This volume examines when, why, and how Britain became the first modern urban nation.

Surveys the history of British towns from their post-Roman origins down to the sixteenth century.

Martin Daunton provides a clear and balanced view of the continuities and changes that occurred in the economic history of Britain from the Great Exhibition of 1851 to the ...

The first major work in English to give a pan-European perspective on the changing role of small towns from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.

A state-of-the-art guide to the fast-developing area of the philosophy of science.

Empire and Others explores the many complex ways in which identities were forged with Britain and among indigenous peoples through a processs of collision and compromise.

Recent advances in molecular and biophysical techniques, particularly fluorescence and live cell imaging, are revolutionizing the study of cell motility. New bioprobes not only ...

Software -- Operating Systems.