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Author : Monica Christina Grobel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2122 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:940320453
Author : Harold Smith
Publisher : Vine Books
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1974-01-01
Category : Self-culture
ISBN : 0905305000
Author : María Dolores Elizalde,Wang Jianlang
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527504172
For a long time, the idea of China as a culture and society which was voluntarily secluding itself from the rest of the world was dominant. But, in reality, China has always been part of the world, just as the world has always sought to penetrate China. The relationship between China and the world was, in the past, sometimes smooth, and at other times it was difficult, but nevertheless the bond remained alive. This collection presents an analysis of China from a global perspective within a broad temporal and spatial spectrum. It reveals the early relations established between the Roman Empire and China, the dynamics developed with the countries of the Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia and Japan, and the gradual path of Europeans and Americans towards China. The book reviews the development of diplomatic relations, the signing of agreements and alliances, and the rise and resolution of conflicts. It also analyses the forging of economic relations, the establishment of commercial exchanges and the creation of companies, professional bodies and institutions of collaboration.
Author : S. M. Waddams
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1992-05-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521413710
Through his portrait of Stephen Lushington's wide-ranging career, Professor Waddams offers a very revealing perspective on the relationship between law, politics and religion during the nineteenth century.
Author : Rosemary Ashton
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300154481
While Bloomsbury is now associated with Virginia Woolf and her early-twentieth-century circle of writers and artists, the neighborhood was originally the undisputed intellectual quarter of nineteenth-century London. Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival resources, Rosemary Ashton brings to life the educational, medical, and social reformists who lived and worked in Victorian Bloomsbury and who led crusades for education, emancipation, and health for all. Ashton explores the secular impetus behind these reforms and the humanitarian and egalitarian character of nineteenth-century Bloomsbury. Thackeray and Dickens jostle with less famous characters like Henry Brougham and Mary Ward. Embracing the high life of the squares, the nonconformity of churches, the parades of shops, schools, hospitals and poor homes, this is a major contribution to the history of nineteenth-century London.
Author : Rebekah Higgitt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781317314950
Examines Isaac Newton's changing legacy during the nineteenth century. This book focuses on 1820-70, a period that saw the creation of the specialized and secularized role of the 'scientist'. It shows how debates about Newton's character stimulated historical scholarship and led to the development of a new expertise in the history of science.
Author : Michael S. Reidy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226709338
In the first half of the nineteenth century, the British sought to master the physical properties of the oceans; in the second half, they lorded over large portions of the oceans’ outer rim. The dominance of Her Majesty’s navy was due in no small part to collaboration between the British Admiralty, the maritime community, and the scientific elite. Together, they transformed the vast emptiness of the ocean into an ordered and bounded grid. In the process, the modern scientist emerged. Science itself expanded from a limited and local undertaking receiving parsimonious state support to worldwide and relatively well financed research involving a hierarchy of practitioners. Analyzing the economic, political, social, and scientific changes on which the British sailed to power, Tides of History shows how the British Admiralty collaborated closely not only with scholars, such as William Whewell, but also with the maritime community —sailors, local tide table makers, dockyard officials, and harbormasters—in order to systematize knowledge of the world’s oceans, coasts, ports, and estuaries. As Michael S. Reidy points out, Britain’s security and prosperity as a maritime nation depended on its ability to maneuver through the oceans and dominate coasts and channels. The practice of science and the rise of the scientist became inextricably linked to the process of European expansion.
Author : Edward William Lane
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9789774165603
First published in 1836, this classic book of an English observer's impressions of a nineteenth-century Egypt has never gone out of print, continuously providing material and inspiration for generations of scholars, writers, and travelers, who have praised its comprehensiveness, detail, and perception.
