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  • That Most Precious Merchandise

    The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500

    by Hannah Barker ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    The history of the Black Sea as a source of Mediterranean slaves stretches from ancient Greek colonies to human trafficking networks in the present day. At its height during the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, the Black Sea slave trade was not the sole source of Mediterranean slaves; Genoese, Venetian, and Egyptian merchants bought captives taken in conflicts throughout the region, from ... Read more

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  • Family and Business during the Industrial Revolution

    by Hannah Barker ...
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Small businesses were at the heart of the economic growth and social transformation that characterized the industrial revolution in Britain. In towns across north-west ... Read more

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  • That Most Precious Merchandise

    The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500

    by Hannah Barker ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    The history of the Black Sea as a source of Mediterranean slaves stretches from ancient Greek colonies to human trafficking networks in the present day. At its height during the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, the Black Sea slave trade was not the sole source of Mediterranean slaves; Genoese, Venetian, and Egyptian merchants bought captives taken in conflicts throughout the region, from ... Read more

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  • Newspapers and English Society 1695-1855

    by Hannah Barker ...
    Series series Themes In British Social History
    This lively new study covers the dramatic expansion of the press from the seventeenth century to the mid nineteenth century. Hannah Barker explores the factors behind the rise of newspapers to a major force helping to reflect and shape public opinion and altering the way in which politics operated at every level of English life. Newspapers, Politics and English Society 1695-1855 provides a unique ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Faith in the Town

    Lay Religion in Northern England, 1740–1830

    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Across eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century northern England, religious faith continued to affect the lives of men, women, and children in profound ways. Rather than ... Read more

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  • Gender in Eighteenth-Century England

    Roles, Representations and Responsibilities

    A new collection of essays which challenges many existing assumptions, particularly the conventional models of separate spheres and economic change. All the essays are specifically written for a student market, making detailed research accessible to a wide readership and the opening chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the subject describing the development of gender history as a whole and ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Stowaway

    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    A man wakes, face down, sprawled across his single bed, the sunlight gently creeping through the window. Today is the day he will change his life. A Boeing 777 begins its descent towards Heathrow. The wheels unfold out of the belly of the plane. The frozen body of a stowaway is tipped out and cuts through the clear morning skyIn the car park of B&Q, Andy looks up. Something is falling out of the ... Read more

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  • My Parents Bought A Caravan

    Illustrated by Hannah Kraschnefski ...
    Nothing ever goes to plan, but that is all part of the adventure.Join Harrison and his family as they travel around Australia in a hilarious and heartwarming story.Based on actual events ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Women's History, Britain 1700-1850

    An Introduction

    Edited by Hannah Barker, Elaine Chalus ...
    Series series Women's and Gender History
    Placing women’s experiences in the context of the major social, economic and cultural shifts that accompanied the industrial and commercial transformations of this period, Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus paint a fascinating picture of the change, revolution, and continuity that were encountered by women of this time.A thorough and well-balanced selection of individual chapters by leading field ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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    This collection of all new essays seeks to answer a series of questions surrounding the Victorian response to poverty in Britain. In short, what did various layers of society say the poor deserved and what did they do to help them? The work is organized against the backdrop of the 1834 New Poor Laws, recognizing that poverty garnered considerable attention in England because of its pervasive and ... Read more

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  • White, Male and Middle Class

    Explorations in Feminism and History

    What are the relations between feminism and history, feminist politics and historical practice? What are the connections between gender and class? What part have racial identities and ethnic difference played in the construction of Englishness?Through a series of provocative and richly detailed essays, Catherine Hall explores these questions. She argues that feminism has opened up vital new ... Read more

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  • Illegitimacy, Family, and Stigma in England, 1660-1834

    by Kate Gibson ...
    Illegitimacy, Family, and Stigma is the first full-length exploration of what it was like to be illegitimate in eighteenth-century England, a period of 'sexual revolution', unprecedented increase in illegitimate births, and intense debate over children's rights to state support. Using the words of illegitimate individuals and their families preserved in letters, diaries, poor relief, and court ... Read more

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