wyszukanych pozycji: 19
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The Eighteenth-Century Town: A Reader in English Urban History 1688-1820
ISBN: 9780582051348 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The eighteenth century represents a critical period in the transition of the English urban history, as the town of the early modern era involved into that of the industrial revolution; and since Britain was the 'first industrial nation', this transformation is of more-than-national significance for all those interested in the histroy of towns. This book gathers together in one volume some of the most interesting and important articles that have appeared in research journals to provide a rich variety of perspectives on urban evelopment in the period.
The eighteenth century represents a critical period in the transition of the English urban history, as the town of the early modern era involved into ...
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271,43 zł |
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Resorts and Ports: European Seaside Towns since 1700, 29
ISBN: 9781845411978 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Histories of seaports and coastal resorts have usually been kept in separate compartments. This book brings them together and looks at how resort development affected historic ports during the rise and development of the seaside holiday in Europe from the 18th century to the 20th, and what the attributes of ports (fishing, harbour crafts, the whiff of the exotic, fishermen's homes and families) contributed to the attractions of resorts. Case-studies drawn from across Europe, from Wales and the Netherlands to Norway, Latvia and Spain, bring original perspectives to bear on these histories... Histories of seaports and coastal resorts have usually been kept in separate compartments. This book brings them together and looks at how resort d... |
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158,50 zł |
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Medicine in Wales C.1800-2000: Public Service or Private Commodity? (Corr. 2nd Printing)
ISBN: 9780708318249 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Medicine in Wales, c.1800 2000" is the first book to deal with the history of medicine in Wales in an interdisciplinary context. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, from documentary records to film, oral testimony, and participatory social research, the essays collected here examine how the relationships between the public and the private provision of healthcare have changed since the Industrial Revolution. Individual case studies explore themes that range from the water supply to suicide, from mutual aid to industrial rehabilitation and the medical inspection of school children, and from...
"Medicine in Wales, c.1800 2000" is the first book to deal with the history of medicine in Wales in an interdisciplinary context. Drawing on a wide va...
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118,48 zł |
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The Image of Georgian Bath, 1700-2000: Towns, Heritage, and History
ISBN: 9780198202653 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Perhaps no British city is more intimately associated with its historic imagery than Bath, which is often considered the classic Georgian city. This interdisciplinary study explores the evolution, structure, and uses of the image of Georgian Bath, from its genesis in the eighteenth century to its renaissance in the twentieth. Peter Borsay examines the history of Bath's image, covering both the city's biography and architecture and analyzing the media through which Bath's image has been transmitted. He includes discussions of the commercial, social, political, and psychological uses the images...
Perhaps no British city is more intimately associated with its historic imagery than Bath, which is often considered the classic Georgian city. This i...
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982,67 zł |
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Medicine and Charity in Georgian Bath: A Social History of the General Infirmary, C.1739-1830
ISBN: 9781138326019 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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231,21 zł |
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Mental Health Nursing: The Working Lives of Paid Carers in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
ISBN: 9780719096938 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book seeks to integrate the history of mental health nursing with the wider history of institutional and community care. It develops new research questions by drawing together a concern with exploring the class, gender, skills and working conditions of practitioners with an assessment of the care regimes staff helped create and patients' experiences of them. Such an approach aims to correct the neglect of mental health workers in recent histories of nursing and care. Contributors from a range of disciplines use a variety of source material to examine both continuity and change in the...
This book seeks to integrate the history of mental health nursing with the wider history of institutional and community care. It develops new research...
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476,28 zł |
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The English Urban Renaissance: Culture and Society in the Provincial Town 1660-1770
ISBN: 9780198202554 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the century after the Restoration of 1660, English provincial towns experienced a cultural renaissance. This book offers a guide to the most striking features of that revival: the transformation of the urban landscape under the influence of classical architecture and the emergent forces of planning, and a remarkable expansion in the provision of fashionable public leisure. Drawing on a variety of disciplines, including architecture, music, historical geography, English literature, urban studies and history, the book concentrates on the interaction between urban culture and society as a...
In the century after the Restoration of 1660, English provincial towns experienced a cultural renaissance. This book offers a guide to the most striki...
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315,88 zł |
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A History of Leisure: The British Experience Since 1500
ISBN: 9780333930816 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Peter Borsay places leisure in its historical context, enriching understanding and challenging received views of contemporary recreational practices. His approach is analytical and critical, with an emphasis on the long perspective, on key concepts rather than simple chronology, and on the British Isles as a fluid and dynamic amalgam of local and national cultures and polities.
Peter Borsay places leisure in its historical context, enriching understanding and challenging received views of contemporary recreational practices. ...
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553,01 zł |
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Disability and Social Policy in Britain Since 1750: A History of Exclusion
ISBN: 9780333912553 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Disability and Social Policy in Britain since 1750 explores experiences of physical and mental impairment in Britain since the Industrial Revolution. The book's starting point is the exclusion of disabled people from the full rights of citizenship because of their marginality to the labour market. Institutional living and community care are then examined with reference to the changing mixed economy of health and social care. Literary, oral and visual sources complement documentary evidence, and particular attention is paid to the personal testimonies of disabled people.
