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Maritime Enterprise and Empire
This book is a joy to read and represents economic history at its best.. [An] excellent book. EH.NET A superb book that will be the standard on Mackinnon for decades to come. CHOICE The book is not only well-researched but written in an easy style which makes its romp through almost a century a pleasure to undertake. BUSINESS HISTORY A first rate study of the business career of one of Scotland's leading Victorian entrepreneurs. ALBION |
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A Companion
to the Fairy Tale
Deploy[s] a detailed knowledge of publishing histories in the western world to give a fascinatingly fresh understanding of the lively interpretation of oral, literary and commercial traditions. SCHOOL LIBRARIAN JOURNAL Offers an excellent introduction to the work currently and historically being done on fairy tales by folk-lorists. MEDIEVAL REVIEW [A] collection to be greatly welcomed, as it brings together a diversity of material and discourse concerning the meaning of 'the fairy tale'.... Allows for a variety of viewpoints to be explored and the result is a deepening and a widening of knowledge and insight into this most eternal of art forms. BÉALOIDEAS |
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Puritan Iconoclasm during the English Civil
War
A balanced, well-written and thoroughly researched account of an important element of the Puritan campaign to reform religious life in revolutionary England.... A very good book.... A comprehensive and authoritative account...which will prove very valuable. HISTORY A welcome addition....An admirably
full account of the legislative programme of progressive iconoclasm
of the 1640s and the ways in which it was implemented.... There is
much to learn and reflect on in this ably researched book.
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Westminster Abbey: The Lady Chapel of Henry
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The volume contains grippingly intelligent art-historical writing of the highest standard throughout. BURLINGTON MAGAZINE |
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WINNER
of the 2004 Wadsworth Prize (November 2004)