Velvet Empire. French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century, Hardback - David Todd

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

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

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

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

An interdisciplinary cultural history of exploration and mountaineering in the nineteenth century

In this innovative global history of the American Civil War, Aaron Sheehan-Dean compares and contrasts the American experience with other civil and...

his study argues that permissive legislation facilitated ocal initiative and debate, and that local initiatives were ften more effective than natio...

'The Empire Strikes Back?' injects the empire back into the domestic history of modern Britain. It takes as its premise the idea that the empire wa...

The second in a two-part volume, offering an authoritative account of the relationship between literature and medicine during the nineteenth centur...

Begins with a study of important early figures in the life of the Catholic Apostolic Church, including Edward Irving, Henry Drummond, and John Bate...

This unique anthology includes generous selections from the six nineteenth-century French poets most often read in the English-speaking world today...

A history of nineteenth-century photography as told through one hundred works from one of the most significant collections in the USA.Publisher: D ...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

Eighteenth-century France is understood to have been the dominant cultural power on that era's international scene. Considering the emblematic case...

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

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

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

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

Focusing on David Clement Scott, the head of the Church of Scotland mission in Malawi, this innovative book narrates the rise and demise of a uniqu...

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

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

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

DescriptionImperial Russia's large wolf populations were demonized, persecuted, tormented, and sometimes admired. That Savage Gaze explores the sig...

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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...

AwardsLukas Prize ProjectDescriptionIn a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, the bestselling author of Home and City Life illuminat...

In this pioneering study, Elizabeth Helsinger reframes lyric poetry as a social form. Taking nineteenth-century poetry as her focus, she explores v...

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

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

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

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

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

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Bridget AlsdorfIllustration(s): 140 color + 17 b/w illus.Number of pages: 296Publication date: 2022...

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

DescriptionAlthough we are used to thinking of science and the humanities as separate disciplines, in the nineteenth century this division was not ...

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...

A study of the complex relationship between matter and idea that shaped the nineteenth-century culture of art, and that in turn determined the cour...

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... an extraordinary and richly contextualized biography that highlights the engagement and agency of a little-known African American activist who ...

This study explores the science and culture of nineteenth-century British arboretums, or tree collections. The development of arboretums was foster...