Boom - Crisis - Heritage, these terms aptly outline the history of global coal mining after 1945. The essays collected … in this volume explore this history with different emphases and questions. The range of topics also reflects this broad … approach. The first section contains contributions on political, social and economic history. They address the European energy …

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, historians of England pioneered a series of new approaches to the history … history. A broad selection of historical writing is discussed, ranging from the work of Francis Bacon and William Camden in … followed it, to the eighteenth-century's major account of British history: David Hume's History of England. Particular …

emergence of a socio-economic system dominated by the Church is presented as a crucial development in the history of western …