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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Ralph Houlbrooke |
ISBN: | 0198208766 9780198208761 |
OCLC Number: | 688479964 |
Description: | XIII, 435 Seiten. |
Series Title: | Oxford studies in social history |
Responsibility: | Ralph Houlbrooke. |
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exhaustive research and a wealth of illustrative detail with a sensitivity to the complexities of change. It seems unlikely that the job will need to be done again, and other historians will mine his book for evidence on a host of related subjects, from the history of religion and the family to the history of embalming and undertakers ... There are points where the historian can go no further, and we must be grateful to Ralph Houlbrooke for taking us so far. His isthe kind of acute and measured scholarship which shows what can be examined and imagined in the past - and what cannot. * Paul Slack, Times Literary Supplement * There are points where the historian can go no further, and we must be grateful to Ralph Houlbrooke for taking us so far. His is the kind of acute and measured scholarship which shows what can be examined and imagined in the past - and what cannot. * Paul Slack, Times Literary Supplement * Read more...

