This study examines caricatures as they appeared within popular Parisian magazines in mid-nineteenth century France at the time of the 1867 Worlds Fair....Lasīt vairāk
This volume explores academic households in early modern (c. sixteenth- to eighteenth-century) Northern Europe, examining changing dynamics of family and gender....Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1923, Labour and the Industrial Revolution is an examination of opinions (17601832) on the right place of wage-earner under the State. The author treats of the machine as the groundwork of economic and ethical theory and of the mo...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1983, English Literature in History examines how an economic theory of society was developed out of an earlier political view of society as an area of conflicting interests which could be regulated by disinterested statesmen and g...Lasīt vairāk
Post-Chartist period saw an easing of class tensions and the growth of a reformist working class. Using evidence based upon the cotton districts of north-west England, the author shows that enhanced socio-political stability owed much to economic re...Lasīt vairāk
Volume 4 examines the British diet from its colonial and global perspectives. Colonialism, combined with rapidly improving global transport networks, introduced the British introduced to a plethora of unfamiliar foods from overseas....Lasīt vairāk
In the long nineteenth century, significant developments occurred in science, technology and medicine which transformed food production and consumption. This volume explores the foods that were eaten in nineteenth-century Britain....Lasīt vairāk
Around the 1860s, publishers began printing books dedicated to specific meals. The sources reprinted in this volume were produced in response to the changing social dynamics that accompanied industrialisation, urbanisation and socio-economic moderni...Lasīt vairāk
This social history explores the lives of urban commoners in early modern Kyoto during the dramatic political shift from famine to revolution in the final decades of the Tokugawa regime, through an extensive survey of the detailed record changes fro...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines the Worlds Fairs that took place from the mid-19th century to the 1930s, with a particular emphasis on Latin America....Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1978, The Victorians presents a survey of the Victorian era, exploring the relationship between literature and society through three distinct sections. This book is a must read for scholars and researchers of English literature....Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1971 (in its English translation), Russia Enters the Twentieth Century provides a broad and detailed survey of Russia during the two decades leading up to the revolution....Lasīt vairāk
Fujimoto, Homei and Nakamura bring together the perspectives of women engaging in professional medical work across the expanse of the modern Japanese Empire (18681945)....Lasīt vairāk
During the eighteenth century, Englands landowners played a vital role in the growth of the national economy. First published in 1989, Town and Countryside draws together important research on the ways in which both urban and rural landed classes pr...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1968 this important work covers a crucial period in Britains economic history. In the three or four decades before the First World War British industry was subject to increasing foreign competition particularly from America a...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the discursive construction of national identities in diplomatic political discourse, focusing on translations pivotal role. It examines diplomatic exchanges between China and the West from 1792 to 1867, a period marked by Chinas...Lasīt vairāk
This handbook assembles a vibrant collection of original scholarship highlighting new and exciting research themes on Paris in the Modern Era. It provides an innovative selection and use of primary sources, broadens the notion of archive, and includ...Lasīt vairāk
This study argues that photographs from Qajar Iran (1785-1925) of harem women, royal women, and public women, such as sex workers, musicians, singers, and dancers, make profound statements on the institution of the harem in a time of flux and modern...Lasīt vairāk
The principal aim of this collection of articles, which covers a diverse range of geographical regions, is to explore the evolving generic patterns and the modes of transnational distribution of popular narrative over the course of the nineteenth ce...Lasīt vairāk
This book is the first comprehensive account of the tsarist armys relationship to Muslim soldiers in late imperial Russia. It will be of interest to researchers in European History, Modern History, Military and Naval History, and Central Asian, Russ...Lasīt vairāk
Commercial Relations between India and England (1924) is a comprehensive study of the beginnings of the English relations with India and the East. It examines the East India Companys long struggles to build up trade, leading to Britains political an...Lasīt vairāk
The Augustan Age (1962) examines the writing of the time, and the critical theory that supported it. By focusing on a few writers of paramount interest, the book looks at what men of letters such as Dryden, Swift, Pope and a few others have to say,...Lasīt vairāk
This volume investigates the history of the parliamentary assemblies of Sweden, Poland and Hungary in the final period of the ancien régime, offering an analysis of these three representative assemblies in a systematic comparative framework for the...Lasīt vairāk
This innovative collection examines how European queens participated in the conceptualisation, mobilisation, and transformation of natural resources from the fifteenth to the end of the eighteenth century....Lasīt vairāk
This collection of primary sources examines the history of emotions in the United States, spanning the years 1800-1865. This fascinating collection of materials, alongside extensive editorial commentary, will be of great interest to students of Amer...Lasīt vairāk
Through a microscopical lens, the book delves into the lives of some of the migrants linked to the Agata, either as members of the crew a ship, after all, is a moving workplace, as passengers, or as people sending letters through the ship....Lasīt vairāk
