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Pan Macmillan Stephen Frys Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music
Book SynopsisStephen Fry is a writer, comedian, presenter, actor, half-man, half-demi-god. Tim Lihoreau regularly writes with Stephen Fry and is the muli-award winning scriptwriter for the Classic FM The Incomplete & Utter History of Classical Music. He is also Creative Director for Classic FM, and lives in Cambridge.
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Palgrave MacMillan UK The Politics of the People in EighteenthCentury Britain
Book SynopsisThe first part explores the way the British people could influence existing political institutions or could exploit their existing powers, by looking at the role of the people in parliamentary elections, in a wide range of pressure groups, in their local urban communities, and in popular demonstrations.Trade Review'This adjudication by H.T. Dickinson is fair-minded and valuable...he has given us a remarkably informed, cogent and balanced survey.' - John Cannon, History 'We need to understand the mentality, as well as the behaviour, of the lower orders in politics. Both have been magisterially surveyed in... The Politics of the People in Eighteenth-Century Britain...With a succinctness that will be the despair of those who themselves have had to write lectures on this subject, Dickinson draws together the results of extensive modern research into all aspects of popular politics.' - Historian 'A sure-footed guide to the subject which is a model of clarity and lucid exposition, this is a work not just for the university library, but for the bookshelves of all students of the eighteenth century.' - Martin Fitzpatrick, University of Wales 'Articulate and readable, with a full index and extensive footnotes, this grand synthesis belongs in every British history collection.' - R. Breihan, ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface - Introduction - PART 1: THE PEOPLE IN POLITICS - The People and Parliamentary Elections - Vested Interests and Pressure Groups - Politics in the Urban Community - The Politics of the Crowd - PART 2: THE POLITICISATION OF THE PEOPLE - The Debate on British Liberties and Natural Rights - Radical Ideas and Popular Politics before Wilkes - Radicals and Reformers in the Later Eighteenth Century - Popular Conservatism and Militant Loyalism - List of Abbreviations - Notes - Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The English Poor Laws 17001930 Social History in Perspective
Book SynopsisAnthony Brundage is Professor of History at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. His books include The Making of the New Poor Law and biographies of Edwin Chadwick and John Richard Green. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and has served as Executive Secretary of the North American Conference on British Studies.
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Manipulating Hegemony State Power Labour and the Marshall Plan in Britain Macmillan International Political Economy International Political Economy Series
Book SynopsisDrawing on neo-Gramscian theories of International Political Economy, this book explores the impact of the Marshall Plan on labour and government in Britain. Rather than the US imposing a 'politics of productivity' on an unwilling government, the centre-right of the Labour Party used the Marshall Plan to achieve its own political ends.Table of ContentsList of Tables Foreword Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction International Politics, Domestic Politics and the Marshall Plan The Marshall Plan The Scale and Impact of the Marshall Plan The Government/Union Alliance in Postwar Britain The Trade Union Response to the Marshall Plan The Marshall Plan and the Split in the International Trade Union Movement The Anglo-American Council on Productivity State Power, Labour and the Marshall Plan in Britain Bibliography Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Defining a British State Treason and National Identity 16081820 Studies in Modern History
Book SynopsisExplores the formation of the British state and national identity from 1603-1820 by examining the definitions of sovereignty and allegiance presented in treason trials. The king's person remained central to national identity and the state until republican challenges forced prosecutors in treason trials to innovate and redefine sovereign authority.Trade Review'In Defining a British State , Lisa Steffen has given us both a valuable insight into the law of high treason and its use in Stuart and Hanoverian England, and a thought-provoking discussion of the meanings behind the doctrine. She shows how a medieval English law designed to maintain the personal bond of allegiance to the sovereign was flexible enough to be used against Scots professing continued allegiance to their de jure king, in order to secure the Hanoverian succession against Jacobite attacks, but proved harder to