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Cannabis Britannica: Empire, Trade, and Prohibition 1800-1928
ISBN: 9780199278817 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cannabis Britannica explores the historical origins of the UK's legislation and regulations on cannabis preparations before 1928. In 2003 the role of government in the regulation of cannabis is as hotly debated as it was a century ago. It draws on published and unpublished sources from the seventeenth century onwards from archives in the UK and India to show how the history of cannabis and the British before the twentieth century was bound up with imperialism. In this lively study James Mills explores the historical background of cannabis legislation, arguing that the drive towards...
Cannabis Britannica explores the historical origins of the UK's legislation and regulations on cannabis preparations before 1928. In 2003 the role of ...
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277,27 |
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Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London: Simon Forman: Astrologer, Alchemist, and Physician
ISBN: 9780199279050 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Simon Forman (1552-1611) is one of London's most infamous astrologers. Whilst he was consulted thousands of times a year for medical and other questions he stood apart from the medical elite as he boldly asserted medical ideas that were at odds with most learned physicians. In this fascinating book, Lauren Kassell vividly recovers the world of medicine and magic in Elizabethan London.
Simon Forman (1552-1611) is one of London's most infamous astrologers. Whilst he was consulted thousands of times a year for medical and other questio...
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706,69 |
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Civil Society in British History: Ideas, Identities, Institutions
ISBN: 9780199279104 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the many different strands in the language of civil society from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Through a series of case-studies it investigates the applicability of the term to a wide range of historical settings. The contributors show how past understandings of the term were often very different from (even in some respects the exact opposite of) those held today.
This book explores the many different strands in the language of civil society from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Through a series of case...
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314,01 |
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Elite Women in English Political Life C.1754-1790
ISBN: 9780199280100 / Angielski / Twarda / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on wide-ranging, original research into political, personal, and general correspondences across a period of significant social and political change, this book explores the gendered nature of politics and political life in eighteenth-century England by focusing on the political involvement of female members of the political elite. Chalus argues that the personal, social, and particularly the familial nature of eighteenth-century politics provided more women with a wider variety of opportunities for involvement than ever before.
Based on wide-ranging, original research into political, personal, and general correspondences across a period of significant social and political cha...
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626,31 |
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England on Edge : Crisis and Revolution 1640-1642
ISBN: 9780199280902 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. England on Edge deals with the collapse of the government of Charles I, the disintegration of the Church of England, and the accompanying cultural panic that led to civil war. Focused on the years 1640 to 1642, it examines stresses and fractures in social, political, and religious culture, and the emergence of an unrestrained popular press. Hundreds of people not normally seen in historical surveys make appearances here, in a drama much larger than the struggle of king and parliament. Historians commonly assert that royalists and parliamentarians parted company over issues of principle,...
England on Edge deals with the collapse of the government of Charles I, the disintegration of the Church of England, and the accompanying cultural pan...
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164,70 |
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Labour and the Countryside: The Politics of Rural Britain, 1918-1939
ISBN: 9780199287437 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the 1920s and 30s, Labour embarked on a series of campaigns to take the message of socialism to the farms and villages. This book re-examines common perceptions of an antagonism between Labour policies and rural Britain in a study of politics and culture in the early twentieth century.
During the 1920s and 30s, Labour embarked on a series of campaigns to take the message of socialism to the farms and villages. This book re-examines c...
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775,58 |
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Psychological Subjects: Identity, Culture, and Health in Twentieth-Century Britain
ISBN: 9780199287802 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Psychological Subjects is a broad-ranging and original historical study of how psychological thinking developed as a feature of life in twentieth-century Britain. Ranging from the excitement about a new age at the start of the century to the permissive society of the 1970s, it offers us a new picture of how Britons of the period came to think about
Psychological Subjects is a broad-ranging and original historical study of how psychological thinking developed as a feature of life in twentieth-cent...
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970,77 |
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Cities Divided: Politics and Religion in English Provincial Towns 1660-1722
ISBN: 9780199288397 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The religious and political history of late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century England is typically written in terms of conflict and division. This book reveals how civic celebration, designed as an expression of unity and amity, was often used for partisan purposes, reaching a peak in the 1710s.
