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This is the first volume specifically dedicated to the consolidation and clarification of Heritage Studies as a distinct field with its own means of investigation. It presents the range of methods that can be used and illustrates their application through case studies from different parts of the world, including the UK and USA. The challenge that the collection makes explicit is that Heritage Studies must develop a stronger recognition of the scope and nature of its data and a concise yet explorative understanding of its analytical methods.The methods considered fall within three broad categories: textual/discourse analysis, methods for investigating peoples attitudes and behaviour; and methods for exploring the material qualities of heritage. The methods discussed and illustrated range from techniques such as text analysis, interviews, participant observation, to semiotic analysis of heritage sites and the use of GIS. Each paper discusses the ways in which methods used in social analysis generally are explored and adapted to the specific demands that arise when applied to the investigation of heritage in its many forms.Heritage Studies is a seminal volume that will help to define the field. The global perspective and the shared focus upon the development of reflexive methodologies ensure that the volume explores these central issues in a manner that is simultaneously case-specific and of general relevance.

Im Lauf des 12. Jahrhunderts hat das Lehnswesen seinen Charakter fundamental verandert: Ein lockeres Bundel von Rechtsgewohnheiten entwickelte sich zu einem komplexen Ordnungssystem. Der Band untersucht diesen Prozess erstmals auf breiter empirischer Grundlage fur das Heilige Romische Reich im Hochmittelalter. Die einzelnen Beitrage hinterfragen die Konstrukte der Historiker zum Lehnswesen, analysieren Urkunden und andere Quellengruppen aus dem Raum zwischen Nordsee und Mittelmeer und fragen danach, inwieweit gesellschaftliche Phanomene und politische Ereignisse mit dem herkommlichen Modell vom Lehnswesen adaquat erfasst werden konnen. In der Summe ergibt sich eine neue Sicht auf einen epochalen Wandel in der mittelalterlichen Herrschaftsorganisation.

A las 11.15 h. del tres de septiembre de 1939, el primer ministro británico, Neville Chamberlain, se dirigió por radio a la nación para anunciar que estaban en guerra con Alemania. De inmediato comenzaron a sonar las sirenas. Winston Churchill y su esposa no solo presenciaron este acontecimiento, sino que serian de los primeros en prepararse para entrar en un refugio antiaereo...Testigo de excepcion, Churchill -primer ministro britanico durante los periodos 1940-1945 y 1951-1955- describe el transcurso de la segunda guerra mundial y los principales episodios que en ella acontecieron, desde la profundidad e inteligencia de su analisis y la intensidad de su vivencia, legando un testimonio directo sin parangon con ningun otro de sus protagonistas coetaneos: Hitler, Stalin o Roosevelt.El camino hacia el desastre desde el tratado de Versalles hasta que Hitler conquista Polonia, la guerra "ficticia" que acabo con la invasion alemana de Escandinavia, la caida de Francia y la batalla de Gran Bretaña, el bombardeo de Londres, la lucha en el desierto... son algunas de las cuestiones tratadas en este primer volumen de los dos que componen sus Memorias de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

Se trata de un proyecto que aspira a dotar al País Valenciano con el corpus epigráfico más completo posible. Para facilitar al máximo la descripción del soporte y la lectura del texto, presentamos junto a cada inscripcion la fotografia o el dibujo correspondiente. La introduccion y la conclusion van acompañadas de graficos y mapas. Por lo que respecta a los indices, se ha procurado que fueran lo mas completos posible.

This study of the Anglo--Dutch Wars (1652-54, 1665-67, 1672-74) sets them in their naval, political and economic contexts.Competing essentially over trade, both governments were crucially influenced by mercantile interests and by the representative institutions that were central to England and the Dutch Republic.Professor Jones compares the effectiveness of the governments under pressure - English with Dutch, Commonwealth with restored monarchy, Republican with Orangist - and the effects on their economies; and examines the importance of the wars in accelerating the formation of a professional officer corps and establishing battle tactics that would endure throughout the age of sail.

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The Black Death, the Peasants'' Revolt, the Hundred Years War, the War of the Roses... A succession of dramatic social and political events reshaped England in the period 1360 to 1461. In his lucid and penetrating account of this formative period, Gerald Harriss draws on the research of the last thirty years to illuminate late medieval society at its peak, from the triumphalism of Edward III in 1360 to the collapse of Lancastrian rule.The political narrative centres on the deposition of Richard II in 1399 and the establishment of the House of Lancaster, which was in turn overthrown in the Wars of the Roses. Abroad, Henry V''s heroic victory at Agincourt in 1415 led to the English conquest of northern France, lasting until 1450. Both produced long term consequences: the first shaped the English constitution up to the Stuart civil war, while the second generated lasting hostility between England and France, and a residual wariness of military intervention in Europe.Equally significant changes occurred in English society. The Black Death produced a crisis in agrarian structures, marked by the Peasants'' Revolt in 1381 and the end of serfdom. In landed society distinctive grades of knights, esquires and gentlemen emerged, linked to the nobility in a web of patronage and service, with an ethos of ''good lordship'' and fidelity. While the nobility were the king''s immediate counsellors, the gentry reflected the concerns of the community of the realm in parliament. An increasingly well-educated and articulate class, they served as MPs and JPs and staffed the growing legal profession. The greater merchants controlled the wool trade, the source of England''s wealth, and distributed commodities through a network of towns and markets. The marked individualism of this society, memorably depicted in The Canterbury Tales, was accompanied by a growing sense of national identity, expressed in the use of standard London English. A spate of church building in perpendicular, a distinctive national style, was matched on the one hand by the intensity of Catholic devotion and on the other hand by the proto-Protestantism of John Wyclif and the Lollards.