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

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

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

Praying with One Eye Open: Mormons and Murder in Nineteenth-Century Appalachian Georgia (Engel Mary Ella)(Pevná vazba)

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

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

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

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

United Kingdom and The Federal Idea (Schtze Robert)(Pevná vazba)

How should political power be divided within and among national peoples? Is the nineteenth-century theory of the sovereign and unitary State still fit for purpose in the twenty-first century? If not, can federalism provide a viable alternative model? This collection looks at federalism from the

Poetry and Sovereignty in the English Revolution (Allsopp Niall)(Pevná vazba)

Poetry and Sovereignty in the English Revolution presents a new interpretation of the poetry of the English revolution. It focuses on royalist poets who left their cause behind following the abolition of the monarchy, exploring how they re-imagined the traditional language of allegiance in newly

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

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

Modernism and Perversion: Sexual Deviance in Sexology and Literature, 1850-1930 (Schaffner A.)(Pevná vazba)

Charting the construction of sexual perversions in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical, psychiatric and psychological discourse, Schaffner argues that sexologists' preoccupation with these perversions was a response to specifically modern concerns, and illuminates the role of literary

Animosity: Animal Conflict in the 21st Century (Gekoski Aaron)(Pevná vazba)

The World's Wildlife is in Crisis. Globally, animals are being traded, hunted, poached, consumed and exploited to the point we are in the midst of a sixth mass extinction event. Aaron Gekoski is an award-winning environmental photojournalist who has travelled to the most inhospitable places on

War Lord (Cornwell Bernard)(Pevná vazba)

The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller IN THE FINAL RECKONING, CHOOSE YOUR SIDE

Gothic Imagination in Latin American Fiction and Film (Serrano Carmen A.)(Pevná vazba)

Traces how Gothic imagination from the literature and culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe and twentieth-century US and European film has impacted Latin American literature and film culture. Serrano argues that the Gothic has provided a way to critique issues including colonization,

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

Oscar and Lucinda - True History of the Kelly Gang (Carey Peter)(Pevná vazba)

OSCAR AND LUCINDA is a sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel set in nineteenth-century England and Australia where the two potential lovers lead parallel lives until chance brings them together on board

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

The Trouble with Peace (Abercrombie Joe)(Pevná vazba)

A fragile peace gives way to conspiracy, betrayal, and rebellion in this sequel to the New York Times bestselling A Little Hatred from epic fantasy master Joe Abercrombie. Peace is just another kind of battlefield . . . Savine dan Glokta, once Adua's most powerful investor, finds her judgement,

Eavesdropping on the Emperor - Interrogators and Codebreakers in Britain's War With Japan (Kornicki Peter)(Pevná vazba)

My War in the SOE - Behind Enemy Lines in France and Burmah with the Special Operations Executive (Verlander Harry)(Pevná vazba)

Injury Impoverished (Holdren Nate)(Pevná vazba)

The late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century US economy maimed and killed employees at an astronomically high rate, while the legal system left the injured and their loved ones with little recourse. In the 1910s, US states enacted workers' compensation laws, which required employers to pay a

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

A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel (Phillips Tom)(Pevná vazba)

In 1966, Tom Phillips took a forgotten nineteenth-century novel, W. H. Mallock's A Human Document, and began working over the extant text to create something new.The artist writes, 'I plundered, mined, and undermined its text to make it yield the ghosts of other possible stories, scenes, poems,