Dickens and Demolition. Literary Afterlives and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Urban Development, Paperback - Joanna Hofer-Robinson

Dickens and Demolition examines how tropes, characters, or extracts from Dickens' fiction were repurposed as a portable terminology in arguments fo...

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Reducere. Urban conflagrations, such as the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and the Great Boston Fire the following year, terrorized the citizens of nineteenth-ce...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): James R. MooreNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 232 x 22Cover type: Paperback /...

Reducere. By the Wand of Some Magician addresses the severe impact of railroad technology upon its arrival into Vermont in the mid-nineteenth century that in...

'The Empire Strikes Back?' injects the empire back into the domestic history of modern Britain. It takes as its premise the idea that the empire wa...

Reducere. William Kauffman Scarborough has produced a work of incomparable scope and depth, offering the challenge to see afresh one of the most powerful gro...

Engine of modernity examines the connection between public transportation and popular culture in nineteenth-century Paris through a focus on the om...

This book offers a unique account of life in nineteenth-century Dublin, told through human-animal relationships. It argues that the exploitation of...

Reducere. The sweep of Japanese literature in all its great variety was made available to Western readers for the first time in this anthology. Every genre a...

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After the Revolution, Americans abandoned the political economy of self-denial and sacrifice that had secured their independence. In its place, the...

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The history of domestic labor markets in 19th century America From the era of Irish Famine migration to the passage of quota restrictions in the 19...

Reducere. A "delightful reader's companion" (The New York Times) to the great nineteenth-century British novels of Austen, Dickens, Trollope, the Brontes, an...

This volume brings together six outstanding French tales, each by a different author, originally published between 1829 and 1886. Representing a va...

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Reducere. The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy examines Hegel within his broader historical and philosophical contexts. Coverin...

DescriptionThe Long Nineteenth Century, 1750-1914 is a global history textbook with a difference. It is a guide for students to the actions and exp...

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Reducere. In the previous century a large portion of the smallest of the Slavonic nations left their German homeland and migrated to three distant continents...

Reducere. This books offers a comprehensive sampling of the major genres of poetry and prose written from about A.D. 600 to the end of the nineteenth century...

DescriptionAfter the Enlightenment is the first attempt at understanding modern political realism as a historical phenomenon. Realism is not an ete...

DescriptionA dynamic, timely history of nineteenth-century activists--free-lovers and socialists, abolitionists and vigilantes--and the social revo...

DescriptionThe publishing phenomenon of summer reading, often focused on novels set in vacation destinations, started in the nineteenth century, as...

Reducere. In Plain Sight explores how the poetry of nineteenth-century American women that was once so visible within American culture could have, with the e...

This history of Europe from the French Revolution to the First World War weaves together political, economic, social and cultural developments.

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Reducere. Most fort histories end when the military lowers the flag for the last time and the soldiers march out. In contrast, Fort Robinson--occupied and us...

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Jerry White's London in the Nineteenth Century is the richest and most absorbing account of the city's greatest century by its leading expert. Lond...

A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain presents 33 essays by expert scholars on all the major aspects of the political, social, economic and cul...

This book aims to intervene in current critical contexts for the study of nineteenth-century literature within the academy and beyond. Topics discu...