use when the government sought to convict enemies of the state whose target was not the king. Her discussion is an important one, for both legal and political historians, and makes a useful contribution to the ongoing debate about the nature of the state in the eighteenth century.' - Michael Lobban, Brunel UniversityTable of ContentsAuthor's Note and Acknowledgements Introduction Treason, Allegiance and Sovereignty in England, 1608-1688 Dynastic Treason: National Identity after the Glorious Revolution A British Law of Treason, 1709-1783 Republican Treason and National Identity in the 1790s The 'General Safety of the State': Treason from 1816-1820 Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Luxury in the Eighteenth Century Debates Desires and Delectable Goods
Book SynopsisIntroduction PART ONE: DEBATES The Rise and Fall of the Luxury Debates Mandeville, Rousseau and the Political Economy of Fantasy Luxury in the Dutch Golden Ages in Theory and Practice Aestheticizing the Critique of Luxury: Smollett's Humphry Clinker PART TWO: DELECTABLE GOODS Furnishing Discourses: Readings of a Writing Desk in Eighteenth-Century France The Circulation of Luxury Goods in Eighteenth-Century Paris: Social Distribution and an Alternative Currency Custom or Consumption? Plebeian Fashion in Eighteenth-Century England PART THREE: BEAUTY, TASTE AND SENSIBILITY From the Moral Mound to the Material Maze: Hogarth's Analysis of Beauty From Luxury to Comfort and Back Again: Landscape Architecture and the Cottage in Britain and America Vase Mania PART FOUR: A FEMALE VICE? WOMEN AND LUXURY Performing Roxane: The Oriental Woman as the Sign of Luxury in Eighteenth-Century Fictions Luxury, Satire and Prostitute Narratives Luxury, Industry and Charity: Bluestocking Culture Displayed PARTrade Review'This volume significantly advances our knowledge of the topic and makes clear, once and for all, that a decisive change occurred in the long eighteenth century. It also...points the way forward to an approach that combines an account of values and beliefs with the detailed analysis of specific material goods.' - John Brewer, John and Marion Sullivan University Professor, University of Chicago, USA 'In this volume late twentieth-century scholars fasten with enthusiasm on both the practicalities that created evermore consumer goods and exalted luxury, and on the philosophical controversies and imaginative literature that it endangered. They marry literature and history in a most stimulating collection...This is a thought-provoking book...The text establishes an impressive network of connections not only between literature and history, but with moral philosophy and aesthetics as well. It will surely spark more investigations of consumerism and luxury.' - Joan Thirsk, Literature and History '[In] Maxine Berg and Elizabeth Eger's excellent new collection of essays, Luxury in the Eighteenth Century...we find a subtle historical argument that describes how the concept of luxury emerged from inherited moral and religious discourses, to become an integral part of our understanding of modernity' - David Mazella, Eighteenth Century Studies 'Luxury in the Eighteenth Century provides both a synopsis of existing literature on the subject and a major step forward in tis analysis. It is an important academic landmark. It is refreshing that Asian and American viewpoints are embraced, adding depth and an important corrective to our understanding of the English 'long eighteenth century'.' - Helen Clifford, Journal of Design HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction PART ONE: DEBATES The Rise and Fall of the Luxury Debates Mandeville, Rousseau and the Political Economy of Fantasy Luxury in the Dutch Golden Ages in Theory and Practice Aestheticizing the Critique of Luxury: Smollett's Humphry Clinker PART TWO: DELECTABLE GOODS Furnishing Discourses: Readings of a Writing Desk in Eighteenth-Century France The Circulation of Luxury Goods in Eighteenth-Century Paris: Social Distribution and an Alternative Currency Custom or Consumption? Plebeian Fashion in Eighteenth-Century England PART THREE: BEAUTY, TASTE AND SENSIBILITY From the Moral Mound to the Material Maze: Hogarth's Analysis of Beauty From Luxury to Comfort and Back Again: Landscape Architecture and the Cottage in Britain and America Vase Mania PART FOUR: A FEMALE VICE? WOMEN AND LUXURY Performing Roxane: The Oriental Woman as the Sign of Luxury in Eighteenth-Century Fictions Luxury, Satire and Prostitute Narratives Luxury, Industry and Charity: Bluestocking Culture Displayed PART FIVE: LUXURY AND THE EXOTIC Luxuries or Not? Consumption of Silk and Porcelain in Eighteenth-Century China Luxury, Clothing and Race in Spanish America Asian Luxuries and the Making of the European Consumer Revolution
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Cultural History
Book SynopsisANNA GREEN teaches public history and oral history at the University of Exeter, UK. Her publications include The Houses of History (1999), British Capital, Antipodean Labour (2001) and Remembering: Writing Oral History (2004)
