ilość książek w kategorii: 779
Heaven's Command
ISBN: 9780156027748 / Angielski / Miękka / 564 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The opening volume of Morris s Pax Britannica Trilogy, this richly detailed work traces the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Victoria to the throne in 1837 to the celebration of her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. Index. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
" The opening volume of Morris s Pax Britannica Trilogy, this richly detailed work traces the rise of the British Empire, from the accession of Queen Vi...
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173,88 zł |
Victorians
ISBN: 9780393325430 / Angielski / Miękka / 738 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As one of our most accomplished biographers and novelists, A. N. Wilson has a keen eye for a good story, and in this spectacular work he singles out those writers, statesmen, scientists, philosophers, and soldiers whose lives illuminate so grand and revolutionary a history: Darwin, Marx, Gladstone, Christina Rossetti, Gordon, Cardinal Newman, George Eliot, Kipling. Wilson's accomplishment in this book is to explain through these signature lives how Victorian England started a revolution that still hasn't ended.
As one of our most accomplished biographers and novelists, A. N. Wilson has a keen eye for a good story, and in this spectacular work he singles out t...
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173,66 zł |
Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England
ISBN: 9780393327632 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A rich selection from diaries, letters, advice books, magazines, and paintings creates a rooms-by-room portrait of Victorian life--from childbirth in the master bedroom to separate gender domains in the drawing room and parlor.
A rich selection from diaries, letters, advice books, magazines, and paintings creates a rooms-by-room portrait of Victorian life--from childbirth in ...
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156,45 zł |
Black Victorians/Black Victoriana
ISBN: 9780813532158 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Using a rich diversity of approaches, these essays give voice to hitherto unheard stories and provide historical and theoretical frameworks in which to understand them. Reading the volume creates an exciting feeling of discovery."-Margaret Homans, Yale University Black Victorians/Black Victoriana is a welcome attempt to correct the historical record. Although scholarship has given us a clear view of nineteenth-century imperialism, colonialism, and later immigration from the colonies, there has for far too long been a gap in our understanding of the lives of blacks in Victorian England....
"Using a rich diversity of approaches, these essays give voice to hitherto unheard stories and provide historical and theoretical frameworks in which ...
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166,94 zł |
Cleansing the City: Sanitary Geographies in Victorian London
ISBN: 9780821417706 / Angielski / Twarda / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Cleansing the City: Sanitary Geographies in Victorian London" explores not only the challenges faced by reformers as they strove to clean up an increasingly filthy city but the resistance to their efforts. Beginning in the 1830s, reform-minded citizens, under the banner of sanitary improvement, plunged into London s dark and dirty spaces and returned with the material they needed to promote public health legislation and magnificent projects of sanitary engineering. Sanitary reform, however, was not always met with unqualified enthusiasm. While some improvements, such as slum clearances, the...
"Cleansing the City: Sanitary Geographies in Victorian London" explores not only the challenges faced by reformers as they strove to clean up an incre...
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375,62 zł |
Cleansing the City: Sanitary Geographies in Victorian London
ISBN: 9780821417713 / Angielski / Miękka / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Cleansing the City: Sanitary Geographies in Victorian London" explores not only the challenges faced by reformers as they strove to clean up an increasingly filthy city but the resistance to their efforts.
Beginning in the 1830s, reform-minded citizens, under the banner of sanitary improvement, plunged into London s dark and dirty spaces and returned with the material they needed to promote public health legislation and magnificent projects of sanitary engineering. Sanitary reform, however, was not always met with unqualified enthusiasm. While some improvements, such as... "Cleansing the City: Sanitary Geographies in Victorian London" explores not only the challenges faced by reformers as they strove to clean up an incre...
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142,73 zł |
Pax Britannica: The Climax of an Empire
ISBN: 9780156028011 / Angielski / Miękka / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This centerpiece of the trilogy captures the British at the height of their vigor and self-satisfaction, imposing their traditions and tastes, their idealists and rascals, on diverse peoples of the world. Index. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
This centerpiece of the trilogy captures the British at the height of their vigor and self-satisfaction, imposing their traditions and tastes, their i...
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173,88 zł |
The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights and Plundered Ships
ISBN: 9780007170333 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the bestselling author of "The Lighthouse Stevensons", a gripping history of the drama and danger of wrecking since the eighteenth century - and the often grisly ingenuity of British wreckers, scavengers of the sea.
From the bestselling author of "The Lighthouse Stevensons", a gripping history of the drama and danger of wrecking since the eighteenth century - and ...
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67,22 zł |
Living in Sin: Cohabiting as Husband and Wife in Nineteenth-Century England
ISBN: 9780719077364 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A study of cohabitation in nineteenth-century England. It analyses marriage, the Victorian legal system, relations with kin and the reactions of the wider communities to extra-legal partnerships. It is suitable for those interested in gender and social his
A study of cohabitation in nineteenth-century England. It analyses marriage, the Victorian legal system, relations with kin and the reactions of the w...
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466,78 zł |
Christmas in Nineteenth-Century England
ISBN: 9780719077593 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite its enduring popularity as a national festival, Christmas has been largely neglected by English historians. Neil Armstrong offers the first study to examine both the experience and representation of Christmas during the formative period of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book explores the origins of our deeply held notions of the traditional nature of Christmas and demonstrates how they were shaped by English modernity. A study of both continuity and change, Christmas in nineteenth-Ccntury England makes an important contribution to cultural and social history, and...
