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Hace 2 días · Price: £52.50. In this book Georgios Varouxakis analyses the Victorian perceptions and representations of France and the French by intellectuals or, more precisely, ‘public moralists’. John Stuart Mill, Matthew Arnold and Walter Bagehot provide the major textual sources, supplemented by a handful of lesser-known authors.
Hace 1 día · Clothing the Poor in Nineteenth-Century England. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013, ISBN: 9781107042278; 344pp.; Price: £65.00. The lower levels of 19th-century society have received increasing amounts of attention from historians, and while their clothing is very nearly always mentioned (at least in passing) Vivienne Richmond ...
Hace 2 días · The word photography is derived from the Greek words for light and writing. Electric Telegraph developed by William Cooke and Charles Wheastone. Swinging needles transmit message in code in 1858. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876. The first cars appeared during the Victorian times, but only rich people could afford them.
Hace 2 días · Their first collection of essays entitled The Irish in Victorian City (1985) presented an eclectic collection of what was then a relatively new subject area having only been covered substantially in the post-war period by one monograph from J. A. Jackson (who in many ways set the template for this field of study) and two local studies from London and Leeds.
Hace 3 días · Technological advances sparked fears of ‘overdevelopment’ and loss of jobs due to automation. Like historians of 19th-century ‘modernity’ before them, the authors point out its ambiguities; what is refreshing in their approach is that they do so by honing in on medical debates and their wider resonance in Victorian society.
Hace 3 días · Sex, Gender and Social Change in Britain Since 1880. This is a relatively short book by Britain's leading historian of sexuality, but it has a big agenda. Drawing on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, Lesley Hall discusses the shifts, the continuities and the changes in sexual custom and practice that prevailed between 1880 and the ...
Hace 3 días · One of many spired turrets in Ditmas Park. Just as Victorian Flatbush refers to a collection of neighborhoods, Victorian-era homes derive from a number of distinct architectural styles popular in ...
