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  • The Great Exhibition, 1851

    A sourcebook

    Edited by Jonathon Shears ...
    Series series Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century
    The Great Exhibition, 1851: A Sourcebook is the first anthology of its kind. It presents a comprehensive array of carefully selected primary documents, sourced from the period before, during and after the Exhibition in Hyde Park in 1851. Drawing on contemporary newspapers and periodicals, the archives of the Royal Commission, diaries, journals, celebratory poems and essays, many of these documents ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • James Clerk Maxwell: A Short Biography Giant of Nineteenth-Century Physics

    by Doug West ...
    Whether you are talking on your cell phone, watching your favorite television program, surfing the web, or using your GPS to guide you on a trip, these are all modern conveniences that were made possible by the foundational work of the nineteenth-century Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell. Though Maxwell didn’t discover electricity and magnetism, he did put in place a mathematical formulation ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reform and Intellectual Debate in Victorian England

    Edited by Barbara Dennis, David Skilton ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World
    First published in 1987. Readers of Victorian literature, both poetry and prose, are constantly aware of a powerful undercurrent of change - political, social, and intellectual - which determines the shape of the literature being produced. Topics covered include parliamentary reform, the Gentleman, religious debate and secular thought, education; leisure and attitudes to the arts, and the Woman ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Art, Awakening, and Modernity in the Middle East

    The Arab Nude

    Edited by Octavian Esanu ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Art History
    This edited scholarly volume offers a perspective on the history of the genre of the nude in the Middle East and includes contributions written by scholars from several disciplines (art history, history, anthropology). Each chapter provides a distinct perspective on the early days of the fine arts genre of the nude, as its author studies a particular aspect through analysis of artworks and ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Das verlorene Paradies

    Europa 1517–1648

    Translated by Michael Haupt ...
    Ob Bauer oder Prinz, niemand blieb unberührt von den gesellschaftlichen Umwälzungen des 16. Jahrhunderts. Martin Luthers Kampfansage an die katholische Obrigkeit wirbelte die Grundfesten der christlichen Religion durcheinander. Die Glaubenskriege und das Ringen um die Vorherrschaft in Europa, aber auch die europäische Expansion und die naturwissenschaftliche Revolution verwandelten den ganzen ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Sex in an Old Regime City

    Young Workers and Intimacy in France, 1660-1789

    Our ideas about the long histories of young couples' relationships and women's efforts to manage their reproductive health are often premised on the notion of a powerful sexual double standard. In Sex in an Old Regime City, Julie Hardwick offers a major reframing of the history of young people's intimacy. Based on legal records from the city of Lyon, Hardwick uncovers the relationships of young ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Englishwoman's Review of Social and Industrial Questions

    1887

    Series Book 19 - Routledge Library Editions: The Englishwoman's Review of Social and Industrial Questions
    The Englishwoman’s Review, which published from 1866 to 1910, participated in and recorded a great change in the range of possibilities open to women. The ideal of the magazine was the idea of the emerging emancipated middle-class woman: economic independence from men, choice of occupation, participation in the male enterprises of commerce and government, access to higher education, admittance to ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Imperialism, Revolution, and Industrialization in Nineteenth-Century Europe

    by Larry Slawson ...
    This article explores the impact of imperialism, revolution, and industrialization on 19th-century Europe. In what ways did they transform the continent? Were these changes uneven and sporadic? ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rural Idyll

    Edited by G. E. Mingay ...
    Series Book 10 - Routledge Library Editions: Rural History
    This book, first published in 1989, recounts the changing perceptions of the countryside throughout the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries, helping us to understand more fully the issues that have influenced our view of the ideal countryside, past and present. Some of the chapters are concerned with ways in which Victorian artists, poets, and prose writers portrayed the countryside of their day; ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • Singapore after Lee Kuan Yew

    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    This book addresses key questions about how Singapore is likely to develop going forward, what are the key challenges facing the state, and how is the government going to deal with these matters. The book shows how important Lee Kuan Yew and subsequent individual leaders have been in shaping Singapore, and goes on to consider specific new challenges, including rapid population growth, migration ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • A Letter to a Hindu

    About the subjection of India, its cause and cure, with an introduction by M.K. Gandhi.“All that exists is One. People only call this One by different names.”― Leo Tolstoy, A Letter to a Hindu ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gaeta nella descrizione dei viaggiatori del “Grand Tour”

    Uno sguardo inedito su Gaeta, offerto da celebri artisti, poeti e scrittori che visitarono la città ammirandone grandemente la straordinaria bellezza. Commenti inediti sapientemente raccolti e tradotti in italiano dallo storico Alfredo Saccoccio. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hidden History of Worcester