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SCM Press The Victorian Church
Book SynopsisA classic work of ecclesiastical history, exercising original and independent judgement. Volume II also available.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Early Modern England
Book SynopsisThis book combines consideration of more traditional concerns of social history with investigation of the newer items on the agenda of historians. The result is a masterly study, providing the only up-to-date interpretation available for the period.Trade Review'A book full of information, lucidly presented, with few axes to grind; a text which can be warmly recommended to the students for whom it is primarily intended. It is also a book which their teachers will read with profit.' The Times Literary Supplement 'J A Sharpe's 'Early Modern England' is...[social history] at its best.' The Times Educational Supplement 'A stimulating introduction to the social history of the early-modern period, one that can be recommended enthusiastically to students and the general reader...It catches the excitement of current research and never shirks the more difficult issues.' Social History Society NewsletterTable of ContentsPrologue - towards the days of shaking. Politics and society, 1550-1653. Part 1 Family, community and nation: population; family life; towns and villages; the national community and the problem of order. Part 2 The social hierarchy and social change: the economy - an overview; the landed orders; non-landed elites; the common people. Part 3 The spiritual and mental world: religion; education and literacy; culture, popular and elite; magic, witchcraft and natural philosophy. Epilogue - strife within stability.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Ottoman Peoples and the End of Empire Historical Endings History Endings
Book SynopsisJustin McCarthy, Professor of History, University of Louisville, USATrade Review'Aiming to challenge common notions and ideas, the is highly argumentative, something also reflected in its style. The book forces one to reflect again on the merits and faults of the world order versus the old one, and shows that what seems human progress is sometimes gained only with considerable, and unnecessary, sacrifice.' Middle East Journal
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Eastern Europe 19392000
Book SynopsisMark Pittaway is Senior Lecturer in European Studies at the Open University, UKTrade Review'Pittaway's writing style is direct and supple, and his arguments are well presented. This is a great addition to the scholarship on communist Eastern Europe, and it will be useful to instructors of undergraduate classes as well as researchers. Highly recommended.' ChoiceTable of ContentsThe other Europe; building socialism, 1945-1953; consolidating socialism, 1953-1970; society based on socialist labour; autonomy and privatization - escape from the nationalised public sphere; nation, community and opposition; the decay of socialism, 1970-1995; new order has yet to be born - post-socialist Eastern Europe.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Get Me a Murder a Day
Book SynopsisKevin Williams is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Swansea University.Trade Review'Anyone wanting to gain an understanding of what the media are like today, and how they came to be like this, should read this book' Colin Sparks, University of Westminster, UKTable of ContentsHistory of mass communication in Britain - timeline; Preface to the Second Edition; Acknowledgements; Readers, rioters and rick burners: an introduction to the history of mass communication in Britain. PART 1 The age of print: The 'naughty and lewd world': the birth of mass communication in Britain; Right against might: the rise and fall of the radical press; Get me a murder a day: the Northcliffe Revolution and the rise of the popular press. PART 2 Sound and vision: Rescued by Rover: British cinema before the Second World War; The golden age of the wireless: the early years of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); Sing as we go: representing British society in the 1930s; Their finest hour: the Second World War and the British way of censorship. PART 3 The television era: The cosy duopoly: the development of television; Crisis? What crisis? The demise of British broadcasting in the 1980s and 1990s; Carrying on: The British film industry since 1945; Goodbye to Fleet Street: the slow decline of the British press since the he Second World War. PART 4 The digital world: Dumbing down? Declining standards and structural change in the contemporary media; Living in a digital world: experiencing mass communication in the twenty-first century; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Penguin Random House LLC Messengers of the Wind
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Random House USA Inc The Big Oyster
