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British Romanticism and Prison Reform
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CA$61.95
ISBN: 9781684485352
Pub Date: December 2024
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
British Romanticism and Prison Reform is the first full-length study to explore and define the close relationship between British Romantic literary texts, on the one hand, and the birth of the modern prison, on the other, giving long overdue attention to the revolution in punishment coterminous with the age we call Romantic.
On the Backs of Others
Rethinking the History of British Geographical Exploration
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CA$87.95
ISBN: 9781496230973
Pub Date: December 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Edward Armston-Sheret offers new perspectives on British exploration during the Victorian and Edwardian eras by focusing on the contributions of those people and animals ordinarily written out of mainstream histories on this era of travel.
Removal of Irish Paupers from Britain from 1819 to the Early Twentieth Century
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CA$202.95
ISBN: 9781835537992
Pub Date: November 2024
During the nineteenth century, local officials sought to deal with their Irish pauper ?problem? by removing these poor migrants back to Ireland under the laws of settlement and removal. Over the course...
Slow Train to Arcadia
A History of Railway Commuting into London
Price:
CA$110.00
ISBN: 9780228022756
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
The rise of commuting by rail transformed the urban landscape of Victorian London. Slow Train to Arcadia charts the relationship between the three main actors in the formation of the suburban railway – the state, the railway companies, and the travelling public – to explore the phenomenon of commuting and its profound impact on daily routine.
Slow Train to Arcadia
A History of Railway Commuting into London
Price:
CA$39.95
ISBN: 9780228022763
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
The rise of commuting by rail transformed the urban landscape of Victorian London. Slow Train to Arcadia charts the relationship between the three main actors in the formation of the suburban railway – the state, the railway companies, and the travelling public – to explore the phenomenon of commuting and its profound impact on daily routine.
Romantic Sublime and Representations of Technology
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CA$175.95
ISBN: 9781835536704
Pub Date: September 2024
Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative.In this book Michele Speitz assembles the first full-length scholarly study of the British Romantic technological...
George Edmund Street
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CA$107.95
ISBN: 9781802078121
Pub Date: April 2024
This is the first monograph of George Edmund Street, a prolific High Victorian architect of churches and other buildings, the best known of which is the Royal Courts of Justice (the Law Courts). He...
Misrecognitions
Plotting Capital in the Victorian Novel
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CA$66.95
ISBN: 9781501774072
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Misrecognitions mounts a vigorous defense of the labyrinthine plotting of Victorian novels, notorious for their implausible concluding revelations and coincidences. Critics have long decried Victorian...
Vagabonds
Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781891011429
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: The Experiment
Dickensian London is brought to real and vivid life in this innovative, accessible social history, revealing the true character of this place and time through the stories of its street denizens—shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2023
Collected Letters of Sir George and Lady Beaumont to the Wordsworth Family, 1803-1829
with a Study of the Creative Exchange between Wordsworth and Beaumont
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CA$74.95
ISBN: 9781802073669
Pub Date: February 2024
Sir George Beaumont is a key figure in the history of British art. As well as being a respected amateur landscape painter, he was a prominent patron, a collector, and co-founder of the National Gallery....
Mixed Marriage
Class, Religion, Race, and Nation in England, 1837-1939
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CA$202.95
ISBN: 9781802073638
Pub Date: February 2024
Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative.This book is a study of the social and legal consequences of mixed marriage in England by class, religion, race,...
Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination
The Inimitable and Victorian Body Language
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CA$43.95
ISBN: 9781501772863
Pub Date: December 2023
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination offers an original analysis of how Charles Dickens's use of "low" and "slangular" (his neologism) language allowed him to express and develop his most sophisticated ideas....
Sash on the Mersey
The Orange Order in Liverpool (1819-1982)
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CA$202.95
ISBN: 9781837645084
Pub Date: November 2023
The book examines how an organisation originating in late eighteenth-century Ireland became a significant and controversial element in Liverpool history. Using a wide range of sources including rarely...
Out There
The Batshit Antics of the World's Great Explorers
Price:
CA$27.95
ISBN: 9781990823336
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: Sutherland House
The years 1800-1940 were the heyday of the independent explorer—free-spirited, mostly European adventurers who took incredible risks in pursuit of discovery and fame. Some lit out for the mysterious...
Figures of Authority in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
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CA$67.95
ISBN: 9781837644360
Pub Date: August 2023
This interdisciplinary collection investigates the forms that authority assumed in nineteenth-century Ireland, the relations they bore to international redefinitions of authority, and Irish contributions...
Losing the Thread
Cotton, Liverpool and the American Civil War
Price:
CA$67.95
ISBN: 9781837644346
Pub Date: August 2023
This is the first full-length study of the effect of the American Civil War on Britain?s raw cotton trade and on the Liverpool cotton market. It includes an analysis of primary sources never used by...
British Romanticism and Prison Reform
CA$61.95
ISBN: 9781684485352
Pub Date: December 2024
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
On the Backs of Others
Rethinking the History of British Geographical Exploration
CA$87.95
ISBN: 9781496230973
Pub Date: December 2024
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Removal of Irish Paupers from Britain from 1819 to the Early Twentieth Century
CA$202.95
ISBN: 9781835537992
Pub Date: November 2024
Slow Train to Arcadia
A History of Railway Commuting into London
CA$110.00
ISBN: 9780228022756
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
The rise of commuting by rail transformed the urban landscape of Victorian London. Slow Train to Arcadia charts the relationship between the three main actors in the formation of the suburban railway – the state, the railway companies, and the travelling public – to explore the phenomenon of commuting and its profound impact on daily routine.
Slow Train to Arcadia
A History of Railway Commuting into London
CA$39.95
ISBN: 9780228022763
Pub Date: November 2024
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
The rise of commuting by rail transformed the urban landscape of Victorian London. Slow Train to Arcadia charts the relationship between the three main actors in the formation of the suburban railway – the state, the railway companies, and the travelling public – to explore the phenomenon of commuting and its profound impact on daily routine.
Romantic Sublime and Representations of Technology
CA$175.95
ISBN: 9781835536704
Pub Date: September 2024
George Edmund Street
CA$107.95
ISBN: 9781802078121
Pub Date: April 2024
Misrecognitions
Plotting Capital in the Victorian Novel
CA$66.95
ISBN: 9781501774072
Pub Date: March 2024
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Vagabonds
Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781891011429
Pub Date: February 2024
Imprint: The Experiment
Dickensian London is brought to real and vivid life in this innovative, accessible social history, revealing the true character of this place and time through the stories of its street denizens—shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2023
Collected Letters of Sir George and Lady Beaumont to the Wordsworth Family, 1803-1829
with a Study of the Creative Exchange between Wordsworth and Beaumont
CA$74.95
ISBN: 9781802073669
Pub Date: February 2024
Mixed Marriage
Class, Religion, Race, and Nation in England, 1837-1939
CA$202.95
ISBN: 9781802073638
Pub Date: February 2024
Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination
The Inimitable and Victorian Body Language
CA$43.95
ISBN: 9781501772863
Pub Date: December 2023
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Sash on the Mersey
The Orange Order in Liverpool (1819-1982)
CA$202.95
ISBN: 9781837645084
Pub Date: November 2023
Out There
The Batshit Antics of the World's Great Explorers
CA$27.95
ISBN: 9781990823336
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: Sutherland House
Figures of Authority in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
CA$67.95
ISBN: 9781837644360
Pub Date: August 2023
Losing the Thread
Cotton, Liverpool and the American Civil War
CA$67.95
ISBN: 9781837644346
Pub Date: August 2023