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Madness and Morals - Ideas on Insanity in the Nineteenth Century - Bok av Vieda Skultans - Häftad

Madness and Morals - Ideas on Insanity in the Nineteenth Century - Bok av Vieda Skultans - Häftad

First published in 1975, Madness and Morals presents the major preoccupations of nineteenth century society concerning insanity, its problems, and implications. In the introduction to the collection, Vieda Skultans traces developments and changes in the ideas about the insane and their treatment during the nineteenth century. She shows that two contrasting themes dominated writing on the subject: the relative weight to be attributed to physical and moral causes of insanity; and the emphasis on hereditary..

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England in the Seventeenth Century - Bok av Maurice Ashley - Häftad

England in the Seventeenth Century - Bok av Maurice Ashley - Häftad

Originally published in 1952 but here reissuing the updated edition of 1978, this book has long been established as a classic and a central text for students of seventeenth-century English history. The book covers every aspect of English life from the arrival of James I in England to the death of Queen Anne. The chapters on political history are organized chronologically, interspersed with thematic chapters which analyse change and development in family and social life, literature and the arts, scientific..

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Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Cartoonists and Caricaturists - Bok av Mark Bryant - Häftad

Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Cartoonists and Caricaturists - Bok av Mark Bryant - Häftad

British cartoonists and caricaturists are renowned worldwide. Originally published in 2000, this indispensable handbook offers a unique 'who's who' of all the major artists working in Britain in the twentieth century and contains nearly 500 entries. Extensively illustrated, the book provides information on the work of artists such as Steve Bell, Gerald Scarfe, Posy Simmonds, Ronald Searle, Trog, mac and Larry as well as such past masters as David Low, Vicky, H. M. Bateman, Illingworth, Heath Robinson..

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International Conflict in the Twentieth Century - A Christian View - Bok av Herbert Butterfield - Häftad

International Conflict in the Twentieth Century - A Christian View - Bok av Herbert Butterfield - Häftad

First published in 1960, International Conflict in the Twentieth Century considers how to solve the problem of human relations for external affairs.Stepping back from the more common focus on \current affairs\, the book explores in detail the processes and patterns of history, the principles that underlie foreign policy, the ethical issues involved in international affairs, and the role of Christianity in a time of global revolution. In doing so, it covers a variety of topics including morality,..

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Cities and Territories of the Western Roman Empire - 4th Century BC to the 3rd Century AD - Bok av Ricardo González-Villaescusa - Häftad

Cities and Territories of the Western Roman Empire - 4th Century BC to the 3rd Century AD - Bok av Ricardo González-Villaescusa - Häftad

This book showcases the unique shape of urban development that took hold during the Roman Empire, beginning in the Mediterranean basin before spreading out across Europe, and offers a fresh perspective on the cities and territories of the Roman West.With the expansion of Rome came a particular form of social organisation: the Roman city. This book provides a basic introduction to Roman cities, not through the lens of architecture and urbanism, but from a social, legal, cultural, spatial, and functional..

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The Sentiment of Reality - Truth of Feeling in the European Novel - Bok av Michael Bell - Häftad

The Sentiment of Reality - Truth of Feeling in the European Novel - Bok av Michael Bell - Häftad

Originally published in 1983, The Sentiment of Reality covers the rise and decline of the realist novel from the mid-eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. The book takes the form of an extended essay on two closely related themes in the history of the novel: first, the impact and aftermath of the eighteenth-century cult of sentiment and, secondly, the supplanting of illusionism by an aesthetic of mimesis. This forms the basis of an exploration of the emotional impact that fiction has on..

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Post-School Education - Bok av Michael D Stephens - Häftad

Post-School Education - Bok av Michael D Stephens - Häftad

First published in 1984, Post-School Education attempts to compare development of post-school education in America and England in nineteenth century. Divided into eight chapters, it discusses themes like traditions and attitudes; systems of school education; middle class initiatives prior to 1850; educational provision for adults in the 19th century; the growth of technical education; the development of university education; and the role of government, to showcase the extent to which England influenced..

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South Africa - A Short History - Bok av Arthur Keppel-Jones - Häftad

South Africa - A Short History - Bok av Arthur Keppel-Jones - Häftad

Originally published in 1949 but here reissuing the 5th edition of 1975 this is a vivid history of South Africa up to the mid 1970s. Tracing the development of Afrikaner nationalism and the conflict of black and white races in relation to economic, political and geographical factors, the author makes a clear and often critical analysis of the crisis in the first half of the 20th Century in the light of historical perspective.

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Responses to 7 October - Antisemitic Discourse - Bok av Rosa Freedman - Häftad

Responses to 7 October - Antisemitic Discourse - Bok av Rosa Freedman - Häftad

One of three volumes responding to the 7 October attack, Antisemitic Discourse, focuses on the ideology that motivated it and the antisemitism that shaped many responses to it.It examines the provenance of the Jew-hatred, from English history to Palestinian Islamism; from toxic 19th century 'Jewish Question' rhetoric to the perversion of the Trotskyist tradition that allowed parts of the left to embrace antisemitism. It includes Howard Jacobson's lecture of 22 October on antisemitism and it focuses..