Book Synopsis“Part treatise, part miscellany, unfailingly entertaining.”-The New York Times “A small pearl of a book . . . a great tale of the growth of a modern city as seen through the rise and fall of the lowly oyster.”-Rocky Mountain NewsAward-winning author Mark Kurlansky tells the remarkable story of New York by following the trajectory of one of its most fascinating inhabitants-the oyster.For centuries New York was famous for this particular shellfish, which until the early 1900s played such a dominant a role in the city’s life that the abundant bivalves were Gotham’s most celebrated export, a staple food for all classes, and a natural filtration system for the city’s congested waterways.Filled with cultural, historical, and culinary insight-along with historic recipes, maps, drawings, and photos-this dynamic narrative sweeps readers from the seventeenth-century founding of New York to the death of its oyster beds and the rise of America’s environmentalist movement, from the oyster cellars of the rough-and-tumble Five Points slums to Manhattan’s Gilded Age dining chambers. With The Big Oyster, Mark Kurlansky serves up history at its most engrossing, entertaining, and delicious.“Suffused with [Kurlansky’s] pleasure in exploring the city across ground that hasn’t already been covered with other writers’ footprints.”-Los Angeles Times Book Review“Fascinating stuff . . . [Kurlansky] has a keen eye for odd facts and natural detail.”-The Wall Street Journal“Kurlansky packs his breezy book with terrific anecdotes.” -Entertainment Weekly“Magnificent . . . a towering accomplishment.”-Associated Press
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Random House USA Inc American Fun
Book SynopsisHere is an animated and wonderfully engaging work of cultural history that lays out America’s unruly past by describing the ways in which cutting loose has always been, and still is, an essential part of what it means to be an American. From the time the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, Americans have defied their stodgy rules and hierarchies with pranks, dances, stunts, and wild parties, shaping the national character in profound and lasting ways. In the nation’s earlier eras, revelers flouted Puritans, Patriots pranked Redcoats, slaves lampooned masters, and forty-niners bucked the saddles of an increasingly uptight middle class. In the twentieth century, fun-loving Americans celebrated this heritage and pushed it even further: flappers “barney-mugged” in “petting pantries,” Yippies showered the New York Stock Exchange with dollar bills, and B-boys invented hip-hop in a war zone in the Bronx. This is the surpris
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Little, Brown Book Group Sex In History
Book SynopsisSEX IN HISTORY chronicles the pleasures- and perils- of the flesh from the time of mankind''s distant ancestors to the modern day; from a sexual act which was bried, crude and purposeful, to the myriad varieties of contemporary sexual mores.Reay Tannahill''s scholarly, yet accessible study ranges from the earliest form of contraception (one Egyptian concoction included crocodile dung) to some latter- day misconceptions about it- like the men who joined their lovers in taking the pill ''just to be on the safe side.'' It surveys all manner of sexual practice, preference and position (the acrobatic ''wheelbarrow'' position, the strenuous ''hovering butterflies'' position...) and draws on souces as diverse as THE ADMIRABLE DISCOURSES OF THE PLAIN GIRL, the EXHIBTION OF FEMALE FLAGELLANTS, IMPORTANT MATTERS OF THE JADE CHAMBER and THE ROMANCE OF CHASTISEMENT.Whether writing on androgyny, courtly love, flagellation or zoophilia, Turkish eunuch''s Greek dildoes, Taoist sex manuals Trade ReviewLevel-headed...diligent, provocative and fascinating. The book is the most complete of its kind ever written. * TIME *Sanity on the subject of sex is all too rare; wit is in even shorter supply; and an engaging style is about as commonplace as eyebrows on an egg. Three cheers therefore, for Reay Tannahill. * WASHINGTON POST *A shatteringly wide-ranging survey. * SUNDAY TIMES *
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Sidewalk
Book SynopsisAn exceptional ethnography marked by clarity and candor, Sidewalk takes us into the socio-cultural environment of those who, though often seen as threatening or unseemly, work day after day on the blocks of one of New York''s most diverse neighborhoods. Sociologist Duneier, author of Slim''s Table, offers an accessible and compelling group portrait of several poor black men who make their livelihoods on the sidewalks of Greenwich Village selling secondhand goods, panhandling, and scavenging books and magazines. Duneier spent five years with these individuals, and in Sidewalk he argues that, contrary to the opinion of various city officials, they actually contribute significantly to the order and well-being of the Village. An important study of the heart and mind of the street, Sidewalk also features an insightful afterword by longtime book vendor Hakim Hasan. This fascinating study reveals today''s urban life in all its complexity: its vitality, i