The religious and political history of late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century England is typically written in terms of conflict and division. T...
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332,38 |
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Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain
ISBN: 9780199291052 / Angielski / Twarda / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first full-length account of "the question of intellectuals" in twentieth-century Britain. Leading intellectual historian and cultural commentator Stefan Collini challenges the myth that there are no "real" intellectuals in Britain and offers a persuasive analysis of 'the intellectual' as a concept as well as detailed discussions of influential figures such as T.S. Eliot, George Orwell, and Edward Said.
The first full-length account of "the question of intellectuals" in twentieth-century Britain. Leading intellectual historian and cultural commentator...
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392,09 |
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The Culture of History: English Uses of the Past 1800-1953
ISBN: 9780199296880 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Billie Melman takes us on a panoramic voyage of the 'culture of history' which developed in England after the French Revolution. She vividly recovers unexplored aspects of popular history, and unpicks notions of the uncosy past, a place of pleasurable horror and sensationalism, which survived into the 1950s.
Billie Melman takes us on a panoramic voyage of the 'culture of history' which developed in England after the French Revolution. She vividly recovers ...
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832,99 |
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Naval Engagements: Patriotism, Cultural Politics, and the Royal Navy 1793-1815
ISBN: 9780199297719 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The construction of an important element in British national identity is explored in Naval Engagements, looking at the ways in which the navy - a major symbol of national community - was given meaning by a range of social groupings. The study is at once a cultural history of national identity, a social history of naval commemoration, and a political history of struggles over patriotism.
Examining the place that naval symbols occupied in British wartime political culture, Timothy Jenks argues that these were more relevant to patriotic discourse than the more commonly explored 'apotheosis'... The construction of an important element in British national identity is explored in Naval Engagements, looking at the ways in which the navy - a majo...
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867,44 |
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Meanings of Manhood in Early Modern England
ISBN: 9780199299348 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This path-breaking study explores the diverse and varied meanings of manhood in early modern England and their complex, and often contested, relationship with patriarchal principles. Using social, political and medical commentary, alongside evidence of social practice derived from court records, Dr Shepard argues that patriarchal ideology contained numerous contradictions, and that, while males were its primary beneficiaries, it was undermined and opposed by men as well as women.
This path-breaking study explores the diverse and varied meanings of manhood in early modern England and their complex, and often contested, relations...
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286,45 |
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The History of the University of Oxford: Volume II: Late Medieval Oxford
ISBN: 9780199510122 / Angielski / Twarda / 906 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The History of the University of Oxford is an authoritative and comprehensive history of one of Britain's most important and influential institutions. Volume II examines the University during the late Middle Ages, when scholasticism was at its height. The expert contributors explore the academic pursuits of the scholars of Oxford: theology, primarily, but also philosophy, mathematics, law and medicine. They examine the nature of everyday life during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries--the finances and administration of the colleges, their architecture, and the individuals who lived and...
The History of the University of Oxford is an authoritative and comprehensive history of one of Britain's most important and influential institutions....
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1521,89 |
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The History of the University of Oxford: Volume III: The Collegiate University
ISBN: 9780199510139 / Angielski / Twarda / 780 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume describes a century of rapid and fundamental change. Under the Tudors the University witnessed the dramatic intrusion of successive governments into its affairs by visitations, and by the supplanting of the medieval regime of the regent masters with government by heads of houses. In the background to these violent changes the college evolved into the ordinary home of the undergraduate, displacing the medieval private hall, and Oxford acquired its familiar character as an association of endowed collegiate undergraduate societies. The intellectual counterpart of this institutional...
This volume describes a century of rapid and fundamental change. Under the Tudors the University witnessed the dramatic intrusion of successive govern...
