High Minds: The Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain 1847946771, 9781847946775

High minds: the Victorians and the birth of modern Britain 9781446473825, 9781847946775, 1446473821

Simon Heffer's new book forms an ambitious exploration of the making of the Victorian age and the Victorian mind.

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The Victorians: Britain through the paintings of the age 9781846077432

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Public relations and the making of modern Britain: Stephen Tallents and the birth of a progressive media profession 9781526129666

This book tells the story of how the unorthodox liberalism of the public sector svengali Stephen Tallents helped reshape

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Victorians Against the Gallows: Capital Punishment and the Abolitionist Movement in Nineteenth-Century Britain 9780755698493, 9781848856943

By the time that Queen Victoria ascended the throne in 1837, the list of crimes liable to attract the death penalty had

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Of Victorians and Vegetarians: The Vegetarian Movement in Nineteenth-century Britain 9780755696147, 9780857715265

Nineteenth-century Britain was one of the birthplaces of modern vegetarianism in the west, and was to become a reform mo

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Bugs and the Victorians 9780300160031

In the wake of the Scientific Revolution, the impulse to name and classify the natural world accelerated, and insects pr

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Framing the Victorians: Photography and the Culture of Realism 9781501736728

We cannot talk about realism in the nineteenth century without talking about visuality, claims Green-Lewis, and Framing

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Shakespeare And The Victorians 9781472555267, 9781903436714, 9781408143728

Adrian Poole examines the Victorian's obsession with Shakespeare, his impact upon the era's consciousness, and

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The Birth of the Modern Mind : Self, Consciousness, and the Invention of the Sonnet 9780195363470, 9780195056921

This revolutionary study presents new facts and an original theory about the origin of the thought and literature that m

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The Conquest of Death: Violence and the Birth of the Modern English State 9780300227864

A fresh and fascinating history of crime and violence in England through the office of the coroner In his fascinating

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