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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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994,77 zł |
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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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337,44 zł |
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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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401,69 zł |
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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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858,86 zł |
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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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883,56 zł |
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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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292,96 zł |
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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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1563,15 zł |
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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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1439,58 zł |
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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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1711,42 zł |
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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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263,59 zł |
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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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181,22 zł |
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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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197,69 zł |
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Black British Cultural Studies: A Reader
ISBN: 9780226144825 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Black British Cultural Studies has attracted significant attention recently in the American academy both as a model for cultural studies generally and as a corrective to reigning constructions of Blackness within African-American studies. This anthology offers the first book-length selection of writings by key figures in this field.
From Stuart Hall's classic study of racially structured societies to an interview by Manthia Diawara with Sonia Boyce, a leading figure in the Black British arts movement, the papers included here have transformed cultural studies through their sustained focus... Black British Cultural Studies has attracted significant attention recently in the American academy both as a model for cultural studies generally and...
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148,27 zł |
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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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164,75 zł |
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Britain in Transition: The Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780226319704 / Angielski / Miękka / 708 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new edition extends and brings up to date the story of political, economic, and social change among the British. An entirely new chapter covers the Thatcher years, discussing such events as the Falkland Island crisis and the General Election of 1983. Other sections have been revised to reflect information only recently available. Throughout, Havighurst has incorporated material from official documents, monographs, biographies, articles, and the press. His fascinating narrative fully captures the ongoing importance of change itself in shaping the character of Britain.
This new edition extends and brings up to date the story of political, economic, and social change among the British. An entirely new chapter covers t...
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302,03 zł |
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Royal Representations: Queen Victoria and British Culture, 1837-1876
ISBN: 9780226351148 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Queen Victoria was one of the most complex cultural productions of her age. In "Royal Representations," Margaret Homans investigates the meanings Victoria held for her times, Victoria's own contributions to Victorian writing and art, and the cultural mechanisms through which her influence was felt.
Arguing that being, seeming, and appearing were crucial to Victoria's "rule," Homans explores the variability of Victoria's agency and of its representations using a wide array of literary, historical, and visual sources. Along the way she shows how Victoria provided a deeply equivocal model... Queen Victoria was one of the most complex cultural productions of her age. In "Royal Representations," Margaret Homans investigates the meanings Vict...
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153,76 zł |
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Word Crimes: Blasphemy, Culture, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century England
ISBN: 9780226506913 / Angielski / Miękka / 442 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1883 the editor of a penny newspaper stood trial three times for the "obsolete" crime of blasphemy. The editor was G. W. Foote, the paper was the "Freethinker," and the trial was the defining event of the decade. Foote's "martyrdom" completed blasphemy's nineteenth-century transformation from a religious offense to a class and cultural crime.
From extensive archival and literary research, Joss Marsh reconstructs a unified and particular account of blasphemy in Victorian England. Rewriting English history from the bottom up, she tells the forgotten stories of more than two hundred... In 1883 the editor of a penny newspaper stood trial three times for the "obsolete" crime of blasphemy. The editor was G. W. Foote, the paper was the "...
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175,73 zł |
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The Subject of Elizabeth: Authority, Gender, and Representation
ISBN: 9780226534756 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As a woman wielding public authority, Elizabeth I embodied a paradox at the very center of sixteenth-century patriarchal English society.Louis Montrose s long-awaited book, "The Subject of Elizabeth, "illuminates the ways in which the Queen and her subjects variously exploited or obfuscated this contradiction.
Montrose offers a masterful account of the texts, pictures, and performances in which the Queen was represented to her people, to her court, to foreign powers, and to Elizabeth herself.Retrieving this Elizabethan imaginary in all its richness and fascination, Montrose presents a... As a woman wielding public authority, Elizabeth I embodied a paradox at the very center of sixteenth-century patriarchal English society.Louis Montros...
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164,75 zł |
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The Victorian Eye: A Political History of Light and Vision in Britain, 1800-1910
ISBN: 9780226640761 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the nineteenth century, Britain became the first gaslit society, with electric lighting arriving in 1878. At the same time, the British government significantly expanded its power to observe and monitor its subjects. How did such enormous changes in the way people saw and were seen affect Victorian culture?To answer that question, Chris Otter mounts an ambitious history of illumination and vision in Britain, drawing on extensive research into everything from the science of perception and lighting technologies to urban design and government administration. He explores how light...
During the nineteenth century, Britain became the first gaslit society, with electric lighting arriving in 1878. At the same time, the British governm...
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439,32 zł |
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Reading Holinshed's Chronicles
ISBN: 9780226649122 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reading Holinshed's Chronicles is the first major study of the greatest of the Elizabethan chronicles. Holinshed's Chronicles-a massive history of England, Scotland, and Ireland-has been traditionally read as the source material for many of Shakespeare's plays or as an archaic form of history-writing. Annabel Patterson insists that the Chronicles be read in their own right as an important and inventive cultural history. Although we know it by the name of Raphael Holinshed, editor and major compiler of the 1577 edition, the Chronicles was the work of a group, a...
Reading Holinshed's Chronicles is the first major study of the greatest of the Elizabethan chronicles. Holinshed's Chronicles-a massive ...
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153,76 zł |
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