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  • The People of Print

    Eighteenth-Century England

    Series series Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
    This collection profiles understudied figures in the book and print trades of the eighteenth century. With an explicit focus on intervening in the critical history of the trades, this volume profiles seven women and three men, emphasising the broad range of material, cultural, and ideological work these people undertook. It offers a biographical introduction to each figure, placing them in their ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • The Technology of Building Defects

    The Technology of Building Defects has been developed to provide a unique review of the subject. Defects are considered as part of the whole building rather than in isolation.General educational objectives are set out which offer the reader the opportunity of self-assessment. Each section is generously illustrated with photographs and diagrams, forming an accessible self contained review covering ... Leer más

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  • Historical Networks in the Book Trade

    Edición de Catherine Feely, John Hinks ...
    Series series The History of the Book
    The book trade historically tended to operate in a spirit of co-operation as well as competition. Networks between printers, publishers, booksellers and related trades existed at local, regional, national and international levels and were a vital part of the business of books for several centuries. This collection of essays examines many aspects of the history of book-trade networks, in response ... Leer más

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  • Transient Print

    Essays on the History of Printed Ephemera

    Series Libro 5 - Printing History and Culture
    This edited volume provides an opportunity to take a fresh look at the printed material often regarded as disposable by its contemporaries and, until recently, as unworthy of serious academic research. From the fifteenth century to the twentieth century, this volume not only demonstrates the wide variety of ephemeral publications which have survived to the present day, but also shows how they can ... Leer más

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  • Women in Print 2

    Production, Distribution and Consumption

    Series Libro 3 - Printing History and Culture
    Women in Print is a collection of essays in two related volumes which considers the diversity of roles occupied by women in the design, authorship, production, distribution and consumption of printed material from the fifteenth century onwards. The contributions included in Women in Print 2 cover the whole of the «letterpress era» in Europe from the early fifteenth century to the mid-twentieth ... Leer más

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  • The Early Roxburghe Club 18121835

    Book Club Pioneers and the Advancement of English Literature

    The Roxburghe Club, founded in 1812, has an unbroken publishing history from 1814 to the present day. Since the Club’s edition of ‘Havelok the Dane’ appeared in 1828, the Roxburghe has gained a reputation as a producer of beautifully printed editions of manuscripts and reprinted early books. The founding period of the Club, however, has been viewed with less approval, often seen as a frivolous, ... Leer más

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  • Making British Culture

    English Readers and the Scottish Enlightenment, 1740–1830

    de David Allan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    Making British Culture explores an under-appreciated factor in the emergence of a recognisably British culture. Specifically, it examines the experiences of English readers between around 1707 and 1830 as they grappled, in a variety of circumstances, with the great effusion of Scottish authorship – including the hard-edged intellectual achievements of David Hume, Adam Smith and William Robertson ... Leer más

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  • Local Studies and the History of Education

    Originally published in 1972, this book is concerned with education as part of a larger social history.Chapters include:The roots of Anglican supremacy in English educationThe Board schools of LondonThe use of ecclesiastical records for the history of educationTopographical resources: private and secondary education from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Liberty's Dawn

    A People's History of the Industrial Revolution

    de Emma Griffin ...
    "Emma Griffin gives a new and powerful voice to the men and women whose blood and sweat greased the wheels of the Industrial Revolution" (Tim Hitchcock, author of Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London).This "provocative study" looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working ... Leer más

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  • The Social Life of Books

    Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home

    Series series The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
    "A lively survey…her research and insights make us conscious of how we, today, use books."—John Sutherland, The New York Times Book ReviewTwo centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral component of domestic social life. In this fascinating and vivid history, Abigail Williams explores the ways in which ... Leer más

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  • Privacy

    A Short History

    de David Vincent ...
    Privacy: A Short History provides a vital historical account of an increasingly stressed sphere of human interaction. At a time when the death of privacy is widely proclaimed, distinguished historian, David Vincent, describes the evolution of the concept and practice of privacy from the Middle Ages to the present controversy over digital communication and state surveillance provoked by the ... Leer más

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  • What's in a Surname?

    A Journey from Abercrombie to Zwicker

    de David McKie ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSurnames are much more than convenient identity tags; they are windows into our families’ pasts. Some suggest ancestral trades (Butcher, Smith, Roper) or physical appearance (Long, Brown, Thynne). Some provide clues to where we come from (McDonald, Evans, Patel). And some – Rymer, Brocklebank, Stolbof – offer a hint of something just a little more exotic or esoteric.All ... Leer más

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