wyszukanych pozycji: 6
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Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World
ISBN: 9781780238982 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Based on extensive original research, and now available in paperback, Empire of Tea provides a rich cultural history that explores how the British `way of tea' became the norm across the Anglophone world.
Based on extensive original research, and now available in paperback, Empire of Tea provides a rich cultural history that explores how the British `wa...
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92,23 |
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William Blake and the Visionary Law
ISBN: 9783031377259 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book examines the difficult relationship between individual intellectual freedom and the legal structures which govern human societies in William Blake’s works, showing that this tension carries a political urgency that has not yet been recognised by scholars in the field. In doing so, it offers a new approach to Blake’s corpus that builds on the literary and cultural historical work of recent decades. Blake’s pronouncements about law may often sound biblical in tone; but this book argues that they directly address (and are informed by) eighteenth-century legal debates concerning...
This book examines the difficult relationship between individual intellectual freedom and the legal structures which govern human societies in William...
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442,79 |
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Tea and the Tea-Table in Eighteenth-Century England Vol 2
ISBN: 9781138757615 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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730,17 |
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William Blake and the Visionary Law
ISBN: 9783031377228 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book examines the difficult relationship between individual intellectual freedom and the legal structures which govern human societies in William Blake’s works, showing that this tension carries a political urgency that has not yet been recognised by scholars in the field. In doing so, it offers a new approach to Blake’s corpus that builds on the literary and cultural historical work of recent decades. Blake’s pronouncements about law may often sound biblical in tone; but this book argues that they directly address (and are informed by) eighteenth-century legal debates concerning...
This book examines the difficult relationship between individual intellectual freedom and the legal structures which govern human societies in William...
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442,79 |
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Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf That Conquered the World
ISBN: 9781780234403 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Although tea had been known and consumed in China and Japan for centuries, it was only in the seventeenth century that Londoners first began drinking it. Over the next two hundred years, its stimulating properties seduced all of British society, as tea found its way into cottages and castles alike. One of the first truly global commodities, tea has also, today, come to epitomize British culture and identity.
This impressively detailed book offers a rich cultural history of tea, from its ancient origins in China to its spread around the world. The authors recount tea s arrival in London... Although tea had been known and consumed in China and Japan for centuries, it was only in the seventeenth century that Londoners first began drinking ...
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128,10 |
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Stealing Books in Eighteenth-Century London
ISBN: 9781137411952 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This study offers an authoritative and readable account of the hidden history of book theft in eighteenth-century London. It exploits a rich primary source, the compelling narratives of crime contained in the digitised Proceedings of the Old Bailey. The authors explain how cases of book theft came to court, and how in the ensuing trials the nature of the book itself became a question for legal debate. They assess the motives which led Londoners to steal books and the methods they employed in thefts from households and booksellers. Finally, the authors ask what the Proceedings tells us about...
This study offers an authoritative and readable account of the hidden history of book theft in eighteenth-century London. It exploits a rich primary s...
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221,37 |