A Velvet Empire: French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century (Todd David)(Pevná vazba)

A Velvet Empire: French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century (Todd David)(Pevná vazba)

How France's elites used soft power to pursue their imperial ambitions in the nineteenth century After Napoleon's downfall in 1815, France embraced a mostly informal style of empire, one that emphasized economic and cultural influence rather than military conquest. A Velvet Empire is a global

Reading with the Senses in Victorian Literature and Science (Coombs David Sweeney)(Pevná vazba)

The nineteenth-century sciences cleaved sensory experience into two separate realms: the bodily physics of sensation and the mental activity of perception. This division into two discrete categories was foundational to Victorian physics, physiology, and experimental psychology. As David Sweeney

Women against cruelty: Protection of animals in nineteenth-century Britain (Donald Diana)(Pevná vazba)

This is the first study of women's leading contribution to animal protection in nineteenth-century

Reckoning with Rebellion: War and Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century (Sheehan-Dean Aaron)(Pevná vazba)

French Cultural Studies for the Twenty-First Century (Belenky Masha)(Pevná vazba)

This interdisciplinary volume analyzes previously understudied sources from nineteenth- and twentieth- century France and the Francophone world and situates them in their social, cultural and political

Spain in the Nineteenth Century: New Essays on Experiences of Culture and Society (Ginger Andrew)(Pevná vazba)

Confronted by a complex new society, nineteenth-century Spaniards wrestled with how to envisage their lives. From trying to be universal through to acting as a cultural entrepreneur, this volume explores the possibilities and uncertainties that unfolded in their reconfigured

Comic empires: Imperialism in cartoons, caricature, and satirical art (Scully Richard)(Pevná vazba)

Comic empires is an innovative collection of new scholarly research, exploring the relationship between imperialism and cartoons, caricature, and comic

Railways (Valkoinen Christopher)(Pevná vazba)

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the first railway was established in Great Britain, contributing to the country's dramatic social and economic revolution. Detailed plans were created of locomotives, carriages, wagons, stations, bridges, and tunnels to facilitate the manufacturing

Foreigner (Sennett Richard)(Pevná vazba)

Paris in the nineteenth century was a magnet for Europe's exiles, among them the Russian genius, Alexander Herzen, who described the experience of displacement from the inside. Richard Sennett plunges into this vibrant, anxious world to recreate the experiences of Herzen and his

Fathers in Victorian Fiction (McKnight Natalie)(Pevná vazba)

This book examines the changing roles of fathers in the nineteenth century as seen in the lives and fiction of Victorian authors. Fatherhood underwent unprecedented change during this period. The Industrial Revolution moved work out of the home for many men, diminishing contact between fathers and

The British Empire through buildings: Structure, function and meaning (MacKenzie John M.)(Pevná vazba)

Imperialism is strikingly represented in its buildings. This work illuminates the dispersal of colonial culture and religious forms, social classes, and racial divisions over two centuries, from the establishment of colonial rule to a post-colonial world. It will be a vital reading for all students

Asteroids (Cunningham Clifford J.)(Pevná vazba)

Grounded in historical studies of asteroids from the nineteenth century, Asteroids is a fully up-to-date view of these remarkable objects. Without resorting to any technical diagrams or mathematics, Clifford J. Cunningham shows that asteroids are not just rocks in space, but key to understanding

Poems (Byron George Gordon)(Pevná vazba)

Byron's poetry took Europe by storm in the early nineteenth century and the poems which made him a star are here represented by a selection of the early lyrics, including still popular pieces such as 'She walks in beauty' and 'We'll go a no more

Caspar David Friedrich (Grave Johannes)(Pevná vazba)

Now available in a new format, this beautifully illustrated volume on the controversial nineteenth-century Romantic artist addresses his modern critics while deepening our appreciation for his singular genius. 'A painting must stand as a painting, made by human hand,' wrote Caspar David Friedrich,

Sex and Sexuality in Victorian Britain (Fenn Violet)(Pevná vazba)

Peek beneath the bedsheets of nineteenth-century Britain in this affectionate, informative and fascinating look at sex and sexuality during the reign of Queen Victoria. It examines the prevailing attitudes towards male and female sexual behavior, and the ways in which these attitudes were often

History of Germany 1780-1918: The Long Nineteenth Century (Blackbourn David)(Paperback)

This history offers a powerful and original account of Germany from the eve of the French Revolution to the end of World War One. Written by a leading German historian who has transformed the historiography of modern Germany over the past two decades. Covers the whole of the long nineteenth

The French Revolution (Andress David)(Pevná vazba)

In this miraculously compressed, incisive book, David Andress argues that it was the peasantry of France who made and defended the Revolution of 1789. That the peasant revolution benefited far more people, in more far reaching ways, than the revolution of lawyerly elites and urban radicals that has

Murder at Wakehurst (Maxwell Alyssa)(Pevná vazba)

In the autumnal chill of Newport, Rhode Island, at the close of the nineteenth century, journalist Emma Cross discovers an instance of cold-blooded murder on the grounds of a mansion... Following the death of her uncle, Cornelius Vanderbilt, in September 1899, a somber Emma is in no mood for one of

Garibaldi in South America: An Exploration (Bourne Richard)(Pevná vazba)

For over twelve years in the first half of the nineteenth century, Giuseppe Garibaldi, the hero of Italian unification, lived, learned and fought in South America. He was tortured, escaped death on countless occasions, and met his Brazilian wife, Anita, who eloped with him in 1839. From then on,

Photography and Literature in the Twentieth Century (Cunningham David)(Pevná vazba)

Photography and Literature in the Twentieth-Century offers an accessible and fresh approach to an object of interdisciplinary research that is currently receiving increased international attention. Providing a broad historical schema, and examining pivotal moments within it, the collection brings

James Sowerby: The Enlightenment's Natural Historian (Henderson Paul)(Pevná vazba)

The mid-eighteenth to mid-nineteenth century was a time of illustrious achievements in the world of botanical art. Artists who once sought to please the whims of wealthy patrons were turning to scientists for inspiration, and they now had access to countless new botanical specimens thanks to

Settler Colonialism in Victorian Literature (Steer Philip)(Pevná vazba)

How did the emigration of nineteenth-century Britons to colonies of settlement shape Victorian literature? Philip Steer uncovers productive networks of writers and texts spanning Britain, Australia, and New Zealand to argue that the novel and political economy found common colonial ground over

Villanelles (Various)(Pevná vazba)

The poems collected here range from the classic villanelles of the nineteenth century - by Thomas Hardy, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Oscar Wilde and others - to such famous and memorable examples as Dylan Thomas's 'Do not go gentle into that good night,' Elizabeth Bishop's 'One Art' and Sylvia

Postcolonial Europe: Comparative Reflections After the Empires (Jensen Lars)(Pevná vazba)

How has European identity been shaped through its colonial empires? Does this history of imperialism influence the conceptualisation of Europe in the contemporary globalised world? How has coloniality shaped geopolitical differences within Europe? What does this mean for the future of Europe?