Pacific Possessions. The Pursuit of Authenticity in Nineteenth-Century Oceanian Travel Accounts, Hardback - Chris J. Thomas

Expands the literary canon on Polynesia and Melanesia beyond the giants, such as Herman Melville and Jack London, to include travel narratives by B...

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

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

Publisher: ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian SchonAuthor(s): Mikhail SuslovNumber of pages: 302Collection: Soviet and Post-Soviet Polit...

A nineteenth-century entrepreneur's bold, innovative marketing helped transform flower gardens into one of America's favorite hobbies."There is muc...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

Investigates the fascinating intersection of two American passions: education and literature. Allison Speicher introduces readers to the common sch...

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

Reducere. Introducing Detective Inspector Tom Harper in a brand-new historical mystery series. June 1890. Leeds is close to breaking point. The gas workers a...

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

This book tackles the latest challenges in education in the business sector. It outlines how students must be taught to adapt to a highly fluid bus...

Personal accounts by individual Japanese servicemen.Illustrations: 80 black and white illustrations

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Until recently, the embodied hand has paradoxically escaped the notice of nineteenth-century cultural and literary historians precisely because of ...

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

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

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...

Reducere. In George Appo's world, child pickpockets swarmed the crowded streets, addicts drifted in furtive opium dens, and expert swindlers worked the lucra...

This volume explores the changing process of evaluating objects during the period of Japan's rapid modernization.Publisher: Getty Trust Publication...

Publisher: Unicorn Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Caroline ChapmanIllustration(s): 60 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Simon (Saint Louis Art Museum, USA) KellyIllustration(s): 8 colour & 64 bw illusNumber of pages: 272...

Only the Clothes on Her Back illuminates the ways in which women, men of color, and poor people used textiles as a form of property that enabled th...

In this pioneering study, Elizabeth Helsinger reframes lyric poetry as a social form. Taking nineteenth-century poetry as her focus, she explores v...

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

Tthe extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were settled.Illustrations: 35 integrated colour

Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Mike SielskiNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 200 x 242 x 36Cover type: Hard...

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...

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

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

Unmaking Sex is the first history of intersex in both medicine and literature. It opens up new lines of inquiry in both literary and gender studies...

Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Nicholas ThomasIllustration(s): 181 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensio...

Skilfully uses this notorious episode to illuminate the nature and extent of piracy in the period.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdAuthor(s): Sarah C...

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

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

Sheds new light on the cultural origins and practical ambitions of the French Revolution through an analysis of debates over education in eighteent...

A history of nineteenth-century photography as told through one hundred works from one of the most significant collections in the USA.Publisher: D ...

Reducere. As the modern celebration of Christmas took shape across the nineteenth century, American writers gave it new meaning in the pages of countless boo...