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  • Domesticating Electricity

    Technology, Uncertainty and Gender, 1880–1914

    by Graeme Gooday ...
    Series Book 87 - Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
    This is an innovative and original socio-cultural study of the history of electricity during the late Victorian and Edward periods. Gooday shows how technology, authority and gender interacted in pre-World War I Britain. The rapid take-up of electrical light and domestic appliances on both sides of the Atlantic had a wide-ranging effect on consumer habits and the division of labour within the home ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Managing the Experience of Hearing Loss in Britain, 1830–1930

    by Graeme Gooday, Karen Sayer ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book looks at how hearing loss among adults was experienced, viewed and treated in Britain before the National Health Service. We explore the changing status of ‘hard of hearing’ people during the nineteenth century as categorized among diverse and changing categories of ‘deafness’. Then we explore the advisory literature for managing hearing loss, and techniques for communicating with ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • A Pioneer of Connection

    Recovering the Life and Work of Oliver Lodge

    Edited by James Mussell, Graeme Gooday ...
    Series series
    Sir Oliver Lodge was a polymathic scientific figure who linked the Victorian Age with the Second World War, a reassuring figure of continuity across his long life and career. A physicist and spiritualist, inventor and educator, author and authority, he was one of the most famous public figures of British science in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A pioneer in the invention of ... Read more

    $62.39 CAD

  • Patent Cultures

    Diversity and Harmonization in Historical Perspective

    Edited by Graeme Gooday, Steven Wilf ...
    Series Book 52 - Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law
    This book explores how dissimilar patent systems remain distinctive despite international efforts towards harmonization. The dominant historical account describes harmonization as ever-growing, with familiar milestones such as the Paris Convention (1883), the World Intellectual Property Organization's founding (1967), and the formation of current global institutions of patent governance. Yet ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

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  • History Beyond the Text

    A Student’s Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources

    Edited by Sarah Barber, Corinna Peniston-Bird ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources
    Historians are increasingly looking beyond the traditional, and turning to visual, oral, aural, and virtual sources to inform their work. The challenges these sources pose require new skills of interpretation and require historians to consider alternative theoretical and practical approaches.In order to help historians successfully move beyond traditional text, Sarah Barber and Corinna Peniston ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Novel Science

    Fiction and the Invention of Nineteenth-Century Geology

    by Adelene Buckland ...
    Novel Science is the first in-depth study of the shocking, groundbreaking, and sometimes beautiful writings of the gentlemen of the "heroic age" of geology and of the contribution these men made to the literary culture of their day. For these men, literature was an essential part of the practice of science itself, as important to their efforts as mapmaking, fieldwork, and observation. The reading ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture

    Edited by Francis O'Gorman ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    The Victorian era produced artistic achievements, technological inventions and social developments that continue to shape how we live today. This Companion offers authoritative coverage of that period's culture and its contexts in a group of specially commissioned essays reflecting the current state of research in each particular field. Covering topics from music to politics, art to technology, ... Read more

    Was $36.99 CAD Now $31.99 CAD

  • Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination

    by Allen MacDuffie ...
    Series Book 93 - Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
    Reading Victorian literature and science in tandem, Victorian Literature, Energy, and the Ecological Imagination investigates how the concept of energy was fictionalized - both mystified and demystified - during the rise of a new resource-intensive industrial and economic order. The first extended study of a burgeoning area of critical interest of increasing importance to twenty-first-century ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Amateur Craft

    History and Theory

    by Stephen Knott ...
    Amateur Craft provides an illuminating and historically-grounded account of amateur craft in the modern era, from 19th century Sunday painters and amateur carpenters to present day railway modellers and yarnbombers. Stephen Knott's fascinating study explores the curious and unexpected attributes of things made outside standardised models of mass production, arguing that amateur craft practice is ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1830–1914

    Edited by Joanne Shattock ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The nineteenth century witnessed unprecedented expansion in the reading public and an explosive growth in the number of books and newspapers produced to meet its demands. These specially commissioned essays examine not only the full range and variety of texts that entertained and informed the Victorians, but also the boundaries of Victorian literature: the links and overlap with Romanticism in the ... Read more

    Was $36.99 CAD Now $31.99 CAD

  • Print Culture

    From Steam Press to Ebook

    by Frances Robertson ...
    Series series Directions in Cultural History
    With the advent of new digital communication technologies, the end of print culture once again appears to be as inevitable to some recent commentators as it did to Marshall McLuhan. And just as print culture has so often been linked with the rise of modern industrial society, so the alleged demise of print under the onslaught of new media is often also correlated with the demise of modernity.This ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Histories of Art and Design Education

    Collected Essays

    by Mervyn Romans ...
    Series series Readings in Art and Design Education
    This Collection of fourteen essays by eleven different authors demonstrates the increasing breadth of enquiry that has taken place in art and design education history over the past two decades, and the expanding range of research models applied to the subject. The essays are grouped into six sections that propose the emergence of genres of research in the field - Drawing from examples, Motives and ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD