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  • Popular Culture and Custom in Nineteenth-Century England

    Edición de Robert Storch ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World
    First published in 1982, this book is concerned with the tensions between continuity and change in customs, rituals, beliefs of artisans, factory workers and sections of the lower middle classes in the nineteenth century. It explores a range of factors which contributed to changes in custom, including the effects of urbanisation, conflict over the use of public land, new conceptions of public ... Leer más

    $54.99 USD

  • Das Versprechen der Nonne

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    de Robert Storch ...
    Heidenheim, 8. Jahrhundert. Die junge Nonne Michal lebt mit ihren Ordensschwestern im Kloster Heidenheim, wo sie den Menschen der Grafschaft dient und das Evangelium verkündet. Michals Leidenschaft gilt dem Anfertigen von Urkunden und Schriften. Eines Tages soll sie ein Dokument vervielfältigen, das ihren Argwohn entfacht: eine üppige Schenkungsurkunde Kaiser Konstantins an die Römische Kirche. ... Leer más

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  • Customs in Common

    Studies in Traditional Popular Culture

    The "meticulously researched, elegantly argued and deeply humane" sequel to the landmark volume of social history, The Making of the English Working Class ( The New York Times Book Review).This remarkable study investigates the gradual disappearance of a range of cultural customs against the backdrop of the great upheavals of the eighteenth century. As villagers were subjected to a legal system ... Leer más

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  • The Georgians

    The Deeds and Misdeeds of 18th-Century Britain

    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 ... Leer más

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  • The Women Who Saved the English Countryside

    de Matthew Kelly ...
    A vibrant history of English landscape preservation over the last 150 years, told through the lives of four remarkable womenIn Britain today, a mosaic of regulations protects the natural environment and guarantees public access to green spaces. But this was not always so. Over the last 150 years, activists have campaigned tirelessly for the right to roam through the countryside and the vital ... Leer más

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  • The 'perpetual fair'

    Gender, disorder, and urban amusement in eighteenth-century London

    de Anne Wohlcke ...
    Series series Gender in History
    Each summer, a 'perpetual fair' plagued eighteenth-century London, a city in transition overrun by a burgeoning population. City officials attempted to control disorderly urban amusement according to their own gendered understandings of order and morality. Frequently derided as locations of dangerous femininity disrupting masculine commerce, fairs withstood regulation attempts. Fairs were ... Leer más

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  • Storied Ground

    Landscape and the Shaping of English National Identity

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    People have always attached meaning to the landscape that surrounds them. In Storied Ground Paul Readman uncovers why landscape matters so much to the English people, exploring its particular importance in shaping English national identity amid the transformations of modernity. The book takes us from the fells of the Lake District to the uplands of Northumberland; from the streetscapes of ... Leer más

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  • Island in an Empire

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    The first half of the nineteenth century brought two major revolution, the British Industrial Revolution and the French political revolution, which devastatingly heralded the modern world. In Newfoundland, an important strategic outpost island within the powerful British Empire, the period brought the start of religious, educational, and class identifications and divisions, particularly in the ... Leer más

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  • The Old Boys

    The Decline and Rise of the Public School

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    To many in the United Kingdom, the British public school remains the disliked and mistrusted embodiment of privilege and elitism. They have educated many of the country’s top bankers and politicians over the centuries right up to the present, including the present Prime Minister. David Turner’s vibrant history of Great Britain’s public schools, from the foundation of Winchester College in 1382 to ... Leer más

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  • Tracing Your Legal Ancestors

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  • A History of Drink and the English, 1500-2000

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