Author: Michael Murphy
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Keywords: literature, recherche, temps, perdu, culture, art, america, influence, american, proust
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 2008-03-15
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 1846311144
ISBN-13: 9781846311147

“It is strange,” Proust wrote in 1909, “that, in the most widely different departments . . . there should be no other literature which exercises over me so powerful an influence as English and American.” In the spirit of Proust’s admission, this engaging and critical volume offers the first comparative reading of the French novelist in the context of American art, literature, and culture. In addition to examining Proust’s key American influences—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allen Poe, and James McNeill Whistler—Proust and America investigates the p

Author: Graeme J. Milne
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Keywords: business, making, world, port, mercantile, liverpool, traders, mid, victorian, trade
Number of Pages: 254
Published: 2000-12-01
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0853236062
ISBN-13: 9780853236061

This book charts the development of Liverpool’s trade, shipping and business culture in the third quarter of the nineteenth century. Using previously neglected evidence, it assesses the causes and consequences of major changes in the port’s economy, and considers the activities of the international trading community that had to work in this complex business environment. Shipowners and merchants confronted difficult choices, whether in adopting the new steamship technology, diversifying into new commodity trades, competing for government contracts, or managing their port through the elected

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Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Keywords: press, translated, texts, historians, university, liverpool, pseudo, joshua, stylite, chronicle
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2001-01-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0853235856
ISBN-13: 9780853235859

This is a Syriac text written, in all probability, by an inhabitant of Edessa almost immediately after the conclusion of the war between Rome and Persia in 502–506 AD. Although that conflict is treated in other ancient texts, none of them can match "Joshua" in his wealth of detail, his familiarity with the region where the hostilities occurred, and his proximity in time to the events. The Chronicle also vividly describes the famine and plague that swept through Edessa in the years immediately before the war. The work is a document of great importance for both the social and military history

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Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Keywords: press, translated, texts, historians, university, liverpool, pontiffs, liber, pontificalis, book
Number of Pages: 147
Published: 2001-01-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0853235457
ISBN-13: 9780853235453

This book provides an English version of the first ninety papal biographies in the Liber pontificalis, from St Peter down to 715 AD. In these lives, the reader will find the curious mixture of fact and legend which had come by the Ostrogothic period to be accepted as history by the Church in Rome, and also the subsequent records maintained through to the early eighth century while Rome was under Byzantine sovereignty. This new edition has been fully revised.

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Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Keywords: press, translated, texts, historians, university, liverpool, arles, life, testament, letters, caesarius
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1994-05-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0853233683
ISBN-13: 9780853233688

The documents included in this volume vividly illustrate Caesarius’s career and the social and religious history of Provence at a time of far-reaching political change, during which the region was ruled by a series of Visigothic, Burgundian, Ostrogothic and, ultimately, Frankish kings.

Authors:David Bebbington, Roger Swift,
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Keywords: essays, centenary, gladstone
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2001-02-01
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0853239355
ISBN-13: 9780853239352

W. E. Gladstone towers over the politics of the nineteenth century. He is known for his policies of financial rectitude, his campaigns to settle the Irish question and his championship of the rights of small nations. He remains the only British Prime Minister to have served for four separate terms. In 1998 an international conference at Chester College brought together Gladstone scholars to mark the centenary of his death, and many of the papers presented on that occasion are published in this volume. Covering the whole of the statesman’s long political life from the first Reform Act to the

Author: E. F. Greenwood
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Keywords: mersey, basin, history, development, landscape, ecology
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1999-01-01
List price: $32.50
ISBN-10: 0853236534
ISBN-13: 9780853236535

This significant study of ecology and landscape development is probably the first of its kind to focus on an urban and industrial region. The book brings together the work of more than fifty experts, many of them world authorities, in studying the interactions between humans and other living organisms since the last "ice age" in a region where human intervention has a long history. Heightened interest in the past decade in the wildlife of the urban environment and the ecological processes involved has developed world-wide. Within the Mersey Basin, research has produced a profound difference in