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First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Joseph II (1741--90) -- son and eventual successor of Maria Theresa -- has conventionally been seen in the context of the "Enlightened Despot'' reformers. Today's turmoil in his former territories invites a rather different perspective, however, as Joseph grapples with the familiar and intractable problems of creating a viable unitary state out of his multi-national empire in Central Europe. Professor Blanning's brilliant short study, based on...

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A concise account of the war - including the war in Asia and the Pacific as well as the European arena. Covers the formation of the victorious Grand Alliance and to the problems that beset it, and to Nazi Germany's relations with its allies.

Realms of Meaning presents an accessible introduction to semantics. It provides an understanding of the way meaning works in natural languages, against a background of how we communicate with language. Avoiding theoretical terminology and linguistic theories it concentrates instead on the analysis of meaning, and looks in depth at such subjects as opposites and negatives, modal verbs, prepositions and word meanings. Examples are chosen mainly ...

This collection of articles form a tribute to Jan Svartvik and his pioneering work in the field. Covers corpus studies, problematic grammar, institution-based and observation-based grammars and the design and development of spoken and written text corpora in different varieties of English.

The first major study of party conflict in England over the later Stuart period from the reign of Charles II to its culmination under Anne. Tim Harris shows how the party configuration of subsequent British politics emerged in these crucial years. He deals not only with high politics and with the organisation of the new parties, but also with the ideological roots of party strife.

Europe 1780--1830 rapidly established itself as a standard introduction to European history in the age of the French Revolution and its aftermath when it first appeared. Now for the first time the book has been fully revised, updated and expanded. The half-century covered constitutes one of the most complex, eventful and rapidly changing of any in Europe's history. It is a period whose emphasis on conflict and political crisis combines daring ...

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A detailed account of the many uses and functions of these verbs. The nature of modality, and some controversial issues, are also discussed.

This text offers a series of case-studies charting the progress and assessing the achievement of six industrializing countries: Japan, the Soviet Union, India, China, Brazil and Nigeria.

How did the United States become the twentieth century's dominant economy? What is special about America and the American way of capitalism, that favoured such a rapid climb to wealth and power? And, as the old postwar certainties begin to crumble, is the climax of American capitalism already over? These are the themes addressed in this engrossing book, which gives a chronological, analytical account of the American economy from the late ninet...

This concise and accessible introduction to Russia in the nineteenth century, focuses particularly on the rise of radicalism. Derek Offord examines all the major schools of thought and looks in detail at the great thinkers and writers of the day, including Herzen, Chernyshevsky, Bakunin and Tolstoy. Also examined and set in context are the great 'events' in the history of Russian radicalism, from the Decembrist Revolt to the 'going to the peop...

Considered to be the classic introduction to the subject, this third edition has been carefully revised and updated to take account of the developments in the subject, and includes an extensive newly compiled bibliography and twice the number of illustrations as in previous editions.

An authoritative guide to the life and works of Hopkins, for those who require a good introduction from which to explore the author's works more fully.

Serfdom and Slavery explores the variety and common characteristics - of legal bondage in Europe and the New World since classical times. Within a tightly controlled framework of general contextual chapters followed by specific case studies, a distinguished team of scholars offers 17 specially written essays which range from classical Greece to early modern Brandenburg, and from medieval England to nineteenth-century Russia. It makes an import...

...my message to lecturers in building/quantity surveying is to 'put it on your course list for essential reading' and to students and practitioners 'buy it' " Building Technology & ManagementProvides a practical introduction to understanding the costs encountered on a building project together with an appreciation of the many factors influencing them.

This is an ambitious and fascinating analysis of early twentieth-century literature in English from Kipling, Conrad, Lawrence and Forster through figures like Bennett and Woolf to writers such as Evelyn Waugh.

Only now is it possible to see Edward Heath's controversial administration (1970-1974) in balanced historical perspective - and increasingly it seems a turning-point for postwar Britain. This timely volume explores the agenda of the Heath government in all its aspects (including economy, industrial relations, social policy, immigration, Northern Ireland, British entry into Europe, and foreign relations), assesses how far it achieved its aims, ...

German history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is notoriously inaccessible to non-specialists. When other European countries were well on the way to becoming nation states, Germany remained frozen as a territorially-fragmented, politically and religiously-divided society. The achievement of this major contribution to the new History of Germany is to do justice to the variety and multiplicity of the period without foundering under t...