Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World – serie
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Instrumental Teaching in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Av David Golby
Häftad, 2017
442 kr
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First published in 2004, this book demonstrates that while Britain produced many fewer instrumental virtuosi than its foreign neighbours, there developed a more serious and widespread interest in the cultivation of music throughout the nineteenth century.Taking a predominantly historical approach, …
Three Victorian Travellers
Burton, Blunt, Doughty
Häftad, 2017
577 kr
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First published in 1964. This book is concerned with impressions of Arabic culture on the British before the First World War. More particularly, it is concerned with three Victorian travellers, all of whom knew Arabic culture first hand through their travels in the Middle and Near East, and …
Victorian Magic
Inbunden, 2016
2197 kr
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First published in 1976. This title brings the Victorian era to life with stories of its spectacular leading magicians, conjurers, illusionists, escapologists, scientific experimenters and tricksters. Geoffrey Lamb describes the kind of people they were and the kind of things they did, whilst …
Victorian Magic
Häftad, 2017
637 kr
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First published in 1976. This title brings the Victorian era to life with stories of its spectacular leading magicians, conjurers, illusionists, escapologists, scientific experimenters and tricksters. Geoffrey Lamb describes the kind of people they were and the kind of things they did, whilst …
Paternalism in Early Victorian England
Inbunden, 2016
2586 kr
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First published in 1979. This book studies the social outlook which historians today call paternalism. It was an ideology which informed social attitudes at all levels of society and expressed itself in countless ways. In this work, David Roberts provides a comprehensive examination of the revival, …
Paternalism in Early Victorian England
Häftad, 2017
637 kr
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First published in 1979. This book studies the social outlook which historians today call paternalism. It was an ideology which informed social attitudes at all levels of society and expressed itself in countless ways. In this work, David Roberts provides a comprehensive examination of the revival, …
Victorians at Home and Away
Av Janet Phillips, Peter Phillips
Inbunden, 2016
2586 kr
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First published in 1978, this book explores everyday Victorian likes and dislikes, manners, fashions, ideals and illusions. It discusses their changing attitudes to women, children, the poor, the common soldier and their country. It explains the rise and fall of home entertainment, the growth of …
Victorians at Home and Away
Av Janet Phillips, Peter Phillips
Häftad, 2017
637 kr
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First published in 1978, this book explores everyday Victorian likes and dislikes, manners, fashions, ideals and illusions. It discusses their changing attitudes to women, children, the poor, the common soldier and their country. It explains the rise and fall of home entertainment, the growth of …
Three Victorian Travellers
Burton, Blunt, Doughty
Inbunden, 2016
2197 kr
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First published in 1964. This book is concerned with impressions of Arabic culture on the British before the First World War. More particularly, it is concerned with three Victorian travellers, all of whom knew Arabic culture first hand through their travels in the Middle and Near East, and …
Independent Spirits
Spiritualism and English Plebeians, 1850-1910
Av Logie Barrow
Inbunden, 2016
2512 kr
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First published in 1986. Independent Spirits is about the intellectual world of the humbly-born in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain, focussing on plebeian, or working- and lower middle-class spiritualists. This book is an important study which throws light on the idealism and …
Independent Spirits
Spiritualism and English Plebeians, 1850-1910
Av Logie Barrow
Häftad, 2017
822 kr
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First published in 1986. Independent Spirits is about the intellectual world of the humbly-born in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain, focussing on plebeian, or working- and lower middle-class spiritualists. This book is an important study which throws light on the idealism and …
Working Class in England 1875-1914
Av John Benson
Inbunden, 2016
2586 kr
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First published in 1985. Too often aspects of working-class life have been treated as distinct and separate. The contributors to this volume are aware of the dangers of such atomisation and have attempted to bring together a collection of studies which add to our knowledge of life in that time. The …
Working Class in England 1875-1914
Av John Benson
Häftad, 2017
577 kr
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First published in 1985. Too often aspects of working-class life have been treated as distinct and separate. The contributors to this volume are aware of the dangers of such atomisation and have attempted to bring together a collection of studies which add to our knowledge of life in that time. The …
Leisure in the Industrial Revolution
c. 1780-c. 1880
Inbunden, 2016
2586 kr
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First published in 1980. This book is a study of what different classes of society understood by leisure and how they enjoyed it. It argues that many of the assumptions which have underlain the history of leisure are misleading, and in particular the notions that there was a vacuum in popular …
Leisure in the Industrial Revolution
c. 1780-c. 1880
Häftad, 2017
577 kr
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First published in 1980. This book is a study of what different classes of society understood by leisure and how they enjoyed it. It argues that many of the assumptions which have underlain the history of leisure are misleading, and in particular the notions that there was a vacuum in popular …
