Life in Victorian Preston
Author: David John Hindle
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2014-11-15
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1445619210
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring the social and cultural history of Preston.
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Author: David John Hindle
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2014-11-15
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1445619210
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring the social and cultural history of Preston.
Author: David John Hindle
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2012-09-15
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 144562432X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book incorporates a brief social history of Preston and Whittingham Hospital as a lead into the establishment of the Whittingham Hospital Railway.
Author: Atticus
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 668
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Duc Dau
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-02-11
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1317647068
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Victorians elevated the home and heteronormative family life to an almost secular religion. Yet alongside the middle-class domestic ideal were other families, many of which existed in the literature of the time. Queer Victorian Families: Curious Relations in Literature is chiefly concerned with these atypical or "queer" families. This collection serves as a corrective against limited definitions of family and is a timely addition to Victorian studies. Interdisciplinary in nature, the collection opens up new possibilities for uncovering submerged, marginalized, and alternative stories in Victorian literature. Broad in scope, subjects range from Count Fosco and his animal "children" in Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White, to male kinship within and across Alfred Tennyson’s In Memoriam and Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, and the nexus between disability and loving relationships in the fiction of Dinah Mulock Craik and Charlotte M. Yonge. Queer Victorian Families is a wide-ranging and theoretically adventurous exposé of the curious relations in the literary family tree.
Author: David Newsome
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780813527581
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDavid Newsome's monumental history, The Victorian World Picture, takes a good, long look at the Victorian age and what distinguishes it so prominently in the history of both England and the world. The Victorian World Picture presents a vivid canvas of the Victorians as they saw themselves and as the rest of the world saw them.
Author: Preston (Lancashire, England). Court Leet
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Published: 1905
Total Pages: 268
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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Published: 1866
Total Pages: 342
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alison Bruce
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2011-10-24
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 0752474065
DOWNLOAD EBOOK‘An insightful and gripping account that will take you into the dark but fascinating world of a Victorian executioner.’ – Stewart P. Evans Between 1884 and 1905 James Billington and his three sons, Thomas, William and John, were responsible for 235 executions in Victorian Great Britain and Ireland. They hanged many notorious murderers, but equally fascinating is the story of the family. Did James really feel he served society and justice, or did this position satisfy something more personal? Billington: Victorian Executioner provides a complete account of the stories behind James Billington’s executions, as well as the real man behind the rope – a man whose business was death. This enthralling biography is an exciting addition to any true crime bookshelf.
Author: Erika Rappaport
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2019-03-05
Total Pages: 568
ISBN-13: 0691192707
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Tea has been one of the most popular commodities in the world. Over centuries, profits from its growth and sales funded wars and fueled colonization, and its cultivation brought about massive changes--in land use, labor systems, market practices, and social hierarchies--the effects of which are with us even today. A Thirst for Empire takes a vast and in-depth historical look at how men and women--through the tea industry in Europe, Asia, North America, and Africa--transformed global tastes and habits and in the process created our modern consumer society. As Erika Rappaport shows, between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries the boundaries of the tea industry and the British Empire overlapped but were never identical, and she highlights the economic, political, and cultural forces that enabled the British Empire to dominate--but never entirely control--the worldwide production, trade, and consumption of tea. Rappaport delves into how Europeans adopted, appropriated, and altered Chinese tea culture to build a widespread demand for tea in Britain and other global markets and a plantation-based economy in South Asia and Africa. Tea was among the earliest colonial industries in which merchants, planters, promoters, and retailers used imperial resources to pay for global advertising and political lobbying. The commercial model that tea inspired still exists and is vital for understanding how politics and publicity influence the international economy ..."--Jacket.