Liberty and Locality. Parliament, Permissive Legislation, and Ratepayers' Democracies in the Nineteenth Century, Hardback - ***

his study argues that permissive legislation facilitated ocal initiative and debate, and that local initiatives were ften more effective than natio...

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...

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

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

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An interdisciplinary cultural history of exploration and mountaineering in the nineteenth century

In this innovative global history of the American Civil War, Aaron Sheehan-Dean compares and contrasts the American experience with other civil and...

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

The second in a two-part volume, offering an authoritative account of the relationship between literature and medicine during the nineteenth centur...

Begins with a study of important early figures in the life of the Catholic Apostolic Church, including Edward Irving, Henry Drummond, and John Bate...

This interdisciplinary collection focuses on the history of the future and in particular how Irish people in the nineteenth century thought about t...

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

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Alan R. H. (University of Cambridge, UK) BakerIllustration(s): 13 MapsNumber of pages: 248Publica...

Bringing together an international group of established and emerging scholars, this volume considers the emerging field of the history of emotion a...

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

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Bridget AlsdorfIllustration(s): 140 color + 17 b/w illus.Number of pages: 296Publication date: 2022...

Diverse ecoGothic interpretations of Victorian gardens and their reflections of human disturbance, using material ecocritical methodology to examin...

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

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

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

Confronted by a complex new society, nineteenth-century Spaniards wrestled with how to envisage their lives. From trying to be universal through to...

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...

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A defining feature of Victorian Britain was its fascination with statistics, and this study shows how data influenced every aspect of Victorian cul...

A study of the complex relationship between matter and idea that shaped the nineteenth-century culture of art, and that in turn determined the cour...

This innovative book will appeal to anyone interested in the cultural, musical and scientific history of the nineteenth century - from undergraduat...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Robina (Islamia University Bahawalpur, Pakistan) YasminNumber of pages: 200Collection: Library of Is...

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DescriptionMore than at any time in history, all the people in the world are linked together in a shared civilization, encompassing the entire plan...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Edward J. GillinIllustration(s): 33 halftones, 4 tablesNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2...

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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. ...

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

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Stana NenadicIllustration(s): 15 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 272Publication date...

This book contributes to race and ethnicity studies through a focus on the small scale, racialised dynamics of locality during a sharpening climate...

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

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...