Disability and Social Policy in Britain since 1750 explores experiences of physical and mental impairment in Britain since the Industrial Rev...
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196,01 zł |
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Medicine and Charity in Georgian Bath: A Social History of the General Infirmary, C.1739-1830
ISBN: 9781138326002 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First published in 1999, this rewarding volume offers a close and systematic analysis of the General Infirmary at Bath, which was founded in 1739 to grant ‘lepers and cripples, and other indigent strangers’ access to the spa waters. Four main themes are pursued in order to locate the hospital within its economic, socio-cultural and political contexts: arrangements for management and finance under the conditions of a prospering commercial economy; the rewards and restrictions experienced by the physicians and surgeons who donated their professional services free of charge; and the...
First published in 1999, this rewarding volume offers a close and systematic analysis of the General Infirmary at Bath, which was founded in 1739 to g...
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754,11 zł |
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The Eighteenth-Century Town: A Reader in English Urban History 1688-1820
ISBN: 9781138837430 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The eighteenth century represents a critical period in the transition of the English urban history, as the town of the early modern era involved into that of the industrial revolution; and since Britain was the 'first industrial nation', this transformation is of more-than-national significance for all those interested in the histroy of towns. This book gathers together in one volume some of the most interesting and important articles that have appeared in research journals to provide a rich variety of perspectives on urban evelopment in the period.
The eighteenth century represents a critical period in the transition of the English urban history, as the town of the early modern era involved into ...
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678,70 zł |
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Disability and Social Policy in Britain Since 1750: A History of Exclusion
ISBN: 9780333912546 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Disability and Social Policy in Britain since 1750 explores experiences of physical and mental impairment in Britain since the Industrial Revolution. The book's starting point is the exclusion of disabled people from the full rights of citizenship because of their marginality to the labour market. Institutional living and community care are then examined with reference to the changing mixed economy of health and social care. Literary, oral and visual sources complement documentary evidence, and particular attention is paid to the personal testimonies of disabled people.
Disability and Social Policy in Britain since 1750 explores experiences of physical and mental impairment in Britain since the Industrial Rev...
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653,56 zł |
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The Invention of the English Landscape: C. 1700-1939
ISBN: 9781350031678 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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427,33 zł |
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Nursing and Midwifery in Britain Since 1700
ISBN: 9780230247031 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Nurses and midwives, both qualified and in training, have a lively interest in how their professions have developed. A stimulating collection of research-based essays, this book explores and compares the distinct histories of nursing and midwifery in Britain from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the modern day.
Nurses and midwives, both qualified and in training, have a lively interest in how their professions have developed. A stimulating collection of resea...
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191,00 zł |
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Disabled Children: Contested Caring, 1850-1979
ISBN: 9781138662100 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume of essays attempts to identify the shared experiences of disabled children and examine the key debates about their care and control. The essays follow a chronological progression while focusing on the practices in a number of different countries.
This volume of essays attempts to identify the shared experiences of disabled children and examine the key debates about their care and control. The e...
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241,27 zł |
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A History of Leisure: The British Experience since 1500
ISBN: 9780333930823 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Peter Borsay places leisure in its historical context, enriching understanding and challenging received views of contemporary recreational practices. His approach is analytical and critical, with an emphasis on the long perspective, on key concepts rather than simple chronology, and on the British Isles as a fluid and dynamic amalgam of local and national cultures and polities.
Peter Borsay places leisure in its historical context, enriching understanding and challenging received views of contemporary recreational practices. ...
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170,88 zł |
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Medicine, Charity and Mutual Aid: The Consumption of Health and Welfare in Britain, C.1550-1950
ISBN: 9781138275652 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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231,21 zł |
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Medical Records for the South Wales Coalfield C. 1890-1948 : An Annotated Guide to the South Wales Coalfield Collection
ISBN: 9780708320471 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The vast archives of the South Wales Coalfield Collection are a unique asset for researchers and an especially useful tool for medical historians. Until now the medical records contained within the collection have been prohibitively difficult to locate, but Anne Borsay and Sara Brady here present a guide to the collection that highlights all items of medical significance. In addition to helping researchers find their way through the collection, Borsay and Brady establish the historical context for the records by exploring the ways that new legislation, scientific developments, changes in...
The vast archives of the South Wales Coalfield Collection are a unique asset for researchers and an especially useful tool for medical historians. Unt...
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59,21 zł |
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Disabled Children: Contested Caring, 1850-1979
ISBN: 9781848933613 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume of essays attempts to identify the shared experiences of disabled children and examine the key debates about their care and control. The essays follow a chronological progression while focusing on the practices in a number of different countries.
This volume of essays attempts to identify the shared experiences of disabled children and examine the key debates about their care and control. The e...
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728,97 zł |