The Scientific Journal: Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century, Hardcover - Alex Csiszar

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...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Edward J. GillinIllustration(s): 33 halftones, 4 tablesNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2...

Reducere. In The Lettered Barriada, Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo tells the story of how a cluster of self-educated workers burst into Puerto Rico's world of le...

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...

How did Mary Shelley's Frankenstein give rise to the iconic green monster everyone knows today? In 1823, only five years after publication, Shelley...

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

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

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

Alessia Ricciardi revisits questions about Elena Ferrante's identity to show how the problem of authorship is deeply intertwined with the novels' l...

Reducere. In The End of Science, John Horgan makes the case that the era of truly profound scientific revelations about the universe and our place in it is o...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 232Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 234 x 157 x 25Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury AcademicAuthor(s): Seyed Hadi (University of Tehran, Iran) BorhaniNumber of pages: 264Collection: Unsettling Colonialism in o...

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

This innovative book will appeal to anyone interested in the cultural, musical and scientific history of the nineteenth century - from undergraduat...

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 ...

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: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Hannah Star RogersIllustration(s): 42 figuresNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 3...

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

Reducere. This book reconstructs how a group of nineteenth-century labor reformers appropriated and radicalized the republican tradition. These "labor republ...

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...

In the late nineteenth century, a thriving immigrant population supported three German-language weekly newspapers in Arkansas. Most traces of the c...

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

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

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): WacquantNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 177 x 216 x 23Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedes...

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

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

Reducere. Before the drought of the early twenty-first century, the dry benchmark in the American plains was the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. But in this eye-open...

Examines the opportunities for and constraints on advancing food sovereignty in the 17 de Abril settlement, a community born out of a massacre of l...

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

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...

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

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

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Charles G. WormanThe gun, like the axe and the plow, was an essential tool in the exploration and settlement of the trans-M...

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...

Reducere. In most college and university libraries, materials published before 1800 have been moved into special collections, while the post-1923 books remai...

DescriptionShortly after the giant bronze statue of Cecil John Rhodes came down at the University of Cape Town, student protestors called for the d...

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

Reducere. In Plain Sight explores how the poetry of nineteenth-century American women that was once so visible within American culture could have, with the e...

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

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

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

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