Martial Masculinities: Experiencing and Imagining the Military in the Long Nineteenth Century, Paperback - Michael Brown

This collection explores the role of martial masculinities in shaping nineteenth-century British culture and society in a period framed by two of t...

DescriptionThis volume of twenty essays presents a unique insight into the world of Scottish children's literature throughout the long nineteenth c...

Chosen peoples demonstrates how biblical themes, ideas and metaphors shaped racial, national and imperial identities in the long nineteenth century...

In the late 18th century German-speaking Europe was a patchwork of undeveloped principalities. Yet by the early 20th century, unified Germany had b...

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

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 157 x 236 x 22Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s)...

Reducere. Analyzing published and archival oral histories of formerly enslaved African Americans, Libra R. Hilde explores the meanings of manhood and fatherh...

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

Throughout history rivers have always been a source of life and of conflict. This book investigates the Central Commission for the Navigation of th...

For more than a generation, historians and legal scholars have documented inequalities at the heart of American law and daily life and exposed inco...

In the Cause of Humanity is a major new history of the emergence of the theory and practice of humanitarian intervention during the nineteenth cent...

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...

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...

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

The book describes the development of religious thought in Wales between 1760 and 1900. Although the emphasis is on religious thought, it also incl...

Rank and file soldiers were not 'the scum of the earth' but included a cross section of working-class men, who retained their former civilian cultu...

Now in a fully revised and updated edition, this comprehensive and balanced history of modern Korea explores the social, economic, and political is...

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

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...

This work is Volume 2 of an extensive two-volume monograph on the interplay of science and literature in Europe from the eighteenth to the early tw...

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...

Reducere. The Erie Canal was dying. Adirondack sawmills were falling silent. And in the final years of the nineteenth century, the upstate New York town of F...

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...

This book provides an exploration of how and why Scottish Highlanders, Punjabi Sikhs and Nepalese Gurkhas became linked as the British Empire's fie...

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

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

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

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

This far-ranging volume offers both a broad overview of the role of the military in contemporary Asia and a close look at the state of civil-milita...

This book examines the strategies and military tactics of the Byzantines and their enemies in Eastern Anatolia, Syria and in Upper Mesopotamia in t...

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

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. ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Elizabeth (Montclair State University, USA) EmeryIllustration(s): 13 colour and 48 bw illusNumber of...

Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India: The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness - Ruby Lal

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

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

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...