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The Scottish Enlightenment and Early Victorian English Society by Anand C. Chitnis 9781032070667
RRP: $60.88$52.69Originally published in 1986, this book creates a vivid portrait of the interaction of Scottish ideas and early Victorian English society over 50 years, illuminated by detail and substantial in its range. The book delineates certain ideas of the... -
Staging Slavery: Performances of Colonial Slavery and Race from International Perspectives, 1770-1850 by Sarah J. Adams 9781032004273
RRP: $262.50$226.51This international analysis of theatrical case studies illustrates the ways that theater was an arena both of protest and, simultaneously, racist and imperialist exploitations of the colonized and enslaved body. By bringing together performances and... -
Dante's Divine Comedy in Early Renaissance England: The Collision of Two Worlds by Dr Jonathan Hughes 9781350146280
RRP: $157.50$88.70Dante's Divine Comedy in Early Renaissance England compares the intellectual, emotional, and religious world of Dante in 13th-century Florence with that of a group of English intellectuals gathered around Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, uncle of the King,... -
Dante's Divine Comedy in Early Renaissance England: The Collision of Two Worlds Dr Jonathan Hughes (University of Exeter, UK) 9781350146273
RRP: $50.38$41.29Dante's Divine Comedy in Early Renaissance England compares the intellectual, emotional, and religious world of Dante in 13th-century Florence with that of a group of English intellectuals gathered around Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, uncle of the King,... -
A Cultural History of Theatre in the Age of Enlightenment by Mechele Leon 9781350277700
RRP: $56.68$49.22French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote, 'the general effect of the theatre is to strengthen the national character to augment the national inclinations, and to give a new energy to all the passions'. During the Enlightenment, the advancement of... -
A Cultural History of Theatre in the Early Modern Age by Robert Henke 9781350277694
RRP: $56.68$49.22For both producers and consumers of theatre in the early modern era, art was viewed as a social rather than an individual activity. Emerging in the context of new capitalistic modes of production, the birth of the nation state and the rise of absolute... -
Signs and Wonders: Religious Rhetoric and the Preservation of Sign Language by Tracy Ann Morse 9781563686016
RRP: $71.40$69.24Signs and Wonders traces the intertwining of Protestant religion and the development of the deaf community from the nineteenth through the twenty-first century. Tracy Ann Morse draws on nineteenth-century speeches, sermons, and pamphlets; highlights the... -
Samos: Pythagoras and the Heraion. by Jill Dudley 9780995578111
$6.59Jill Dudley writes about the arrival on the island from mainland Greece of the goddess Hera, and the great temple built in her honour on Samos. She gives an account of the life of the sixth century B.C. astronomer and mathematician Pythagoras who lived... -
The West: A Narrative History, Volume Two: Since 1400 by A. Daniel Frankforter 9780205180912
RRP: $197.00$176.59The book students will read: Concise. Relevant. Accessible. The West: A Narrative History is a concise but not abridged introduction to the West, encompassing all cultures that trace their ancestry to the ancient Mediterranean world. It is not a... -
From Melancholia to Depression: Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry by Asa Jansson 9783030548049
RRP: $94.48$94.44This open access book maps a crucial but neglected chapter in the history of psychiatry: how was melancholia transformed in the nineteenth century from traditional melancholy madness into a modern biomedical mood disorder, paving the way for the... -
Kingship, Madness, and Masculinity on the Early Modern Stage: Mad World, Mad Kings by Christina Gutierrez-Dennehy 9780367760830
RRP: $283.50$246.29Kingship, Madness, and Masculinity examines representations of mad kings in early modern English theatrical texts and performance practices. Although there have been numerous volumes examining the medical and social dimensions of mental illness in... -
Street Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century: Producers, Sellers, Consumers David Atkinson 9781443894999
$162.25For centuries, street literature was the main cheap reading material of the working classes: broadsides, chapbooks, songsters, prints, engravings, and other forms of print produced specifically to suit their taste and cheap enough for even the poor to... -
Social Spaces and the Public Sphere: A Spatial-history of Modernity in Kerala by S. Harikrishnan 9781032118154
