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  • The Invention of Childhood

    par Hugh Cunningham ...
    The Invention of Childhood will paint a vivid picture of the lives of children in Britain from pagan Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. Drawing heavily on primary sources, such as diaries, autobiographies, paintings, photographs and letters, the book will present a complete chronological history of the experience of children in Britain during the past 1500 years. We will learn the key elements ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

  • Children and Childhood in Western Society Since 1500

    par Hugh Cunningham ...
    Collections series Studies In Modern History
    Updated to incorporate recent scholarship on the subject, this new edition of Hugh Cunningham’s classic text investigates the relationship between ideas about childhood and the actual experience of being a child, and assesses how it has changed over the span of 500 years.Through his engaging narrative Hugh Cunningham tells the story of the development of ideas from the Renaissance to the present, ... En savoir plus

    $83.99 CAD

  • Time, work and leisure

    Life changes in England since 1700

    par Hugh Cunningham ...
    Collections series Studies in Popular Culture
    This book traces the history of the relationship between work and leisure, from the ‘leisure preference’ of male workers in the eighteenth century, through the increase in working hours in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, to their progressive decline from 1830 to 1970. It examines how trade union action was critical in achieving the decline; how class structured the experience ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • The reputation of philanthropy since 1750

    Britain and beyond

    par Hugh Cunningham ...
    Most people now associate philanthropy with donations of money by the rich to good causes. It has not always been so. The Reputation of Philanthropy explores how our modern definition came about and asks why praise for philanthropy and philanthropists has always been matched by criticism. Were we really capable of loving all of humankind? Was it possible that what was thought of as philanthropy ... En savoir plus

    $142.99 CAD

  • The Volunteer Force

    A Social and Political History 1859-1908

    par Hugh Cunningham ...
    Collections series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1975, The Volunteer Force is a study of the part-time military force which came into being to meet the mid-nineteenth century fear of French invasion. It survived and grew for fifty years until in 1908 it was renamed and remodelled as the Territorial Force. Composed initially of middle-class and often middle-aged gentlemen who elected their own officers and paid for their ... En savoir plus

    $71.44 CAD

  • Leisure in the Industrial Revolution

    c. 1780-c. 1880

    par Hugh Cunningham ...
    Collections series Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World
    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 early Industrial Revolution; that with industrialisation there was sharp discontinuity with ... En savoir plus

    $71.44 CAD

  • The Challenge of Democracy

    Britain 1832-1918

    par Hugh Cunningham ...
    Collections series New History of Britain
    This authoritative and thought-provoking history takes a fresh view of what was a period of unprecedented and rapid change. Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, Hugh Cunningham provides a clear narrative of political events, and an analysis of change and continuity in ideas and in economic and social structure. Britain is set firmly in the context of world power and the possession of empire ... En savoir plus

    $101.99 CAD

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    The Invention Of Childhood

    par Hugh Cunningham ...
    Lu par Michael Morpurgo, Full Cast ...

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    6 heure 48 min

    Written by Hugh Cunningham and presented by award-winning children's author Michael Morpurgo, this genuinely ground-breaking history of British childhood teaches us about the key elements that have shaped children's lives. The Invention of Childhood explores how gender, geography and ethnicity has impacted the development of children throughout the ages. Beginning from the year 1000, Cunningham ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

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  • The Middle Class

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