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  • Physick and the family

    Health, medicine and care in Wales, 1600–1750

    par Alun Withey ...
    Physick and the family offers new insights into the early modern sickness experience, through a study of the medical history of Wales.Newly available in paperback, this first ever monograph of early modern Welsh medicine utilises a large body of newly discovered source material. Using numerous approaches and methodologies, it makes a significant contribution to debates in medical history, ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • New Perspectives on the History of Facial Hair

    Framing the Face

    Modifié par Jennifer Evans, Alun Withey ...
    Collections series History (R0)
    This volume brings together a range of scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to re-examine the histories of facial hair and its place in discussions of gender, the military, travel and art, amongst others. Chapters in the first section of the collection explore the intricate history of beard wearing and shaving, including facial hair fashions in long historical perspective, and the ... En savoir plus

    $108.89 CAD

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  • Liberty's Dawn

    A People's History of the Industrial Revolution

    par Emma Griffin ...
    "Emma Griffin gives a new and powerful voice to the men and women whose blood and sweat greased the wheels of the Industrial Revolution" (Tim Hitchcock, author of Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London).This "provocative study" looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

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  • Brave community

    The Digger Movement in the English Revolution

    par John Gurney ...
    Collections series Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain
    Newly available in paperback, this is a full-length, modern study of the Diggers or ‘True Levellers’, who were among the most remarkable of the radical groups to emerge during the English Revolution of 1640-60. It was in April 1649 that the Diggers, inspired by the teachings and writings of Gerrard Winstanley, began their occupation of waste land at St George’s Hill in Surrey and called on all ... En savoir plus

    $29.99 CAD

  • A Dictionary of Idiocy

    Stephen Bayley

    par Stephen Bayley ...
    'I am fascinated.' Andrew Marr, Start the Week, Radio 4 'Wonderful' The Times 'Intelligent.' Independent 'Current.' Sunday Telegraph Wittgenstein said that if people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever happen. In this compelling A-Z of modern ignorance, Stephen Bayley gathers silly, curious and sometimes shocking facts on everything that makes our world tick. Why does Judeo ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • An Everyday Life of the English Working Class

    Work, Self and Sociability in the Early Nineteenth Century

    par Carolyn Steedman ...
    This book concerns two men, a stockingmaker and a magistrate, who both lived in a small English village at the turn of the nineteenth century. It focuses on Joseph Woolley the stockingmaker, on his way of seeing and writing the world around him, and on the activities of magistrate Sir Gervase Clifton, administering justice from his country house Clifton Hall. Using Woolley's voluminous diaries and ... En savoir plus

    $55.99 CAD

  • The Old Boys

    The Decline and Rise of the Public School

    par David Turner ...
    To many in the United Kingdom, the British public school remains the disliked and mistrusted embodiment of privilege and elitism. They have educated many of the country’s top bankers and politicians over the centuries right up to the present, including the present Prime Minister. David Turner’s vibrant history of Great Britain’s public schools, from the foundation of Winchester College in 1382 to ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • An Encyclopedia of Swearing: The Social History of Oaths, Profanity, Foul Language, and Ethnic Slurs in the English-Speaking World

    par Geoffrey Hughes ...
    This is the only encyclopedia of the social history of swearing and foul language in the English-speaking world. It covers the various social dynamics that generate swearing, foul language, and insults in the entire range of the English language. While the emphasis is on American and British English, the different major global varieties such as Australian, Canadian, South African, and Caribbean ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Progresses, Pageants, and Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I

    Modifié par Jayne Elisabeth Archer, Elizabeth Goldring, Sarah Knight ...
    More than any other English monarch before or since, Queen Elizabeth I used her annual progresses to shape her royal persona and to bolster her popularity and authority. During the spring and summer, accompanied by her court, Elizabeth toured southern England, the Midlands, and parts of the West Country, staying with private and civic hosts, and at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The ... En savoir plus

    $60.79 CAD

  • English Society 1580–1680

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $83.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Children's Literature

    Modifié par M. O. Grenby, Andrea Immel ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Some of the most innovative and spell-binding literature has been written for young people, but only recently has academic study embraced its range and complexity. This Companion offers a state-of-the-subject survey of English-language children's literature from the seventeenth century to the present. With discussions ranging from eighteenth-century moral tales to modern fantasies by J. K. Rowling ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $35.99 CAD Maintenant $31.99 CAD

  • Alehouses and Good Fellowship in Early Modern England

    par Mark Hailwood ...
    This book provides a history of the alehouse between the years 1550 and 1700, the period during which it first assumed its long celebrated role as the key site for public recreation in the villages and market towns of England. In the face of considerable animosity from Church and State, the patrons of alehouses, who were drawn from a wide cross section of village society, fought for and won a ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD