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Rotten Bodies is a history of the medical understanding of epidemic disease, but it is also a history of how that understanding permeated and reinforced the class structure of 18th-century England. In order to provide this, it covers an extensive range of subject matter, especially relating to the penal system and humanitarian movements to reform that system.
Hace 2 días · During the 18th century the Royal Navy engaged in a long struggle with the French navy for maritime supremacy, leading Britain to victory over France in four separate wars between 1688 and 1763. It played a key role in Britain’s stand against Napoleon , and, after winning the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, the Royal Navy was never again challenged by the French.
Hace 3 días · Their introduction reconsiders the age of reform in the light of the new historiography of the eighteenth century that shows the extent of governmental and institutional reforms, the vitality of ‘pressure from without’ and the emergence of social criticism in the period caricatured by nineteenth-century reformers as ‘Old Corruption’.(pp. 6-7) Nonetheless, the years 1780-82 saw the ...
Hace 4 días · 18th Century Women and Gender Studies Sources. The following resources are major tools for finding digitized texts related to the history of women and gender. A collection of books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women's reform activities.
Hace 2 días · British Sea Power, 1750–1815. Aldershot, Ashgate, 2003, ISBN: 754608301X; 239pp.; Price: £37.50. Dr Cindy McCreery, review of Representing the Royal Navy. British Sea Power, 1750–1815, (review no. 436) Now is an appropriate time to consider the role of the British Navy and its cultural significance. 2005 marks the bicentenary of the Battle ...
Hace 5 días · By discussing the health of migrants as well as sailors, the work adds to our understanding of sanitary advances in 18th and 19th-century British society. It might have been helpful to include a little more about the contributions made by naval surgeons to medical science in this period – although, admittedly, this constitutes a field for historical investigation in its own right.
Hace 1 día · Taverns and Drinking in Early America. Baltimore, John Hopkins University Press, 2002, ISBN: 801868785X; 309pp.; Price: £42.00. Tavern-going was as an important a part of the social fabric of early America as churchgoing. Even in the most obscure communities Americans visited a tavern regularly if not daily.
