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Product Description: Sons and Lovers, Lawrence's third published novel, was written by the author at the height of his literary powers. The story of class differences (the relationship between a woman of middle class family and a miner) in the tough world of coal mining, it brought a refreshing realism to literature...read more
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9781522634201, titled "Sons and Lovers" | Mp3 una edition (Naxos Audiobooks Ltd, June 7, 2016), cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Sons and Lovers, Lawrence's third published novel, was written by the author at the height of his literary powers.
9789626348918, titled "Sons and Lovers" | Unabridged edition (Naxos Audio Books, November 4, 2008), cover price $81.98 | About this edition: Sons and Lovers, Lawrences third published novel, was written by the author at the height of his literary powers.
9789626348727, titled "Sons and Lovers" | Abridged edition (Naxos Audio Books, June 1, 2008), cover price $28.98 | About this edition: Sons and Lovers, Lawrence's third published novel, was written at the height of his literary powers.
Product Description: Improvement was a new concept in seventeenth-century England; only then did it become usual for people to think that the most effective way to change things for the better was not a revolution or a return to the past, but the persistent application of human ingenuity to the challenge of increasing the country's wealth and general wellbeing...read more
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9780199645916 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 6, 2015, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Improvement was a new concept in seventeenth-century England; only then did it become usual for people to think that the most effective way to change things for the better was not a revolution or a return to the past, but the persistent application of human ingenuity to the challenge of increasing the country's wealth and general wellbeing.
Product Description: This collection of essays in English urban history covers a period which has been called 'the Dark Ages in English Economic History', on which it directs a revealing light. The essays range from a discussion of the role of ceremony in the civic life of Coventry at teh end of the Middle Ages to the influence of war on London Merchant class at the end of the seventeenth century...read more
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9780415860406 | Routledge, May 3, 2013, cover price $48.95 | About this edition: This collection of essays in English urban history covers a period which has been called 'the Dark Ages in English Economic History', on which it directs a revealing light.
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9780199589548 | 1 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, March 24, 2012), cover price $11.95
Product Description: Rebellion, riot and popular unrest have been the theme of a succession of stimulating and influential articles in Past and Present. This selection shows how the various forms of popular protest in England from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries have been reinterpreted by modern scholars...read more
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9780521089487 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, November 6, 2008), cover price $54.99 | About this edition: Rebellion, riot and popular unrest have been the theme of a succession of stimulating and influential articles in Past and Present.
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9780521089395 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, November 6, 2008), cover price $44.99
Product Description: This collection of essays in English urban history covers a period which has been called 'the Dark Ages in English Economic History', on which it directs a revealing light. The essays range from a discussion of the role of ceremony in the civic life of Coventry at the end of the Middle Ages to the influence of war on London Merchant class at the end of the seventeenth century...read more
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9780415417600 | Routledge, February 28, 2007, cover price $230.00 | About this edition: This collection of essays in English urban history covers a period which has been called 'the Dark Ages in English Economic History', on which it directs a revealing light.
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9780199267644 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, February 10, 2005, cover price $155.00
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9780198297598 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, May 16, 2002, cover price $180.00
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9780198207108 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, July 13, 2000, cover price $190.00
Product Description: Paul Slack's incisive analysis shows how the English came to believe between 1500 and 1740 that piecemeal improvement was more likely to be achieved than total social reformation. He examines social policy and institutions such as workhouses and hospitals in order to illustrate how contemporaries tried to shape their social and moral environment, and how they defined the notion of `welfare'...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780198206613 | Clarendon Pr, October 7, 1999, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: Paul Slack's incisive analysis shows how the English came to believe between 1500 and 1740 that piecemeal improvement was more likely to be achieved than total social reformation.
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9780198233886 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, February 3, 2000, cover price $155.00
Product Description: The Poor Law had a profound impact on English society. Designed to reform the poor as much as to relieve poverty, it also shaped institutions of government and determined people's expectations and assumptions about social welfare...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780521552684 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 1996), cover price $54.99 | About this edition: The Poor Law had a profound impact on English society.
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9780521557856 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1, 1995, cover price $21.99
9780333348697 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 1, 1990, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: One in a series of works commissioned by the Economic History Society which are intended to provide current interpretations of key themes of economic and social history.
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9780198202295 | Clarendon Pr, June 10, 1993, cover price $130.00
Epidemic diseases have always been a test of the ability of human societies to withstand sudden shocks. How are such large mortalities and the illness of large proportions of the population to be explained and dealt with? How have the sources of disease been identified and controls imposed? The chapters in this book, by acknowledged experts in the history of their periods, look at the ways in which the great epidemic diseases of the past--from classical Athens to the present day--have shaped not only our views of medicine and disease, but the ways in which people have defined the "health" of society in general terms. (view table of contents)
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9780521402767 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1, 1992, cover price $67.99 | About this edition: Epidemic diseases have always been a test of the ability of human societies to withstand sudden shocks.
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9780521558310 | Cambridge Univ Pr, December 1, 1995, cover price $49.99
Product Description: This book is a classic study of a disease which had a profound impact on the history of Tudor and Stuart England. Plague was both a personal affliction and a social calamity, regularly decimating urban populations. Slack vividly describes the stresses which plague imposed on individuals, families, and whole communities, and the ways in which people tried to explain, control, and come to terms with it...read more
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9780710204691 | Routledge Kegan & Paul, November 1, 1985, cover price $76.50 | About this edition: A study of the plague, and its impact on Tudor and Stuart England.
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9780198202134, titled "The Impact of Plague in Tudor and Stuart England" | Clarendon Pr, January 31, 1991, cover price $76.00 | About this edition: This book is a classic study of a disease which had a profound impact on the history of Tudor and Stuart England.
Product Description: Paul Slack's book demonstrates the extent to which the poor in England has been formally provided for by the end of the period: the scale of the English welfare apparatus that had been firmly established by 1700 had no parallel in the rest of Europe...read more
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9780582489653 | Addison-Wesley, January 1, 1988, cover price $19.50 | About this edition: Paul Slack's book demonstrates the extent to which the poor in England has been formally provided for by the end of the period: the scale of the English welfare apparatus that had been firmly established by 1700 had no parallel in the rest of Europe.
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