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8 produkter
Making of Addiction
The 'Use and Abuse' of Opium in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Inbunden, 2006
2818 kr
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What does drug addiction mean to us? What did it mean to others in the past? And how are these meanings connected? In modern society the idea of drug addiction is a given and commonly understood concept, yet this was not always the case in the past. This book uncovers the original influences that …
Making of Addiction
The 'Use and Abuse' of Opium in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Häftad, 2017
809 kr
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What does drug addiction mean to us? What did it mean to others in the past? And how are these meanings connected? In modern society the idea of drug addiction is a given and commonly understood concept, yet this was not always the case in the past. This book uncovers the original influences that …
Making of Addiction
The ''Use and Abuse'' of Opium in Nineteenth-Century Britain
E-bok, 2016
856 kr
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What does drug addiction mean to us? What did it mean to others in the past? And how are these meanings connected? In modern society the idea of drug addiction is a given and commonly understood concept, yet this was not always the case in the past. This book uncovers the original influences that …
Making of Addiction
The ''Use and Abuse'' of Opium in Nineteenth-Century Britain
E-bok, 2016
856 kr
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What does drug addiction mean to us? What did it mean to others in the past? And how are these meanings connected? In modern society the idea of drug addiction is a given and commonly understood concept, yet this was not always the case in the past. This book uncovers the original influences that …
Sexuality: All That Matters
Häftad, 2014
202 kr
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"Sexuality" may be an eighteenth-century coinage, but as this new study by award-winning historian Louise Foxcroft shows, it has fascinated and frightened us for millennia.From proscription to prescription, and from humour to anxiety, Sexuality: All That Matters explores the vast sex-scape of …
Sexuality: All That Matters
E-bok, 2014
44 kr
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"Sexuality" may be an eighteenth-century coinage, but as this new study by award-winning historian Louise Foxcroft shows, it has fascinated and frightened us for millennia. From proscription to prescription, and from humour to anxiety, Sexuality: All That Matters explores the vast sex-scape of …
Calories and Corsets
A history of dieting over two thousand years
E-bok, 2012
143 kr
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Today we are urged from all sides to slim down and shape up, to shed a few pounds or lose life-threatening stones. The media''s relentless obsession with size may be perceived as a twenty-first-century phenomenon, but as award-winning historian Louise Foxcroft shows, we have been struggling with …
Gayer-Anderson
The Life and Afterlife of the Irish Pasha
Inbunden, 2016
381 kr
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Based on the personal journals of Robert Grenville Gayer-Anderson (1881-1945), Egyptologist, poet, surgeon, soldier, psychic, and noted collector, this candid and charming historical biography tells of Gayer-Anderson's strange and eclectic life in the final days of the British empire. As a child, …