    Series series Hidden History
    As the second-largest city in New England, Worcester is well known for its contributions to manufacturing and transportation. However, many other people and events contributed to the building of this city. Timothy Bigelow led a revolution to take back Worcester from British rule almost two years before the Declaration of Independence. Abby Kelley Foster helped establish the first national women's ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Harvesters and Harvesting 1840-1900

    A Study of the Rural Proletariat

    Series Book 12 - Routledge Library Editions: Rural History
    During the second half of the nineteenth century the enormous increase in agricultural production, unmatched by technical advance in harvesting, drew vast numbers of rural and migrant workers into the harvest that lasted from June to October.This book, first published in 1982, examines the technology, conditions and customs of the harvest and, through that, the life of the rural population of ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Working Class in England 1875-1914

    Edited by John Benson ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World
    First published in 1985. Too often aspects of working-class life have been treated as distinct and separate. The contributors to this volume are aware of the dangers of such atomisation and have attempted to bring together a collection of studies which add to our knowledge of life in that time. The examinations of family, health, work, leisure and criminal trends form the basis of this work, and ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Frontiers in the Gilded Age

    Adventure, Capitalism, and Dispossession from Southern Africa to the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, 1880-1917

    Series series The Lamar Series in Western History
    The surprising connections between the American frontier and empire in southern Africa, and the people who participated in bothThis book begins in an era when romantic notions of American frontiering overlapped with Gilded Age extractive capitalism. In the late nineteenth century, the U.S.-Mexican borderlands constituted one stop of many where Americans chased capitalist dreams beyond the United ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Death and Disaster in Victorian Telford

    by Allan Frost ...
    Death in Victorian times was something to be feared whilst at the same time it was treated with an unprecedented degree of observance and ceremony. Respect for the dead was a concept taken to heart by all who came into contact with its mysteries. This compelling book covers a variety of gruesome themes and events; from suicide and murder to mining deaths and the Dark lane Pit disaster. Death and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Nostradamus Volume 4 of 17

    And Explanations of Afterlife Experiences

    This series of books entitled "Nostradamus" is a publication of William Dudley Pelley’s original "Soulcraft Fellowship, Letters from Home, The Nine O’clock Sessions, Survey of Probabilities, Purposes of the Infinite, Letters from the Heavenly Home and Halls of Light Illumination" representing over 1500 legal-sized, single-spaced typewritten pages originally written in 1955 but never published in ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • German Modernities From Wilhelm to Weimar

    A Contest of Futures

    What was German modernity? What did the years between 1880 and 1930 mean for Germany's navigation through a period of global capitalism, imperial expansion, and technological transformation?German Modernities From Wilhelm to Weimar brings together leading historians of the Imperial and Weimar periods from across North America to readdress the question of German modernities. Acutely attentive to ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Speke's Travels to the Source of the Nile, Illustrated

    by A H Guernsey ...
    A Brief outline of Captain Speke's Journey to the source of the Nile at Lake N'yassa (Victoria) in 1862. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Time, work and leisure

    Life changes in England since 1700

    Series series Studies in Popular Culture
    This book traces the history of the relationship between work and leisure, from the ‘leisure preference’ of male workers in the eighteenth century, through the increase in working hours in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, to their progressive decline from 1830 to 1970. It examines how trade union action was critical in achieving the decline; how class structured the experience ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Guerre coloniali

    Series series Le più importanti guerre della Storia
    Fino al 1870 l’Africa non fu, se si escludono le coste, tra gli obiettivi della colonizzazione europea: solo il dieci per cento del continente era sotto il dominio dell’Europa per scopi prevalentemente commerciali. La spartizione dell’Africa prese aspetti massicci, sino a essere pianificata dagli imperi occidentali alla Conferenza di Berlino del 1884-85, soltanto alla fine dell’Ottocento. Diverse ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Just and Lasting Peace

    A Documentary History of Reconstruction

    This anthology of primary documents traces Reconstruction in the aftermath of the Civil War, chronicling the way Americans—Northern, Southern, black, and white—responded to the changes unleashed by the surrender at Appomattox and the end of slavery.Showcasing an impressive collection of original documents, including government publications, newspaper articles, speeches, pamphlets, and personal ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Travelling Notions of Culture in Early Nineteenth-Century Europe

    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    The notions of culture and civilization are at the heart of European self-image. This book focuses on how space and spatiality contributed to defining the concepts of culture and civilization and, conversely, what kind of spatial ramifications "culture" and "civilization" entailed. These questions have vital importance to the understanding of this formative period of modern Europe.The chapters of ... Read more

    $54.99 USD