Описание: Toby Ditz explores the relationship among inheritance, kinship, and the commercialization of agriculture. Comparing four upland communities with a Connecticut River Valley town, she finds that inheritance practices in the late colonial era heavily favored some male heirs and created shared rights in property. These customs continued into the early
Автор: Spitzer Alan Barrie Название: The French Generation of 1820 ISBN: 0691609578 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691609577 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 7920.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Alan Spitzer approaches the history of the French Restoration by examining the experience of a particular age group born between 1792 and 1803: the generation of 1820. A predominantly male, middle-class, educated minority of this group was perceived as representing all that was most promising and specifically youthful in the period. Their response
Автор: Jameson Название: Letters from the Havana, During the Year 1820 ISBN: 1108024408 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108024402 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 3643.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Robert Francis Jameson was the British Commissioner of Arbitration stationed in Cuba between 1819 and 1823. This volume, first published in 1821, contains his observations on Cuban society, and provides a valuable picture of an economy totally dependent on slave labour at a time when abolition had already begun.
Автор: Kenwood, George Название: Growth of the International Economy, 1820-2000 ISBN: 0415199301 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415199308 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6430.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This text is widely acknowledged to be the best available introduction to the study of the international economy as a mechanism for diffusing modern economic growth between nations. This new edition covers developments up to the present day.
Автор: Shields Название: Sentimental Literature and Anglo-Scottish Identity, 1745–1820 ISBN: 1107449146 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107449145 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book examines the literary negotiation of Anglo-Scottish relations in the century following the 1707 Union between Scotland`s and England`s parliaments.
Описание: This book examines why several American literary and intellectual icons became pioneering scholars of the Hispanic world after Independence and the War 1812. At this crucial time for the young republic, these gifted Americans found inspiration in an unlikely place: the collapsing Spanish empire and used it to shape their own country`s identity.
Описание: Over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the technologies began to light up streets, sidewalks, buildings, and public spaces. This book depicts the changing experience of the urban night over this period, visiting a host of actors - scavengers, newsboys, and mashers alike - in the nocturnal city.
Автор: Henkle Roger B. Название: Comedy and Culture: England 1820-1900 ISBN: 069161606X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691616063 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 8712.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Comedy cannot be understood as an abstract critical concept, argues Roger Henkle; it `must be studied in specific cultural and historical contexts. From this point of view he examines the development of literary comedy in nineteenth-century England, and shows how comic modes and techniques were used to express and release the tensions of the middle
Автор: Gilkeson John S. Название: Middle-Class Providence, 1820-1940 ISBN: 0691610738 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691610733 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 8712.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book inquires into what Americans mean when they call the United States a middle-class nation and why the vast majority of Americans identify themselves as middle class. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distingu
Описание: The naturalist Charles Waterton (1782-1865), whose family owned plantations in Demerara, travelled widely in South America and the Caribbean. This 1825 account of his expeditions, reissued here in its 1828 second edition, describes research on Amazonian poison, the capture of an enormous snake, and being attacked by vampire bats.
Описание: By offering a much-needed account of the rise of the modern disciplines, in this study Robin Valenza shows why the sciences and humanities diverged so strongly, and argues that literature has a special role in navigating between the languages of different areas of thought. He focuses on eighteenth-century physics, philosophy, and poetry.
Описание: Newspapers are a vital component of print and political cultures, as they informed and documented social and political upheavals between 1750 and 1850. Despite the influence attributed to newspapers, little is known about the press itself. This collection aims to fill this gap by examining the press of Europe and America.
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