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux The Big Test The Secret History of the American Meritocracy
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Three Minutes in Poland
Book SynopsisTraveling in Europe in August 1938, David Kurtz, captured three minutes of ordinary life in Poland on a 16 mm Kodachrome colour film. Three Minutes in Poland traces Glenn Kurtz's remarkable four year journey to identify the people in his grandfather's haunting images. Glenn creates an exploration of memory, loss, and improbable survival.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux HipHop Is History
Book SynopsisThis is a book only Questlove could have written: a perceptive and personal reflection on the first half-century of hip-hop.When hip-hop first emerged in the 1970s, it wasn''t expected to become the cultural force it is today. But for a young Black kid growing up in a musical family in Philadelphia, it was everything. He stayed up late to hear the newest songs on the radio. He saved his money to buy vinyl as soon as it landed. He even started to make his own songs. That kid was Questlove. Now, in this landmark book, Questlove traces the creative and cultural forces that made and shaped hip-hop, highlighting both the forgotten but influential gems and the undeniable chart-topping hits-and weaves it all together with the stories no one else knows. It is at once an intimate, sharply observed story and a sweeping theory of the evolution of the great artistic movement of our time. Questlove approaches it with both the encyclopedic fluency of an obsessive fan and the unique expertise of an innovative participant. Hip-hop is history, and also his history.
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The East The West And Sex A History
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Random House Publishing Group The Wild Frontier
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Trail of Tears The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee
Book SynopsisA sixth-generation North Carolinian, highly-acclaimed author John Ehle grew up on former Cherokee hunting grounds. His experience as an accomplished novelist, combined with his extensive, meticulous research, culminates in this moving tragedy rich with historical detail.The Cherokee are a proud, ancient civilization. For hundreds of years they believed themselves to be the Principle People residing at the center of the earth. But by the 18th century, some of their leaders believed it was necessary to adapt to European ways in order to survive. Those chiefs sealed the fate of their tribes in 1875 when they signed a treaty relinquishing their land east of the Mississippi in return for promises of wealth and better land. The U.S. government used the treaty to justify the eviction of the Cherokee nation in an exodus that the Cherokee will forever remember as the “trail where they cried.” The heroism and nobility of the Cherokee shine through this intricate story of Amer
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The Crown Publishing Group Things That Matter
Book SynopsisFrom America’s preeminent columnist, named by the Financial Times the most influential commentator in the nation, a must-have collection of Charles Krauthammer’s essential, timeless writings. A brilliant stylist known for an uncompromising honesty that challenged conventional wisdom at every turn, Krauthammer dazzled readers for decades with his keen insight into politics and government. His weekly column was a must-read in Washington and across the country. Don’t miss the best of Krauthammer’s intelligence, erudition and wit collected in one volume. Readers will find here not only the country’s leading conservative thinker offering a passionate defense of limited government, but also a highly independent mind whose views—on feminism, evolution and the death penalty, for example—defy ideological convention. Things That Matter also features several of Krauthammer’s major path-breaking essays—on bioethics, on Jewish destiny and on America’s role as the world’s superpower—that have profoundly influenced the nation’s thoughts and policies. And finally, the collection presents a trove of always penetrating, often bemused reflections on everything from border collies to Halley’s Comet, from Woody Allen to Winston Churchill, from the punishing pleasures of speed chess to the elegance of the perfectly thrown outfield assist. With a special, highly autobiographical introduction in which Krauthammer reflects on the events that shaped his career and political philosophy, this indispensible chronicle takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the fashions and follies, the tragedies and triumphs, of the last three decades of American life.
