval Welsh Frontier
The Shropshire Evidence (The Rees Davies Prize Essay) Emma Cavell
The Burden and Conscience of Government in the Fifteenth Century (The Prothero Lecture) Jeremy Catto
'Representing' Africa
Ambassadors and Princes from Christian Africa to Renaissance Italy and Portugal, 1402-1608 Kate Lowe
How Scientific Conversation Became Shop Talk James A. Secord
Théodore Vacquer and the Archaeology of Modernity in Haussmann's Paris Colin Jones
Report of Council for 2006–2007.