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Klappentext 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: Potential Address: Britain and Globalisation since 1850: I. Creating a Global Order, 1850–1914; Land, Freedom and the Making of the Medieval West; The Origins of the English Hospital (The Alexander Prize Essay); Trust and Distrust: A Suitable Theme for Historians?; Witchcraft and the Western Imagination; Africa and the Birth of the Modern World; The Break-Up of Britain? Scotland and the End of the Empire (The Prothero Lecture); Report of Council for 2005–2006. Zusammenfassung Volume 16 includes: Potential Address: Britain and Globalisation since 1850; Land! Freedom and the Making of the Medieval West; The Origins of the English Hospital; Witchcraft and the Western Imagination; Africa and the Birth of the Modern World; The Break-Up of Britain? Scotland and the End of the Empire. Inhaltsverzeichnis Potential Address: Britain and Globalisation since 1850: I. Creating a Global Order, 1850–1914 Martin Daunton; Land, Freedom and the Making of the Medieval West Matthew Innes; The Origins of the English Hospital (The Alexander Prize Essay) Sethina Watson; Trust and Distrust: A Suitable Theme for Historians? Geoffrey Hosking; Witchcraft and the Western Imagination Lyndal Roper; Africa and the Birth of the Modern World Megan Vaughan; The Break-Up of Britain? Scotland and the End of the Empire (The Prothero Lecture) T. M. Devine; Report of Council for 2005–2006.
