The Nineteenth Century Visual Culture Reader

Edited by Jeannene Przyblyski, Vanessa Schwartz

This reader brings together, for the first time, key writings about the nineteenth century, a key period in contemporary discussion of visual culture.

Exploring such topics...

2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-30866-3 (Routledge)

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Animal Welfare and Anti-Vivisection 1870-1910

Nineteenth-Century Women's Mission

Edited by Susan Hamilton

This three-volume set brings together a range of documents that allows researchers to explore the nineteenth-century vivisection controversy, its relation to the prominent animal welfare...

2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32141-9 (Routledge)

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Growing Old in the Middle Ages

'Winter Clothes Us in Shadow and Pain'

By Shulamith Shahar

The social realities of old age have undergone profound changes since the middle ages. This study shows, however, that the images, attitudes and expectations of...

2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-33360-3 (Routledge)

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Demonic Possession and Exorcism

In Early Modern France

By Sarah Ferber

This is a highly original study of demon possession and the ritual of exorcism, both of which were rife in early modern times, and which...

2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-21265-6 (Routledge)

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Popular Print Media 1820-1900

Edited by Andrew King, John Plunkett

Popular Print Media 1820-1900 makes available a selection of articles from nineteenth-century newspapers, periodicals and books which are otherwise unavailable except in their original publications.
The...

2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32250-8 (Routledge)

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Intoxicated Identities

Alcohol's Power in Mexican History and Culture

By Tim Mitchell

In Intoxicated Identities, Tim Mitchell provides a novel and well-grounded framework for understanding subjective drinking experiences from the Aztecs to the present day in areas...

2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-94813-5 (Routledge)

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Violence and Crime in Nineteenth Century England

The Shadow of our Refinement

By J. Carter Wood

This book illuminates the origins and development of violence as a social issue by examining a critical period in the evolution of attitudes towards violence....

2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32905-7 (Routledge)

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A History of Popular Culture

More of Everything, Faster and Brighter

By Raymond F. Betts

This lively and informative survey provides a thematic global history of popular culture focusing on the period since the end of the Second World War.

Raymond...

2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-22128-3 (Routledge)

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Stormtroopers and Crisis in the Nazi Movement

Activism, Ideology and Dissolution

By Thomas D. Grant

Containing illustrations from archival material, this book scrutinizes two sets of hitherto understudied records:

* SA morale reports in the US National Archive which show what Nazi...

2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-19602-4 (Routledge)

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Sea Changes

Historicizing the Ocean

Edited by Bernhard Klein, Gesa Mackenthun

The sea has been the site of radical changes in human lives and national histories. It has been an agent of colonial oppression but also...

2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-94651-3 (Routledge)

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