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Africa. They shed light upon the complex combination of political, economic, social and ideological forces within Britain, Europe and Africa, which drove imperial expansion during this period, beginning with the British ... Many authors discuss

For the third part of the book, which considers the wider economic history, sources from Official Publications provided the basis for a detailed analysis. ... journal, Fruit Intelligence, produced by the Commonwealth Economics Unit, on the UK and global

add considerably more to our understanding of the economics and aesthetics of engraved books than Peignot’s selection of literature and history. ... To start with, some of the more modest publications may have been produced as engraved books for simple

You can see from the plan just how important fruit growing was to the economic life of the village at this time.

University records reveal Thomas Hobson, largely, as a measured operator. Economic expansion and wider access to education during this era assisted the emergence of an increasingly sophisticated urban merchant class. ... As such, his encounters with the

They represent an invaluable record of a thousand years of the religious, social, economic and cultural life of the Mediterranean world.

Many of the names indicate the person’s professional or social status, giving an insight into the vibrant and varied economic life of this important medieval town: for example, ‘Willelmus Carpentarius’ (=

An eighteenth-century French work on human understanding referencing Rousseau, Locke and Helvétius, and concentrating particularly on legal and economic systems. .

Metal working, Mayo School, 1908, H. Fisher, Fisher 6_846. Agriculture, economic botany, and the development of important crops such as tea featured prominently.

His papers shed light upon political, military and economic conditions within the country, where Britain was engaged in a significant aid programme.

Thames Gold Fields, Daniel Mundy, 1870, Y3089A/4. Pamphlets encouraged economic growth, in particular the application of new refrigeration technology for the export of frozen meat following William Soltau Davidson’s

used in other fields such as writing, sculpture and architecture, and the cultural, technical and economic factors that have had an influence on their development.

In 1970 the Union questioned the wisdom of entering the European Economic Community without sufficient safeguards.

They will be an invaluable source for researchers working in economic history, development studies and other disciplines.

The twentieth century saw the greatest levels of emigration from Ukraine, for economic, social and political reasons.

Bush school, Queensland, 1910, Y3085O_8. Recognising that people would be its greatest resource, authors encouraged emigration to Australia to accelerate economic, social and political development.

A transcontinental railway was considered essential for political unity and economic development, and for the opening of the western territories to emigration.

Library of Economics in Cambridge – via the economist Piero Sraffa – from where it was eventually sent with other rare material to the University Library. .

Lime plantation, Roseau Valley, Dominica, 1880s, Daniel Morris, Y307G_31. There are many works of economic botany discussing the sugar industry and its decline, and the introduction and cultivation of cotton,

presents a bird’s-eye view of the city revealing features that include the tightly enclosed core of the town centre, the economic and social centre around the Market Place (which

flowers, as well as visits he undertook to Eswatini (then Swaziland), Botswana (then Bechuanaland) and Lesotho (then Basutoland) as part of a British economic mission to the territories.

appears to be that the economics of magazine production made the rag mag increasingly unviable as a means of raising money.

The personal papers of Michael Redhead, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science 1987-96, are at the London School of Economics Library.

The reason for this was largely an economic one. While the words listed above appear, at least to the modern ear, to be archaic and relatively harmless,

Ortelius had in fact begun his cartographical career out of economic necessity: the early death of his father, when Abraham was only twelve, prompted his mother to make a living selling

The pictures also depict economic activities and everyday lives in the countries.

Specifically, experts in early modern social and economic history, especially Italian and Ottoman historians, as well as scholars of European codicology, Hebrew and Arabic print culture, Ladino and Arabic language, and

He recruited a team of volunteers who collected all available data and statistics and plotted these onto an Ordnance Survey plan of the city highlighting categories of socio-economic status.

Politicians were attracted to the socio-economic directions Darwin seemed to indicate.

exactions. These maps have already received a share of attention. Allegra Giovine (a doctoral student in the History of Science who studies the production of economic knowledge in colonial Burma) helped

Bibliography. Allen M 2018 ‘Coins and the Church in medieval England: votive and economic functions of money in religious contexts’, in NM Burström and GT Ingvardson (eds), Divina Moneta – Coins in