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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 820
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Author: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 65, No. 403, May, 1849
Author: VariousPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5043102721
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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A Select List of Books on Railroads in Foreign Countries
Author: Library of Congress. Division of BibliographyPublisher:
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Select List of References on the British Tariff Movement (Chamberlain's Plan).
Author: Library of Congress. Division of BibliographyPublisher:
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Category : Tariff
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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List of References on the Popular Election of Senators
Author: Library of Congress. Division of BibliographyPublisher:
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Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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The Pleasures and Horrors of Eating
Author: Marion GymnichPublisher: V&R Unipress
ISBN: 3862347753
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Browsing through books and TV channels we find people pre-occupied with eating, cooking and competing with chefs. Eating and food in today's media have become a form of entertainment and art. A survey of literary history and culture shows to what extent eating used to be closely related to all areas of human life, to religion, eroticism and even to death.In this volume, early modern ideas of feasting, banqueting and culinary pleasures are juxtaposed with post-18th- and 19th-century concepts in which the intake of food is increasingly subjected to moral, theological and economic reservations. In a wide range of essays, various images, rhetorics and poetics of plenty are not only contrasted with the horrors of gluttony, they are also seen in the context of modern phenomena such as the anorexic body or the gourmandizing bête humaine.It is this vexing binary approach to eating and food which this volume traces within a wide chronological framework and which is at the core not only of literature, art and film, but also of a flourishing popular culture.
A History of the Highland Clearances
Author: Eric RichardsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000081613
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
First published in 1982, A History of the Highland Clearances looks at the forcible clearance of tenants from land they had farmed for centuries by landlords in the Highlands of Scotland in the early nineteenth century. It examines the general context of historical change, provides a full narrative of the clearances and offers a critical evaluation of the documentary sources upon which the entire story depends. By placing his subject in its historical perspective and into the context of the rest of Britain and Europe, Eric Richards vividly illustrates the realities of the Highland experience in the age of the clearances.
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Author: United States. War Dept. LibraryPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 50
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The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 23, 1875
Author: Charles DarwinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 131647318X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. Notes and appendixes put these fascinating and wide-ranging letters in context, making the letters accessible to both scholars and general readers. Darwin depended on correspondence to collect data from all over the world, and to discuss his emerging ideas with scientific colleagues, many of whom he never met in person. The letters are published chronologically: Volume 23 includes letters from 1875, the year in which Darwin wrote and published Insectivorous plants, a botanical work that was a great success with the reading public, and started writing Cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom. The volume contains an appendix on the 1875 anti-vivisection debates, with which Darwin was closely involved, giving evidence before a Royal Commission on the subject.
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