For many years scholars have sought to explain why the European states which emerged in
the period before the French Revolution developed along such different lines. Why did some …

Book description: The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is a collection of 50,000
specially written biographies of men and women who have shaped all aspects of the British …

Article II of the United States Constitution vests “the executive power” in the President. For
more than two hundred years, advocates of presidential power have claimed that this phrase …

This is a book about the role played by relatively humble people in governing late sixteenth-
and early seventeenth-century England. It emphasises the extent to which state authority …

This is the first book devoted to the Queen's Men, one of the major acting companies of the
age of Shakespeare. In describing the troupe's position in the general political situation and …

The Routledge Companion to Historical Studies provides a much-needed critical
introduction to the major historians and philosophers together with the central issues, ideas …

This book provides an introduction to the latest research on the English Reformation from
Edward VI's accession to the death of Elizabeth I. It highlights the difference between the …

Modern Historiography is the essential introduction to the history of historical writing. It
explains the broad philosophical background to the different historians and historical …

The book deals with the fundamental issues of modern British politics: the party system; the
challenge of corporatism and interest groups; the organization and structure of the central …

Psalm Culture and Early Modern English Literature examines the powerful influence of the
biblical Psalms on sixteenth-and seventeenth-century English literature. It explores the …