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Luxury and Gender in European Towns, 1700-1914
This book conceives the role of the modern town as a crucial place for material and cultural circulations of luxury. It concentrates on a critical period of historical change, the …
History of European Women's Work
The work patterns of European women from 1700 onwards fluctuate in relation to ideological, demographic, economic and familial changes. In A History of European Women's Work, …
Female Agency in the Urban Economy
This innovative new book is overtly and explicitly about female agency in eighteenth-century European towns. However, it positions female activity and decisions unequivocally in an …
Women in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
The eighteenth century looms large in the Scottish imagination. It is a century that saw the doubling of the population, rapid urbanisation, industrial growth, the political Union …
A Cultural History of Work
Winner of the 2020 PROSE Award for Multivolume Reference/Humanities How has our relationship with ‘work’ changed for different cultures over the centuries? What effect has it …
Catastrophe, Gender and Urban Experience, 1648-1920
As Enlightenment notions of predictability, progress and the sense that humans could control and shape their environments informed European thought, catastrophes shook many towns …
Luxury and Gender in European Towns, 1700-1914
This book conceives the role of the modern town as a crucial place for material and cultural circulations of luxury. It concentrates on a critical period of historical change, the …
Luxury and Gender in European Towns, 1700-1914
This book conceives the role of the modern town as a crucial place for material and cultural circulations of luxury. It concentrates on a critical period of historical change, the …
A Cultural History of Work in the Age of Enlightenment
Winner of the 2020 PROSE Award for Multivolume Reference/Humanities The Enlightenment led to revised ideas about work together with new social attitudes toward work and workers. …
Women in European Culture and Society Text and Sourcebook - BUNDLE
Women in European Culture and Society: Gender, Skill and Identity since 1700 provides readers with an overview of women's roles and place in western Europe from the beginning of …
A History of European Women's Work
The work patterns of European women from 1700 onwards fluctuate in relation to ideological, demographic, economic and familial changes. In A History of European Women's Work, …
Catastrophe, Gender and Urban Experience, 1648-1920
As Enlightenment notions of predictability, progress and the sense that humans could control and shape their environments informed European thought, catastrophes shook many towns …