Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (9 volume set)
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (9 volume set)
Colin Jones; Ian Wood; Matthew Hilton; Judith Green; Sethina Watson; Robert Gildea; Marybeth Hamilton; Geoffrey Parker;
Cambridge University Press, 2001
[Interesting provenance: From the private library of renowned historian, Philip D. Morgan.] 9 volume set. Includes gift inscription from Royal Historical Society member to Morgan. Bound in publisher's blue cloth. Gilt lettering. Hardcover. Good bindings and covers. Contemporary signature of Morgan in some volumes. Contains Philip Morgan's personal notes. Contents: Sixth Series, Vol. XI; Sixth Series, Vol. XII; Sixth Series, Vol. XIII; Sixth Series, Vol. XIV; Sixth Series, Vol. XV; Sixth Series, Vol. XVI; Sixth Series, Vol. XVII; Sixth Series, Vol. XVIII; Sixth Series, Vol. XXIII. Interesting articles in this collection include: Entrusting Western Europe to the Church, 400-750 by Ian Wood; The Death of a Consumer Market by Matthew Hilton; King Henry I and Northern England by Judith Green; The Origins of the English Hospital by Sethina Watson; Witchcraft and the Western Imagination by Lyndal Roper; Resistance, Reprisals, and Community in Occupied France by Robert Gildea; Of Shells and Shadows: A Memoir on Auschwitz by Robert Jan van Pelt; The Blues, The Folk, and African-American History by Marybeth Hamilton; The Place of Tudor England in the Messianic Vision of Philip II of Spain by Geoffrey Parker.
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From the professional library of Dr. Philip D. Morgan, a professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. Morgan specializes in the African-American experience, the history of slavery, the early Caribbean, and the study of the early Atlantic world. Morgan is the author of more than 14 books on Colonial America and African American history. He has won both the Bancroft Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize for his book Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (1998).