Penguin Social History of Britain. English Society in the Eighteenth Century, Paperback - Roy Porter

A portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. It covers topics that include - di...

Publisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Evelyn S. RawskiNumber of pages: 270Publication date: 1989Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 15Cover type: Paperbac...

For generations the traditional focus for those wishing to understand the roots of the modern world has been France on the eve of the Revolution. T...

Explores high and popular culture; family, race, gender and class relations; sexual attitudes and material conditions; science and technology - the...

Looking at urban history, this work balances statistics with the words of historians, diarists and novelists, poets and churchmen such as: Pepys, B...

Publisher: British Museum PressIllustration(s): 25 Illustrations, black and white; 245 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 20...

Publisher: University of Virginia PressAuthor(s): Adam SillsNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 176 x 255 x 21Cover type: Paperba...

In bringing biography and celebrity together, the essays in this volume interrogate contemporary and current understandings of each. Contributors p...

Reducere. God's accomplishments through George Whitefield are to this day virtually unparalleled. In an era when many ministers were timid and apologetic in ...

Medicine was transformed in the eighteenth century. Aligning the trajectories of intellectual and material wealth, this book uncovers how medicine ...

Publisher: Transcript VerlagAuthor(s): Lucas HaasisNumber of pages: 600Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 155 x 240 x 48Cover type: Paperback / soft...

The debut publication in a new series devoted to the body as an object of historical study, Sight Correction provides an expansive analysis of blin...

First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Paul Langford's Very Short Introduction to Eighteenth-Centur...

This volume explores the notion of the 'self' as it was elaborated and expressed by philosophers, novelists, churchmen, poets and diarists in the E...

The must-have book on the Battle of Britain - an accessible and beautifully illustrated history

Reducere. Although a number of important studies of American slavery have explored the formation of slave cultures in the English colonies, no book until now...

Reducere. In this volume, Caroline Robbins adeptly presents a history of the Commonwealthmen, "a gifted and active minority of the population of the British ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Unchained Voices, Vincent Carretta has assembled the most comprehensive anthology ever published of writings by eighteenth-century pe...

The mesmerising story of the eighteenth-century financier of genius who rose from humble Scottish origins to control of the purse-strings of the mo...

Reducere. The Cambridge History of Medicine, first published in 2006, surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to the present. Covering ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Emerita Ruth Pritchard (University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA) DawsonIllustration(s): 60 bw i...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Gillian JonesIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 62Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 233 x 9Co...

Women in Wartime demonstrates the startling acuity and prescience of the repertoire in responding to the war-steeped culture of the period.Publishe...

Embracing history and society, literature and theatre, medicine and religion, author and magician Ian Keable reveals our susceptibility to being du...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Hakim AdiNumber of pages: 688Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 241 x 165 x 47Cover type: HardbackRedescopera...

An important part of eighteenth-century maritime conflict involved the destruction of enemy commerce and the protection of home trade. Privateering...

A magisterial account by Roy Porter of representations of the body in health, disease and death.Illustrations: 137 illustrations

Reducere. In the mid-eighteenth century, the French naturalist Buffon contended that the New World was in fact geologically new--that it had recently emerged...

Women in Wartime demonstrates the startling acuity and prescience of the repertoire in responding to the war-steeped culture of the period.Publishe...

George Washington was inaugurated as president in 1789 with one tooth in his mouth, a lower left bicuspid. The Father of His Country had sets of fa...

The reclaimed history of a woman whose tragic life tells a story of madness, forced marriages and how the super-rich came to own LondonPublisher: O...