This study examines caricatures as they appeared within popular Parisian magazines in mid-nineteenth century France at the time of the 1867 Worlds Fair....Loe edasi...
This volume explores academic households in early modern (c. sixteenth- to eighteenth-century) Northern Europe, examining changing dynamics of family and gender....Loe edasi...
First published in 1923, Labour and the Industrial Revolution is an examination of opinions (17601832) on the right place of wage-earner under the State. The author treats of the machine as the groundwork of economic and ethical theory and of the mo...Loe edasi...
First published in 1983, English Literature in History examines how an economic theory of society was developed out of an earlier political view of society as an area of conflicting interests which could be regulated by disinterested statesmen and g...Loe edasi...
Post-Chartist period saw an easing of class tensions and the growth of a reformist working class. Using evidence based upon the cotton districts of north-west England, the author shows that enhanced socio-political stability owed much to economic re...Loe edasi...
Volume 4 examines the British diet from its colonial and global perspectives. Colonialism, combined with rapidly improving global transport networks, introduced the British introduced to a plethora of unfamiliar foods from overseas....Loe edasi...
In the long nineteenth century, significant developments occurred in science, technology and medicine which transformed food production and consumption. This volume explores the foods that were eaten in nineteenth-century Britain....Loe edasi...
Around the 1860s, publishers began printing books dedicated to specific meals. The sources reprinted in this volume were produced in response to the changing social dynamics that accompanied industrialisation, urbanisation and socio-economic moderni...Loe edasi...
This social history explores the lives of urban commoners in early modern Kyoto during the dramatic political shift from famine to revolution in the final decades of the Tokugawa regime, through an extensive survey of the detailed record changes fro...Loe edasi...
This book examines the Worlds Fairs that took place from the mid-19th century to the 1930s, with a particular emphasis on Latin America....Loe edasi...
First published in 1978, The Victorians presents a survey of the Victorian era, exploring the relationship between literature and society through three distinct sections. This book is a must read for scholars and researchers of English literature....Loe edasi...
First published in 1971 (in its English translation), Russia Enters the Twentieth Century provides a broad and detailed survey of Russia during the two decades leading up to the revolution....Loe edasi...
Fujimoto, Homei and Nakamura bring together the perspectives of women engaging in professional medical work across the expanse of the modern Japanese Empire (18681945)....Loe edasi...
During the eighteenth century, Englands landowners played a vital role in the growth of the national economy. First published in 1989, Town and Countryside draws together important research on the ways in which both urban and rural landed classes pr...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1968 this important work covers a crucial period in Britains economic history. In the three or four decades before the First World War British industry was subject to increasing foreign competition particularly from America a...Loe edasi...
This book explores the discursive construction of national identities in diplomatic political discourse, focusing on translations pivotal role. It examines diplomatic exchanges between China and the West from 1792 to 1867, a period marked by Chinas...Loe edasi...
This handbook assembles a vibrant collection of original scholarship highlighting new and exciting research themes on Paris in the Modern Era. It provides an innovative selection and use of primary sources, broadens the notion of archive, and includ...Loe edasi...
This study argues that photographs from Qajar Iran (1785-1925) of harem women, royal women, and public women, such as sex workers, musicians, singers, and dancers, make profound statements on the institution of the harem in a time of flux and modern...Loe edasi...
