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  • Dear Prime Minister

    Letters to Robert Menzies, 1949–1966

    by Martyn Lyons ...
    'I am sir [sure] you will act as human bean,' wrote one distressed pensioner to Prime Minister Robert Menzies in 1953, pleading for assistance. Robert Menzies received 22,000 letters during his record-breaking 1949-1966 second term as Australian Prime Minister. From war veterans, widows, and political leaders to school students and homespun philosophers. Ordinary citizens sent their ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Typewriter Century

    A Cultural History of Writing Practices

    by Martyn Lyons ...
    Series series Studies in Book and Print Culture
    This book captures the intensity of the relationship between writers and their typewriters from the 1880s, when the machine was first commercialized, to the 1980s, when word-processing superseded it. Drawing on examples from the United States, Britain, Europe, and Australia, The Typewriter Century focuses on "celebrity writers," including Henry James, Jack Kerouac, Agatha Christie, Georges Simenon ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • A Modern History of Andorra

    Autonomy in the Pyrenean Borderlands

    by Martyn Lyons ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern European History
    This book examines the fascinating survival of Andorra, one of Europe's micro-states nestled between France and Spain. Despite its medieval institutional framework, Andorra endured into the late 20th century without an army, police, currency, or customs barriers. The book uncovers how Andorra skilfully exploited its strategic position between two powerful neighbours, using its unique dual ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Uses of Literacy in Colonial Australia

    by Martyn Lyons ...
    Series Book 2 - Anthem Studies in Book History, Publishing and Print Culture
    What did Australians read? This book answers this question in terms of books rather than newspapers and considers the long nineteenth century, interpreted as running from 1788 to 1901. In the wake of this primary question, several others arise: how did Australians acquire the books they read, and how did readers in the outback overcome the handicaps of distance and remoteness? Did they read for ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Reading Culture & Writing Practices in Nineteenth-Century France

    by Martyn Lyons ...
    Between about 1830 and the outbreak of the First World War, print culture, reading, and writing transformed cultural life in Western Europe in many significant ways. Book production and consumption increased dramatically, and practices such as letter- and diary-writing were widespread. This study demonstrates the importance of the nineteenth century in French cultural change and illustrates the ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • The Pyrenees in the Modern Era

    Reinventions of a Landscape, 1775-2012

    by Emeritus Professor Martyn Lyons ...
    This original study examines different incarnations of the Pyrenees, beginning with the assumptions of 18th-century geologists, who treated the mountains like a laboratory, and romantic 19th-century tourists and habitués of the spa resorts, who went in search of the picturesque and the sublime. The book analyses the individual visions of the heroic Pyrenees which in turn fascinated 19th-century ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The History of Illiteracy in the Modern World Since 1750

    by Martyn Lyons ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This Palgrave Pivot examines the history of literacy with illiterate and semi-literate people in mind, and questions the clear division between literacy and illiteracy which has often been assumed by social and economic historians. Instead, it turns the spotlight on all those in-between, the millions who had some literacy skills, but for whom reading and writing posed difficulties. Its main focus ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Writing Culture of Ordinary People in Europe, c.1860–1920

    by Martyn Lyons ...
    As war and mass emigration across oceans increased the distances between ordinary people in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many of them, previously barely literate and unaccustomed to writing, began to communicate on paper. This fascinating account explores this surge of ordinary writing, how people met the new challenges of literacy and the importance of scribal culture to the ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Approaches to the History of Written Culture

    A World Inscribed

    Edited by Martyn Lyons, Rita Marquilhas ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book investigates the history of writing as a cultural practice in a variety of contexts and periods. It analyses the rituals and practices determining intimate or ‘ordinary’ writing as well as bureaucratic and religious writing. From the inscribed images of ‘pre-literate’ societies, to the democratization of writing in the modern era, access to writing technology and its public and private ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

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    Sexuality, Identity, and Community in Early Modern Europe

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    From the tenor of contemporary discussions, it would be easy to conclude that the idea of marriage between two people of the same sex is a uniquely contemporary phenomenon. Not so, argues Gary Ferguson in Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome.Making use of substantial fragments of trial transcripts Gary Ferguson brings the story of a same-sex marriage to life in striking detail. He unearths an ... Read more

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  • Camino de Santiago - Practical Preparation and Background

    by Gerald Kelly ...
    Fully revised and updated in May 2026.This book is intended for people planning to walk a Camino for the first time. It contains detailed, practical, impartial information and advice to help you prepare. It is based on the author's personal experience gained over nearly twenty years walking Caminos and on the experiences of many other pilgrims.The following topics are covered in detail:Which ... Read more

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  • The Great Cat Massacre

    And Other Episodes in French Cultural History

    by Robert Darnton ...
    **The landmark history of France and French culture in the eighteenth century, a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.“Robert Darnton has the inquisitiveness of an investigative reporter, the thoroughness of a rigorous scholar, and the sensitivity of a novelist.” —New Republic**When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730s held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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