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A Study in Creative History: The Interaction of the Eastern and Western Peoples to 500 B.C.
1st Edition
By O.E. Burton
July 08, 2026
A Study in Creative History (1932) aims to present the main movements of thought as they emerge clearly into history. The book offers the view that the main developments prior to 500 B.C. were the emergence of the Prophetic school in Israel, of Mazdaism in Persia, of Brahmanism, Buddhism in India ...
A Test of Poetry
1st Edition
By Louis Zukofsky
July 08, 2026
A Test of Poetry (1932) is a comparative study of poetry from Homer to the twentieth century. By giving several translations of the same passage from Homer, an elegy of Ovid and lines from Herrick which read like an adaptation of Ovid, or a fifteenth century poem about a cock and a recent poem ...
Archaic Greece: The City-States c.700–500 B.C.
1st Edition
By L.H. Jeffery
July 08, 2026
Archaic Greece (1976) describes the typical polis, and considers in turn each city-state in mainland Greece, the Aegean and the coast of Asia Minor. In detailing its history and local culture, as well as events which had great impact on the period – the reforms of Solon, the expulsion of tyrants – ...
Artists and People
1st Edition
By Su Braden
July 08, 2026
First published in 1978, Artists and People examines the formal attempts by arts administrators to set up schemes for artists to work in community contexts. The experience of creative artists who have taken up ‘residencies’ in schools, libraries and art centres is contrasted with the unique forms ...
British Admirals of the Eighteenth Century: Tactics in Battle
1st Edition
By John Creswell
July 08, 2026
British Admirals of the Eighteenth Century (1972) examines the problems of eighteenth-century naval warfare, and differs in two important respects from orthodox opinions. It shows that the belief that the fighting instructions of the eighteenth century were Admiralty orders which cramped the ...
British Poetry 1964 to 1984: Driving through the Barricades
1st Edition
By Martin Booth
July 08, 2026
First published in 1985, British Poetry presents a personal and political account of British poetry from 1964 to 1984. Martin booth, himself a poet, poetry publisher, critic and editor, and the participant in poetry readings in Britain and overseas, shows that British poetry underwent a renaissance...
Commercial Relations between India and England (1601 to 1757)
1st Edition
By Bal Krishna
July 08, 2026
Commercial Relations between India and England (1924) is a comprehensive study of the beginnings of the English relations with India and the East. It examines the East India Company’s long struggles to build up trade, leading to Britain’s political and commercial dominance of India, Asia and Africa....
Conflict and Stability in Fifteenth-Century England
1st Edition
By J.R. Lander
July 08, 2026
First published in 1969, Conflict and Stability in Fifteenth-Century England is a study of a much neglected and misinterpreted century of English history—the century of the Wars of the Roses which, the author shows, had only a comparatively small effect on English life. Other sections discuss the ...
Confucius: The Man and the Myth
1st Edition
By H. G. Creel
July 08, 2026
Originally published in 1932, and therefore inevitably of its time, this book discusses the place of the intellect as a guide to religious truth. The author's work brought principles from Quaker decision-making to bear on wider questions about democracy and religion. The author affirms that the ‘...
Copernicus: The Founder of Modern Astronomy
1st Edition
By Angus Armitage
July 08, 2026
Copernicus (1938) presents an account of the astronomer Copernicus, and of the historic book in which he laid the foundations of the heliocentric theory of the planetary motions. The book is of great interest to students of the history of astronomy, and those interested in Copernicus as one of the ...
Drugs and British Society: Responses to a Social Problem in the Eighties
1st Edition
Edited
By Susanne MacGregor
July 08, 2026
First published in 1989, Drugs and British Society (now with a new preface by Susanne MacGregor) provides information on the drugs problem in Britain in the 1980s, based on extensive research and experience, and places it in its international and historical context. The contributors to this book ...
Elizabethan Life in Town and Country
1st Edition
By M. St. Clare Byrne
July 08, 2026
Since its first appearance in 1925, Elizabethan Life in Town and Country (1961) has securely established itself both for the general reader and the student as an accepted authority for the social history of the age. Its range and method are indicated by the reviewer who hailed it as ‘more ...