Popular Politics in Nineteenth Century England, Paperback - ***

This provides an accessible introduction to the culture of English popular politics between 1815 and 1900. McWilliam assesses popular ideology and ...

The first study to examine both the experience and representation of Christmas during the formative period of the nineteenth and early twentieth ce...

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

Reducere. A "delightful reader's companion" (The New York Times) to the great nineteenth-century British novels of Austen, Dickens, Trollope, the Brontes, an...

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

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): James R. MooreNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 232 x 22Cover type: Paperback /...

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...

Publisher: Oxford University PressAuthor(s): Geoff EleyNumber of pages: 308Publication date: 1984Dimensions: 218 x 139 x 17Cover type: Paperback / ...

First book to bring together the wide range of violent entertainments that characterised popular culture in nineteenth-century London and seriously...

Reducere. Award NameMidwest Book Award (MIPA)Award categoryBiographyDescriptionEdward Coles, who lived from 1786-1868, is most often remembered for his antis...

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

Provides an account of how popular theatre developed from the fairground booths of the eighteenth century to become a vehicle of mass entertainment...

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Reducere. This volume brings together a series of lectures A. V. Dicey first gave at Harvard Law School on the influence of public opinion in England during ...

The dome of thought is an accessible and lively history of the Victorian pseudoscience of phrenology. It makes extensive use of the popular account...

After the Revolution, Americans abandoned the political economy of self-denial and sacrifice that had secured their independence. In its place, the...

This book examines the intersections among literary works by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Mary Shelley and Wilkie Collins, journalism, parliamentary...

Shoplifting in Eighteenth-Century England examines the nature and impact on society of this commercial crime at a time of rapid retail expansion du...

Reducere. A study of three controversies that illuminate the changing cultural role of art exhibition in the nineteenth centuryFrom the antebellum era throug...

The political has always been part of popular music, but how does that play out in today's musical and political landscape? Mixing Pop and Politics...

John Breuilly brings together a distinguished group of international scholars to examine Germany's history from 1780 to 1918, featuring chapters on...

Many more people encountered newspapers, business press products or jobbing print than the glamorous books of the Enlightenment. This book looks at...

In this book, David Porter analyses the processes by which Chinese aesthetic ideas were assimilated within English culture. Illustrated with many e...

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

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...

The thirteenth century was a crucial period of reform in the English church, especially for the pastoral care of laypeople. With this holistic stud...

Petitioning has a forgotten but essential role in the history of modern democracy. In the antebellum era, petitions gave North Americans, especiall...

Reducere. The waves of protest ignited by the self-immolation of Muhammad Bouazizi in Tunisia in late 2010 highlighted for an international audience the impo...

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

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

Publisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers IncAuthor(s): Norman Robert BennettNumber of pages: 350Publication date: 1985Dimensions: 161 x 239 x 33Cover t...

"This book recounts the journey of English midwives over six centuries and their battle for survival as a discrete profession, caring safely for ch...

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

Irish Imperial Networks: Migration, Social Communication and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century India - Barry Crosbie

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...

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

Reducere. Proletarian Nights, previously published in English as Nights of Labor and one of Ranci re's most important works, dramatically reinterprets the Re...

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

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

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

This volume explores the multiple forms and functions of reading and writing in nineteenth-century Ireland. It traces how understandings of literac...

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This study investigates justice and mercy in twelfth-century England, using theological texts, sermons, legal treatises and letter collections to e...

To Raise a Fallen People brings to light pioneering writing on international politics from nineteenth-century India. Drawing on extensive archival ...

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

Excerpt: "Presently the evenness of his breathing told her he was asleep. For a long time she lay on her back just as he had left her, mulling over...

DescriptionFollowing the First Civil War the Roman Republic was able to rebuild itself and restore stability. Yet the problems which had plagued th...

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...

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