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  • A Science of Our Own

    Exhibitions and the Rise of Australian Public Science

    by Peter H. Hoffenberg ...
    Series series Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
    When the Reverend Henry Carmichael opened the Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts in 1833, he introduced a bold directive: for Australia to advance on the scale of nations, it needed to develop a science of its own. Prominent scientists in the colonies of New South Wales and Victoria answered this call by participating in popular exhibitions far and near, from London’s Crystal Place in 1851 to Sydney ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Oceania and the Victorian Imagination

    Where All Things Are Possible

    by Peter H. Hoffenberg ...
    Oceania, or the South Pacific, loomed large in the Victorian popular imagination. It was a world that interested the Victorians for many reasons, all of which suggested to them that everything was possible there. This collection of essays focuses on Oceania’s impact on Victorian culture, most notably travel writing, photography, international exhibitions, literature, and the world of children. ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Poverty and Morality

    Religious and Secular Perspectives

    Edited by William A. Galston, Peter H. Hoffenberg ...
    This multi-authored book explores the ways that many influential ethical traditions - secular and religious, Western and non-Western - wrestle with the moral dimensions of poverty and the needs of the poor. These traditions include Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism, among the religious perspectives; classical liberalism, feminism, liberal-egalitarianism, and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Britain, the Empire, and the World at the Great Exhibition of 1851

    by Jeffrey A. Auerbach ...
    Britain, the Empire, and the World at the Great Exhibition is the first book to situate the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851 in a truly global context. Addressing national, imperial, and international themes, this collection of essays considers the significance of the Exhibition both for its British hosts and their relationships to the wider world, and for participants from around the globe. How ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • South Seas Encounters

    Nineteenth-Century Oceania, Britain, and America

    Edited by Richard Fulton, Peter Hoffenberg, Stephen Hancock, Allison Paynter ...
    Series series The Nineteenth Century Series
    South Seas Encounters examines several key types of encounters between the many-faceted worlds of Oceania, Britain and the United States in the formative nineteenth century. The eleven essays collected in this volume focus not only on the effect of the two powerful, industrialized colonial powers on the cultures of the Pacific, but the effect of those cultures on the Western cultural perceptions ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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    by Lewis Mumford ...
    Series Book 19 - Forbidden Bookshelf
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  • This Horrid Practice

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    'Though stronger evidence of this horrid practice prevailing among the inhabitants of this coast will scarcely be required, we have still stronger to give.' - Captain James Cook This Horrid Practice uncovers an unexplored taboo of New Zealand history - the widespread practice of cannibalism in pre-European Maori society. Until now, many historians have tried to avoid it and many Maori have ... Read more

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  • National Museums and Nation-building in Europe 1750-2010

    Mobilization and legitimacy, continuity and change

    Edited by Peter Aronsson, Gabriella Elgenius ...
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  • Voyagers

    The Settlement of the Pacific

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    An award-winning scholar explores the sixty-thousand-year history of the Pacific islands in this dazzling, deeply researched account.One of the Best Books of 2021 — Wall Street JournalThe islands of Polynesia, Melanesia, and Micronesia stretch across a huge expanse of ocean and encompass a multitude of different peoples. Starting with Captain James Cook, the earliest European explorers to visit ... Read more

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  • Bourgeois Utopias

    The Rise And Fall Of Suburbia

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    A noted urban historian traces the story of the suburb from its origins in nineteenth-century London to its twentieth-century demise in decentralized cities like Los Angeles. ... Read more

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    Seacoasts in History

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