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  • "Capitalism and Slavery" Revisited

    The Impact and Legacy of Eric Williams's Trailblazing Work

    by Natalie A. Zacek, Ph.D, Erica Williams Connell, Catherine Hall, Devin Leigh, Stephen Mullen, Gervase Phillips, Sheryllynne Haggerty, Dexnell Peters, Christer Petley ...
    Reexamining a seminal work on British capitalism and Caribbean slavery and its continuing reverberations in the twenty-first centuryEric Williams’s Capitalism and Slavery (1944), with its insightful and provocative theses about the relationship between Caribbean slavery and the growth of the British economy and the Industrial Revolution, has proved an enduring and controversial book. Never out of ... Read more

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  • Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times

    Living the British Empire in Jamaica, 1756

    by Sheryllynne Haggerty ...
    In October of 1756 Sarah Folkes wrote home to her children in London from Jamaica. Posted on the ship Europa, bound for London, her letter was one of around 350 that were never delivered due to an act of war; they remain together today in the National Archives in London.In Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times Sheryllynne Haggerty closely reads and analyses this collection of correspondence, ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Letters and the Body, 1700–1830

    Writing and Embodiment

    Edited by Sarah Goldsmith, Sheryllynne Haggerty, Karen Harvey ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies
    This collection explores the multifaceted relationship between letters and bodies in the long eighteenth century, featuring a broad selection of women's and men’s letters written from and to Britain, North America, Europe, India and the Caribbean, from the labouring poor to the landed elite.In eleven chapters, scholars from various disciplines draw on different methodological approaches that ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • Customs in Common

    Studies in Traditional Popular Culture

    by E. P. Thompson ...
    The "meticulously researched, elegantly argued and deeply humane" sequel to the landmark volume of social history, The Making of the English Working Class ( The New York Times Book Review).This remarkable study investigates the gradual disappearance of a range of cultural customs against the backdrop of the great upheavals of the eighteenth century. As villagers were subjected to a legal system ... Read more

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  • A Man's Place

    Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England

    by Professor John Tosh ...
    Domesticity is generally treated as an aspect of women’s history. In this fascinating study of the nineteenth-century middle class, John Tosh shows how profoundly men’s lives were conditioned by the Victorian ideal and how they negotiated its many contradictions.Tosh begins by looking at the experience of boyhood, married life, sex, and fatherhood in the early decades of the nineteenth century ... 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

    $49.19 USD

  • Making British Culture

    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

    $67.99 USD

  • Memoirs of Victorian Working-Class Women

    The Hard Way Up

    by Florence s. Boos ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This volume is the first to identify a significant body of life narratives by working-class women and to demonstrate their inherent literary significance. Placing each memoir within its generic, historical, and biographical context, this book traces the shifts in such writings over time, examines the circumstances which enabled working-class women authors to publish their life stories, and places ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Separated by Their Sex

    Women in Public and Private in the Colonial Atlantic World

    by Mary Beth Norton ...
    In Separated by Their Sex**, Mary Beth Norton offers a bold genealogy that shows how gender came to determine the right of access to the Anglo-American public sphere by the middle of the eighteenth century.** Earlier, high-status men and women alike had been recognized as appropriate political actors, as exemplified during and after Bacon's Rebellion by the actions of—and reactions to—Lady Frances ... Read more

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  • English Masculinities, 1660-1800

    by Tim Hitchcock, Michelle Cohen ...
    Series series Women And Men In History
    This collection of specially commissioned essays provides the first social history of masculinity in the ‘long eighteenth century’. Drawing on diaries, court records and prescriptive literature, it explores the different identities of late Stuart and Georgian men. The heterosexual fop, the homosexual, the polite gentleman, the blackguard, the man of religion, the reader of erotica and the violent ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Women in Eighteenth-Century Scotland

    Intimate, Intellectual and Public Lives

    by Deborah Simonton ...
    The eighteenth century looms large in the Scottish imagination. It is a century that saw the doubling of the population, rapid urbanisation, industrial growth, the political Union of 1707, the Jacobite Rebellions and the Enlightenment - events that were intrinsic to the creation of the modern nation and to putting Scotland on the international map. The impact of the era on modern Scotland can be ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Speech, Print and Decorum in Britain, 1600--1750

    Studies in Social Rank and Communication

    by Elspeth Jajdelska ...
    Filling an important gap in the history of print and reading, Elspeth Jajdelska offers a new account of the changing relationship between speech, rank and writing from 1600 to 1750. Jajdelska draws on anthropological findings to shed light on the different ways that speech was understood to relate to writing across the period, bringing together status and speech, literary and verbal decorum, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD