Liberty and the Politics of the Female Voice in Early Stuart England. New ed, Hardback - ***

This study argues that the female voice occupied a key role in the early Stuart political imaginary as a means of signalling resistance to tyranny....

Explores new, yet less explored space of urban poverty - rehabilitation housing that houses the displaced poor and increasingly dots the peripherie...

The volume offers a substantial and innovative appraisal of the role of the female voice from the perspective of twentieth-century performance prac...

Augustus and the Destruction of History explores how Romans of the late Republic and early imperial period reconfigured their understanding of hist...

This Element covers the art produced in early medieval England from the departure of the Romans to the early twelfth century, an art that shows the...

The Rule of Moderation: Violence, Religion and the Politics of Restraint in Early Modern England - Ethan H. Shagan

A biting and original history which places culture front and centre to explain how our country went to pieces

Reducere. The writings of John Stuart Mill have become the cornerstone of political liberalism. Collected for the first time in this volume are Mill's three ...

This volume gathers together ten original essays on the contemporary politics of visibility. Contributions are interdisciplinary and address an arr...

Publisher: University of Notre Dame PressAuthor(s): Robert E. StillmanIllustration(s): 1 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 480Collection: ...

What is unique about Brears book is that he combines an account of the cookery with a close look at the practical arrangements, the kitchens and di...

Ishita Pande's innovative study tells a wide-ranging story about the importance of debates over child protection to India's coming of age, examinin...

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncAuthor(s): Gert BiestaNumber of pages: 150Collection: CounterpointsPublication date: 2008Dimensions: 152 x 225 ...

This book investigates the role of exemplarity as a rhetorical device in late Elizabethan and Jacobean literature and culture. Ullyot argues that e...

This long-anticipated Norton Critical Edition represents an extensive revision of its predecessor, On Liberty, edited by the late David Spitz.Publi...

Now in its second edition, Stories of True Crime in Tudor and Stuart England has been updated to include more texts about witchcraft, murder, and s...

This collection brings together the most significant, influential and still current articles from Applied Theatre Researcher 2000-11, predecessor o...

Reducere. DescriptionSydney G. Fisher describes the arrival and settlement of the Quaker denomination in colonial North America during the 17th and 18th cent...

Publisher: Prospect BooksAuthor(s): Hannah WoolleyIllustration(s): illustrationsNumber of pages: 300Publication date: 2001Dimensions: 165 x 241 x 2...

John Gorham Palfrey (May 2, 1796 - April 26, 1881) was an American clergyman and historian who served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts. ...

Reducere. " My] story is a sash woven of many strands of language. The first strand is the remembered wisdom of the Abenaki community. The second strand is o...

Reducere. In 1682, ten years before the infamous Salem witch trials, the town of Great Island, New Hampshire, was plagued by mysterious events: strange, demo...

A major study into mental disorder in English and Irish prisons between 1840 and 1900, Disorder Contained investigates the relationship between pri...

DescriptionJune, 1604. When the emaciated body of a vagrant is found on the edge of the moor, it's the verdict of physician Gabriel Taverner that t...

Physician-sleuth Dr Gabriel Taverner uncovers dark secrets in his small Devon village in the second of this intriguing historical mystery series. J...

This book makes lesser-known philosophical texts on freedom of the will after Kant available in English for the first time, and will provide a valu...

This first comprehensive account of Daniel Defoe's Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain explores the content, sources, form, and historical...

The Power of Scripture uncovers how biblical scripture directly shaped a national religious politics, forming a lasting impression on the socio-pol...

Curriculum as Spaces can be viewed as a holistic approach to education, conservation, and community development that uses place as an integrating c...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Jonathan (University of Exeter, UK) HughesIllustration(s): 12 bw illusNumber of pages: 440Publica...

Peacey unearths and reconstructs a strange early modern dispute over a small estate in Gloucestershire that was contested over a period of 160 year...

A biting and original history which places culture front and centre to explain how our country went to pieces.Publisher: Profile Books LtdAuthor(s)...

This is the first comprehensive study of occasional writing in Byzantium, focusing on the literary output of Constantine Manasses. It argues that, ...

Publisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Eamon DuffyIllustration(s): 143 b-w illus.Number of pages: 720Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 137 x 21...

Harry R. McCarthy's innovative study draws on theatre history and present-day performance to foreground how boys' physical skills shaped the plays ...

Celluloid Classicism provides a rich and detailed history of two important modern South Indian cultural forms: Tamil Cinema and Bharatanatyam dance.

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 ...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Christopher HilliardIllustration(s): 1 table.Number of pages: 336Publication date: 2021Dimensions: ...

Naturalism in the Christian Imagination explores the writings of key thinkers from early modern England who wrestled with the challenge of situatin...

Reducere. DescriptionOn Liberty is a philosophical work by the English philosopher John Stuart Mill, originally intended as a short essay. The work, publishe...

The idea of ghost is more than an enduring source of imagination, fear, and even entertainment in human society. It is an alternative key to decons...

The benefits of the digital age are huge. Our lives have been transformed, both in the developed and the undeveloped world. However, this transform...

DescriptionNo one can be a great thinker who does not recognise, that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclus...

Wilhelm Furtw ngler (1886-1954) has entered the historical memory as a renowned interpreter of the canon of Austro-German musical masterworks. His ...