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  • The Experience of Labour in Eighteenth-Century Industry

    de John Rule ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Work & Society
    Originally published in 1981, this book, unlike conventional textbooks concerning the Industrial Revolution, stresses the continuity of the labour experience in the 18th Century. Examining the organisation and structure of mining and manufacture in England, the author identifies the main kinds of workers: artisans, miners, journeymen and home-based outworkers. The book goes on to illustrate how ... Leer más

    $45.99 USD

  • Labouring Classes in Early Industrial England, 1750-1850, The

    de John Rule ...
    Series series Themes In British Social History
    This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis of current research on the social conditions, experiences and reactions of working people during the period 1750 - 1850. ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • A World of Paper

    Louis XIV, Colbert de Torcy, and the Rise of the Information State

    Historians and social scientists have long identified bureaucracy as the modern state's foundation and the reign of France's Louis XIV as a model for its development. A World of Paper offers a fresh interpretation of bureaucracy through a close examination of the department of the Sun King's last foreign secretary, Jean-Baptiste Colbert de Torcy.Torcy, who served as foreign secretary from 1696 ... Leer más

    $41.99 USD

  • The Vital Century

    England's Economy 1714-1815

    de John Rule ...
    Series series Social and Economic History of England
    Long neglected, the Eighteenth Century is now the focus for much of the most exciting work in history today. This new research has so altered and expanded our understanding of the Georgian economy that some historians now question the very idea of an `Industrial Revolution'. John Rule uses the latest scholarship for a comprehensive and magisterial review -- of population, output, agriculture, ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • The Maritime History of Cornwall

    Cornwall is quintessentially a maritime region. Almost an island, nowhere in it is further than 25 miles from the sea. Cornwall’s often distinctive history has been moulded by this omnipresent maritime environment, while its strategic position at the western approaches—jutting out into the Atlantic—has given this history a global impact.It is perhaps surprising then, that, despite the central ... Leer más

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  • Albion's People

    English Society 1714-1815

    de John Rule ...
    Series series Social and Economic History of England
    This second volume of John Rule's major two-volume portrait of Georgian England is a comprehensive and authoritative survey of eighteenth-century society, incorporating the exciting new research findings of recent years. It deals in turn with the upper class, `middling sort' and lower orders; with popular education, religion and culture; with standards of living in town and country; and with crime ... Leer más

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    The Letters Of Madame De Sévigné To Her Daughter And Friends (Unabridged)

    Narrado por John Rule ...

    Completo

    19 hora 28 minutos

    Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné was a French aristocrat famous for the precision, clarity, wit and vividness of her letters, which deal with personal issues and also with public events in the France of Louis XIV ... Leer más

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    In the century before the great famine of the late 1840s, the Irish people, and the poor especially, became increasingly dependent on the potato for their food. So when potato blight struck, causing the tubers to rot in the ground, they suffered a grievous loss. Thus began a catastrophe in which approximately one million people lost their lives and many more left Ireland for North America, ... Leer más

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  • In Search of a Better Life

    British and Irish Migration

    Edición de Graham Davis ...
    In Search of a Better Life' challenges the traditional histories of British and Irish migration, the stories of oppression and exile that form an essential part of the existing literature. By no means were all migrants forced to leave their country by circumstances; many looked forward to a better life abroad. They were largely opportunists rather than victims, whether financed by the state or by ... Leer más

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  • Class Struggle and the Industrial Revolution

    Early Industrial Capitalism in Three English Towns

    de John Foster ...
    Class Struggle and the Industrial Revolution represents both a continuation of, and a stark contrast to, the impressive tradition of social history which has grown up in Britain in the last two decades. Its use of sophisticated quantitative techniques for the dissection of urban social structures will serve as a model for subsequent research workers. This work examines the impact of ... Leer más

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  • Industry, Trade and People in Ireland, 1650-1950: Essays in honour of W.H. Crawford

    Bill Crawford (W.H. Crawford) had played a key role in the development of Irish economic, social and regional history for over forty years. The essays in Industry, Trade and People in Ireland, 1650-1950 are testimony to his many spheres of influence - as teacher, archivist, curator, researcher and writer - and focus on the themes in which Bill himself has been most interested: the relations ... Leer más

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  • This Great Calamity: The Great Irish Famine

    The Irish Famine 1845-52

    The Great Famine of 1845-52 was the most decisive event in the history of modern Ireland. In a country of eight million people, the Famine caused the death of approximately one million, while a similar number were forced to emigrate. The Irish population fell to just over four million by the beginning of the twentieth century.Christine Kinealy's survey is long established as the most complete, ... Leer más

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