wyszukanych pozycji: 11
The English Town, 1680-1840: Government, Society and Culture
ISBN: 9780582317123 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This text examines the development of urban government and society during a key age of transition. It looks at topics such as social class, manners, religion, gender, dissent, amenities and entertainment, and the resilience of provincial culture in the face of London's growing influence.
This text examines the development of urban government and society during a key age of transition. It looks at topics such as social class, manners, r...
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171,12 zł |
Beyond the Grand Tour: Northern Metropolises and Early Modern Travel Behaviour
ISBN: 9780367344566 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Travel in early modern Europe is frequently represented as synonymous with the institution of the Grand Tour, a journey undertaken by elite young males from northern Europe to the centres of the arts and antiquity in Italy. Taking a somewhat different perspective, this volume builds upon recent research that pushes beyond this narrow orthodoxy and which decentres Italy as the ultimate destination of European travellers. Instead, it explores a much broader pattern of travel, undertaken by people of varied backgrounds and with divergent motives for travelling. By tapping into current reactions...
Travel in early modern Europe is frequently represented as synonymous with the institution of the Grand Tour, a journey undertaken by elite young male...
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207,43 zł |
Cities and the Grand Tour: The British in Italy, C.1690-1820
ISBN: 9781107529205 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. How did eighteenth-century travellers experience, describe and represent the urban environments they encountered as they made the Grand Tour? This fascinating book focuses on the changing responses of the British to the cities of Florence, Rome, Naples and Venice, during a period of unprecedented urbanisation at home. Drawing on a wide range of unpublished material, including travel accounts written by women, Rosemary Sweet explores how travel literature helped to create and perpetuate the image of a city; what the different meanings and imaginative associations attached to these cities were;...
How did eighteenth-century travellers experience, describe and represent the urban environments they encountered as they made the Grand Tour? This fas...
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222,93 zł |
Urban History
ISBN: 9781138797956 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 1688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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3760,58 zł |
The Writing of Urban Histories in Eighteenth-Century England
ISBN: 9780198206699 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book uses the genre of urban histories to examine aspects of culture, society, and politics in eighteenth-century towns in England. Sweet looks particularly at questions of civic pride and the creation of urban identity. Urban history and antiquarian scholarship were popular pursuits among polite society, and their study offers an unique insight into the cultural history of the period.
This book uses the genre of urban histories to examine aspects of culture, society, and politics in eighteenth-century towns in England. Sweet looks p...
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976,82 zł |
Cities and the Grand Tour: The British in Italy, C.1690 1820
ISBN: 9781107020504 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. How did eighteenth-century travellers experience, describe and represent the urban environments they encountered as they made the Grand Tour? This fascinating book focuses on the changing responses of the British to the cities of Florence, Rome, Naples and Venice, during a period of unprecedented urbanisation at home. Drawing on a wide range of unpublished material, including travel accounts written by women, Rosemary Sweet explores how travel literature helped to create and perpetuate the image of a city; what the different meanings and imaginative associations attached to these cities were;...
How did eighteenth-century travellers experience, describe and represent the urban environments they encountered as they made the Grand Tour? This fas...
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448,56 zł |
Antiquaries: The Discovery of the Past in Eighteenth-Century Britain
ISBN: 9781852853099 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 490 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Eighteenth-century Britain saw an explosion of interest in its own past, a past now expanded to include more than classical history and high politics. Eighteenth-century Britain saw an explosion of interest in its own past, a past now expanded to include more than classical history and high politi... |
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655,20 zł |
The English Town, 1680-1840: Government, Society and Culture
ISBN: 9781138148659 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. An impressively thorough exploration of the changing functions, character and experience of English towns in a key age of transition which includes smaller communities as well as the larger industrialising towns. Among the issues examined are demography, social stratification, manners, religion, gender, dissent, amenities and entertainment, and the resilience of provincial culture in the face of the growing influence of London. At its heart is an authoritative study of urban politics: the structures of authority, the realities of civic administration, and the general movement for reform that...
An impressively thorough exploration of the changing functions, character and experience of English towns in a key age of transition which includes sm...
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466,78 zł |
Women and Urban Life in Eighteenth-Century England: 'On the Town'
ISBN: 9780754607304 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Despite the considerable volume of research into various aspects of the social and economic, cultural and political history of eighteenth-century British towns, remarkably little has focused upon, or even reflected upon the distinctive experience of women in the urban context. Much of what research there is has explored the experience of laboring or impoverished women, or women of the social elite; by contrast, the essays in this collection take up the study of the participation of middling women in urban life. consequent upon urban development and shifts in the pattern of gender relations in...
Despite the considerable volume of research into various aspects of the social and economic, cultural and political history of eighteenth-century Brit...
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700,25 zł |
The Invention of the English Landscape: C. 1700-1939
ISBN: 9781350269767 / Angielski / 20-02-2025 Książka dostępna od: 20-02-2025 |
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Planowany termin premiery książki: 20-02-2025
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142,85 zł |
Beyond the Grand Tour: Northern Metropolises and Early Modern Travel Behaviour
ISBN: 9781472485809 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Travel in early-modern Europe is frequently represented as synonymous with the institution of the Grand Tour, a journey undertaken by elite young males from northern Europe to the centres of the arts and antiquity in Italy. Taking a somewhat different perspective, this volume builds upon recent research that pushes beyond this narrow orthodoxy and which decentres Italy as the ultimate destination of European travellers. Instead it explores a much broader pattern of travel, undertaken by people of varied backgrounds and with divergent motives for travelling. By tapping into current reactions...
Travel in early-modern Europe is frequently represented as synonymous with the institution of the Grand Tour, a journey undertaken by elite young male...
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778,05 zł |