RRP: $262.50$226.51What can social spaces tell us about social relations in society? How do everyday social spaces like teashops, reading rooms and libraries reify-or subvert-dominant social structures like caste and gender? These are the questions that this book explores... -
A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Industry by Alexandra Loske 9781474273350
$184.88A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Industry covers the period 1800 to 1920, when the world embraced color like never before. Inventions, such as steam power, lithography, photography, electricity, motor cars, aviation, and cheaper color printing,... -
A Cultural History of Sport in the Age of Enlightenment by Rebekka von Mallinckrodt 9781350023994
$184.88A Cultural History of Sport in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1650 to 1800, a period often seen as a time of decline in sporting practice and literature. In fact, a rich sporting culture existed and sports were practised by both men and women... -
A Cultural History of Sport in the Renaissance by Professor Alessandro Arcangeli 9781350023987
$184.88A Cultural History of Sport in the Renaissance covers the period 1450 to 1650. Outwardly, Renaissance sports resembled their medieval forebears, but the incorporation of athletics into the educational curriculum signalled a change. As part of the... -
A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age by Professor Laurie Wilkie 9781474298803
$184.88A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age covers the period 1900 to today, a time marked by massive global changes in production, transportation, and information-sharing in a post-colonial world. New materials and inventions - from plastics to the... -
A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Enlightenment by Professor Laurie Wilkie 9781474298780
$184.88A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1600 to 1760, a time marked by the movement of people, ideas and goods. The objects explored in this volume -from scientific instrumentation and Baroque paintings to slave ships... -
A Cultural History of Objects in the Renaissance by Professor Laurie Wilkie 9781474298735
$184.88A Cultural History of Objects in the Renaissance covers the period 1400 to 1600. The Renaissance was a cultural movement, a time of re-awakening when classical knowledge was rediscovered, leading to an efflorescence in philosophy, art, and literature... -
A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Industry by Professor Laurie Wilkie 9781474298797
$184.88A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Industry covers the period 1760 to 1900, a time of dramatic change in the material world as objects shifted from the handmade to the machine made. The revolution in making, and in consuming the things which... -
A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Enlightenment by Carole P. Biggam 9781474273725
$184.88A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1650 to 1800. From the Baroque to the Neo-classical, color transformed art, architecture, ceramics, jewelry, and glass. Newton, using a prism, demonstrated the seven separate hues,... -
A Cultural History of Color in the Renaissance by Sven Dupre 9781474273343
$184.88A Cultural History of Color in the Renaissance covers the period 1400 to 1650, a time of change, conflict, and transformation. Innovations in color production transformed the material world of the Renaissance, especially in ceramics, cloth, and paint... -
Scotland Under Mary Stuart: An Account of Everyday Life by Madeleine Bingham 9781032072463
RRP: $60.88$52.69Originally published in 1971, this book gives the real substance of Scotland at the time of Mary Queen of Scots. It describes in extensive and colourful detail the way people of all ranks of society lived, their homes, their food and amusements, the ways... -
Letters from India: The Correspondence of Lady Susan Ramsay, 1854–1856 by Ross Nelson 9781032390413
$247.65This fascinating volume reproduces the letters and journal of Lady Susan Ramsay (1837-1898), the elder daughter of the Marquess of Dalhousie, Governor-General of India from 1848 to 1856. The correspondence was written over a two-year period: commencing... -
A Cultural History of Sport in the Medieval Age by Noel Fallows 9781350023970
$184.88A Cultural History of Sport in the Medieval Age covers the period 600 to 1450. Lacking any viable ancient models, sport evolved into two distinct forms, divided by class. Male and female aristocrats hunted and knights engaged in jousting and tournaments,... -
Journalists and Knowledge Practices: Histories of Observing the Everyday in the Newspaper Age by Hansjakob Ziemer 9780367630430
