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Beauty and Cosmetics in the Time of Jane Austen
After the success of Pastimes and Pleasures in the Time of Jane Austen, Sarah Jane Downing turns her attention to the hair and beauty styles of Jane Austen's era. In Beauty and …
The Kashubs: Past and Present
The Kashubs, a regional autochthonous group inhabiting northern Poland, represent one of the most dynamic ethnic groups in Europe. As a community, they have undergone significant …
Free and Unfree Labor in Atlantic and Indian Ocean Port Cities (1700–1850)
Colonial and post-colonial port cities in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions brought together laboring populations of many different backgrounds and statuses - legally free or …
An Essay on the Origin and Use of Tables of Latitude and Departure; Particularly, as They Are Suited to the Purposes of Land Surveying.
Assassinations and Murder in Modern Italy
An extraordinary series of murders and political assassinations has marked contemporary Italian history, from the killing of the king in 1900 to the assassination of former prime …
Slave Agriculture and Financial Markets in Antebellum America
Slave Agriculture and Financial Markets marks an important chapter in the study of Antebellum southern slavery and the credit system. Kilbourne analyzes the systems which credit …
Criminals and their Scientists
This book presents recent research on the history of criminology from the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century in Western Europe (Austria, Britain, France, Germany, Italy) …
A List of the Voluntary Subscribers, With the Sums Each Subscribed and Paid, for the Security of His Majesty's Person and Government, and for the Defence of the County of York, Begun at Bishop Thorp, the 23d of September, 1745
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 …
Women and Welfare
The aim of this study is to explain why some middle-class Victorian women took up various kinds of public social service, as social workers, researchers or reformers. The …
Lincoln and the Decision for War
When Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 prompted several Southern states to secede, the North was sharply divided over how to respond. In this groundbreaking and highly praised …
Henry VIII and History
Henry VIII remains the most iconic and controversial of all English Kings. For over four-hundred years he has been lauded, reviled and mocked, but rarely ignored. In his many …