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  • Climate Change, Interrupted

    Representation and the Remaking of Time

    by Barbara Leckie ...
    In this moment of climate precarity, Victorian studies scholar Barbara Leckie considers the climate crisis as a problem of time. Spanning the long nineteenth century through our current moment, her interdisciplinary treatment of climate change at once rethinks time and illustrates that the time for climate action is now.Climate Change, Interrupted argues that linear, progress-inflected ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Sanitary Reform in Victorian Britain, Part II vol 4

    by Michelle Allen-Emerson, Tom Crook, Barbara Leckie ...
    Sanitary reform was one of the great debates of the nineteenth century. This reset edition makes available a modern, edited collection of rare documents specifically addressing sanitary reform. Each volume will begin with an introduction, and the documents presented have headnotes and endnotes provided. A full index appears in the final volume. ... Read more

    $255.99 USD

  • Sanitary Reform in Victorian Britain, Part II vol 5

    by Michelle Allen-Emerson, Tom Crook, Barbara Leckie ...
    Sanitary reform was one of the great debates of the nineteenth century. This reset edition makes available a modern, edited collection of rare documents specifically addressing sanitary reform. Each volume will begin with an introduction, and the documents presented have headnotes and endnotes provided. A full index appears in the final volume. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Sanitary Reform in Victorian Britain, Part II vol 6

    by Michelle Allen-Emerson, Tom Crook, Barbara Leckie ...
    Sanitary reform was one of the great debates of the nineteenth century. This reset edition makes available a modern, edited collection of rare documents specifically addressing sanitary reform. Each volume will begin with an introduction, and the documents presented have headnotes and endnotes provided. A full index appears in the final volume. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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  • Dirty Old London

    The Victorian Fight Against Filth

    by Lee Jackson ...
    In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with "night soil," graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson guides us through the underbelly of the Victorian metropolis, introducing us to the men and women who struggled to ... Read more

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  • Human Documents of the Industrial Revolution In Britain

    by E. Royston pike ...
    Series series Economic History
    First Published in 2005. So many books have been written on the Industrial Revolution in Britain that it may be thought that there is hardly room for another. The present volume is an attempt to go some way towards filling what must surely appear to be a somewhat surprising gap in the literature. Its aim and purpose is to enable the men and women—and, let it be said, the children and young people ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Great Exhibition, 1851

    A sourcebook

    Edited by Jonathon Shears ...
    Series series Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century
    The Great Exhibition, 1851: A Sourcebook is the first anthology of its kind. It presents a comprehensive array of carefully selected primary documents, sourced from the period before, during and after the Exhibition in Hyde Park in 1851. Drawing on contemporary newspapers and periodicals, the archives of the Royal Commission, diaries, journals, celebratory poems and essays, many of these documents ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • A supplementary report on the results of a special inquiry into the practice of interment in towns

    Enriched edition. Uncovering Health Hazards in Urban Burial Practices

    by Edwin Chadwick, Vanessa Cross ...
    In "A Supplementary Report on the Results of a Special Inquiry into the Practice of Interment in Towns," Edwin Chadwick presents a meticulous examination of urban burial practices in 19th-century England. This pivotal work, characterized by its empirical research and analytical rigor, unveils the public health crises perpetuated by inadequate interment practices, illuminating the interplay between ... Read more

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  • The Sociology of an English Village: Gosforth

    by W. M. Williams ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    This is Volume XI of thirteen in a collection on the Urban and Regional Sociology. Initially published in 1956, the subject of this work is Gosforth in the North West with its long history and because it contained both a village and scattered farms. The field-work took place between July 1950 and February 1952, and further field-work was carried out in the summer of 1953. ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The English Rural Poor, 1850-1914 Vol 1

    by Mark Freeman ...
    Drawing on the difficult-to-access pamphlets, reports, periodical literature and political tracts, this five-volume set reproduces in facsimile a large number of neglected sources relating to rural life in the latter half of the nineteenth century. It is of interest to scholars in nineteenth-century studies and to all social historians. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Beginning theory

    An introduction to literary and cultural theory: Fourth edition

    by Peter Barry, John McLeod ...
    Series series Beginnings
    Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for over two decades. This new and expanded fourth edition continues to offer readers the best single-volume introduction to the field. The bewildering variety of approaches, theorists and technical language is lucidly and expertly unravelled. Unlike many books which assume certain positions ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • London

    A Biography

    by Peter Ackroyd ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKHere are two thousand years of London’s history and folklore, its chroniclers and criminals and plain citizens, its food and drink and countless pleasures. Blackfriar’s and Charing Cross, Paddington and Bedlam. Westminster Abbey and St. Martin in the Fields. Cockneys and vagrants. Immigrants, peasants, and punks. The Plague, the Great Fire, the Blitz. London at all ... Read more

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