Open Houses: Poverty, the Novel, and the Architectural Idea in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Hardcover - Barbara Leckie

In the 1830s and '40s, a new preoccupation with the housing of the poor emerged in British print and visual culture. In response to cholera outbrea...

Publisher: Sussex Academic PressAuthor(s): Nicola Minott-AhlNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 157 x 235 x 18Cover type: Hardbac...

The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 is one of the most important pieces of social legislation ever enacted. Its principles and the workhouse system ...

This original collection of essays examines for the first time the place of 'saints' and sanctity in nineteenth-century Britain. -- .Illustrations:...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Jo EllisIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 92Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 126 x 202 x 13Cover ...

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

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

From the author of the acclaimed biography of Turner comes a major new work that explores the relationship between art and business in nineteenth-c...

This book shows how Alexander von Humboldt's British translators, now largely forgotten figures, were pivotal in moulding his prose and his public ...

This edited collection offers multi-disciplinary reflections and analysis on a variety of themes centred on nineteenth century executions in the UK...

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University PressAuthor(s): Jean-Marie FecteauNumber of pages: 448Collection: Studies on the History of Quebec/Etudes d'hi...

This is the first study of women's leading contribution to animal protection in nineteenth-century Britai -- .

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Alex TyrrellNumber of pages: 192Collection: Studies in Labour HistoryPublication date: 2017Dimensions: 15...

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

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

This is the first study of women's leading contribution to animal protection in nineteenth-century Britai -- .Illustrations: 30 black & white illus...

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

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

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

Reducere. A wealth of new data have been unearthed in recent years on African economic growth, wages, living standards, and taxes. In The Wealth and Poverty ...

Through technological experiments, readers have seen the concept of the book change over the years, and the novel reflects these experiments, actin...

Reducere. Your home. The location, style, layout, and materials say a lot about who you are and how you live your life, and the right home will perfectly com...

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 ...

First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introducti...

Situated in a mid-Victorian moment of frenetic plant collecting from the far reaches of the British empire, Novel Cultivations recognises plants as...

DescriptionNineteenth-century English nature was a place of experimentation, exoticism, and transgression, as site and emblem of the global exchang...

Nineteenth-century Japanese literary discourse and narrative developed a striking preoccupation with ninjo-literally "human emotion, " but often us...

'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. Over the past two decades, scholarship in architectural history has transformed, moving away from design studio pedagogy and postmodern historicism...

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

Based on the authors' thesis (doctoral--University of Exeter, 2012) presented under the title: Arranging the past, reconsidering the present: the 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...

Reducere. While the 'venereal peril' of nineteenth-century France was responsible for thousands of deaths, much attention has focused on the range of social ...

Not since the printing press has a media object been as celebrated for its role in the advancement of knowledge as the scientific journal. From ope...

In the late nineteenth century, a thriving immigrant population supported three German-language weekly newspapers in Arkansas. Most traces of the c...