Children in English Society

By Margaret Hewitt, Ivy Pinchbeck

First published by George Routledge & Sons Ltd. in 1969 and 1973.
This is a two-volume study of the social concern for children in Britain, ranging...

Published September 30th 2004 by Routledge.

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Published September 30th 2004 by Routledge.

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Italian Fascism and the Female Body

Sport, Submissive Women and Strong Mothers

By Gigliola Gori

This is the first text to examine women and sport in Italy during the period 1861-1945. To qualify and quantify the impact of fascism on...

Published September 23rd 2004 by Routledge.

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FDR and Lucy

Lovers and Friends

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The last face FDR saw before he died was that of Lucy Mercer Rutherford, his mistress of thirty-one years. Although Eleanor, his children, and the...

Published September 17th 2004 by Routledge.

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Sports in World History

By David G. McComb

This lively and clear survey provides a wide-ranging overview of the history of modern sports, covering such topics as:

• why human beings are athletes
• how the major...

Published September 2nd 2004 by Routledge.

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Taking Back the Academy!

History of Activism, History as Activism

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Taking Back the Academy! is not only an historical look at activism on campus since the 1960s, but also an exploration of the ways in...

Published August 27th 2004 by Routledge.

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Disreputable Pleasures

Less Virtuous Victorians at Play

Edited by Mike Huggins, J. A. Mangan

Many historians have claimed that respectability was the sharpest line of social division in Victorian society, even that the line between the 'respectable' and 'unrespectable'...

Published August 26th 2004 by Routledge.

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The Technological Fix

How People Use Technology to Create and Solve Problems

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The term "technological fix" should mean a fix provided by technology--a solution for all of our problems, from medicine and food production to the environment...

Published August 13th 2004 by Routledge.

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Homoerotic Sensibilities in Late Imperial China

By Wu Cuncun

Homoerotic Sensibilities in Late Imperial China is the richest exploration to date of late imperial Chinese literati interest in male love. Employing primary sources such...

Published August 12th 2004 by Routledge.

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A History of Early Television

Edited by Stephen Herbert

This three-volume collection reprints two important 1920s/30s books relating to television, and a collection of short articles covering the social, aesthetic and technical aspects of...

Published July 22nd 2004 by Routledge.

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