Author: John Ashton
Publisher: e-artnow
Published: 2020-08-29
Total Pages: 445
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt: "It is with heartfelt sorrow we announce that His Majesty's indisposition still continues. It commenced with the effect produced upon his tender parental feelings on receiving the ring from the hand of his afflicted beloved daughter, the affecting inscription upon which, caused him, blessed, and most amiable of men, to burst into tears, with the most heart-touching lamentations on the present state, and approaching dissolution of the afflicted and interesting Princess." _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_
Author: Asa Briggs
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780140136067
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ranging widely over time and place, Asa Briggs highlights continuities and changes in society in England from prehistory to the present day. Literature, art and politics are investigated as aspects and gauges of human experience, research in related disciplines is discussed and changes in historical interpretations explained. The author also offers his own, personal, view of social history.
Author: Louis Cazamian
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-05-13
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 1135027730
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the first English translation of Le Roman social en Angleterre by Louis Cazamian, which is widely recognized as the classic survey of Victorian social fiction. Starting from the eighteenth century, Cazamian traces the ways in which rationalism and romanticism intertwined and competed, particularly in relation to radical political philosophy. He shows how industrialization polarized England, setting the industrial bourgeoisie in the van of progress in the first decades of the nineteenth century, until their political and economic triumph stirred up a passionate reaction against them. This reaction propelled novelists such as Charles Dickens who lies at the centre of his discussion. For this translation Martin Fido has provided a substantial foreword, and has revised and completed the bibliographical references and corrected the footnotes to assist the present-day reader.
Author: Edward Potts Cheyney
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2019-12-09
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England" is a history of Great Britain, written by Edward P. Cheyney, Professor of European History in the University of Pennsylvania. Cheyney traces the history of the nation from prehistoric times, to the formation of early settlements and village life, to life in mediaeval times, right up to the Industrial age. His focus is on the economic changes that Britain has seen and the defining moments that shaped it into its modern state as an industrial powerhouse.
Author: William Tullett
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-08-13
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0192582453
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In England from the 1670s to the 1820s a transformation took place in how smell and the senses were viewed. The role of smell in developing medical and scientific knowledge came under intense scrutiny, and the equation of smell with disease was actively questioned. Yet a new interest in smell's emotive and idiosyncratic dimensions offered odour a new power in the sociable spaces of eighteenth-century England. Using a wide range of sources from diaries, letters, and sanitary records to satirical prints, consumer objects, and magazines, William Tullett traces how individuals and communities perceived the smells around them, from paint and perfume to onions and farts. In doing so, the study challenges a popular, influential, and often cited narrative. Smell in Eighteenth-Century England is not a tale of the medicalization and deodorization of English olfactory culture. Instead, Tullett demonstrates that it was a new recognition of smell's asocial-sociability, and its capacity to create atmospheres of uncomfortable intimacy, that transformed the relationship between the senses and society.
Author: Richard Dennis
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2013-10-22
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1483150364
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Social Geography of England and Wales considers the theoretical concepts of the social geography of England and Wales. This book is composed of 11 chapters that discuss the theories of industrialization and urbanization. The opening chapters deal with the origins and settlement of English people, as well as the workings of feudal society with its hierarchy of groups of different legal status, ranging from the king through the base of the system. The succeeding chapters examine the vital formative phase in British social history. Other chapters explore the strengths and weaknesses of several ecological and economic models of urban structure that are transported from North America to Great Britain. A chapter looks into the variations in housing type and quality form intriguing reflections of fundamental differences in British Society based on a theory of housing classes. This text also surveys residents of the inner areas of many British cities now experience substantial social problems, which are compounded in areas of multiple deprivation. The final chapters cover the dispersion of urbanism into the countryside where it has provoked fundamental social and spatial changes related to commuting, retirement migration and tourism. This book is of value to historians, sociologists, researchers, and undergraduate students.
Author: Keith Wrightson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-02-13
Total Pages: 435
ISBN-13: 1108210201
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The rise of social history has had a transforming influence on the history of early modern England. It has broadened the historical agenda to include many previously little-studied, or wholly neglected, dimensions of the English past. It has also provided a fuller context for understanding more established themes in the political, religious, economic and intellectual histories of the period. This volume serves two main purposes. Firstly, it summarises, in an accessible way, the principal findings of forty years of research on English society in this period, providing a comprehensive overview of social and cultural change in an era vital to the development of English social identities. Second, the chapters, by leading experts, also stimulate fresh thinking by not only taking stock of current knowledge but also extending it, identifying problems, proposing fresh interpretations and pointing to unexplored possibilities. It will be essential reading for students, teachers and general readers.
Author: Jean E. Howard
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 113486650X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A ground-breaking study of the social and cultural functions of the early modern theatre. Jean Howard looks at the effects of drama and the stage on early modern culture in an exciting and eminently readable work.