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  • Faith in the Town

    Lay Religion in Northern England, 1740–1830

    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Across eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century northern England, religious faith continued to affect the lives of men, women, and children in profound ways. Rather than ... En savoir plus

    $123.49 CAD

  • Feeding the Middle Classes

    Taste, Class and Domestic Food Practices

    par Kate Gibson ...
    Political and public stories about class and food rarely scrutinize how socio-economic and cultural resources enable access to certain foods.Tracing the symbolic links between everyday eating at home and broader social frameworks, this book examines how classed relations play out in middle-class homes to show why class is relevant to all understandings of food in Great Britain.The author ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

  • Illegitimacy, Family, and Stigma in England, 1660-1834

    par Kate Gibson ...
    Illegitimacy, Family, and Stigma is the first full-length exploration of what it was like to be illegitimate in eighteenth-century England, a period of 'sexual revolution', unprecedented increase in illegitimate births, and intense debate over children's rights to state support. Using the words of illegitimate individuals and their families preserved in letters, diaries, poor relief, and court ... En savoir plus

    $70.99 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

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  • An Everyday Life of the English Working Class

    Work, Self and Sociability in the Early Nineteenth Century

    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

  • White, Male and Middle Class

    Explorations in Feminism and History

    par Catherine Hall ...
    What are the relations between feminism and history, feminist politics and historical practice? What are the connections between gender and class? What part have racial identities and ethnic difference played in the construction of Englishness?Through a series of provocative and richly detailed essays, Catherine Hall explores these questions. She argues that feminism has opened up vital new ... En savoir plus

    $37.25 CAD

  • Victorians and the Case for Charity

    Essays on Responses to English Poverty by the State, the Church and the Literati

    This collection of all new essays seeks to answer a series of questions surrounding the Victorian response to poverty in Britain. In short, what did various layers of society say the poor deserved and what did they do to help them? The work is organized against the backdrop of the 1834 New Poor Laws, recognizing that poverty garnered considerable attention in England because of its pervasive and ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD

  • Women's History, Britain 1700-1850

    An Introduction

    Modifié par Hannah Barker, Elaine Chalus ...
    Collections series Women's and Gender History
    Placing women’s experiences in the context of the major social, economic and cultural shifts that accompanied the industrial and commercial transformations of this period, Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus paint a fascinating picture of the change, revolution, and continuity that were encountered by women of this time.A thorough and well-balanced selection of individual chapters by leading field ... En savoir plus

    $81.06 CAD

  • Association and Enlightenment

    Scottish Clubs and Societies, 1700-1830

    Collections series Studies in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
    Social clubs as they existed in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Scotland were varied: they could be convivial, sporting, or scholarly, or they could be a significant and dynamic social force, committed to improvement and national regeneration as well as to sociability. The essays in this volume examine the complex history of clubs and societies in Scotland from 1700 to 1830. Contributors ... En savoir plus

    $49.99 CAD

  • The Origins of Sex

    A History of the First Sexual Revolution

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • Family Secrets

    The Things We Tried to Hide

    par Deborah Cohen ...
    A Sunday Telegraph and Times Higher Education 'Book of the Week', Deborah Cohen's Family Secrets is a gripping book about what families - Victorian and modern - try to hide, and why.In an Edinburgh town house, a genteel maiden lady frets with her brother over their niece's downy upper lip. Would the darkening shadow betray the girl's Eurasian heritage? On a Liverpool railway platform, a ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • Enlightenment

    Britain and the Creation of the Modern World

    par Roy Porter ...
    For generations the traditional focus for those wishing to understand the roots of the modern world has been France on the eve of the Revolution. Porter certainly acknowledges France's importance, but here makes an overwhelming case for consideringBritain the true home of modernity - a country driven by an exuberance, diversity and power of invention comparable only to twentieth-century America. ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD