A Cultural History of Democracy in the Age of Empire 9781350272750, 9781350042896, 1350272752

This volume surveys democracy broadly as a cultural phenomenon operating in different ways across a very wide range of s

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A Cultural History of Democracy in the Age of Empire
9781350272750, 9781350042896, 1350272752

The 19th century was a time of new sensory experiences and modes of perception. The raucous mechanical intensity of the

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A Cultural History of The Human Body presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. This set of six

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A compelling history of British imperial culture, showing how it was adopted and subverted by colonial subjects around t

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This volume surveys the burst of political imagination that created multiple Enlightenment cultures in an era widely und

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The 19th Century saw intense urbanization, the development of a consumer culture, the formalization of gender roles, the

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The nineteenth century was a time of intense monetization of social life: increasingly money became the only means of ac

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Drawing together contributions from scholars in a range of fields within 19th- and 20th-century cultural, literary, and

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The period 1800–1920 was one in which work processes were dramatically transformed by mechanization, factory system, the

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The nineteenth-century West saw extraordinary economic growth and cultural change. This volume explores and explains the

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