Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories – serie
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Lost Londons
Change, Crime, and Control in the Capital City, 1550-1660
Häftad, 2010
871 kr
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A major study of the transformation of early modern London. By focusing on policing, prosecution, and the language and perceptions of the authorities and the underclasses, Paul Griffiths explores the swift growth of London and the changes to its cultures, communities, and environments. Through a …
Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human
New Worlds, Maps and Monsters
Häftad, 2017
502 kr
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Giants, cannibals and other monsters were a regular feature of Renaissance illustrated maps, inhabiting the Americas alongside other indigenous peoples. In a new approach to views of distant peoples, Surekha Davies analyzes this archive alongside prints, costume books and geographical writing. …
The Character of Credit
Personal Debt in English Culture, 1740-1914
Häftad, 2007
720 kr
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Personal credit relations were ubiquitous in English consumer markets, binding family members, friends, neighbours, customers and tradesmen in tangled lines of mutual obligation. In this study of the social history of personal debt and credit, Margot Finn reveals the pre-eminence of social …
Reading Sex in the Eighteenth Century
Bodies and Gender in English Erotic Culture
Av Karen Harvey
Häftad, 2008
653 kr
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Karen Harvey explores the construction of sexual difference and gender identity in eighteenth-century England. Using erotic texts and their illustrations, and rooting this evidence firmly in historical context, Harvey provides a thoroughgoing critique of the orthodoxy of work on sexual difference …
Making English Morals
Voluntary Association and Moral Reform in England, 1787-1886
Häftad, 2009
721 kr
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Campaigns for moral reform were a recurrent and distinctive feature of public life in later Georgian and Victorian England. Anti-slavery, temperance, charity organisation, cruelty prevention, 'social purity' advocates, and more, all promoted their causes through mobilisation of citizen volunteer …
The Politics of Commonwealth
Citizens and Freemen in Early Modern England
Häftad, 2009
594 kr
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The Politics of Commonwealth offers a major reinterpretation of urban political culture in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Examining what it meant to be a freeman and citizen in early modern England, it also shows the increasingly pivotal place of cities and boroughs within …
Leprosy and Empire
A Medical and Cultural History
Av Rod Edmond
Häftad, 2009
653 kr
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An innovative, interdisciplinary study of why leprosy, a disease with a very low level of infection, has repeatedly provoked revulsion and fear. Rod Edmond explores, in particular, how these reactions were refashioned in the modern colonial period. Beginning as a medical history, the book broadens …
Sex Before the Sexual Revolution
Intimate Life in England 1918-1963
Av Simon Szreter, Kate Fisher m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
435 kr
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What did sex mean for ordinary people before the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, who were often pitied by later generations as repressed, unfulfilled and full of moral anxiety? This book provides the first rounded, first-hand account of sexuality in marriage in the early and mid-twentieth …
Death, Grief and Poverty in Britain, 1870-1914
Häftad, 2010
720 kr
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With high mortality rates, it has been assumed that the poor in Victorian and Edwardian Britain did not mourn their dead. Contesting this approach, Julie-Marie Strange studies the expression of grief among the working class, demonstrating that poverty increased - rather than deadened - it. She …
The Culture of Giving
Informal Support and Gift-Exchange in Early Modern England
Häftad, 2011
720 kr
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An innovative study of gift-giving, informal support and charity in England between the late sixteenth and early eighteenth centuries. Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos examines the adaptation and transformation of varied forms of informal help, challenging long-held views and assumptions about the decline …
Nature and the Godly Empire
Science and Evangelical Mission in the Pacific, 1795-1850
Häftad, 2011
586 kr
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Nineteenth-century historians have described how science became secular and how scientific theories such as evolution justified colonialism. This book explores the relationship between nineteenth-century science and Christianity outside the Western world. At focus are the intrepid missionaries of …
Commemorating the Dead in Revolutionary France
Revolution and Remembrance, 1789-1799
Häftad, 2011
921 kr
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From the fall of the Bastille in 1789 to the coming of Napoleon ten years later, the commemoration of the dead was a recurring theme during the French Revolution. Based on extensive research across a wide range of sources, this book is the first comprehensive study of the cultural politics of …
Suicide and the Body Politic in Imperial Russia
Häftad, 2012
838 kr
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In early twentieth-century Russia, suicide became a public act and a social phenomenon of exceptional scale, a disquieting emblem of Russia's encounter with modernity. This book draws on an extensive range of sources, from judicial records to the popular press, to examine the forms, meanings, and …
Colonial Voices
A Cultural History of English in Australia, 1840-1940
Av Joy Damousi
Inbunden, 2010
1291 kr
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Colonial Voices explores the role of language in the greater 'civilising' project of the British Empire through the dissemination and reception of, and challenge to, British English in Australia during the period from the 1840s to the 1940s. This was a period in which the art of oratory, eloquence …
Voices of the People in Nineteenth-Century France
Av David Hopkin
Inbunden, 2012
1389 kr
