Enterprise and Trade in Victorian Britain, McCloskey, D. N.
Автор: Howell Philip Название: At Home and Astray: The Domestic Dog in Victorian Britain ISBN: 0813936861 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813936864 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 5706.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Although the British consider themselves a nation of dog lovers, what we have come to know as the modern dog came into existence only after a profound, and relatively recent, transformation in that country's social attitudes and practices. In At Home and Astray, Philip Howell focuses on Victorian Britain, and especially London, to show how the dog's changing place in society was the subject of intense debate and depended on a fascinating combination of forces even to come about.
Despite a relationship with humans going back thousands of years, the dog only became fully domesticated and installed at the heart of the middle-class home in the nineteenth century. Dog breeding and showing proliferated at that time, and dog ownership increased considerably. At the same time, the dog was increasingly policed out of public space, the "stray" becoming the unloved counterpart of the household "pet." Howell shows how this redefinition of the dog's place illuminates our understanding of modernity and the city. He also explores the fascinating process whereby the dog's changing role was proposed, challenged, and confronted--and in the end conditionally accepted. With a supporting cast that includes Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Thomas Carlyle, and Charles Darwin, and subjects of inquiry ranging from vivisection and the policing of rabies to pet cemeteries, dog shelters, and the practice of walking the dog, At Home and Astray is a contribution not only to the history of animals but also to our understanding of the Victorian era and its legacies.
Описание: The Dawn of the Cheap Press provides the first detailed study of the mid-Victorian campaign for the repeal of the taxes on knowledge for over a hundred years. Using the recently discovered papers of the Association for the Promotion of the Repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge and taking advantage of new forms of research made possible by the digitisation of nineteenth century newspapers, it assesses the impact of the removal of the last surviving legal disabilities on the newspaper industry, the nature of journalism, and the cultures and practices of newspaper reading. The book demonstrates that the campaign against the taxes on knowledge retained broad popular appeal, and played an important role in the politics of mid-Victorian budgets. It not only makes a seminal contribution to the history of the nineteenth century press and print culture, but also illuminates the culture and politics of mid-Victorian Britain, offers an important re-reading of the history of extra-parliamentary pressure group politics and provides new insights into the origins of Gladstonian Liberalism.
Heroism in the 19th and early 20th centuries is synonymous with military endeavours, imperial adventures and the 'great men of history'. There was, however, another prominent and influential strand of the idea which has, until now, been largely overlooked. This book seeks to address this oversight and establish new avenues of study by revealing and examining 'everyday' heroism; acts of life-risking bravery, undertaken by otherwise ordinary individuals, largely in the course of their daily lives and within quotidian surroundings.
Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, John Price charts and investigates the growth and development of this important discourse, presenting in-depth case studies of The Albert Medal and the Carnegie Hero Fund alongside a nationwide analysis of heroism monuments and an exploration of radical approaches to the concept. Unlike its military and imperial counterparts, everyday heroism embraced the heroine and this study reflects that with an examination of female heroism.
Discovering why certain individuals or acts were accorded the status of being 'heroic' also provides insights into those that recognized them. Heroism is a flexible and malleable constellation of ideas, shaped or constructed along different lines by different people, so if you want to identify the characteristics of a group or society, much can be learnt by studying those it holds up as heroic. Consequently, Everyday Heroism: Victorian Constructions of the Heroic Civilian provides valuable and revealing evidence for a wide range of social and cultural topics including; class, gender, identity, memory, celebrity, and literary and visual culture.
Автор: Morgan Название: National Identities and Travel in Victorian Britain ISBN: 0333719999 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333719992 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 15372.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book explores components of national identity in Victorian Britain by analyzing travel literature.
Автор: Inge Название: The Victorian Age ISBN: 1107495091 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107495098 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 2693.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Originally published in 1922, this book presents the content of the Rede Lecture for that year, which was delivered by William Ralph Inge at the University of Cambridge. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the writings of Inge, British history and the Victorian period.
Автор: Temperley Название: The Victorian Age in Politics, War and Diplomacy ISBN: 110753691X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107536913 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Цена: 2058.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Harold Temperley (1879–1939) was a British historian who specialised in diplomatic history. Originally published in 1928, this book on the Victorian period was based upon his Cambridge University inaugural lecture, delivered at the Local Lectures Summer Meeting for that year. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Victorian Britain, political history and the development of British foreign policy.
Автор: McCloskey, D. N. Название: Enterprise and Trade in Victorian Britain ISBN: 0415607051 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415607056 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7042.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Golden, William T. Название: Science in Victorian Manchester ISBN: 1412810817 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781412810814 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7501.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Milne Smith Amy Название: London Clubland ISBN: 0230120768 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230120761 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12577.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This work is the first to study the gentlemen`s clubs that were an important feature of the Late Victorian landscape, and the first to discover the secret history of clubmen and their world, placing them at centre stage, detailing how clubland dramatically shaped 19th and early 20th-century ideas about gender, power, class, and the city.
Описание: This study of 19th-century local government examines the role of local government officials and the social origins of this growing bureaucracy. As the predecessor of the London County Council, the Metropolitan Board of Works was an important body and its officials formed a large and significant professional group, not hitherto studied in such depth.
Автор: Crowther M. A. Название: Workhouse System 1834-1929 ISBN: 1138647438 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138647435 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22968.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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First published in 1981. Professor Crowther traces the history of the workhouse system from the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 to the Local Government Act of 1929.
At their outset the large residential institutions were seen by the Poor Law Commissioners as a cure for nearly all social ills. In fact these formidable, impersonal, prison-like buildings - housing all paupers under one roof - became institutionalised: places where routine came to be an end in itself. In the early twentieth century some of the workhouses became hospitals or homes for the old or handicapped but many continued to form a residual service for those who needed long-term care.
Crowther pays attention not only to the administrators but also to the inmates and their daily life. She illustrates that the workhouse system was not simply a nineteenth-century phenomenon but a forerunner of many of today's social institutions.
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