wyszukanych pozycji: 9
Useful Toil: Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820s to the 1920s
ISBN: 9780415103992 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Useful Toil engages freshly and directly with the ordinary' people of the nineteenth century. John Burnett has assembled twenty seven telling extracts from the diaries and autobiographies of working people - wheelwrights and stone-masons, miners and munition workers, butlers and kitchen maids, navvies, carpenters, potters and ship assistants to list only a few. The men and women who speak in these pages concentrate on their working experiences, though they also write about their homes and their fears. They thus reveal, often unconsciously, the essence of their attitudes, values and...
Useful Toil engages freshly and directly with the ordinary' people of the nineteenth century. John Burnett has assembled twenty seven telling...
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220,31 zł |
Destiny Obscure: Autobiographies of Childhood, Education and Family from the 1820s to the 1920s
ISBN: 9780415104012 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this companion volume to Useful Toil, John Burnett has drawn extensively on over eight hundred previously unpublished manuscripts. The result is a unique record of childhood that reveals in intimate detail the trials and hard-won triumphs of nineteenth-century working-class life. Besides affording rare insights into the developing child's world of dreams, hopes and fears, they reflect a crucial period in the evolution of a family tradition; a time when, to counteract the brutalizing pressures of urbanization and industrialization, ordinary people turned to each other for...
In this companion volume to Useful Toil, John Burnett has drawn extensively on over eight hundred previously unpublished manuscripts. The res...
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220,31 zł |
Idle Hands: The Experience of Unemployment, 1790-1990
ISBN: 9781138432437 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Liquid Pleasures: A Social History of Drinks in Modern Britain
ISBN: 9780415131827 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Drinking has always meant much more than satisfying the thirst. Drinking can be a necessity, a comfort, an indulgence or a social activity.
Liquid Pleasures is an engrossing study of the social history of drinks in Britain from the late seventeenth century to the present. From the first cup of tea at breakfast to mid-morning coffee, to an eveining beer and a 'night-cap', John Burnett discusses individual drinks and drinking patterns which have varied not least with personal taste but also with age, gender, region and class. He shows how different ages have viewed the same drink... Drinking has always meant much more than satisfying the thirst. Drinking can be a necessity, a comfort, an indulgence or a social activity.
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209,82 zł |
Liquid Pleasures: A Social History of Drinks in Modern Britain
ISBN: 9780415131810 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Drinking has always meant much more than satisfying the thirst. Drinking can be a necessity, a comfort, an indulgence or a social activity.
Liquid Pleasures is an engrossing study of the social history of drinks in Britain from the late seventeenth century to the present. From the first cup of tea at breakfast to mid-morning coffee, to an eveining beer and a 'night-cap', John Burnett discusses individual drinks and drinking patterns which have varied not least with personal taste but also with age, gender, region and class. He shows how different ages have viewed the same drink... Drinking has always meant much more than satisfying the thirst. Drinking can be a necessity, a comfort, an indulgence or a social activity.
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708,33 zł |
Plenty and Want: A Social History of Food in England from 1815 to the Present Day
ISBN: 9780415008624 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. What did Queen Victoria have for dinner? And how did this compare with the meals of the poor in the nineteenth century? This classic account of English food habits since the industrial revolution answers these questions and more.
What did Queen Victoria have for dinner? And how did this compare with the meals of the poor in the nineteenth century? This classic account of Englis...
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230,81 zł |
Plenty and Want: A Social History of Food in England from 1815 to the Present Day
ISBN: 9781138141018 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. What did Queen Victoria have for dinner? And how did this compare with the meals of the poor in the nineteenth century? This classic account of English food habits since the industrial revolution answers these questions and more.
What did Queen Victoria have for dinner? And how did this compare with the meals of the poor in the nineteenth century? This classic account of Englis...
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708,33 zł |
Useful Toil
ISBN: 9781138162716 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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708,33 zł |
Destiny Obscure: Autobiographies of Childhood, Education and Family from the 1820s to the 1920s
ISBN: 9781138172784 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this companion volume to Useful Toil, John Burnett has drawn extensively on over eight hundred previously unpublished manuscripts. The result is a unique record of childhood that reveals in intimate detail the trials and hard-won triumphs of nineteenth-century working-class life. Besides affording rare insights into the developing child's world of dreams, hopes and fears, they reflect a crucial period in the evolution of a family tradition; a time when, to counteract the brutalizing pressures of urbanization and industrialization, ordinary people turned to each other for...
In this companion volume to Useful Toil, John Burnett has drawn extensively on over eight hundred previously unpublished manuscripts. The res...
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cena:
708,33 zł |