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Workspace Made Easy - A Clear and Practical Guide on How to Create a Fantastic Working Environment - Bok av Kursty Groves - Häftad

Workspace Made Easy - A Clear and Practical Guide on How to Create a Fantastic Working Environment - Bok av Kursty Groves - Häftad

Demystifying the entire workspace industry, for the non-expert and expert alike, this unique book sets out every step and consideration in how to lead a project to create a fantastic workspace.Entirely free of baffling jargon and industry-speak, it's a refreshingly accessible, practical, down-to-earth guide applicable to all types of workspace, new or renovated and anywhere in the world. Created by two leading workspace practitioners with over half a century of combined multi-sector international..

SEK 477.00
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Woman's Worth - Sexual Economics and the World of Women - Bok av Lisa Leghorn - Häftad

Woman's Worth - Sexual Economics and the World of Women - Bok av Lisa Leghorn - Häftad

Originally published in 1981, Woman's Worth takes up the challenge to the male preserve of economics - which was raised nearly a century ago by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in her classic work Women and Economics.Patriarchal economic systems - socialist as well as capitalist - are founded upon women's unpaid labour. On this premise, Lisa Leghorn and Katherine Parker base their exploration of the economic basis of women's culture across cultures: from the USA to South America, the Middle East, socialist..

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The Transformations of Man - Bok av Lewis Mumford - Häftad

The Transformations of Man - Bok av Lewis Mumford - Häftad

Originally published in 1957, this volume compares the 20th Century transformation of human life to the revolution which swept early man into the first civilized communities. It shows how each radical new stage of human development grew out of changes in human personality and consciousness, such as the invention of language and symbols, the origins of universal religions and the mechanization of everyday life. Despite the threat that the author foresees from an over-reliance on automation, the book..

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Don Juan - Variations on a Theme - Bok av John Smeed - Häftad

Don Juan - Variations on a Theme - Bok av John Smeed - Häftad

First published in 1990, Don Juan: Variations on a Theme explores the differing perceptions of this famous character following his first appearance on the European stage in the early seventeenth century. The book concentrates on the ways in which perceptions of Don Juan's character have altered in response to changes in social and moral values. It examines famous Don Juan works, including those by Moliere, Byron, Pushkin, Shaw, Anouilh, and Max Frisch, and relates them to these changing views. It..

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Shakespeare and Game of Thrones - Bok av Jeffrey R Wilson - Häftad

Shakespeare and Game of Thrones - Bok av Jeffrey R Wilson - Häftad

It is widely acknowledged that the hit franchise Game of Thrones is based on the Wars of the Roses, a bloody fifteenth-century civil war between feuding English families. In this book, Jeffrey R. Wilson shows how that connection was mediated by Shakespeare, and how a knowledge of the Shakespearean context enriches our understanding of the literary elements of Game of Thrones. On the one hand, Shakespeare influenced Game of Thrones indirectly because his history plays significantly shaped the way..

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Workers' Dilemmas - Recruitment, Reliability and Repeated Exchange: An Analysis of Urban Social Networks and Labour Circulation - Bok av Margaret Grie

Workers' Dilemmas - Recruitment, Reliability and Repeated Exchange: An Analysis of Urban Social Networks and Labour Circulation - Bok av Margaret Grie

Originally published in 1996, Workers' Dilemmas analyses the management skills of those with least resources, the women of the urban poor, and finds that there is an abundance of evidence on the high levels of managerial competence within this group. It is information which has largely been hidden from history. This study of poor women's involvement in the world of work corrects this missing record.For over a century (1850-1960s), women and children travelled from their urban homes in the East End..

SEK 491.00
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Why South Africa Will Survive - A Historical Analysis - Bok av L H Gann - Häftad

Why South Africa Will Survive - A Historical Analysis - Bok av L H Gann - Häftad

Originally published in 1981, this book took a position which was unpopular within the academic establishment at the time of its publication. It argued that the extraordinary social and economic changes that came over South Africa in the 20th Century gave the country great stability. The authors believed that change would come from within the ruling white oligarchy rather than from Liberation Movements and that the greatest solvent of apartheid was to be found in the working of a free market economy...

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The Expansion of Social Work in Britain - Bok av Philip Seed - Häftad

The Expansion of Social Work in Britain - Bok av Philip Seed - Häftad

First published in 1973, The Expansion of Social Work in Britain presents an overview of the history of social work to develop an understanding of what modern social work 'is' and of what the rapid expansion of social work 'means' as a social phenomenon. Divided into three parts, Part I examines the traditions and the forms of social action in the nineteenth century from which social work originated. Part II presents the period following the Second World War and concentrate particularly on the development..

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