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  • The People of Print

    Eighteenth-Century England

    by Adam James Smith, Rachel Stenner, Kaley Kramer, Helen Williams, Jacob Baxter, Kate Ozment, Sarah Griffin, Lisa Maruca, Barbara Crosbie, Dominic Bridge, John Hinks ...
    Series series Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
    This collection profiles understudied figures in the book and print trades of the eighteenth century. With an explicit focus on intervening in the critical history of the trades, this volume profiles seven women and three men, emphasising the broad range of material, cultural, and ideological work these people undertook. It offers a biographical introduction to each figure, placing them in their ... Read more

    $15.59 USD

  • Historical Networks in the Book Trade

    Edited by Catherine Feely, John Hinks ...
    Series series The History of the Book
    The book trade historically tended to operate in a spirit of co-operation as well as competition. Networks between printers, publishers, booksellers and related trades existed at local, regional, national and international levels and were a vital part of the business of books for several centuries. This collection of essays examines many aspects of the history of book-trade networks, in response ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Technology of Building Defects

    by John Hinks, Geoff Cook ...
    The Technology of Building Defects has been developed to provide a unique review of the subject. Defects are considered as part of the whole building rather than in isolation.General educational objectives are set out which offer the reader the opportunity of self-assessment. Each section is generously illustrated with photographs and diagrams, forming an accessible self contained review covering ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Women in Print 2

    Production, Distribution and Consumption

    Edited by Caroline Archer-Parré, Christine Moog, John Hinks ...
    Series Book 3 - Printing History and Culture
    Women in Print is a collection of essays in two related volumes which considers the diversity of roles occupied by women in the design, authorship, production, distribution and consumption of printed material from the fifteenth century onwards.　The contributions included in Women in Print 2 cover the whole of the «letterpress era» in Europe from the early fifteenth century to the mid-twentieth ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

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    English Readers and the Scottish Enlightenment, 1740–1830

    by David Allan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    Making British Culture explores an under-appreciated factor in the emergence of a recognisably British culture. Specifically, it examines the experiences of English readers between around 1707 and 1830 as they grappled, in a variety of circumstances, with the great effusion of Scottish authorship – including the hard-edged intellectual achievements of David Hume, Adam Smith and William Robertson ... Read more

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  • Liberty's Dawn

    A People's History of the Industrial Revolution

    by Emma Griffin ...
    "Emma Griffin gives a new and powerful voice to the men and women whose blood and sweat greased the wheels of the Industrial Revolution" (Tim Hitchcock, author of Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London).This "provocative study" looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working ... Read more

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  • Privacy

    A Short History

    by David Vincent ...
    Privacy: A Short History provides a vital historical account of an increasingly stressed sphere of human interaction. At a time when the death of privacy is widely proclaimed, distinguished historian, David Vincent, describes the evolution of the concept and practice of privacy from the Middle Ages to the present controversy over digital communication and state surveillance provoked by the ... Read more

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  • An Everyday Life of the English Working Class

    Work, Self and Sociability in the Early Nineteenth Century

    by Carolyn Steedman ...
    This book concerns two men, a stockingmaker and a magistrate, who both lived in a small English village at the turn of the nineteenth century. It focuses on Joseph Woolley the stockingmaker, on his way of seeing and writing the world around him, and on the activities of magistrate Sir Gervase Clifton, administering justice from his country house Clifton Hall. Using Woolley's voluminous diaries and ... Read more

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  • The Early Roxburghe Club 1812–1835

    Book Club Pioneers and the Advancement of English Literature

    by Shayne Husbands ...
    The Roxburghe Club, founded in 1812, has an unbroken publishing history from 1814 to the present day. The Early Roxburghe Club 1812–1835 offers a new narrative for the formative years of the Roxburghe Club, for the ‘bibliomania’ of the Romantic period and for early nineteenth-century antiquarian culture and its relationship to the emergent popularity and status of English vernacular literature. By ... Read more

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  • Local Studies and the History of Education

    by History of Education Society ...
    Originally published in 1972, this book is concerned with education as part of a larger social history.Chapters include:The roots of Anglican supremacy in English educationThe Board schools of LondonThe use of ecclesiastical records for the history of educationTopographical resources: private and secondary education from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Women in Eighteenth-Century Scotland

    Intimate, Intellectual and Public Lives

    by Deborah Simonton ...
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  • Physick and the family

    Health, medicine and care in Wales, 1600–1750

    by Alun Withey ...
    Physick and the family offers new insights into the early modern sickness experience, through a study of the medical history of Wales.Newly available in paperback, this first ever monograph of early modern Welsh medicine utilises a large body of newly discovered source material. Using numerous approaches and methodologies, it makes a significant contribution to debates in medical history, ... Read more

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