"The American Religions Collection represents a major curatorial division of the University of California, Santa Barbara Library’s Special Research Collections…"
"The Holy Roman Empire was eighteenth century Europe's largest state, not counting Russia, which many Europeans still regarded as entirely separate…"
"The first decades of the seventeenth century were a formative time in Irish history. The Tudor conquest was finally completed in 1603 with the conclusion…"
"The nineteenth century is often characterised as a century of progress as Britain became increasingly urban, industrial, commercial and "modern". However…"
With the abolition of the duty on paper in 1861, the state-led constraints upon the production and sale of newspapers were finally lifted. Equally important was the relative restraint of the government, which did not seek to use the existing libel laws as an instrument of censorship.
20世紀の中東政策形成において主導的役割を果たしたアメリカとイギリスの外交資料等の政府関係資料
中世初期から19世紀までの英文学史上の文芸作品の手稿、写本、稿本をデジタル化
"Crime, justice and punishment were major topics in eighteenth-century newspapers. Not only were they a constant and inexpensive source of content…"
"During the early years of James I's reign the formal archive created in 1578 for the papers belonging to the secretaries of state began to take shape…"
"From 1933 to the outbreak of the Second World War, the persecution of Jews, the Roma, homosexuals, and political opponents to National Socialism…"
Just as they revolutionized work and industrial production, so too did the Victorians transform leisure, play and consumption. What did the older leisure landscape look like, how did such major changes come about, and how did they affect social life and experience?
Chartism was both a political reaction to a series of setbacks suffered by the working classes during the 1830s, and a response to economic hardship. Chartism was only a mass movement in times of depression, with peaks of activity coinciding with troughs in the economy.
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"V.S. Pritchett was to tell Alan Pryce-Jones that he had turned the TLS into "by far, far the best literary periodical in England". Never before had the paper…"
Fearless, flamboyant, and somewhat rackety, Ashmead-Bartlett came from a well-connected family. A colleague once described him as ‘a chap with an exceedingly nice nature but vilely brought up in the sort of wild selfish third rate society that surrounded his father’.
In his Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands (1668), the English ambassador, Sir William Temple, enumerated the achievements of the young state, and concluded that the Dutch Republic had become 'the Envy of some, the Fear of others, and the Wonder of all their Neighbours'
イギリスの週刊経済誌『エコノミスト』の歴史にまつわるショートエッセイ集
Thematically, the seventeen journals contained in this collection can be subdivided into three different categories, namely journals preoccupied with missionary information and a missiological discourse; publications...
"In Scotland the political impetus that carried the polity into union with England came from an old-fashioned dynastic crisis. When her only surviving child…"
To any seasoned historian, the seventeen journals presented in digitised form by Gale, a Cengage Company embody a long-cherished dream come true. The digital collection represents the near-totality of journals produced in the English medium in China between 1817 and 1949, not counting ephemeral publications or daily newspapers.