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Crazy Horse and Custer
Book SynopsisThe full story of what led Crazy Horse and Custer to that fateful day at the Little Bighorn, from bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose. On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 U.S. Army soldiers rode toward the banks of the Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory, where 3,000 Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two great warriors would soon be forever linked throughout history: Crazy Horse, leader of the Oglala Sioux, and General George Armstrong Custer of the Seventh Cavalry. Both were men of aggression and supreme courage. Both had become leaders in their societies at very early ages; both had been stripped of power, and in disgrace had worked to earn back the respect of their people. And to both of them, the unspoiled grandeur of the Great Plains of North America was an irresistible challenge. Their parallel lives would pave the way, in a manner unknown to either, for
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Humanities Press International Inc.,U.S. Priest and Parish in Vienna 1780 to 1880 Studies in Central European histories 15
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Brill Temples Religion and Politics in the Roman Republic
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W. W. Norton & Company The Sumerians The Norton Library
Book SynopsisIn this book Professor Woolley, one of the world's foremost archaeologists, shows quite clearly that when Egyptian civilization began the civilization of the Sumerians had already flourished for at least 2,000 years.
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WW Norton & Co CULTIVATION OF HATRED BY GAY PETERAUTHORPaperback Aug1993
Book SynopsisWith the same sweep, authority, and originality that marked his best-selling Freud: A Life for Our Time, Peter Gay here takes us on a remarkable journey through middle-class Victorian culture.
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WW Norton & Co New Regime Transformations of the French Civic Order 17891820s
Book SynopsisThis work examines the development of a new civic order in France after 1789, tracing the New Regime's evolving civic values, policies and institutions. Topics explored include the shifts in lawmaking and local authority, the creation of public primary schools and experiments in public assistance.
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WW Norton & Co The Naked Heart Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud Vol 4 The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud
Book SynopsisIn The Naked Heart, Peter Gay explores the bourgeoisie's turn inward.
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WW Norton & Co Pleasure Wars The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud Vol V The Pleasure Wars
Book SynopsisA master historian shows us a new side of the Victorian Era--the role of the Bourgeois as reactionaries, revolutionaries, and middle-of-the-roaders in the passage of high culture toward modernism.
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WW Norton & Co In Search of the Racial Frontier African Americans in the American West 15281990
Book SynopsisAn enthralling work that will be essential reading for years to come. -David Nicholson, Washington PostTrade Review"[Rich] in scope and scholarly detail?it will certainly stand as the definitive work on the subject for some time to come." -- James A. Miller - Boston Globe"[B]y far the most complete general history of blacks in the West." -- Scott L. Malcolmson - Newsday"Those looking for a solid overview of the African-American presence in our region would do well to let Quintard Taylor be their guide." -- John C. Walter - Seattle Times"An absorbing chronicle." -- Publishers Weekly
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WW Norton & Co The Tender Passion The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud Volume 2 The Bourgeois Experience from Victoria to Freud
Book SynopsisThe Tender Passion looks at the Victorian middle classes' ideal and real notions of love.
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WW Norton & Co Education of the Senses The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud Volume 1
Book SynopsisThe most learned, as well as the wittiest survey of human sexuality ever to be published. New York Times
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WW Norton & Co Minnesota A History 0 States and the Nation
Book SynopsisA comprehensive history of a state thought by many to be the most livable.
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W. W. Norton & Company Schnitzlers Century The Making of MiddleClass Culture 18151914 The Making of the Middleclass Culture 18151914
Book Synopsis"This is cultural history of the first order, and it is liberal and humane history at its very best."—David CannadineTrade Review"Through Gay's eyes we can get a warmer, more vivid and more accurate sense of the 'bourgeois experience' than has ever been available before." Sunday Telegraph "Schnitzler's Century is really a love story. [Gay's] latest book allows him to show off in a field he has made his own. [He] takes his chance elegantly and always interestingly." Andrew Lycett, Literary Review "Gay's own psychoanalytical approach is shown to brilliant and convincing effect... Schnitzler's Century [is] told with wisdom, wit and sensitivity." Financial Times
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W. W. Norton & Company Clocks and Culture 13001700 Norton Library
