The Personality of Paris. Landscape and Society in the Long-Nineteenth Century, Hardback - ***

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

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)...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Simon (Saint Louis Art Museum, USA) KellyIllustration(s): 8 colour & 64 bw illusNumber of pages: 272...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

Confronted by a complex new society, nineteenth-century Spaniards wrestled with how to envisage their lives. From trying to be universal through to...

A groundbreaking new book about the nineteenth century obsession with hysteria, focussing on the renowned Salpetriere Hospital in Paris.

The Mesolithic in Britain proposes a new division of the Mesolithic period into four parts, each with its distinct character.Publisher: Taylor & Fr...

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

Reducere. But who were Blanche, Augustine, and Genevieve? What role did they play in their own peculiar form of stardom? And what exactly were they suffering...

This collection of essays revisits gender and urban modernity in nineteenth-century Paris in the wake of changes to the fabric of the city and soci...

Explores the lesser-known aspects of the emergence of capitalism in the American south: the shady and unscrupulous peddlers, preachers, slave trade...

A defining feature of Victorian Britain was its fascination with statistics, and this study shows how data influenced every aspect of Victorian cul...

In blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction, diplomats and travellers, English nation and Italian nation, Maura O'Connor shows us the exten...

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

Reducere. A biography of an important but largely forgotten nineteenth-century scientist whose work helped lay the foundation of modern neuroscience.Emil du ...

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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 ...

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...

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

The dramatic story of a tumultuous period of English history - a time when kings fell, families were split and a way of life was lost forever. Pack...

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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...

Reducere. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. In this volume the authors have provided what has now bec...

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