Reform and Intellectual Debate in Victorian England
Av Barbara Dennis, David Skilton
Inbunden, 2016
2586 kr
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First published in 1987. Readers of Victorian literature, both poetry and prose, are constantly aware of a powerful undercurrent of change - political, social, and intellectual - which determines the shape of the literature being produced. Topics covered include parliamentary reform, the Gentleman, …
Reform and Intellectual Debate in Victorian England
Av Barbara Dennis, David Skilton
Häftad, 2017
577 kr
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First published in 1987. Readers of Victorian literature, both poetry and prose, are constantly aware of a powerful undercurrent of change - political, social, and intellectual - which determines the shape of the literature being produced. Topics covered include parliamentary reform, the Gentleman, …
Victorian Clergy
Av Alan Haig
Inbunden, 2016
2512 kr
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First published in 1984. The Victorian clergy occupied a uniquely prominent position in English society. Their church generated continual and often rancorous debate and they played an important part in the local provision of education, welfare and justice. Politically, also, they were never …
Victorian Clergy
Av Alan Haig
Häftad, 2017
637 kr
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First published in 1984. The Victorian clergy occupied a uniquely prominent position in English society. Their church generated continual and often rancorous debate and they played an important part in the local provision of education, welfare and justice. Politically, also, they were never …
Domestic Servants and Households in Rochdale
1851-1871
Av Edward Higgs
Inbunden, 2016
1027 kr
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First published in 1986. At any one time in late nineteenth-century England and Wales over one million men and women were described as domestic servants in the occupational category after agricultural work. This title explores several aspects of domestic service in the area of Rochdale, and the …
Domestic Servants and Households in Rochdale
1851-1871
Av Edward Higgs
Häftad, 2017
637 kr
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First published in 1986. At any one time in late nineteenth-century England and Wales over one million men and women were described as domestic servants in the occupational category after agricultural work. This title explores several aspects of domestic service in the area of Rochdale, and the …
Class and Conflict in Nineteenth-Century England
1815-1850
Inbunden, 2016
3156 kr
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First published in 1973. This title aims to use contemporary documents to illustrate the attitudes and relationships of working men towards each other and against other groups in society in the years 1815 to 1850. The material comes under three headings; the analysis of class in terms of economic …
Class and Conflict in Nineteenth-Century England
1815-1850
Häftad, 2017
637 kr
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First published in 1973. This title aims to use contemporary documents to illustrate the attitudes and relationships of working men towards each other and against other groups in society in the years 1815 to 1850. The material comes under three headings; the analysis of class in terms of economic …
Victorian Divorce
Inbunden, 2016
2586 kr
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First published in 1985. Beginning from the first documented British divorce in 1670, Professor Horstman traces the development of divorce, the different means by which it came about, and the relation of practice to moral attitudes. Many cases are presented in summary form, and give a vivid picture …
Victorian Divorce
Häftad, 2017
577 kr
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First published in 1985. Beginning from the first documented British divorce in 1670, Professor Horstman traces the development of divorce, the different means by which it came about, and the relation of practice to moral attitudes. Many cases are presented in summary form, and give a vivid picture …
Shopkeepers and Master Artisans in Ninteenth-Century Europe
Av Geoffrey Crossick, Heinz-Gerhard Haupt
Inbunden, 2016
787 kr
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First published in 1984. Shopkeepers and master artisans had a striking presence in the history of nineteenth-century Europe, not only in the development of industrial and urban economies, but also the fabric of social life and the politics of protest. The experience of 1848, the differing pace of …
Shopkeepers and Master Artisans in Ninteenth-Century Europe
Av Geoffrey Crossick, Heinz-Gerhard Haupt
Häftad, 2017
322 kr
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First published in 1984. Shopkeepers and master artisans had a striking presence in the history of nineteenth-century Europe, not only in the development of industrial and urban economies, but also the fabric of social life and the politics of protest. The experience of 1848, the differing pace of …
Land and People in Nineteenth-Century Wales
Inbunden, 2016
2586 kr
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First published in 1977. Essentially an economic history with strong emphasis on human factors, this title examines the reasons for the backwardness of much of the farming of Wales and discusses in detail how agricultural resources and organisation directly affected the nature of social …
Land and People in Nineteenth-Century Wales
Häftad, 2017
577 kr
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First published in 1977. Essentially an economic history with strong emphasis on human factors, this title examines the reasons for the backwardness of much of the farming of Wales and discusses in detail how agricultural resources and organisation directly affected the nature of social …
Radical Soldier's Tale
John Pearman, 1819-1908
Inbunden, 2016
2666 kr
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First published in 1988, The Radical Soldier’s Tale is both an introduction to and a transcript of his ‘Memoirs’, written after his retirement in 1881. In this autobiography he presents his life as a soldier during the Sikh Wars, his life as a policeman, and the ideologies which divided people from …