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1407,07 |
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The History of the University of Oxford: Volume IV: Seventeenth-Century Oxford
ISBN: 9780199510146 / Angielski / Twarda / 1050 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Volume IV of the magisterial History of the University of Oxford covers the seventeenth century, a period of institutional and intellectual expansion for the University and of religious and political tumult for Oxford in general. In this volume, leading experts examine Oxford and its University's role in the major British events of the century, including the Civil War, the Commonwealth, and the Restoration.
Volume IV of the magisterial History of the University of Oxford covers the seventeenth century, a period of institutional and intellectual expansion ...
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1671,16 |
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The Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain
ISBN: 9780226037141 / Angielski / Miękka / 554 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. G. J. Barker-Benfield documents the emergence of the culture of sensibility that transformed British society of the eighteenth century. His account focuses on the rise of new moral and spiritual values and the struggle to redefine the group identities of men and women. Drawing on the full spectrum of eighteenth-century thought from Adam Smith to John Locke, from the Earl of Shaftesberry to Dr. George Cheyne, and especially Mary Wollstonecraft, Barker-Benfield offers an innovative and compelling way to understand how Britain entered the modern age.
G. J. Barker-Benfield documents the emergence of the culture of sensibility that transformed British society of the eighteenth century. His account fo...
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244,94 |
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Victorian People: A Reassessment of Persons and Themes, 1851-67
ISBN: 9780226074887 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text looks at the people, ideas and events between the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Second Reform Act of 1867. From "John Arthur Roebuck and the Crimean War," and "Samuel Smiles and the Gospel of Work" to "Thomas Hughes and the Public Schools" and "Benjanmin Disraeli and the Leap in the Dark," Asa Briggs provides an assessment of Victorian achievements; and in doing so conjures up an enviable picture of the progress and independence of the last century. "For expounding this theme, this interaction of event and personality, Mr. Briggs is abundantly and happily endowed. He is...
This text looks at the people, ideas and events between the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Second Reform Act of 1867. From "John Arthur Roebuck and ...
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168,40 |
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Fabricating the Antique: Neoclassicism in Britain, 1760-1800
ISBN: 9780226113968 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between 1760 and 1800, British aristocrats became preoccupied with the acquisition of ancient Greek and Roman artifacts. From marble busts to intricately painted vases, these antiquities were amassed in vast collections held in country houses and libraries throughout Britain. In "Fabricating the Antique," Viccy Coltman examines these objects and their owners, as well as dealers, restorers, designers, and manufacturers. She provides a close look at the classical revival that resulted in this obsession with collecting antiques.
Looking at the theoretical foundations of neoclassicism,... Between 1760 and 1800, British aristocrats became preoccupied with the acquisition of ancient Greek and Roman artifacts. From marble busts to intricat...
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306,18 |
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Charting an Empire: Geography at the English Universities 1580-1620
ISBN: 9780226116075 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How did early modern England an island nation on the periphery of world affairs transform itself into the center of a worldwide empire? Lesley B. Cormack argues that the newly institutionalized study of geography played a crucial role in fueling England's imperial ambitions.
Cormack demonstrates that geography was part of the Arts curriculum between 1580 and 1620, read at university by a broad range of soon-to-be political, economic, and religious leaders. By teaching these young Englishmen to view their country in a global context, and to see England playing a major role on that stage,... How did early modern England an island nation on the periphery of world affairs transform itself into the center of a worldwide empire? Lesley B. Corm...
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183,71 |
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Cultural Aesthetics: Renaissance Literature and the Practice of Social Ornament
ISBN: 9780226269535 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A brilliant postmodern critique of Renaissance subjectivity, "Cultural Aesthetics" explores the simultaneous formation and fragmentation of aristocratic "selfhood" in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Patricia Fumerton situates the self within its sumptuous array of "trivial" arts including the court literatures of chivalric romance, sonnet, and masque and the arts of architecture, miniature painting, stage design, and cuisine. Her integration of historicist and aesthetic perspectives makes this a provocative contribution to the vigorous field of Renaissance cultural...
A brilliant postmodern critique of Renaissance subjectivity, "Cultural Aesthetics" explores the simultaneous formation and fragmentation of aristocrat...
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203,20 |
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