Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Volume 26 - Historical Society: Series Number

A collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians.

List of contents

1. Presidential address: educating the nation III. social mobility Peter Mandler; 2. 'Better off dead than disfigured'? The challenges of facial injury in the pre-modern past Patricia Skinner; 3. Who was Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester? John Maddicott; 4. 'Protestantism' as a historical category Alec Ryrie; 5. Tall histories: height and Georgian masculinity Matthew McCormack; 6. Slavery and the birth of working-class racism in England, 1814¿1833 Ryan Hanley; 7. Between poise and power: embodied manliness in eighteenth and nineteenth-century British culture Joanne Begiato; 8. Last resort or key resource? Women workers from the Nazi-occupied Soviet territories, the Reich labour administration and the German war effort Elizabeth Harvey; 9. The Grail of original meaning: uses of the past in American constitutional theory Colin Kidd.

Summary

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society is an annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians. This collection is Volume 26 of the sixth series.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Spicer, Professor Andrew Pettegree Spicer
• Assisted by: Dr. Andrew Pettegree (Editor), Andrew Spicer (Editor), Professor Andrew Spicer (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.06.2017
• EAN: 9781107192478
• ISBN: 978-1-107-19247-8
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Royal Historical Society Transactions; Royal Historical Society Trans; Royal Historical Society Transactions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; REFERENCE / Yearbooks & Annuals, HISTORY / World, REFERENCE / Almanacs, General & world history, General and world history, Yearbooks, annuals, almanacs