Major Works: Social & Cultural History

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151. Early Exploration Of Russia Vo

     Published November 10th 2004 by Routledge
152. Early Exploration Of Russia Vo

     Published November 10th 2004 by Routledge
153. Memoirs of an Eighteenth Century Footman

     John Macdonald Travels (1745-1779)

     By John Macdonald

     First published in 1927. John Macdonald (1741-96) was born, and died, a Scottish Highlander. First published at the time of the French Revolution, these memoirs of his days in service provide a rich panorama of life in the company of blind fiddlers, maid-servants, the Scottish aristocracy, soldiers...

     Published October 20th 2004 by Routledge
154. A History of Early Television

     Edited by Stephen Herbert

     Series: Routledge Library of Media and Cultural Studies

     This three-volume collection reprints two important 1920s/30s books relating to television, and a collection of short articles covering the social, aesthetic and technical aspects of the medium. Items range from 1870s prophecies, experiments and cartoons, to 1930s accounts of the first public...

     Published July 21st 2004 by Routledge
155. Animal Welfare and Anti-Vivisection 1870-1910

     Nineteenth-Century Women's Mission

     Edited by Susan Hamilton

     Series: History of Feminism

     This three-volume set brings together a range of documents that allows researchers to explore the nineteenth-century vivisection controversy, its relation to the prominent animal welfare movement and the specific role of women within the movement.The collection maps the battle over the meaning of...

     Published June 30th 2004 by Routledge
156. Popular Print Media 1820-1900

     Edited by Andrew King, John Plunkett

     Popular Print Media 1820-1900 makes available a selection of articles from nineteenth-century newspapers, periodicals and books which are otherwise unavailable except in their original publications.The collection also includes a significant amount of material that highlights the complex and...

     Published May 26th 2004 by Routledge
157. Women, Madness and Spiritualism

     Edited by Bridget Bennett, Helen Nicholson, Roy Porter

     Series: History of Feminism

     This set reproduces seminal writings by three exceptional nineteenth-century women. Georgina Weldon, Louisa Lowe and Susan Willis Fletcher were certified as insane by the Victorian medical establishment and were threatened with incarceration for their eccentric and transgressive behaviour. All...

     Published June 25th 2003 by Routledge
158. Early Sociology of Health and Illness

     Edited by Kevin White

     Providing access to historical sources on the development of the sociology of medicine, this set includes documents and articles from the mid-nineteenth century through to the early twentieth. The period was one of transition - from a belief in the religious and natural causes of disease, to first...

     Published June 27th 2001 by Routledge
159. Museums and their Development: The European Tradition 1700-1900

     Edited by Susan Pearce

     This set gathers together books, pamphlets and articles on all forms of collecting. The volumes have been carefully chosen to illustrate the principle intellectual and political motives which have fed into collecting during its formative 'enlightenment' years from about 1650 to 1870. Each writer...

     Published January 20th 1999 by Routledge
160. The Victorian City

     Edited by H.J. Dyos, Michael Wolff

     Series: Routledge Library Editions

     Originally published in two volumes, The Victorian City was a major landmark, particularly in the study of the social and intellectual attitudes of Victorian society to the challenge of urbanization. Unique in its many-sided approach to the total phenomenon of the city, this set deals on many...

     Published December 2nd 1998 by Routledge