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  • Gender in English Society 1650-1850

    The Emergence of Separate Spheres?

    by Robert B. Shoemaker ...
    Series series Themes In British Social History
    A lively social history of the roles of men and women - from workplace to household, from parish church to alehouse, from market square to marriage bed. Robert Shoemaker investigates such varied topics as crime, leisure, the theatre, religious observance, notions of morality and even changing patterns of sexual activity itself. ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

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    A History of the First Sexual Revolution

    by Fara Dabhoiwala ...
    Nowadays we believe that consenting adults have the freedom to do what they like with their own bodies. We publicise and celebrate sex; we discuss it endlessly; we are obsessed with the sex lives of celebrities. We think it wrong that in other cultures people suffer for their sexual orientation, that women are treated as second-class citizens, or that adulterers are put to death. Yet until quite ... Read more

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  • The Penguin Social History of Britain

    Private Lives, Public Spirit: Britain 1870-1914

    by Dr Jose Harris ...
    The late nineteenth century and Edwardian era, suggests Jose Harris in this book, represent a sharp break with the early years of Queen Victoria's reign. Indeed, despite the intense upheavals of two world wars, it was the beliefs, social structures and oppositional forces established between 1870 and 1914 which dominated British life right up until the 1960s. ... Read more

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  • The Georgians

    The Deeds and Misdeeds of 18th-Century Britain

    by Penelope J. Corfield ...
    A comprehensive history of the Georgians, comparing past views of these exciting, turbulent, and controversial times with our attitudes todayThe Georgian era is often seen as a time of innovations. It saw the end of monarchical absolutism, global exploration and settlements overseas, the world’s first industrial revolution, deep transformations in religious and cultural life, and Britain’s role in ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • The Age of Light, Soap, and Water

    Moral Reform in English Canada, 1885-1925

    by Mariana Valverde ...
    "BACK IN PRINT WITH A NEW INTRODUCTIONThe turn of the last century saw a great wave of moral fervour among Protestant social reformers in English Canada. Their targets for moral reform were various: sex hygiene, immigration policy, slum clearance, prostitution, and “white slavery.”Mariana Valverde's groundbreaking The Age of Light, Soap, and Waterexamines the work and the ideas of moralist clergy, ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • A Man's Place

    Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England

    by Professor John Tosh ...
    Domesticity is generally treated as an aspect of women’s history. In this fascinating study of the nineteenth-century middle class, John Tosh shows how profoundly men’s lives were conditioned by the Victorian ideal and how they negotiated its many contradictions.Tosh begins by looking at the experience of boyhood, married life, sex, and fatherhood in the early decades of the nineteenth century ... Read more

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  • Forming Nation, Framing Welfare

    Edited by Gail Lewis ...
    Series series Social Policy: Welfare, Power and Diversity
    This book introduces a historical perspective on the emergence and development of social welfare. Starting from the familiar ground of 'the family', it traces some of the crucial historical roots and desires that fed the development of social policy in the 19th and 20th centuries around education, the family, unemployment and nationhood. By aiming to discover the link between past and present, it ... Read more

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  • A Social History of England, 1500–1750

    Edited by Keith Wrightson ...
    Series series A Social History of England
    The rise of social history has had a transforming influence on the history of early modern England. It has broadened the historical agenda to include many previously little-studied, or wholly neglected, dimensions of the English past. It has also provided a fuller context for understanding more established themes in the political, religious, economic and intellectual histories of the period. This ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • English Society 1580–1680

    by Keith Wrightson ...
    English Society, 1580-1680 paints a fascinating picture of society and rural change in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Keith Wrightson discusses both the enduring characteristics of society as well as the course of social change, and emphasizes the wide variation in experience between different social groups and local communities. This is an excellent interpretation of English ... Read more

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  • Education and the Professions

    by History of Education Society ...
    Part of the educational system in England has been geared towards the preparation of particular professions, while the identity and status of members of some professions have depended significantly on the general education they have received.Originally published in 1973, this volume explores the interaction between education and the professions. It also looks at the education of the main ... Read more

    $48.08 CAD

  • Crime in Early Modern England 1550-1750

    by James A Sharpe ...
    Series series Themes In British Social History
    Still the only general survey of the topic available, this widely-used exploration of the incidence, causes and control of crime in Early Modern England throws a vivid light on the times. It uses court archives to capture vividly the everyday lives of people who would otherwise have left little mark on the historical record. This new edition - fully updated throughout - incorporates new thinking ... Read more

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  • The Magdalenes

    Prostitution in the Nineteenth Century

    by Linda Mahood ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Women's History
    The nineteenth century witnessed a discursive explosion around the subject of sex. Historical evidence indicates that the sexual behaviour which had always been punishable began to be spoken of, regulated, and policed in new ways. Prostitutes were no longer dragged through the town, dunked in lakes, whipped and branded. Medieval forms of punishment shifted from the emphasis on punishing the body ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD