many might have otherwise thought was an already well-documented life. This study of a most remarkable figure, whose impact rippled around the globe, charts new pathways into the transnational flow of people and ideas." - Douglas M. Peers, Dean and Associate Vice President Graduate, York ...
W.W. Norton, New York (2005).5.Altick R.D.: Victorian people and ideas: a companion for the modern reader of Victorian literature. Norton, New York (1973).6.Best G.: Mid-Victorian Britain, 1851-1875. Panther, St Albans (1973).7.Briggs A.: Victorian people: a reassessmen...
Authentic patterns for women’s clothing, plus ideas for optional style variations for sewers who know flat pattern techniques. Includes a chapter on 1885–1889 dressmaking and one on making 208 sewn trimmings. Suitable for Old West/Wild West events; Sherlock Holmes events; Victorian dances, teas...
children were forced to work from very young age in working environmnent that negatively influenced their health. People viewed poverty differently. On one hand, there were those who were empathetic and sympathised with the poor, on the other hand...
Speaking about the perception of children and childhood during the Victorian Era one usually refers to the ideas and ideals of the middle-class. It was the Victorian middle-class that laid the foundation to the modern attitude towards childhood and which is closely intertwined with the perception ...
This book examines the emergence of modern working-class youth culture through the perspective of an urban history of post-war Britain, with a particular focus on the influence of young people and their culture on Britain’s self-image as a country emerging from the constraints of its post-Vi...
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and worse. The con nection between Darwinism and eu- genics cannot be dismissed as the abuse of Darwin's ideas by others. Those who created modern Dar winism were the same people who created the modern eugenics move ment. The eugenicists were the Darwinists [emphasis in ...
With the ideas of evolution up in the air, faith was losing its hold upon popular imagination, and the mythic center that could u 44、nify and hold beliefs and values together was fast disappearing. vFor intellectually thinking people, life became excessively “modern”. There was a visible ...
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