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  • The Victorian View

    Ways of Understanding the World in the Nineteenth Century

    de Edward Beasley ...
    The author of five previous books on Victorian England, empire, race, and medicine – including The Victorian Reinvention of Race (2010), The Chartist General (2016), and A Male Hysteria: Diabetes and the Victorian Mind (2024) – Edward Beasley is Professor Emeritus of History at San Diego State University. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland. ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

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  • The Chartist General

    Charles James Napier, The Conquest of Sind, and Imperial Liberalism

    de Edward Beasley ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern British History
    General Charles James Napier was sent to confront the tens of thousands of Chartist protestors marching through the cities of the North of England in the late 1830s. A well-known leftist who agreed with the Chartist demands for democracy, Napier managed to keep the peace. In South Asia, the same man would later provoke a war and conquer Sind. In this first-ever scholarly biography of Napier, ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • A Male Hysteria

    Diabetes and the Victorian Mind

    de Edward Beasley ...
    Series series
    A history of diabetes science and the experience of diabetics in the nineteenth-century EnglandA Male Hysteria examines both the science of diabetes in nineteenth-century England and the testimony of Victorian diabetics. What could be known about diabetes given the science of the day? And what did new models of diabetes mean for the treatment and self-image of diabetics?Ideas about diabetes were ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Empire as the Triumph of Theory

    Imperialism, Information and the Colonial Society of 1868

    de Edward Beasley ...
    Who were the first people to invent a world-historical mission for the British Empire? And what were the constituencies behind the development of the imperialistic thinking in mid-Victorian England? These questions are vital for understanding where the New Imperialism of the late nineteenth century came from. Empire as the Triumph of Theory takes as its sample the more than two hundred earliest ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Mid-Victorian Imperialists

    British Gentlemen and the Empire of the Mind

    de Edward Beasley ...
    Series series British Politics and Society
    Throughout the nineteenth century the British Empire was the subject of much writing; floods of articles, books and government reports were produced about the areas under British control and the policy of imperialism. Mid-Victorian Imperialists investigates how the Victorians made sense of all the information regarding the empire by examining the writings of a collection of gentlemen who were ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD

  • The Victorian Reinvention of Race

    New Racisms and the Problem of Grouping in the Human Sciences

    de Edward Beasley ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern British History
    In mid-Victorian England there were new racial categories based upon skin colour. The 'races' familiar to those in the modern west were invented and elaborated after the decline of faith in Biblical monogenesis in the early nineteenth century, and before the maturity of modern genetics in the middle of the twentieth. Not until the early nineteenth century would polygenetic and racialist theories ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

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  • The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume V: Historiography

    de Wm.Roger Louis ...
    Series Libro 5 - The Oxford History of the British Empire
    The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. From the founding of colonies in North America and the West Indies in the seventeenth century to the reversion of Hong Kong to China at the end of the twentieth, British imperialism was a catalyst for far-reaching change. The Oxford ... Leer más

    $75.99 USD

  • Acts of Union and Disunion

    de Linda Colley ...
    The United Kingdom; Great Britain; the British Isles; the Home Nations: such a wealth of different names implies uncertainty and contention - and an ability to invent and adjust. In a year that sees a Scottish referendum on independence, Linda Colley analyses some of the forces that have unified Britain in the past.She examines the mythology of Britishness, and how far - and why - it has faded. ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Nineteenth-Century Britain

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Colin Matthew, Christopher Harvie ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Britain is a sharp but subtle account of remarkable economic and social change and an even more remarkable political stability. Britain in 1789 was overwhelmingly rural, agrarian, multilingual, and almost half Celtic. By 1914, ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • A Radical History Of Britain

    Visionaries, Rebels and Revolutionaries - the men and women who fought for our freedoms

    de Edward Vallance ...
    From medieval Runnymede to twentieth-century Jarrow, from King Alfred to George Orwell by way of John Lilburne and Mary Wollstonecraft, a rich and colourful thread of radicalism runs through a thousand years of British history. In this fascinating study, Edward Vallance traces a national tendency towards revolution, irreverence and reform wherever it surfaces and in all its variety. He unveils the ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • A Legal History for Australia

    de Dr Sarah McKibbin, Libby Connors, Marcus Harmes ...
    This is a contemporary legal history book for Australian law students, written in an engaging style and rich with learning features and illustrations. The writers are a unique combination of talents, bringing together their fields of research and teaching in Australian history, British constitutional history and modern Australian law.The first part provides the social and political contexts for ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People?

    England 1783-1846

    de Boyd Hilton ...
    Series series New Oxford History of England
    This was a transformative period in English history. In 1783 the country was at one of the lowest points in its fortunes, having just lost its American colonies in warfare. By 1846 it was once more a great imperial nation, as well as the world's strongest power and dominant economy, having benefited from what has sometimes (if misleadingly) been called the 'first industrial revolution'. In the ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD