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  • School - No Place for Children 6.2

    A Wake-Up Call for Parents and Teachers

    de David Adelman ...
    Did you thrive at school or did it do your head in? Were you bullied, belittled or just plain bored to tears? Did it prepare you for the challenges of adult life and give you the confidence to see you through? Did it help resolve social and emotional issues? Did you find and fully express your true gifts, talents and passions? Were you really valued and appreciated just for who you are?Do your ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Art Collecting and Middle Class Culture from London to Brighton, 1840–1914

    de David Adelman ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Art History
    This study explores the interplay between money, status, politics and art collecting in the public and private lives of members of the wealthy trading classes in Brighton during the period 1840–1914.Chapters focus on the collecting practices of five rich and upwardly mobile Victorians: William Coningham (1815–84), Henry Hill (1813–82), Henry Willett (1823–1905) and Harriet Trist (1816–96) and her ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    School - No Place for Children

    A Wake-Up Call

    de David Adelman ...
    Narrado por David Adelman ...

    Completo

    10 hora 11 minutos

    Do you know what goes on in a typical modern classroom? Have you noticed how many children actually hate going into school and the effect school has on them? Do you yourself feel an irrational fear of authority, ridiculously low in resilience, self-worth and self-confidence?You are not alone. This book reveals the dark agenda of the modern schooling system and its toxic effects on both pupils and ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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  • Behind Closed Doors

    The Secret Life of London Private Members' Clubs

    de Seth Alexander Thévoz ...
    With a keen eye for the juicy anecdote, Thévoz tells the fascinating and entertaining story of the rise, decline and resurgence of London's private members' clubs, from the late-eighteenth century to the present day. In doing so he looks at cultural and political developments beyond the clubs, revealing how while the clubs may have been products of their city and country, they also exerted ... Leer más

    Antes $6.99 USD Ahora $2.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Hard Streets

    Working-Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London

    de Jacqueline Riding ...
    'HARD STREETS is a rich and emotive study of a world now lost that will leave readers stunned' Hallie Rubenhold, author of THE FIVECharlie Chaplin rose from the hard streets of Victorian London to become one of the most beloved comedians of all time. With his threadbare jacket, baggy trousers and puzzled expression, Chaplin's 'Little Tramp' alter ego was shaped by the city of his childhood - a ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • A Queer Inheritance

    Alternative Histories in the National Trust

    de Michael Hall ...
    'A revelatory masterpiece, a true alternative history of our times' -Simon Jenkins, former Chair of the National Trust'Thoroughly researched and elegantly written' - Peter Parker, TLSLGBTQ+ histories and identities come out of the National Trust's properties in these touching, poignant and revealing stories.National Trust houses and landscapes might seem to embody conventional family values, but ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Bloomsbury Group

    Edición de Victoria Rosner ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Named after a small neighborhood in London where its members settled as young adults, the Bloomsbury Group produced an impressive body of work that yielded British Post-Impressionist painting, literary modernism, the field of macroeconomics, and a new direction for public taste in art. This Companion offers a comprehensive guide to the intellectual and social contexts surrounding Bloomsbury and ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Violent Victorians

    Popular entertainment in nineteenth-century London

    de Rosalind Crone ...
    By drawing attention to the wide range of gruesome, bloody and confronting amusements patronised by ordinary Londoners this book challenges our understanding of Victorian society and culture. From the turn of the nineteenth century, graphic, yet orderly, ‘re-enactments’ of high level violence flourished in travelling entertainments, penny broadsides, popular theatres, cheap instalment fiction and ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Storied Ground

    Landscape and the Shaping of English National Identity

    de Paul Readman ...
    People have always attached meaning to the landscape that surrounds them. In Storied Ground Paul Readman uncovers why landscape matters so much to the English people, exploring its particular importance in shaping English national identity amid the transformations of modernity. The book takes us from the fells of the Lake District to the uplands of Northumberland; from the streetscapes of ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Landscape and Englishness

    Second Expanded Edition

    de David Matless ...
    Landscape has been central to definitions of Englishness for centuries. David Matless argues that landscape has been the site where English visions of the past, present and future have met in debates over questions of national identity, disputes over history and modernity, and ideals of citizenship and the body.Landscape and Englishness is extensively illustrated and draws on a wide range of ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Nights Out: Life in Cosmopolitan London

    de Judith Walkowitz ...
    London's Soho district underwent a spectacular transformation between the late Victorian era and the end of the Second World War: its fin-de-siècle buildings and dark streets infamous for sex, crime, political disloyalty, and ethnic diversity became a center of culinary and cultural tourism servicing patrons of nearby shops and theaters. Indulgences for the privileged and the upwardly mobile edged ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture

    Edición de 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, ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD