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Shaping the Royal Navy - Dr. Don Leggett - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Provides a new understanding of the Victorian engineering professions, and their rise within the British government and Royal Navy -- .

The Royal and Russian Navies - Robert Avery - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

A definitive history of cooperation between the Royal Navy and Russian Navy from 1988 to 2014. It provides lessons learned by both sides and recommends a pathway to military dialogue, as political circumstances dictate. The book enhances our understanding of both the Russians and the Russian Navy and the threat the latter will continue to pose. -- .

Royal Tourists, Colonial Subjects and the Making of a British World, 1860–1911 - Charles Reed - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Examines the nineteenth-century royal tour from the perspectives of various historical actors – including royals, politicians and indigenous people – in order to demonstrate how a multi-valent British culture was created throughout the empire. -- .

Royal Tourists, Colonial Subjects and the Making of a British World, 1860–1911 - Charles Reed - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Examines the nineteenth-century royal tour from the perspectives of various historical actors – including royals, politicians and indigenous people – in order to demonstrate how a multi-valent British culture was created throughout the empire. -- .

A History of the Royal College of Nursing 1916–90 - Susan Mcgann - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Presents the history of Royal College of Nursing, one of the largest nursing organizations in the world. This book deals with the position of nurses in British society during 20th century by examining the largest of their organizations. It sheds light on both gender relations and the position of women in the work place in Britain since 1916.

Westminster 1640–60 - J. F. Merritt - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Explores the history of the royal city during the civil war and interregnum -- .

A History of the Royal College of Nursing 1916–90 - Susan Mcgann - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

This is the history of one of the largest nursing organizations in the world and one of the largest professional associations of women. The Royal College of Nursing began as a small professional association in 1916. Its work included nurses'' education, professional policy and labour relations. It considers the history of nursing from political, social and economic points of view and sheds light on both gender relations and the position of women in the work place in Britain since 1916. The themes include the struggle to achieve professional status for nurses, the radicalization of nurses from the 1960s, the effect of immigration on nursing as a work force, gender relations within the profession and between nurses, their employers and other health professionals.This book will appeal to anyone interested in nursing studies, gender history and labour history.

Power and Reputation at the Court of Louis XIII - Sharon Kettering - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

A study of the impact of power politics on the historical reputation of Charles D’Albert, duc de Luynes, a royal favourite at the court of Louis XIII in early seventeenth-century France -- .

Iraqi Women in Denmark - Marianne Holm Pedersen - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

An ethnographic study of ritual performance and place-making among Shi‘a Muslim Iraqi women in Copenhagen -- .

Premodern Ruling Sexualities - - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book brings together a range of methodological approaches to highlight royal and elite sexualities – the sexualities of rulers, and those who were ruled by their sexualities – and how these case studies might contribute to our broader knowledge of premodern gender and sexualities. -- .

A Culture of Curiosity - Leonie Hannan - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book reveals the eighteenth-century home as a site of emergence for science. By rejecting the limiting associations of ‘domestic life’, this book re-imagines a culture of enquiry populated by apprentices and housewives as much as Fellows of the Royal Society. -- .

Witnessing to the Faith - Shanyn Altman - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book examines John Donne’s theory of royal absolutism within a tradition of conformist thought.It argues that Donne displaced the conventional opposition between Catholics and Protestants and instead divided English subjects into two political categories: those who obey the law and those who break it. -- .

Photographic Subjects - Susie Protschky - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

This is the first English-language monograph on monarchy in the Dutch colonial world. It reveals the role of mass and amateur photography in fostering modes of imperial citizenship at royal celebrations in the East Indies during the reigns of Queens Wilhelmina (1898–1948) and Juliana (1948–80). -- .

Masques of Difference - - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Masques of difference' presents an annotated edition of four seventeenth-century entertainments written by Ben Jonson, which reflect the royal court’s self-representation as moral and just, in contrast to stylised images of chaotically (and exotically) 'othered' groups: Africans, the Irish, witches, and the homoeroticised figure of the Gypsy. -- .

The Later Stuart Church, 1660–1714 - - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book features nine essays written by leading scholars in the field to offer new insights into the place of the Church of England within the volatile Restoration era. Sections on ideas and people include essays covering the royal supremacy, the theology of the later Stuart Church and clerical and lay interests. -- .

The Political Writings of Archbishop Wulfstan of York - - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Archbishop Wulfstan of York (d. 1023) is among the most important legal and political thinkers of the early Middle Ages. A leading ecclesiastic, innovative legislator, and influential royal councilor, Wulfstan witnessed firsthand the violence and social unrest that culminated in the fall of the English monarchy before the invading armies of Cnut in

The Political Writings of Archbishop Wulfstan of York - - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Archbishop Wulfstan of York (d. 1023) is among the most important legal and political thinkers of the early Middle Ages. A leading ecclesiastic, innovative legislator, and influential royal councilor, Wulfstan witnessed firsthand the violence and social unrest that culminated in the fall of the English monarchy before the invading armies of Cnut in

The Later Stuart Church, 1660–1714 - - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book features nine essays written by leading scholars in the field to offer new insights into the place of the Church of England within the volatile Restoration era. Sections on ideas and people include essays covering the royal supremacy, the theology of the later Stuart Church and clerical and lay interests. -- .

Royals on Tour - - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Travel by European and ‘native’ monarchs and other royals between Europe, Asia and Africa developed as a new form of personal and international politics in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The pageantry and politics of royal tours during the age of empire provides great insight into modern monarchy, colonialism and transnational cultural encounters. -- .

Running the Family Firm - Laura Clancy - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

The British royal family has experienced a resurgence in public interest at the same time as global inequalities have expanded between ‘the elites’ and ‘the rest’. Yet, the monarchy is absent from conversations about inequality. This is the only book arguing that we cannot talk about inequalities in Britain today without talking about the monarchy. -- .

Royals on Tour - - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Travel by European and ‘native’ monarchs and other royals between Europe, Asia and Africa developed as a new form of personal and international politics in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The pageantry and politics of royal tours during the age of empire provides great insight into modern monarchy, colonialism and transnational cultural encounters. -- .

The Great Favourite - Patrick Williams - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

This is the first biography of the last major unknown figure in European history. The Duke of Lerma was the first and greatest of the royal favourites of the European seventeenth century. He was the greatest art patron of his generation and the greatest lay builder in Spanish history. This study is profoundly well researched and fluently written. -- .

Lollards in the English Reformation - Susan Royal - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Analysing the lollard legacy in the post-Reformation era, this book identifies the significance of John Foxe's Acts and Monuments in shaping these medieval dissenters for early moderns. It shows that Foxe left much of their radical beliefs intact, inadvertently contributing to later contentions in the Church of England's struggle for identity. -- .

The Royal and Russian Navies - Robert Avery - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Death and the Crown - Anne Byrne - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Looking at the royal rituals around the death of Louis XV and the accession of Louis XVI, this book sheds new light on the politics and culture of the period, offering original perspectives on court culture, the transition of power, the recall of the Paris parlement and the first year of Louis XVI's reign, including his coronation in June 1775. -- .