Victorians and Numbers. Statistics and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain, Hardback - ***

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

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

This is the first study of women's leading contribution to animal protection in nineteenth-century Britai -- .

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

First book to bring together the wide range of violent entertainments that characterised popular culture in nineteenth-century London and seriously...

This book demonstrates the significance of the Devil in a Victorian English context, using the diabolic to explore the Victorians' complex and ambi...

Based on the authors' thesis (doctoral--University of Exeter, 2012) presented under the title: Arranging the past, reconsidering the present: the e...

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

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Jo EllisIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 92Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 126 x 202 x 13Cover ...

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From the author of the acclaimed biography of Turner comes a major new work that explores the relationship between art and business in nineteenth-c...

This book shows how Alexander von Humboldt's British translators, now largely forgotten figures, were pivotal in moulding his prose and his public ...

This edited collection offers multi-disciplinary reflections and analysis on a variety of themes centred on nineteenth century executions in the UK...

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

This is the first study of women's leading contribution to animal protection in nineteenth-century Britai -- .Illustrations: 30 black & white illus...

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 ...

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

'Entertaining and absorbing' - The Sunday Times A wonderfully written and entertaining book which places Britain under the microscope and asks who ...

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...

First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introducti...

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 ...

A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain presents 33 essays by expert scholars on all the major aspects of the political, social, economic and cul...

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

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

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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 ...

Zuck argues that, in the decades between the ratification of the Constitution and the publication of Sutton Griggs's novel Imperium in Imperio in 1...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Robina (Islamia University Bahawalpur, Pakistan) YasminNumber of pages: 200Collection: Library of Is...

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

Britain and Africa in the twenty-first century offers the first book-length study of how Britain's relationship with Africa has fared since the fal...

A short, practical, timely guide to the tools you need to understand the numbers we read in the news everyday - and how we often get them wrong

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A wonderfully written and entertaining book which places Britain under the microscope and asks who we are today and how we've changed as a nation.P...

How does the current nationalist moment within British political culture, most acutely evidenced in the recent Brexit result, capture such a broad ...

Publisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers IncAuthor(s): Norman Robert BennettNumber of pages: 350Publication date: 1985Dimensions: 161 x 239 x 33Cover t...

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

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

Black Victorians shows how Black lives were visible, present and influential - not temporary presences but established and rooted; and how paradox ...

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. ...

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

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

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...

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