Fashion and Women's Attitudes in the Nineteenth Century, Paperback - C. Willett Cunnington

Reducere. The nineteenth century, according to C. Willett Cunnington, was a period when the cult of modesty was a tactical maneuver camouflaged as a virtue. ...

Reducere. Remarkably thorough descriptions, information about hundreds of fashions: morning dresses, riding outfits, bridal gowns, more. Also millinery, foot...

In the first half of the nineteenth century, rural New England society underwent a radical transformation as the traditional household economy gave...

." . . thoroughness and most impressive scholarship . . . much entertaining detail and . . . pleasant humour." -- The Times Literary Supplement (Lo...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Paul W. RhodeIllustration(s): 13 line drawings, 132 tablesNumber of pages: 336Collection: Nati...

Reducere. Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to live in the nineteenth century? How would you have got a partner in a ballroom? What would y...

Reducere. The nineteenth century witnessed a series of revolutions in the production and circulation of images. From lithographs and engraved reproductions o...

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This study explores the science and culture of nineteenth-century British arboretums, or tree collections. The development of arboretums was foster...

Provincializing the history of the Ottoman Empire, this book provides a critical approach to the projects of 'modernity' that took place in the Eas...

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

Barbara Taylor's classic book, reissued with a new introduction.Publisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Barbara TaylorNumber of pages: 432Pub...

Reducere. This volume of essays is the first to focus on the Colored Conventions movement, the nineteenth century's longest campaign for Black civil rights. ...

Reducere. This book reconstructs how a group of nineteenth-century labor reformers appropriated and radicalized the republican tradition. These "labor republ...

The fully updated third edition of Farewell, My Nation considers the complex and often tragic relationships between American Indians, white America...

Reducere. Including oral history, letters and excerpts from diaries, this is a documentary study of 2 million black slave women and 200, 000 free black women...

Publisher: Froglets Publications LtdAuthor(s): Bob OgleyIllustration(s): 250ill.(some col.).Number of pages: 256Publication date: 2003Dimensions: 2...

Reducere. DescriptionIra Lapidus' global history of Islamic societies, first published in 1988, has become a classic in the field. For over two decades, it h...

Reducere. D. L. Moody's reaction was quick and to the point. "No A thousand times no I have no intentions of standing off here in New York City and approving...

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncAuthor(s): Horace O. RussellIllustration(s): 7 ill.Number of pages: 323Collection: Research in Religion and Fam...

Reducere. Pleasant Litchford and his family traveled as freed slaves from Virginia, who settled in Franklin County, Perry Township, Ohio, in the years betwee...

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...

Lucretia Coffin Mott was one of the most famous and controversial women in nineteenth-century America. Now overshadowed by abolitionists like Willi...

Reducere. China's extraordinary rise as an economic powerhouse in the past two decades poses a challenge to many long-held assumptions about the relationship...

Volume 1 surveys late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European intellectual history, focusing on the profound impact of the Enlightenment. It co...

Museums, Modernity and Conflict examines the history of the relationship between museums, collections and war, revealing how museums have responded...

Now in a fully revised and updated edition, this engaging text provides a concise history of Korea from the beginning of human settlement in the re...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Richa (Douglas College, Canada) DworNumber of pages: 208Collection: New Directions in Religion and L...

A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transiti...

Reducere. This volume brings together a series of lectures A. V. Dicey first gave at Harvard Law School on the influence of public opinion in England during ...

Reducere. Natural philosophy encompassed all natural phenomena of the physical world. It sought to discover the physical causes of all natural effects and wa...

Reducere. ... Ann Braude still speaks powerfully to unique issues of women's creativity-spiritual as well as political-in a superb account of the controversi...

Reducere. Global Trade in the Nineteenth Century: The House of Houqua and the Canton System In this engaging new study, John D. Wong examines the Canton trad...

Reducere. A History of Biblical Interpretation provides detailed and extensive studies of the interpretation of the Scriptures by Jewish and Christian writer...

How did Mary Shelley's Frankenstein give rise to the iconic green monster everyone knows today? In 1823, only five years after publication, Shelley...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Clare Walker GoreIllustration(s): 4 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 208Collection: E...

Tracing a mid-nineteenth-century revolution in understandings of old and second-hand books, David McKitterick reveals a transformation in values th...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 3 bw illusNumber of pages: 344Collection: Global Shakespeare InvertedPublication date: 2022Dim...

Labyrinths of Deceit. Culture, Modernity and Identity in the Nineteenth century - Richard J. Walker

Explores the lesser-known aspects of the emergence of capitalism in the American south: the shady and unscrupulous peddlers, preachers, slave trade...

In the aftermath of the French Revolution, "freedom" came to have a host of meanings. This volume examines these contested visions of freedom both ...

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DescriptionImperial Russia's large wolf populations were demonized, persecuted, tormented, and sometimes admired. That Savage Gaze explores the sig...

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...

AwardsLukas Prize ProjectDescriptionIn a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, the bestselling author of Home and City Life illuminat...