Modernity and Meaning in Victorian London: Tourist Views of the Imperial Capital, De Sapio Joseph

Автор: Raymer, Steve
Название: Redeeming Calcutta: A Portrait of India`s Imperial Capital
ISBN: 0198082185 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198082187
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: This book takes a fresh look at one of Asia`s great cities, a metropolis of hope and decay that was once the Second City of the British Empire after London. With around 200 photographs, including historic black-and-white images, coupled with a timely and detailed text, the book takes us through the streets, ghats, and corridors of Calcutta and paints an inclusive and nuanced portrait of the city.

Автор: Adrienne Munich
Название: Empire of Diamonds: Victorian Gems in Imperial Settings
ISBN: 0813944007 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813944005
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: In 1850, the legendary Koh-i-noor diamond, gem of Eastern potentates, was transferred from the Punjab in India and, in an elaborate ceremony, placed into Queen Victoria's outstretched hands. This act inaugurated what author Adrienne Munich recognizes in her engaging new book as the empire of diamonds.Diamonds were a symbol of political power—only for the very rich and influential. But, in a development that also reflected the British Empire's prosperity, the idea of owning a diamond came to be marketed to the middle class. In all kinds of writings, diamonds began to take on an affordable romance. Considering many of the era's most iconic voices—from Dickens and Tennyson to Kipling and Stevenson—as well as grand entertainments such as The Moonstone, King Solomon's Mines, and the tales of Sherlock Holmes, Munich explores diamonds as fetishes that seem to contain a living spirit exerting powerful effects, and shows how they scintillated the literary and cultural imagination.Based on close textual attention and rare archival material, and drawing on ideas from material culture, fashion theory, economic criticism, and fetishism, Empire of Diamonds interprets the various meanings of diamonds, revealing a trajectory including Indian celebrity-named diamonds reserved for Asian princes, such as the Great Mogul and the Hope Diamond, their adoption by British royal and aristocratic families, and their discovery in South Africa, the mining of which devastated the area even as it opened the gem up to the middle classes. The story Munich tells eventually finds its way to America, as power and influence crosses the Atlantic, bringing diamonds to a wide consumer culture.

Автор: Faulk Barry J.
Название: Music Hall & Modernity: Late Victorian Discovery of Popular Culture
ISBN: 082142095X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780821420959
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Описание: The late-Victorian discovery of the music hall by English intellectuals marks a crucial moment in the history of popular culture. This book demonstrates how such pioneering cultural critics as Arthur Symons and Elizabeth Robins Pennell used the music hall to secure and promote their professional identity as guardians of taste and national welfare.

Автор: Seth Alexander Thevoz
Название: Club Government: How the Early Victorian World was Ruled from London Clubs
ISBN: 1838604669 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781838604660
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: The book phenomenon of Club Government' in the mid-nineteenth century, when many of the functions of government were alleged to have taken place behind closed doors, in the secretive clubs of London's St. James's district, has not been adequately historicized. Despite Club Government' being referenced in most major political histories of the period, it is a topic which has never before enjoyed a full-length study. Making use of previously-sealed club archives, and adopting a broad range of analytical techniques, this work of political history, social history, sociology and quantitative approaches to history seeks to deepen our understanding of the distinctive and novel ways in which British political culture evolved in this period. The book concludes that historians have hugely underestimated the extent of club influence on high politics' in Westminster, and though the reputation of clubs for intervening in elections was exaggerated, the culture and secrecy involved in gentleman's clubs had a huge impact on Britain and the British Empire.

Автор: McNee Alan
Название: The New Mountaineer in Late Victorian Britain: Materiality, Modernity, and the Haptic Sublime
ISBN: 3319815121 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319815121
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book is about the rise of a new ethos in British mountaineering during the late nineteenth century.

Название: Peculiarities of liberal modernity in imperial britain
ISBN: 0520289536 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520289536
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Features leading scholars across several disciplines who investigate the nature of liberalism and modernity in imperial Britain since the eighteenth century. This book shows how Britain`s liberal version of modernity was the product of a peculiar set of historical circumstances that continues to haunt our neoliberal present.

Автор: Donna Loftus
Название: Capital and Labour in Victorian England: Manufacturing Consensus
ISBN: 1441196587 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781441196583
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Despite extensive scholarship on the social and cultural history of industrial England there is little work that explores how new forms of capitalist production were understood and normalised. Capital and Labour in Victorian England explores how accounts of industrial society evolved in the 19th century and how they inspired reform movements designed to accommodate the conflicts and contradictions that were a feature of industrial capitalism. It traces the rise of capitalist utopianism in the mid-century, and how such visions fell apart in the face of industrial unrest, organised labour, and more aggressive forms of capitalism. By the end of the century capital and labour were seen as inevitably separate, distinct and opposed - a development that sharpened class politics and shaped the way the first accounts of industrialisation were written.

Автор: Andersson P.
Название: Streetlife in Late Victorian London: The Constable and the Crowd
ISBN: 1349457949 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349457946
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Focusing on the everyday behaviour of people in the late-Victorian street, this extensive study provides an alternative history of the modern city, and sheds new light on the relationship between police constables and civilians. A wealth of source material is scrutinised to explore this public interaction in the capital.

Автор: Owen David
Название: The Government of Victorian London, 1855-1889
ISBN: 0674863453 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674863453
Издательство: Harvard University Press
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Автор: Hollis Clayson, Andre Dombrowski
Название: Is Paris Still the Capital of the Nineteenth Century?: Essays on Art and Modernity, 1850-1900
ISBN: 0367331470 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367331474
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: "Is Paris Still the Capital of the Nineteenth Century?" The question that guides this volume stems from Walter Benjamin`s studies of nineteenth-century Parisian culture as the apex of capitalist aesthetics. Thirteen scholars test Benjamin`s ideas about the centrality of Paris, formulated in the 1930s, from a variety of methodological perspectives.

Автор: Matthew L. Newsom Kerr
Название: Contagion, Isolation, and Biopolitics in Victorian London
ISBN: 3319657674 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319657677
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: ГЇВїВЅ This book is a history of London`s vast network of fever and smallpox hospitals, built by the Metropolitan Asylums Board between 1870 and 1900. Londoners suffering from infectious diseases submitted themselves to far-reaching forms of surveillance, removal, and detention, which made them legible to science and the state in entirely new ways.

Автор: Jacob W. M.
Название: Religion in Victorian London
ISBN: 0192897403 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780192897404
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: This innovative book challenges many of the widely held assumptions about the place of religion in Victorian society and in London, the world`s first great industrial and commercial metropolis.