Unsound Empire. Civilization and Madness in Late-Victorian Law, Hardback - Catherine L. Evans

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'The Darkened Room' looks at the central role played by women as healers, mediums, and believers in the golden age of spiritualism in the late Vict...

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During the Age of Revolution, the British Crown responded to crises in its colonies with a heavy hand. Lisa Ford shows how imperial peacekeeping me...

'A brilliant cultural history ... Scull's book fills a gap in the literature and deserves to be widely read ... outstanding' The Times

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The reclaimed history of a woman whose tragic life tells a story of madness, forced marriages and how the super-rich came to own LondonPublisher: O...

Explores the literary culture of the Ottoman Empire's Sephardic JewsPublisher: Indiana University PressAuthor(s): Olga BorovayaIllustration(s): 8 b...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr. Necati (University of Bamberg, Germany) AlkanNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 2022Dimension...

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In this classic account of madness, Michel Foucault shows once and for all why he is one of the most distinguished European philosophers since the ...

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Women and Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire: The Design of Difference - Madeline Zilfi

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This wide-ranging and extensively researched work reviews the way in which the British army exploited the potential of railways from the 'dawn of t...

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This new, wide-ranging framework for understanding Victorian settler colonialism reveals the energetic circulation of literary forms between Austra...

The book explores the rise of civil divorce in Victorian England, the subsequent operation of a fault system of divorce based solely on grounds of ...

Published to celebrate the centenary of the discovery of the Traprain Hoard, in East Lothian, Scotland, May 1919 - one of the most spectacular find...

A sweeping perspective on L. Ron Hubbard, Educator and his deeply illuminating development of Study Technology - the only technology for learning a...

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