Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Sixth Series

by Edited by Ian W. Archer

• ISBN13: 9780521429658
• ISBN10: 052142965X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-02-02
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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: III. Creating the World of Bretton Woods, 1939-1958 Martin Daunton; High and Low: Ties of Dependence in the Frankish Kingdoms (The Alexander Prize Essay) Alice Rio; Text, Visualisation and Politics: London, 1150-1250 Derek Keene; Centre and Periphery in the European Book World Andrew Pettegree; A Tale of Two Episcopal Surveys: The Strange Fates of Edmund Grindal and Cuthbert Mayne Revisited (The Prothero Lecture) Peter Lake; The Language and Symbolism of Conquest in Ireland, c. 1790-1850 Jacqueline Hill; Writing War: Autobiography, Modernity and Wartime Narrative in Nationalist China, 1937-1946 Rana Mitter; The Death of a Consumer Society Matthew Hilton; Report of Council for 2007-2008.

Table of Contents

Volume 18: Sixth Series

Presidential address: Britain and globalisation since 1850

III. Creating the world of Bretton Woods, 1939-1958

High and low: ties of dependence in the Frankish kingdoms (The Alexander Prize Essay)

Text, visualisation and politics: London, 1150-1250

Centre and periphery in the European book world

A tale of two episcopal surveys: the strange fates of Edmund Grindal and Cuthbert Mayne revisited (The Prothero Lecture)

The language and symbolism of conquest in Ireland, c. 1790-1850

Writing war: autobiography, modernity and wartime narrative in nationalist China, 1937-1946

The death of a consumer society

Report of council for 2007-2008

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