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  • The Working-Classes in Victorian Fiction

    by P. J. Keating ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The Nineteenth-Century Novel
    First published in 1971. The book examines the presentation of the urban and industrial working classes in Victorian fiction. It considers the different types of working men and women who appear in fiction, the environments they are shown to inhabit, and the use of phonetics to indicate the sound of working class voices. Evidence is drawn from a wide range of major and minor fiction, and new light ... Read more

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  • The Haunted Study

    A Social History of the English Novel, 1875-1914

    by P. J. Keating ...
    The Haunted Study , a rare example of a work of literary history that is genuinely interdisciplinary, explores how the leading novelists of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods came to develop so many of the attitudes that are now generally accepted as characteristically modern.The writing of fiction is not treated as though it exists in some kind of isolation, but is shown to be intimately ... Read more

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  • After Words

    Post-Prime Ministerial Speeches

    by PJ Keating ...
    Books of speeches are rarely published as a compendium of work by one person. After Words is unique in Australian publishing by virtue of its scale and range of subjects, and that all the speeches are the work of one eye and one mind: former Prime Minister Paul Keating.Each speech has been conceptualised, contextualised and crafted by Paul Keating. Subject to subject, idea to idea, the speeches ... Read more

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  • Working-class Stories of the 1890s

    Edited by P. J. Keating ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World
    First published in 1971, this collection of short stories, set in the East End of London in the 1890s, offers a corrective to the view of nineties’ literature as dominated by aestheticism, and shows how many late Victorian writers tried to break with Dickensian models and write of working class life with less moral intrusion and a greater sense of realism.The editor has provides a succinct, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    The Global Race to Reinvent the State

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  • Dog Days

    Australia After the Boom

    by Ross Garnaut ...
    Series Book 3 - Redback
    A blueprint for the nation after the boom.Australians have just lived through a period of exceptional prosperity, but, says influential economist Ross Garnaut, the Dog Days are on their way. Are we ready for the challenges ahead?In Dog Days, Garnaut explains how we got here, what we can expect next and the tough choices we need to make to survive the new economic conditions. Are we clever enough – ... Read more

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  • No Surrender

    No Surrender is a classic novel, important in the Women's Suffrage movement in the early 20th century. ... Read more

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  • The Enigma of Capital:And the Crises of Capitalism

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    by David Harvey ...
    For over forty years, David Harvey has been one of the world's most trenchant and critical analysts of capitalist development. In The Enigma of Capital, he delivers an impassioned account of how unchecked neoliberalism produced the system-wide crisis that now engulfs the world. Beginning in the 1970s, profitability pressures led the capitalist class in advanced countries to shift away from ... Read more

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  • A Little History of Economics

    Series series Little Histories
    A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and through the ideas of great thinkers in the field“A whistle-stop introduction to the great works and thinkers of each age, this is a clear and accessible primer.”—Laura Garmeson, Financial TimesWhat causes poverty? Are economic crises inevitable under capitalism? Is government intervention ... Read more

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  • Jack The Ripper and the East End

    Introduction by Peter Ackroyd

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    In 1888, Whitechapel - at the heart of the inner East End - was the most (in)famous place in the country, widely imagined as a site of the blackest and deepest horror. Its streets and alleys were seen as violent and dangerous, overflowing with poverty and depravity. This book aims to uncover the reality of East End life. Sections look at slum housing, immigration, attitudes to women, poverty, ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

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    Series series Classic Novels
    Bush Studies is the timeless short stories, published in 1902 and Human Toll is the timeless novel, published in 1907, written by Barbara Baynton an Australian writer.“Boshy, coming out to harangue the chained dog, heard the tintin jangling of their billies and pannikins in their hasty, unorganized flight. The gins, burdened with pickaninnies and camp-gear, were whimpering well in the rear, but ... Read more

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