Leisure and Class in Victorian England: Rational recreation and the contest for control, 1830-1885 1317973615, 9781317973614

Working Class Radicalism in Mid-Victorian England 9781000076677, 9780367858315, 9781003015314

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Puritans at Play: Leisure and Recreation in Colonial New England [1st St. Martin’s Griffin ed.] 0312161247, 9780312161248

'It is rare for a book to be both erudite and amusing at the same time, and this book has succeeded. It has changed

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Clothing and Landscape in Victorian England: Working-class Dress and Rural Life 9781350985759, 9781786733450

In the context of this rapidly changing world, Rachel Worth explores the ways in which the clothing of the rural working

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A Man’s Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England 9780300077797, 9780300123623, 9780585347585

Domesticity is generally treated as an aspect of women's history. In this fascinating study of the nineteenth-centu

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A Man's Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England 9780300143683

Domesticity is generally treated as an aspect of women’s history. In this fascinating study of the nineteenth-century mi

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Clothing and landscape in Victorian England : working-class dress and rural life 9781350985759, 1350985759

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Labour's Apprentices: Working-Class Lads in Late Victorian and Edwardian England 9780773563469

The three decades before World War I witnessed significant changes in the work life, home life, and social life of adole

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From Spinster to Career Woman: Middle-Class Women and Work in Victorian England 9780773558489

Challenging preconceived notions about femininity, respectability, paid employment, and middle-class ladies in Victorian

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The Discipline of Leisure: Embodying Cultures of 'Recreation' 9780857450395

The burgeoning social scientific study of tourism has emphasized the effects of the post-industrial economy on travel an

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Hatred and Civility: The Antisocial Life in Victorian England 9780231503907

To understand hatred and civility in today's world, argues Christopher Lane, we should start with Victorian fiction

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