The Pauper's Freedom. Crime and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Quebec, Paperback - Jean-Marie Fecteau

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University PressAuthor(s): Jean-Marie FecteauNumber of pages: 448Collection: Studies on the History of Quebec/Etudes d'hi...

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

In the 1830s and '40s, a new preoccupation with the housing of the poor emerged in British print and visual culture. In response to cholera outbrea...

The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 is one of the most important pieces of social legislation ever enacted. Its principles and the workhouse system ...

Reducere. The nineteenth century witnessed a series of revolutions in the production and circulation of images. From lithographs and engraved reproductions o...

Reducere. A wealth of new data have been unearthed in recent years on African economic growth, wages, living standards, and taxes. In The Wealth and Poverty ...

This work provides an informative chronological survey of a century of British painting. It progresses from the beginnings of Romanticism in the la...

Reducere. An Organ of Murder explores the origins of both popular and elite theories of criminality in the nineteenth-century United States, focusing in part...

Reducere. To tackle pervasive poverty in Ethiopia, the root cause must be removed first. Only then can the country hope for progress. Dr. Assefa Muluneh, for...

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...

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 ...

This engrossing ethnography of one of South Asia's third gendered or trans populations reveals not a group of marginalized others but a way of life...

Red Tape presents a major new theory of the state developed by the renowned anthropologist Akhil Gupta. Seeking to understand the chronic and wides...

Reducere. Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to live in the nineteenth century? How would you have got a partner in a ballroom? What would y...

Reducere. Poverty in America too often goes unnoticed, and disregarded. This perhaps results from America's general level of prosperity along with a fairly w...

Reducere. In Claiming Union Widowhood, Brandi Clay Brimmer analyzes the US pension system from the perspective of poor black women during and after the Civil...

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

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 ...

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

Reducere. The nineteenth century, according to C. Willett Cunnington, was a period when the cult of modesty was a tactical maneuver camouflaged as a virtue. ...

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

This introductory book offers a coherent history of twentieth century crime and the law in Britain, with chapters on topics ranging from homicide t...

Reducere. On January 19th, 1863, when the spectre of the Great Famine still loomed over the land, Alexander Irvine was born into dire poverty in the town of ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Kelly JohnsonWhy, asks Kelly Johnson, does Christian ethics so rarely tackle the real-life question of whether to give to b...

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

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

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

Reducere. The nineteenth century witnessed a series of revolutions in the production and circulation of images. From lithographs and engraved reproductions o...

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

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

In Beside You in Time Elizabeth Freeman expands biopolitical and queer theory by outlining a temporal view of the long nineteenth century. Drawing ...

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

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

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

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Elizabeth (Montclair State University, USA) EmeryIllustration(s): 13 colour and 48 bw illusNumber of...

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

Provincializing the history of the Ottoman Empire, this book provides a critical approach to the projects of 'modernity' that took place in the Eas...

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

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

The first Yale French Studies issue on photography, examining French photography's place in art, identity, and society through a lens of diversity ...

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

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

Engine of modernity examines the connection between public transportation and popular culture in nineteenth-century Paris through a focus on the om...