Despite its enduring popularity as a national festival, Christmas has been largely neglected by English historians. Neil Armstrong offers the first st...
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466,78 zł |
Living in Sin: Cohabiting as Husband and Wife in Nineteenth-Century England
ISBN: 9780719085697 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Living in sin' is the first book-length study of cohabitation in nineteenth-century England, based on research into the lives of hundreds of couples. 'Common-law' marriages did not have any legal basis, so the Victorian courts had to wrestle with unions that resembled marriage in every way, yet did not meet its most basic requirements.
The majority of those who lived in irregular unions did so because they could not marry legally. Others chose not to marry, from indifference, from class differences, or because they dissented from marriage for philosophical reasons. This book looks at each... Living in sin' is the first book-length study of cohabitation in nineteenth-century England, based on research into the lives of hundreds of couples. ...
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109,78 zł |
Violent Victorians: Popular Entertainment in Nineteenth-Century London
ISBN: 9780719086847 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We are often told that the Victorians were far less violent than their forebears: over the course of the nineteenth century, violent sports were mostly outlawed, violent crime, including homicide, began to decline, and bodily punishments, including hanging, were increasingly hidden from public view. They were also much more respectable, and actively sought orderly, uplifting, domestic and refined pastimes. Yet these were the very same people who celebrated the exceptionally violent careers of anti-heroes such as the brutal puppet Punch and the murderous barber Sweeney Todd.
Violent... We are often told that the Victorians were far less violent than their forebears: over the course of the nineteenth century, violent sports were mostl...
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439,32 zł |
Violent Victorians: Popular Entertainment in Nineteenth-Century London
ISBN: 9780719086854 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We are often told that the Victorians were far less violent than their forebears: over the course of the nineteenth century, violent sports were mostly outlawed, violent crime, including homicide, began to decline, and bodily punishments, including hanging, were increasingly hidden from public view. They were also much more respectable, and actively sought orderly, uplifting, domestic and refined pastimes. Yet these were the very same people who celebrated the exceptionally violent careers of anti-heroes such as the brutal puppet Punch and the murderous barber Sweeney Todd. We are often told that the Victorians were far less violent than their forebears: over the course of the nineteenth century, violent sports were mo... |
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109,78 zł |
The History of Ditchling in the County of Sussex
ISBN: 9781898941897 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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77,55 zł |
Lost Children: Ulverston Workhouse in the 19th Century
ISBN: 9780955200922 / Angielski / Miękka / 50 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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51,98 zł |
Liberalism in West Cornwall: The 1868 Election Papers of A. Pendarves Vivian MP
ISBN: 9780901853424 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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130,42 zł |
The Science of Sympathy: Morality, Evolution, and Victorian Civilization
ISBN: 9780252040580 / Angielski / Twarda / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his Descent of Man, Charles Darwin placed sympathy at the crux of morality in a civilized human society. His idea buttressed the belief that white, upper-class, educated men deserved their sense of superiority by virtue of good breeding. It also implied that societal progress could be steered by envisioning a new blueprint for sympathy that redefined moral actions carried out in sympathy's name. Rob Boddice joins a daring intellectual history of sympathy to a portrait of how the first Darwinists defined and employed it. As Boddice shows, their interpretations of Darwin's ideas sparked a...
In his Descent of Man, Charles Darwin placed sympathy at the crux of morality in a civilized human society. His idea buttressed the belief that white,...
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474,74 zł |
Fifty Things You Need To Know About British History
ISBN: 9780007313907 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What are the 50 key events you need to understand to grasp British history? If you could choose the 50 things that define British history, events of significance not only in themselves, but in their importance to wider themes running through our past, what would they be? Hugh Williams has made that selection, and the result is a fascinating overview of Britain's past. He refines British history into a series of key themes that represent a crucial strand in our history, and pinpoints the seminal events within those strands - Roots, from the Roman invasion to Britain's entry into... What are the 50 key events you need to understand to grasp British history? If you could choose the 50 things that define British history, ev... |
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77,56 zł |
Pleasure Bound: Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism
ISBN: 9780393068320 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As thought-provoking as it is electric, Pleasure Bound unearths the desires of the men and women who challenged buttoned-up Victorian mores to promote erotic freedom. These bohemians formed two loosely overlapping societies--the Cannibal Club and the Aesthetes--to explore their fascinations with sexual taboo, from homosexuality to the eroticization of death. Known as much for their flamboyant personal lives as for their controversial masterpieces, they created a scandal-provoking counterculture that paved the way for such later figures as Gustav Klimt, Virginia Woolf, and Jean Genet....
As thought-provoking as it is electric, Pleasure Bound unearths the desires of the men and women who challenged buttoned-up Victorian mores t...
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214,12 zł |
William Armstrong: Magician of the North
ISBN: 9780857160423 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title is the biography of visionary inventor, engineer and businessman William Armstrong who brought global renown to his great Elswick works on Tyneside and built for himself the first house in the world to be lit with hydroelectricity, Cragside.
This title is the biography of visionary inventor, engineer and businessman William Armstrong who brought global renown to his great Elswick works on ...
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82,74 zł |