The Land of Story-Books: Scottish Children's Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century, Paperback - Sarah Dunnigan

DescriptionThis volume of twenty essays presents a unique insight into the world of Scottish children's literature throughout the long nineteenth c...

In this collection the multidimensional story of children's literature in the formative period of the long nineteenth century is illuminated, quest...

This collection explores the role of martial masculinities in shaping nineteenth-century British culture and society in a period framed by two of t...

Chosen peoples demonstrates how biblical themes, ideas and metaphors shaped racial, national and imperial identities in the long nineteenth century...

In the late 18th century German-speaking Europe was a patchwork of undeveloped principalities. Yet by the early 20th century, unified Germany had b...

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

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 157 x 236 x 22Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s)...

Reducere. Analyzing published and archival oral histories of formerly enslaved African Americans, Libra R. Hilde explores the meanings of manhood and fatherh...

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

The period from 1650 to 1800 was a time of immense change in Scotland, witnessing the Union of 1707, the Jacobite Risings, and the flowering of the...

Throughout history rivers have always been a source of life and of conflict. This book investigates the Central Commission for the Navigation of th...

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

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

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...

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 ...

Between the invention of photography in 1839 and the end of the nineteenth century, portraiture became one of the most popular and common art forms...

DescriptionThe Long Nineteenth Century, 1750-1914 is a global history textbook with a difference. It is a guide for students to the actions and exp...

The history of domestic labor markets in 19th century America From the era of Irish Famine migration to the passage of quota restrictions in the 19...

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 ...

The book describes the development of religious thought in Wales between 1760 and 1900. Although the emphasis is on religious thought, it also incl...

This book demonstrates the significance of the Devil in a Victorian English context, using the diabolic to explore the Victorians' complex and ambi...

Reducere. "Land of Nakoda" is a vivid account of the history, legends, customs, crafts, and ceremonies of the Assiniboine Indians of the northern plains. Fir...

Reducere. Pleasant Litchford and his family traveled as freed slaves from Virginia, who settled in Franklin County, Perry Township, Ohio, in the years betwee...

Kelly and Kai love to play on the gnarled old tree trunk outside their cottage in the woods: sometimes it becomes a horse, sometimes a crocodile an...

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

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

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

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...

Take a romp through the long eighteenth-century in this collection of 25 short tales - meet actresses, whores and high-born ladies, politicians, in...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book presents the History of New Zealand: the "Land of the Long White Cloud." New Zealand is an Island country of the southwestern ...

Reducere. The sweep of Japanese literature in all its great variety was made available to Western readers for the first time in this anthology. Every genre a...

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

In an era of rapidly increasing technological advances and international exchange, how did young people come to understand the world beyond their d...