"The Demography of Victorian England and Wales uses the full range of nineteenth-century civil registration material to describe in detail for the first time the changing population history of England and Wales between 1837 and 1914. Its principal focus is the great demographic …
"The late medieval English milling industry epitomizes one of the most important technical achievements of early societies : the exploitation of wind, water, and muscle power for augmenting human endeavours. Through a computerized analysis of the number and variety of mills in E…
Orlando: a biography
by DiBattista, Maria, Hussey, Mark, Woolf, Virginia
fromHarvest book
"This is the first full-length study of Handel's English Church music. As well as dealing with the many aspects of the compositions themselves, it traces the background to the diverse items in the repertory, which relates directly to Handel's constant but changing relationship w…
Governments across the world are pursuing reform in an effort to improve public services. But have these reforms actually led to improvements in services? "Evaluating Public Management Reforms" develops a framework for a theory-based evaluation of reforms, and then uses this fra…
"Print Culture and the Medieval Author is a book about books. Examining hundreds of early printed books and many late medieval manuscripts, Alexandra Gillespie writes a bibliographical history of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer and his follower John Lydgate in the century after the ar…