RRP: $262.50$226.51This multi-disciplinary anthology provides new perspectives on the journalist's role in knowledge generation in the newspaper age - covering diverse topics from fake news to new technologies. Fake news, journalistic authority, and the introduction of... -
Critical Perspectives on Heritage for Development by Charlotte Cross 9780367619787
RRP: $262.50$226.51This book investigates the relationship between heritage and development from the global visions articulated by UNESCO and the SDGs to local activism, livelihood innovations and political strategies employed in diverse countries of the Global South. In... -
Patriotism and Reform in Nordic Universities during the Long Eighteenth Century by Mikkel Munthe Jensen 9781802078152
$180.58Only a few studies have dealt in depth with how, let alone why, Nordic academia and its learned cosmopolitan legacy were challenged and transformed as a consequence of the political claims of the patria. While studies of eighteenth-century learning have... -
Hebdige and Subculture in the Twenty-First Century: Through the Subcultural Lens by Keith Gildart 9783030284770
$157.73This book assesses the legacy of Dick Hebdige and his work on subcultures in his seminal work, Subculture: The Meaning of Style (1979). The volume interrogates the concept of subculture put forward by Hebdige, and asks if this concept is still capable of... -
Queens and Power in Medieval and Early Modern England by Carole Levin 9780803229686
$77.72In Queens and Power in Medieval and Early Modern England, Carole Levin and Robert Bucholz provide a forum for the underexamined, anomalous reigns of queens in history. These regimes, primarily regarded as interruptions to the "normal" male monarchy, have... -
Novelty Fair: British Visual Culture Between Chartism and the Great Exhibition by Jo Briggs 9780719089640
RRP: $178.50$127.20Novelty fair examines mid-nineteenth-century people, things and places generally understood to be discrete and unrelated: urban fairs and the Great Exhibition, daguerreotypes and ballads, satirical shilling books and government-backed design reform,... -
An All-Consuming Century: Why Commercialism Won in Modern America by Gary Cross 9780231113137
RRP: $58.80$46.62The unqualified victory of consumerism in America was not a foregone conclusion. The United States has traditionally been the home of the most aggressive and often thoughtful criticism of consumption, including Puritanism, Prohibition, the simplicity... -
Nation Betrayed, A: Nigeria and the Minorities Commission of 1957 Michael Vickers 9781592217335
RRP: $73.40$48.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592217335Author Michael VickersFormat PaperbackPage Count 345Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 605g -
The Politics of Hunger: Protest, Poverty and Policy in England, c. 1750-c. 1840 Carl J. Griffin 9781526145628
RRP: $178.50$145.49The 1840s witnessed widespread hunger and malnutrition at home and mass starvation in Ireland. And yet the aptly named 'Hungry 40s' came amidst claims that, notwithstanding Malthusian prophecies, absolute biological want had been eliminated in England... -
The Visual Memory of Protest by Ann Rigney 9789463723275
RRP: $224.70$214.05Social movements are not only remembered in personal experience, but also through cultural carriers that shape how later movements see themselves and are seen by others. The present collection zooms in on the role of photography in this memory-activism... -
A Cultural History of Theatre in the Middle Ages Jody Enders 9781350277595
RRP: $56.68$49.22Historically and broadly defined as the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Renaissance, the Middle Ages encompass a millennium of cultural conflicts and developments. A large body of mystery, passion, miracle and morality... -
Stolen Legacy by George G M James 9781257771752
RRP: $18.29$16.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781257771752Author George G M JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 200g -
Through the Keyhole: A History of Sex, Space and Public Modesty in Modern France Marcela Iacub 9781784991524
RRP: $41.98$30.49In 1857, a group of young people who had participated in an orgy in a private mansion was sentenced for contempt of public decency (outrage public a la pudeur) because a voyeur was able to watch them through a keyhole. For Marcela Iacub, the crux of such... -
Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom by Andy Letcher 9780060828295
RRP: $35.68$26.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060828295Author Andy LetcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
Rowan and Mayne: A Biography of the First London Police Commissioners by Tony Moore 9781914277283
RRP: $42.00$35.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914277283Author Tony MooreFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Blue Lamp BooksPublisher Mango Books