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Orphans of Empire: The Fate of London's Foundlings
ISBN: 9780198758488 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The fascinating story of what happened to the orphaned and abandoned children of the London Foundling Hospital, and the consequences of Georgian philanthropy. From serving Britain's growing global empire in the Royal Navy, to the suffering of child workers in the Industrial Revolution, the Foundling Hospital was no simple act of charity.
The fascinating story of what happened to the orphaned and abandoned children of the London Foundling Hospital, and the consequences of Georgian phila...
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136,47 zł |
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Gender, Society and Print Culture in Late-Stuart England: The Cultural World of the Athenian Mercury
ISBN: 9780754604969 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Focusing on a largely unknown type of popular print culture that developed in the late 1600s - the coffee house periodical - Helen Berry here offers evidence that the politics of gender, far from being a marginal or frivolous topic, was an issue of general interest and widespread concern to the early modern reader.
Focusing on a largely unknown type of popular print culture that developed in the late 1600s - the coffee house periodical - Helen Berry here offers e...
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700,25 zł |
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The Castrato and His Wife
ISBN: 9780199655267 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The opera singer Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci was one of the most famous celebrities of the eighteenth century. Mozart and J. C. Bach both composed for him. He was nothing less than a rock star of his day, with a massive female following. He was also a castrato.
Ranging from the salons of princes and the grand opera houses of Europe to the remote hill towns of Tuscany, Helen Berry's compelling account of the unconventional love story of the castrato and his wife offers fascinating insight into the world of opera and the history of sex and marriage in Georgian Britain. Berry vividly... The opera singer Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci was one of the most famous celebrities of the eighteenth century. Mozart and J. C. Bach both composed for ...
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65,22 zł |
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Sowing Precious Seed
ISBN: 9781615796762 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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77,66 zł |
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Creating and Consuming Culture in North-East England, 1660-1830
ISBN: 9781138263581 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Historians of the long eighteenth century have recently recognised that this period is central both to the history of cultural production and consumption and to the history of national and regional identity. Yet no book has, as yet, directly engaged with these two areas of interest at the same time. By uniting interest in the history of culture with the history of regional identity, Creating and Consuming Culture in North-East England, 1660-1830 is of crucial importance to a wide range of historians and intervenes in a number of highly important historical and conceptual debates in a timely...
Historians of the long eighteenth century have recently recognised that this period is central both to the history of cultural production and consumpt...
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197,05 zł |
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The Family in Early Modern England
ISBN: 9780521182669 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This text was the first single volume in recent years to provide an overview and assessment of the most important research that has been published on the English family in the past three decades. Some of the most distinguished historians of family life, together with the next generation of historians working in the field, present previously unpublished archival research to shed light on family ideals and experiences in the early modern period. Contributions to this volume interrogate the definitions and meanings of the term 'family' in the past, showing how the family was a locus for power...
This text was the first single volume in recent years to provide an overview and assessment of the most important research that has been published on ...
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278,61 zł |
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Rivers of the Anthropocene
ISBN: 9780520295025 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. This exciting volume presents the work and research of the Rivers of the Anthropocene Network, an international collaborative group of scientists, social scientists, humanists, artists, policy makers, and community organizers working to produce innovative transdisciplinary research on global freshwater systems. In an attempt to bridge disciplinary divides, the essays in this volume address the...
At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing pro...
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163,80 zł |
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Rural Aging in 21st Century America
ISBN: 9789400755666 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book investigates sociological, demographic and geographic aspects of aging in rural and nonmetropolitan areas of the United States. Population aging is one of the most important trends of the 20th and 21st centuries, and it is occurring worldwide, especially in more developed countries such as the United States. Population aging is more rapid in rural than urban areas of the U.S. In 2010, 15 percent of the nonmetropolitan compared to 12 percent of the metropolitan population were 65 years of age and older. By definition rural communities have smaller sized... This book investigates sociological, demographic and geographic aspects of aging in rural and nonmetropolitan areas of the United States. Populatio... |
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382,84 zł |
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Northern Landscapes: Representations and Realities of North-East England
ISBN: 9781843835417 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. How distinctive is the landscape of the North East of England? How far does its distinctive nature contribute to the region's regional identity? These are key questions addressed by this book. Covering a wide range of subjects including country house landscapes, village landscapes and "townscapes," including coverage of how the region's landscape has been perceived and represented in literature and art, and approaching the subject from a wide range of perspectives including historical, literary, archaeological, art-historical and geographical, the book provides a rich, detailed and...
How distinctive is the landscape of the North East of England? How far does its distinctive nature contribute to the region's regional identity? These...
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492,77 zł |
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Orphans of Empire: The Fate of London's Foundlings
ISBN: 9780198860297 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Eighteenth-century London was teeming with humanity, and poverty was never far from politeness. Legend has it that, on his daily commute through this thronging metropolis, Captain Thomas Coram witnessed one of the city's most shocking sights-the widespread abandonment of infant corpses by the roadside. He could have just passed by. Instead, he devised a plan to create a charity that would care for these infants; one that was to have enormous consequences for children born into povertyin Britain over the next two hundred years. Orphans of Empire tells the story of what happened to the...
Eighteenth-century London was teeming with humanity, and poverty was never far from politeness. Legend has it that, on his daily commute through this ...
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79,96 zł |
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Rural Aging in 21st Century America
ISBN: 9789401781756 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book investigates sociological, demographic and geographic aspects of aging in rural and nonmetropolitan areas of the United States. Population aging is one of the most important trends of the 20th and 21st centuries, and it is occurring worldwide, especially in more developed countries such as the United States. Population aging is more rapid in rural than urban areas of the U.S. In 2010, 15 percent of the nonmetropolitan compared to 12 percent of the metropolitan population were 65 years of age and older. By definition rural communities have smaller sized... This book investigates sociological, demographic and geographic aspects of aging in rural and nonmetropolitan areas of the United States. Populatio... |
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382,84 zł |
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The Family in Early Modern England
ISBN: 9780521858762 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This text was the first single volume in recent years to provide an overview and assessment of the most important research that has been published on the English family in the past three decades. Some of the most distinguished historians of family life, together with the next generation of historians working in the field, present previously unpublished archival research to shed light on family ideals and experiences in the early modern period. Contributions to this volume interrogate the definitions and meanings of the term 'family' in the past, showing how the family was a locus for power...
This text was the first single volume in recent years to provide an overview and assessment of the most important research that has been published on ...
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448,56 zł |
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