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  • THE AGE OF IMPROVEMENT, 1783-1867
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    THE AGE OF IMPROVEMENT, 1783-1867
    ASA BRIGGS
    The Age of Improvement has long established itself as a classic of modern historical writing. Widely read and quoted it has had a unique influence on teaching and research. This second edition draws on the great volume of new research - produced by Lord Briggs amongst others, since its original publication. The book stresses both the underlying unity and the rich variety of the...

    $1,480.00

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  • MODERN EUROPE, 1789-PRESENT
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    MODERN EUROPE, 1789-PRESENT
    ASA BRIGGS / PATRICIA CLAVIN
    Now covering the whole of Europe from the French Revolution to the present day, this major new edition has been completely revised and brought up-to-date. The approach embraces the whole continent from both national and regional perspectives, and combines political survey with grass roots 'people' history. Bringing this history vividly to life, the authors use a very broad rang...

    $1,680.00

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  • THE HISTORY OF BETHLEM
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    THE HISTORY OF BETHLEM
    JONATHAN ANDREWS / ASA BRIGGS / ROY PORTER / PENNY TUCKER / KEIR WADDINGTON
    Bethlem Hospital, popularly known as "Bedlam", is a unique institution. Now seven hundred and fifty years old, it has been continuously involved in the care of the mentally ill in London since at least the 1400s. As such it has a strong claim to be the oldest foundation in Europe with an unbroken history of sheltering and treating the mentally disturbed. During this time, Bethl...

    $1,460.00

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  • TOYNBEE HALL (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
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    TOYNBEE HALL (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    ASA BRIGGS / ANNE MACARTNEY
    First published in 1984, Toynbee Hall, The First Hundred Years is not just a centenary study, but a personal contribution to the continuing history of Toynbee Hall, which is the Universities’ settlement in East London, and an institution that has inspired respect and affection. Its pioneering role as a residential community living and working in the heart of one of London’s mos...

    $1,160.00

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  • SPECIAL RELATIONSHIPS
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    SPECIAL RELATIONSHIPS
    ASA BRIGGS
    July 2011 marked the 90th birthday of a remarkable man Lord Asa Briggs. A Cambridge graduate, Bletchley Park code-breaker, and one of the most eminent and influential historians of our time, his experiences could easily fill several autobiographies. Yet, surprisingly this memoir is the first book that he has ever written about himself. In it, Briggs delves deep into his own his...

    $249.00

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  • VICTORIAN PEOPLE
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    VICTORIAN PEOPLE
    ASA BRIGGS
    This text looks at the people, ideas and events between the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Second Reform Act of 1867. From "John Arthur Roebuck and the Crimean War", and "Samuel Smiles and the Gospel of Work" to "Thomas Hughes and the Public Schools" and "Benjanmin Disraeli and the Leap in the Dark", Asa Briggs provides an assessment of Victorian achievements; and in doing so...

    $734.02

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