Manliness in Britain, 1760-1900: Bodies, Emotion, and Material Culture (Begiato Joanne)(Pevná vazba)

Manliness in Britain, 1760-1900: Bodies, Emotion, and Material Culture (Begiato Joanne)(Pevná vazba)

This book focuses on men's bodies, emotions and material culture to offer a new understanding of masculinities in Britain in the long nineteenth century. Using objects as well as texts and images, it shows how idealised and ugly bodies, and the feelings they stimulated, helped convey ideas about

Black Bodies and Transhuman Realities: Scientifically Modifying the Black Body in Posthuman Literature and Culture (Hill Melvin G.)(Pevná vazba)

Black Bodies and Transhuman Realities: Scientifically Modifying the Black Body in Posthuman Literature and Culture makes a series of valuable contributions to ongoing dialogues surrounding posthuman blackness and Afro-transhumanism. The collection explores the Black body (self) in the context of

Bodies Politic: Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900 (Porter Roy)(Paperback)

In this historical tour de force, Roy Porter takes a critical look at representations of the body in health, disease, and death in Britain from the mid-seventeenth to the twentieth century. Porter argues that great symbolic weight was attached to contrasting conceptions of the healthy and diseased

Making the Modern Artist: Culture, Class and Art-Educational Opportunity in Romantic Britain (Myrone Martin)(Pevná vazba)

Exploring the myths and realities of the origins of the 'modern artist' in Britain The artist has been a privileged figure in the modern age, embodying ideals of personal and political freedom and self-fulfillment. Does it matter who gets to be an artist? And do our deeply held beliefs stand up to

Britain at War with the Asante Nation 1823-1900: 'The White Man's Grave' (Manning Stephen)(Pevná vazba)

Britain fought three major wars, and two minor ones, with the Asante people of West Africa in the nineteenth century. Only the Sudanese and Zulu campaigns saw a greater loss of life, both for the British and the indigenous population. Like the Zulus, the Asante were a warrior nation who offered a

Home Front in Britain Then and Now (Ramsey Winston and Gail)(Pevná vazba)

The Home Front in Britain Then and

Living by the Sword: Weapons and Material Culture in France and Britain, 600-1600 (Neuschel Kristen Brooke)(Pevná vazba)

Sharpen your knowledge of swords with Kristen B. Neuschel as she takes you through a captivating 1,000 years of French and English history. Living by the Sword reveals that warrior culture, with the sword as its ultimate symbol, was deeply rooted in ritual long before the introduction of gunpowder

Shellac and Swing!: A Social History of the Gramophone in Britain (Lindsay Bruce)(Pevná vazba)

Shellac and Swing tells the story of the gramophone's 'golden age, ' from 1900-1955, when it helped to shape Britain's culture from the arts to warfare. The story focuses on the gramophone, the invention of Emile Berliner in the 1880s, but begins with a brief outline of the first attempts to

How the Army Made Britain a Global Power: 1688-1815 (Black Jeremy)(Pevná vazba)

Between 1760 and 1815, British troops campaigned from Manila to Montreal, Cape Town to Copenhagen, Washington to Waterloo. The naval dimension of Britain's expansion has been superbly covered by a number of excellent studies, but there has not been a single volume that does the same for the army

Bodies Complexioned: Human Variation and Racism in Early Modern English Culture, C. 1600-1750 (Dawson Mark)(Pevná vazba)

Skin-tones mattered in early modern England. Indexing health, social status, religious affiliation and national allegiance, they helped explain (away) poverty, colonialism, war and slavery. Drawing physical distinctions as a means to power has a complex history - one belying racism's assumption

Consensus and Dissent - Negotiating Emotion in the Public Space(Pevná vazba)

Wreck Recovery in Britain Then and Now (Moran Peter J.)(Pevná vazba)

WRECK RECOVERY IN BRITAIN THEN AND NOWBy Peter J

Scripting the Moves: Culture and Control in a No-Excuses Charter School (Golann Joanne W.)(Pevná vazba)

An inside look at a 'no-excuses' charter school that reveals this educational model's strengths and weaknesses, and how its approach shapes students Silent, single-file lines. Detention for putting a head on a desk. Rules for how to dress, how to applaud, how to complete homework. Walk into some of

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

Spon - A Guide to Spoon Carving and the New Wood Culture (Spoon Barn The)(Pevná vazba)

'No one in Britain knows more about crafting a spoon from greenwood than Barn The Spoon.' Guardian'London's most famous and charismatic spoon whittler

Law, Reason, and Emotion (Sellers M. N. S.)(Pevná vazba)

This book examines the role and importance of reason and emotion in justice and the law. Eight lawyers and philosophers of law consider law's basis in the universal human need for society, our innate sense of justice, and many other powerful inclinations and emotions, including the desire for

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

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

Alan Bush, Modern Music, and the Cold War: The Cultural Left in Britain and the Communist Bloc (Bullivant Joanna)(Pevná vazba)

The first major study of Alan Bush, this book provides new perspectives on twentieth-century music and communism. British communist, composer of politicised works, and friend of Soviet musicians, Bush proved to be 'a lightning rod' in the national musical culture. His radical vision for British

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

Hokusai - A Life in Drawing (Baatsch Henri-Alexis)(Pevná vazba)

A beautifully illustrated introduction to Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), the most prolific and diverse artist of Japan's Edo period, and master of ukiyo-e - `images of the floating

Emotion in Christian and Islamic Contemplative Texts, 1100-1250: Cry of the Turtledove (Lazikani A. S.)(Pevná vazba)

This book offers a comparative study of emotion in Arabic Islamic and English Christian contemplative texts, c. 1110-1250, contributing to the emerging interest in 'globalization' in medieval studies. A.S.Lazikani argues for the necessity of placing medieval English devotional texts in a more

Jamie's Great Britain (Oliver Jamie)(Pevná vazba)

Over the years, British food culture has embraced flavours and influences from all the people who came and made Great Britain their home. This book features over 100

The Gothic Novel in Ireland, C. 1760-1829 (Morin Christina)(Pevná vazba)

A compelling account of the development of gothic literature in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century