Author : Alan Rauch
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2001-07-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 082232668X
DIVA statement on how “knowledge” is socialized and assimilated by a culture, investigating popular and canonical fiction, early encyclopedias, and other popular efforts at mass education and knowledge dissemination./div
Author : Valerie Gray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351161909
Charles Knight: Educator, Publisher, Writer is the first modern book-length study of this important nineteenth-century educational reformer, author, and publisher. Though he made significant contributions during his lifetime to the cause of popular education, providing inexpensive but quality reading material for the newly literate working classes, Knight has been largely ignored by scholars. This neglect, the author suggests, may be related to Knight's association with the controversial Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge and to the use scholars make of Knight's Penny Magazine and his two volumes on political economy to support their arguments on theories of social control and other issues. The author argues that Knight's reputation has suffered as a result. She reexamines the evidence to offer fresh assessments of Knight's life and work that illuminate his genuine achievements. She concludes with an evaluation of Knight's role as an innovative publisher who used the latest techniques to provide the emerging mass readership with unique combinations of text and image in his many 'pictorial' books and periodicals.
Author : Mikkel Thorup
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137594167
The book investigates the many ways that economic and moral reasoning interact, overlap and conflict both historically and at present. The book explores economic and moral thinking as a historically contingent pair using the concept of economic normativities. The contributors use case studies including economic practices, such as trade and finance and tax and famine reforms in the British colonies to explore the intellectual history of how economic and moral issues interrelate.
Author : Anne B. Rodrick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351149464
First published in 2004. The nineteenth century witnessed a flowering of the culture of self-improvement that was reflected in a plethora of institutes, societies and journals that sprang up across Britain with the goal of spreading knowledge and learning to a wide spectrum of society. The prophets of self-improvement believed that not only was self-improvement a laudable goal in its own right, but more importantly, it would contribute towards a general improvement in society. In an age in which direct participation in the political processes was restricted to a minority, education and self-improvement could act as an alternative force by creating a sophisticated and knowledgeable population. In other words, self-improvement was also seen as a way of creating active and responsible citizens. Focusing on the city of Birmingham, and drawing on both local and national sources, Self Help and Civic Culture explores the changing nature of self improvement and citizenship in Victorian Britain. By approaching the concept of citizenship from a new perspective, provincial identity and its relationship to wider ideas of 'Englishness' and 'Britishness', a distinct ideal of citizenship is elucidated that adds further nuance to current scholarship. By drawing together various issues of citizenship, self-improvement, class and political power, this work brings a new perspective to the on-going attempts to determine who could claim the full rights, duties, privileges and responsibilities of the larger social body, thus illuminating the relationship between culture and power in nineteenth century England.
Author : William Whyte
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192513441
In the last two centuries Britain has experienced a revolution in higher education, with the number of students rising from a few hundred to several million. Yet the institutions that drove - and still drive - this change have been all but ignored by historians. Drawing on a decade's research, and based on work in dozens of archives, many of them used for the very first time, this is the first full-scale study of the civic universities - new institutions in the nineteenth century reflecting the growth of major Victorian cities in Britain, such as Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, York, and Durham - for more than 50 years. Tracing their story from the 1780s until the 2010s, it is an ambitious attempt to write the Redbrick revolution back into history. William Whyte argues that these institutions created a distinctive and influential conception of the university - something that was embodied in their architecture and expressed in the lives of their students and staff. It was this Redbrick model that would shape their successors founded in the twentieth century: ensuring that the normal university experience in Britain is a Redbrick one. Using a vast range of previously untapped sources, Redbrick is not just a new history, but a new sort of university history: one that seeks to rescue the social and architectural aspects of education from the disregard of previous scholars, and thus provide the richest possible account of university life. It will be of interest to students and scholars of modern British history, to anyone who has ever attended university, and to all those who want to understand how our higher education system has developed - and how it may evolve in the future.
Author : John Chapple
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1997-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0719025508
This absorbing study of Elizabeth Gaskell's early life up to her marriage in 1832 is based almost entirely on new evidence. Also, using parish records, marriage settlements, property transfers, wills, record office documents, letters, journals and private papers, John Chapple has recreated the background of one of the nineteenth century's greatest novelists.
Author : Catherine Seville
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1999-09-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521621755
This text was the first study of the controversial bills leading to the Copyright Act 1842.