Taking Travel Home. The Souvenir Culture of British Women Tourists, 1750-1830, Hardback - Emma Gleadhill

This book provides a new cultural history of the travel souvenir. It uncovers how eighteenth-century British women enlisted the objects they collec...

This book examines the many different ways in which women achieved public standing and exercised political power in England from the middle of the ...

The first collective, critical historical study of women artists in Britain and France during the Revolutionary eraPublisher: Paul Mellon Centre fo...

Publisher: Rowman & LittlefieldNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 165 x 241 x 24Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Gay WachmanRedesc...

How the Golden Age of transatlantic travel between the wars transformed women's lives across all classes - a vivid portrait of life on-board the ic...

Autor: Constanta Vintila

A vital counter-interpretation of madness in women, showing how it is often a consequence of, rather than a deviation from, the traditional female ...

This book argues the modern mass transit of ordinary people derives from common conditions in modernising societies and that they were first manife...

This is an original study of British diplomacy in the age of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. It examines the social, cultural and inte...

Focul amorului. Despre dragoste si sexualitate in societatea romaneasca, 1750-1830 - Constanta Vintila

This book leads the modern traveller along some of the key medieval walking routes of Britain, taking in world-famous sites such as Canterbury and ...

Gravorii in lemn de la Blaj (1750-1830) - Cornel Tatai-Balta

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The Inking Woman is a groundbreaking picture-led celebration of the work ofover 100 named British artists, and a few more anonymous ones, revealing...

This book advances a novel approach to a familiar eighteenth-century building type: the brick terraced house. Focusing on issues of design and arch...

Laidlaw lays bare the contradictions of mid-nineteenth-century imperial Britain. Missionaries, scientists and imperial officials all claimed an int...

During the pivotal 19th-century 'decade of reform', British politicians wrestled over the best ways to address Irish agrarian violence - branded as...

The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830–1970 - John Darwin

The first comprehensive study of the thousands of Britons captured and enslaved in North Africa in the early modern period, charting the course of ...

This volume comprises a varied collection of seventeen papers presented at the biennial conference of the Association for the Study of Travel in Eg...

Priviri ce se revarsa din spatele ferestrelor, pe gaura cheii, prin gura podului. Urechi ce asculta cu atentie gemete, icnete, foieli si scartaitur...

The first substantial study of family correspondence and settler colonialism, Nothing to Write Home About elucidates the significance of trans-impe...

Balloons, parachutes, aeroplanes, gliders, airships -the extraordinary personal tales of the women who led the way in early British aviation!Publis...

Examines the nineteenth-century royal tour from the perspectives of various historical actors - including royals, politicians and indigenous people...

This wide-ranging collection examines the historical roles of Indigenous women, their intellectual and activist work, and the relevance of contempo...

Focusing on British women writers' knowledge of ancient Egypt, Youngkin shows the oftentimes limited but pervasive representations of ancient Egypt...

This is a revisionist account of the origins of the British Empire in Asia in the early modern period. David Veevers shows that it was the integrat...

Drawing on the popular press, unpublished personal correspondence, and archival documents, Catherine Ingrassia provides a rich cultural description...

Biography of British train travel from the 1950s to present day.

This groundbreaking study, sitting at the intersection of cultural and military history, examines the formal and informal uses of music in all thre...

The Travel Photographer's Way: Practical Steps to taking Unforgettable Travel Photos - Inspirational and expert advice and tuition on becoming a co...

The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, 'has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire' and John Darwin offers a magisterial global h...