Brick. A Social History, Paperback - Carolyne Haynes

Revealing the fascinating social history of bricks in Britain!

Looking at urban history, this work balances statistics with the words of historians, diarists and novelists, poets and churchmen such as: Pepys, B...

A rich and fresh survey of women's lives between George III and the First World War

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. During the first fifty years of the twentieth century, ham radio went from being an experiment to virtually an art form. Because of the few governm...

Reducere. Dispelling much of what he terms the 'mythology' of the Scotch-Irish, James Leyburn provides an absorbing account of their heritage. He discusses t...

From leeches to lice, bowels to bedpans, nurses relate their experiences of hospital wards in the 20th century.

DescriptionThe electric vehicle seemed poised in 1900 to be a leader in automotive production. Clean, odorless, noiseless and mechanically simple, ...

Reducere. Our experiences of dying have been shaped by ancient ideas about death and social responsibility at the end of life. From Stone Age ideas about dyi...

Reducere. DescriptionThe early years of the twentieth century were a difficult period for Big Business. Corporate monopolies, the brutal exploitation of labo...

The State of Freedom: A Social History of the British State since 1800 - Patrick Joyce

The first three editions of this bestselling book have established A Social History of the Media as a classic, providing a masterful overview of co...

Reducere. Using a wealth of contemporary Ottoman sources, this book recreates the social history of Istanbul, a huge, cosmopolitan metropolis and imperial ca...

One of the most devastating portraits ever drawn of a human society - life in Hitler's Germany during the Third ReichPublisher: Orion Publishing Co...

Contributor(s): Editor: Keith WrightsonThe rise of social history has had a transforming influence on the history of early modern England. It has b...

Reducere. The theme of this extraordinary book is the evolution of the modern conception of family life and the modern image; of the nature of children. Arie...

A comprehensive study of Iceland's social and historical development, from tiny fishing settlements to a global economic power. It is of interest t...

Reducere. The American family has undergone a series of transformations from its socially sanctified role as the center of society to today's private, indepe...

Reducere. The first scholarly history of the iconic Anabaptist text. Approximately 2, 500 Anabaptists were martyred in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-centu...

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Reducere. DescriptionWhen the Chinese communists came to power in 1949, they promised to 'turn society upside down'. Efforts to build a communist society cre...

Reducere. In 1948, a war broke out that would result in Israeli independence and the erasure of Arab Palestine. Over twenty months, thousands of Jews and Ara...

The drum kit has provided the pulse of popular music from before the dawn of jazz up to the present day pop charts. Kick It, a provocative social h...

Americans love "this year's model, " relying on the "new" to be always "improved." Enthusiasm for the new, says Stanley Buder, is essential to Amer...

Reducere. Equality is a fundamental American value. The nation's Declaration of Independence declared equality as a self-evident foundation for political lif...

Reducere. A Social History of American Technology, Second Edition, tells the story of American technology from the tools used by its earliest inhabitants to ...

Hibbert tries to show by reference to history of punishments, to the reactions of those who suffered them or have been threatened by them, and to t...

Chinese Diasporas provides a concise and compelling new history of internal and external Chinese migration from the sixteenth century to the presen...

Kristen Richardson traces the social seasons of debutantes on both sides of the Atlantic, sharing their stories in their own words, through diaries...

Shellac and Swing! tells the story of the gramophone's 'golden age, ' when it helped to shape Britain's musical, social and political life and impa...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): Peter BurkeNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 227 x 155 x 27Cover type: Paperback / softbackRe...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Fei-Hsien WangIllustration(s): 14 b/w illus. 8 tables.Number of pages: 368Collection: Studies of th...

Reducere. First substantial translation of Apollinaire's later works by an award-winning poet. Guillaume Apollinaire's final years exactly coincided with the...

The first history of the `other side' of Fitzrovia: the working-class and `outsider' voices

Sean Damer provides a sustained critique of the Corporation of Glasgow's council housing policy and argues that it had the unintended consequence o...

Bounded by the Great War on one side and by the looming shadow of the Second World War on the other, the inter-war period has characteristically be...

Reducere. Distinguished liturgical historian and theologian Frank Senn here ventures behind the liturgical screen, behind the texts, and behind the rubrics t...

Reducere. In a year which celebrates the 100th Anniversary of the Irish War of Independence this book is entirely relevant.This comprehensive, meticulously-r...

A collection of essays written to take the reader on a journey through history, examining the impact of autism on the opinions and solutions of wri...

Social historian and author Gillian Perry takes us on a highly entertaining whistle-stop tour of the history of the English afternoon tea, enhanced...

DescriptionCombining history of science and a history of universities with the new imperial history, Universities in Imperial Austria 1848-1918: A ...

Reducere. Although we are learning a lot from historians about the lives of slaves in the United States, we still know little about slavery in the Caribbean....

Reducere. In Overhaul, historians Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint present the largely forgotten story of Albuquerque's locomotive repair shops, which...

Capital, as Marx once wrote, comes into the world "dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt." He might well have been descr...