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“david a valone”

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  • Ireland's Great Hunger

    Relief, Representation, and Remembrance, Volume 2

    Edited by David A. Valone ...
    The papers collected in this volume are a product of the second conference on Ireland's Great Hunger held at Quinnipiac University in 2005. That conference, focused on the themes of representation and preservation, brought together forty-five scholars from around the world to discuss various aspects of the Famine and its aftermath. Following the conference, the complete An Gorta Mór collection of ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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    A Short History

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    Privacy: A Short History provides a vital historical account of an increasingly stressed sphere of human interaction. At a time when the death of privacy is widely proclaimed, distinguished historian, David Vincent, describes the evolution of the concept and practice of privacy from the Middle Ages to the present controversy over digital communication and state surveillance provoked by the ... Read more

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  • Green Unpleasant Land

    by Corinne Fowler ...
    Selected by Bernardine Evaristo as an Observer Best Books 2021Green Unpleasant Land explores the repressed history of rural England's links to transatlantic enslavement and the East India Company.Combining essays, poems and stories, it details the colonial links of country houses, moorlands, woodlands, village pubs and graveyards. It also explores the links between rural poverty, particularly ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Introduction to Travel Writing

    by Tim Youngs ...
    Critics have long struggled to find a suitable category for travelogues. From its ancient origins to the present day, the travel narrative has borrowed elements from various genres - from epic poetry to literary reportage - in order to evoke distant cultures and exotic locales, and sometimes those closer to hand. Tim Youngs argues in this lucid and detailed Introduction that travel writing ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • The Georgians

    The Deeds and Misdeeds of 18th-Century Britain

    by Penelope J. Corfield ...
    A comprehensive history of the Georgians, comparing past views of these exciting, turbulent, and controversial times with our attitudes todayThe Georgian era is often seen as a time of innovations. It saw the end of monarchical absolutism, global exploration and settlements overseas, the world’s first industrial revolution, deep transformations in religious and cultural life, and Britain’s role in ... Read more

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  • The Victorians

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Dr. David Gange ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    The Victorian era was a time of unprecedented transformation, yet it is often understood only through the stereotypes of crowded factories, child labour and emotional repression. In this entertaining and scholarly introduction, Dr David Gange explores the political, social and economic realities that defined life for Victorian people.Weaving together the perspectives of historians and literary ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Beyond the Frame

    Feminism and Visual Culture, Britain 1850 -1900

    by Deborah Cherry ...
    Beyond the Frame rewrites the history of Victorian art to explore the relationships between feminism and visual culture in a period of heady excitement and political struggle. Artists were caught up in campaigns for women's enfranchisement, education and paid work, and many were drawn into controversies about sexuality. This richly documented and compelling study considers painting, sculpture, ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Caribbean Irish Connections: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    by Evelyn O'Callaghan, Alison Donnell, Maria McGarrity ...
    This collection explores how the complications and contradictions of Irish-Caribbean relations are much richer and deeper than previously recognized. Caribbean Irish Connections makes an important contribution to Irish studies by challenging the dominance of a US diasporic history and a disciplinary focus on cultural continuity and ancestry. The contributors emphasize the importance of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Hanoverian Britain: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Mark Knights ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Black Victorians

    Hidden in History

    by Keshia N. Abraham, John Woolf ...
    Beyond the patrician vision of Victorian Britain traditionally advanced in our textbooks, there always existed another, more diverse Britain, populated by people of colour marking achievements both ordinary and extraordinary.In this deeply researched and dynamic history, Woolf and Abraham reach into the archives to recentre our attention on marginalised Black Victorians, from leading medic George ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Making of English Popular Culture

    Edited by John Storey ...
    Series series Directions in Cultural History
    The Making of English Popular Culture provides an account of the making of popular culture in the nineteenth century.While a form of what we might describe as popular culture existed before this period, John Storey has assembled a collection that demonstrates how what we now think of as popular culture first emerged as a result of the enormous changes that accompanied the industrial revolution. ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Studying British Cultures

    An Introduction

    Edited by Susan Bassnett ...
    'British Studies' and 'British Cultural Studies' cover a wide range of facets of contemporary Britain. Studying British Cultures: An Introduction is a unique collection of essays which examine the most significant aspects of this quickly developing area of study, analyzing the ways of teaching and reading British culture.The work covers the contemporary and key issues, including:the terminological ... Read more

    $55.99 USD