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Autobiographical Writing and British Literature 1783-1834
The word 'autobiography' is a late eighteenth-century coinage; yet by 1826 it was used as the title for a multi-volume anthology of self-writing, and in 1834 Thomas Carlyle wrote …
Revolution and the European Experience 1789-1914
This study argues that the Europe which is now being united was originally the product of the French revolution, 1789-95, and then formed by the emergent industrial capitalism. …
The History of Sutton-Coldfield, With the Continuation, and an Addenda, not Before Published, by an Impartial Hand
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its …
Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film
The twenty-seven original contributions to this volume investigate the ways in which the First World War has been commemorated and represented internationally in prose fiction, …
Catholics and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Global World
This book analyzes violence involving Catholics in the nineteenth-century world - revealing the motives for violence, showing the link between religious and secular grievances, and …
Laws of Men and Laws of Nature
Are scientific expert witnesses partisans, or spokesmen for objective science? This ambiguity has troubled the relations between scientists and the legal system for more than 200 …
God and Mammon
This collection of all new essays offers a close look at the connections between American Protestants and money in the Antebellum period. During the first decades of the new …
Crime and Society in England, 1750–1900
Ranging from the middle of the eighteenth through to the end of the nineteenth century, Crime and Society in England, 1750–1900 explores the developments in policing, the courts …
Local Memories in a Nationalizing and Globalizing World
In historical studies, 'collective memory' is most often viewed as the product of nationalizing strategies carried out by political elites in the hope to create homogeneous …
Lust, Commerce, and Corruption
By 1816, Japan had recovered from the famines of the 1780s and moved beyond the political reforms of the 1790s. Despite persistent economic and social stresses, the country seemed …
Classicism and the Construction of Capital Cities
Exploring the intriguing interplay between tradition and modernity in the 19th-century capitals of London, Athens and Rome, Richard Alston delves into the political and …
