Freedom Burning: Anti-Slavery and Empire in Victorian Britain (Huzzey Richard)(Pevná vazba)

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

Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain (Scanlan Padraic X.)(Pevná vazba)

Engrossing and powerful . . . rich and thought-provoking' Fara Dabhoiwala, Guardian 'Path-breaking . . . a major rewriting of history' Mihir Bose, Irish Times 'Slave Empire is lucid, elegant and forensic. It deals with appalling horrors in cool and convincing prose.' The Economist 'A sweeping and

British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society 1838-1956 - A History (Heartfield James)(Pevná vazba)

History of British and Foreign Anti-Slavery

Bordering Britain: Law, race and empire (El-Enany Nadine)(Pevná vazba)

(B)ordering Britain argues that Britain is the spoils of empire, its immigration law is colonial violence and irregular immigration is anti-colonial resistance. In announcing itself as postcolonial through immigration and nationality laws passed in the 60s, 70s and 80s, Britain cut itself off

Protest: Britain on the March (Mirrorpix)(Pevná vazba)

Throughout history in free and democratic societies freedom of speech has been highly held as a vital right for all, regardless of background or stance. Time and again, a community has banded together to make a stand for their beliefs by demonstrating, rioting and otherwise doing whatever it takes

A Matter of Obscenity: The Politics of Censorship in Modern England (Hilliard Christopher)(Pevná vazba)

A comprehensive history of censorship in modern Britain For Victorian lawmakers and judges, the question of whether a book should be allowed to circulate freely depended on whether it was sold to readers whose mental and moral capacities were in doubt, by which they meant the increasingly literate

Barnaby Rudge (Dickens Charles)(Paperback)

Written at a time of social unrest in Victorian Britain and set in London at the time of the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots, Dickens's brooding novel of mayhem and murder in the eighteenth century explores the relationship between repression and liberation in private and public life. Barnaby Rudge

Peculiar Rhetoric: Slavery, Freedom, and the African Colonization Movement (Southard Bjorn F. Stillion)(Pevná vazba)

The African colonization movement occupies a troubling rhetorical territory in the struggle for racial equality in the United States. For white colonizationists, the movement seemed positioned as a welcome compromise between slavery and abolition. For free blacks, colonization offered the hope of

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

Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine (Downs Jim)(Pevná vazba)

A sweeping global history that looks beyond European urban centers to show how slavery, colonialism, and war propelled the development of modern medicine. Most stories of medical progress come with ready-made heroes. John Snow traced the origins of London's 1854 cholera outbreak to a water pump,

Catholicism, Race and Empire: Eugenics in Portugal, 1900-1950 (Cleminson Richard)(Pevná vazba)

This monograph places the science and ideology of eugenics in early twentieth century Portugal in the context of manifestations in other countries in the same period. The author argues that three factors limited the impact of eugenics in Portugal: a low level of institutionalization, opposition

Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends (Ormond Richard)(Pevná vazba)

WINNER of the W. E. Fischelis Award from the Victorian Society in America. Accompanying a major exhibition, this is the first book devoted to the career of this renowned American painter through his brilliant portraits. John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was one of the leading painters of his

Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism (Rorty Richard)(Pevná vazba)

The last book by the eminent American philosopher and public intellectual Richard Rorty, providing the definitive statement of his mature philosophical and political views. Richard Rorty's Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism is a last statement by one of America's foremost philosophers. Here Rorty

The Archaeology of Northern Slavery and Freedom (Delle James A.)(Pevná vazba)

Investigating what life was like for African Americans north of the Mason-Dixon Line during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, James Delle presents the first overview of archaeological research on the topic in this book, debunking the notion that the 'free' states of the Northeast truly

Town: Prints & Drawings of Britain Before 1800 (Nurse Bernard)(Pevná vazba)

Many provincial towns in Britain grew dramatically in size and importance in the eighteenth century. Ports such as Glasgow and Liverpool greatly expanded, while industrial centers such as Birmingham and Manchester flourished. Market towns outside London developed as commercial centers or as

Murder and Mayhem: Crime in Twentieth-Century Britain (Nash David)(Pevná vazba)

This introductory book offers a coherent history of twentieth century crime and the law in Britain, with chapters on topics ranging from homicide to racial hate crime, from incest to anarchism, from gangs to the death penalty. Pulling together a wide range of literature, David Nash and Anne-Marie

Articulating Bodies: The Narrative Form of Disability and Illness in Victorian Fiction (Hingston Kylee-Anne)(Pevná vazba)

Articulating Bodies investigates the contemporaneous developments of Victorian fiction and disability's medicalization by focusing on the intersection between narrative form and body. The book examines texts from across the century, from Frederic Shoberl's 1833 English translation of Victor Hugo's

Past Perfect: Richard Shapiro Houses and Gardens (Shapiro Richard)(Pevná vazba)

In this exquisite monograph, designer and antiques dealer Richard Shapiro demonstrates the alchemy required to create a home that seems cultivated over many generations. Shapiro has mastered the art of crafting refined, cultivated spaces that transport their inhabitants to distant lands and past

Literary Hispanophobia and Hispanophilia in Britain and the Low Countries (1550-1850) (Rodrguez Prez Yolanda)(Pevná vazba)

Uncivil Mirth: Ridicule in Enlightenment Britain (Carroll Ross)(Pevná vazba)

How the philosophers and polemicists of eighteenth-century Britain used ridicule in the service of religious toleration, abolition, and political justice The relaxing of censorship in Britain at the turn of the eighteenth century led to an explosion of satires, caricatures, and comic hoaxes. This

Woman in the Mirror (Avedon Richard)(Pevná vazba)

Richard Avedon redefined portrait and fashion photography in the 20th century. In the 1940s Avedon burst onto the fashion scene, infusing his photographs with touches of realism and the fantastic. His images were among the first to replace the stiff poses of the past with energetic action scenes

Palmares (Jones Gayl)(Pevná vazba)

The epic rendering of a Black woman's journey through slavery and liberation, set in 17th-century colonial Brazil; the return of a major voice in American literature. First discovered and edited by Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones has been described as one of the great literary writers of the 20th

Empire of Lies (Khoury Raymond)(Pevná vazba)

Empire is a sweeping thriller in the tradition of The Man in the High Castle, Fatherland and Underground Airlines from New York Times bestselling author Raymond Khoury.Istanbul, 1683: Mehmed IV, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, is preparing to lay siege to Vienna, capital of the Holy Roman Empire,

Burning Everest and Mariza's Story (Flynn Adrian)(Pevná vazba)

The 'Heinemann Plays' series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editions. Many have large casts and an equal mix of boy and girl parts. This book contains two winners of the 'W.H. Smith Plays for Children