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This innovative study of the lives of ordinary people - peasants, fishermen, textile workers - in nineteenth-century France demonstrates how folklore collections can be used to shed new light on the socially marginalized. David Hopkin explores the ways in which people used traditional genres such …
Master and Servant
Love and Labour in the English Industrial Age
Häftad, 2007
574 kr
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Leading historian Carolyn Steedman offers a fascinating and compelling account of love, life and domestic service in eighteenth-century England. This book, situated in the regional and chronological epicentre of E. P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class and Emily Bronte's Wuthering …
The Sexual Culture of the French Renaissance
Häftad, 2010
586 kr
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When the French invaded Italy in 1494, they were shocked by the frank sexuality expressed in Italian cities. By 1600, the French were widely considered to be the most highly sexualized nation in Christendom. What caused this transformation? This book examines how, as Renaissance textual practices …
Sex Before the Sexual Revolution
Intimate Life in England 1918-1963
Av Simon Szreter, Kate Fisher m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1677 kr
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What did sex mean for ordinary people before the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, who were often pitied by later generations as repressed, unfulfilled and full of moral anxiety? This book provides the first rounded, first-hand account of sexuality in marriage in the early and mid-twentieth …
The Sexual Culture of the French Renaissance
Inbunden, 2010
1677 kr
Lägg i varukorg
When the French invaded Italy in 1494, they were shocked by the frank sexuality expressed in Italian cities. By 1600, the French were widely considered to be the most highly sexualized nation in Christendom. What caused this transformation? This book examines how, as Renaissance textual practices …
Reading Sex in the Eighteenth Century
Bodies and Gender in English Erotic Culture
Av Karen Harvey
Inbunden, 2005
1626 kr
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Karen Harvey explores the construction of sexual difference and gender identity in eighteenth-century England. Using erotic texts and their illustrations, and rooting this evidence firmly in historical context, Harvey provides a thoroughgoing critique of the orthodoxy of work on sexual difference …
The Character of Credit
Personal Debt in English Culture, 1740-1914
Inbunden, 2003
1861 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Personal credit relations were ubiquitous in English consumer markets, binding family members, friends, neighbours, customers and tradesmen in tangled lines of mutual obligation. In this study of the social history of personal debt and credit, Margot Finn reveals the pre-eminence of social …
The Politics of Commonwealth
Citizens and Freemen in Early Modern England
Inbunden, 2005
1420 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Politics of Commonwealth offers a major reinterpretation of urban political culture in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Examining what it meant to be a freeman and citizen in early modern England, it also shows the increasingly pivotal place of cities and boroughs within …
Making English Morals
Voluntary Association and Moral Reform in England, 1787-1886
Inbunden, 2004
1861 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Campaigns for moral reform were a recurrent and distinctive feature of public life in later Georgian and Victorian England. Anti-slavery, temperance, charity organisation, cruelty prevention, 'social purity' advocates, and more, all promoted their causes through mobilisation of citizen volunteer …
Death, Grief and Poverty in Britain, 1870-1914
Inbunden, 2005
1542 kr
Lägg i varukorg
With high mortality rates, it has been assumed that the poor in Victorian and Edwardian Britain did not mourn their dead. Contesting this approach, Julie-Marie Strange studies the expression of grief among the working class, demonstrating that poverty increased - rather than deadened - it. She …
Gentility and the Comic Theatre of Late Stuart London
Inbunden, 2005
1626 kr
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Where Adam delved and Eve span Who was then the gentleman? Mark Dawson's approach to this riddle is not to study the lives of those said to belong to early modern England's gentry. He suggests we remain skeptical of all answers to this question and consider what was at stake whenever it was posed. …
Nature and the Godly Empire
Science and Evangelical Mission in the Pacific, 1795-1850
Inbunden, 2005
1039 kr
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Nineteenth-century historians have described how science became secular and how scientific theories such as evolution justified colonialism. This book explores the relationship between nineteenth-century science and Christianity outside the Western world. At focus are the intrepid missionaries of …
Suicide and the Body Politic in Imperial Russia
Inbunden, 2007
1821 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In early twentieth-century Russia, suicide became a public act and a social phenomenon of exceptional scale, a disquieting emblem of Russia's encounter with modernity. This book draws on an extensive range of sources, from judicial records to the popular press, to examine the forms, meanings, and …
Leprosy and Empire
A Medical and Cultural History
Av Rod Edmond
Inbunden, 2006
1677 kr
Lägg i varukorg
An innovative, interdisciplinary study of why leprosy, a disease with a very low level of infection, has repeatedly provoked revulsion and fear. Rod Edmond explores, in particular, how these reactions were refashioned in the modern colonial period. Beginning as a medical history, the book broadens …
The Culture of Giving
Informal Support and Gift-Exchange in Early Modern England
Inbunden, 2008
1861 kr
Lägg i varukorg
An innovative study of gift-giving, informal support and charity in England between the late sixteenth and early eighteenth centuries. Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos examines the adaptation and transformation of varied forms of informal help, challenging long-held views and assumptions about the decline …
Master and Servant
Love and Labour in the English Industrial Age
Inbunden, 2007
1677 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Leading historian Carolyn Steedman offers a fascinating and compelling account of love, life and domestic service in eighteenth-century England. This book, situated in the regional and chronological epicentre of E. P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class and Emily Bronte's Wuthering …