Book SynopsisThe history of the clock opens a window on how different cultures have viewed time and on Europe's path to industrialization.Trade Review"Cipolla has a sharp eye for the heaven in a grain of sand. He takes a prosaic piece of hardware and uses it as a path into some of the central themes of history.... Imaginative and wide-ranging." -- The Economist"Brilliant.... Demonstrates the economic and technological development by which the continent thrust into the forefront of civilization." -- The Listener
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Penguin Putnam Inc Imbibe Updated and Revised Edition
Book SynopsisOne of the world''s foremost authorities on cocktails and their history pays homage to Jerry Thomas, father of the American bar, by presenting this ultimate guide that includes definitive recipes for 100 classic drinks, along with 20 new recipes from today''s top mixologists created exclusively for this book.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Early Modern Witches Witchcraft Cases in Contemporary Writing
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Men and Maternity
Book SynopsisSince the development of modern medicine, men have become increasingly involved in childbearing as obstetricians and, more recently, as fathers. This book argues that the beneficial contribution of men has been taken for granted. Certain changes to childbearing practice have resulted, which, together with men''s involvement, have been encouraged without any reference to evidence and without adequate opportunity for reflection.Considering the findings of recent research and wider literature, and using qualitative research with mothers the text examines: how men became increasingly involved in childbearing the medicalisation of childbirth the difficulties men experience with childbirth as fathers challenging situations, such as fathers'' grief the taken-for-granted assumptions that men's increased contribution to childbearing is beneficialThis text will be of great interest to academics and postgraduate students of midwifery, obstetrics, mediTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Cultures and Times 2. The Midwife and Medical Men 3. Fathers and Fatherhood 4. The Labour and the Birth 5. Becoming a Father After the Birth 6. Childbearing and Domestic Violence 7. Men and Loss in Childbearing 8. How to Help - The Midwife's Role 9. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The NineteenthCentury Visual Culture Reader In Sight Visual Culture
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Taylor & Francis Industrializing Organisms Introducing Evolutionary History 5 Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Wind is My Mother The Life and Teachings of a
Book SynopsisWith eloquent simplicity, Native American medicine man Bear Heart demonstrates how traditional tribal wisdom can help us maintain spiritual and physical health in today's world.“As a child I was taught, ‘Chebon, the way to attain the beauty in life is through harmony. Be in harmony with all things, but most important, be in harmony with yourself first. A lot will go on in your life, some good, some bad—people may argue and some will try to take control of your life—but that one word, harmony, will neutralize any problems and help your life to become beautiful.’”—from The Wind is My Mother“A compelling and important work…Bear Heart is a gifted storyteller—readers of all backgrounds will be inspired by his lessons of how to apply traditional Native American wisdom to maintain balance in today’s world…Bear Heart’s is a truthful, honest voice which has let us into his world, andTrade ReviewPraise for The Wind Is My Mother: The Life and Teachings of a Native American Shaman“This fascinating book is a rare combination of universal truths and practical applications. It is an excellent manual for living a healthy life in a complex world.”—John Gray, author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus“Bear Heart, a full-blooded Muskogee Creek Indian and one of the last ‘trained’ medicine men, shares this knowledge, combining it with his more formal, graduate [studies] in psychology to build a bridge between Native American and modern spirituality.”—Publishers Weekly “At once mystical and utterly practical, Bear Heart’s message is not a call to conversion, but the testimony of a life so fully lived that it can heal others. To read it is to be inspired to live one’s own life with more attention, harmony and hope.”—Lorene Cary, author of If Sons, Then Heirs: A Novel“Bear Heart, a Muskogee Creek Indian medicine man, tells his story, including his insights about receiving the power of the Great Spirit through fasting, chanting, and vision quests.”—St. Petersburg Times“Inspiring...Bear Heart weaves together anecdotes and philosophy demonstrating that traditional Native American wisdom can be applied in today’s world to live a peaceful, balanced life. A charismatic storyteller, Bear Heart’s autobiography is rich not only with the amazing accomplishments and wisdom of his life as a medicine man but also with the ages-old legends of his people.”—Evolving WomanTable of ContentsIntroduction by Molly LarkinBook I: Initiation1. To Walk in Beauty2. A Well-rounded Education3. You Don't Ask to Be a Medicine Man4. Wrapped Around a TreeBook II: The Cure Lies Within You5. Whose Power Is It?6. Doctoring7. Another Kind of Healing8. Walking in Balance9. Coping with SufferingBook III: Learning How to Live10. The Power of Love11. Talking with the Earth12. A Different Kind of Church13. The Peyote Way14. The Sacred Pipe15. Becoming a Vessel - The Vision Quest16. We All Have Something to OfferPrayers
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