Author: Magdalen Stuart ReevesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Round about a Pound a Week. 2nd Ed
Author: Magdalen Stuart ReevesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
1913
Author: Charles EmmersonPublisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1610392574
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Today, 1913 is inevitably viewed through the lens of 1914: as the last year before a war that would shatter the global economic order and tear Europe apart, undermining its global pre-eminence. Our perspectives narrowed by hindsight, the world of that year is reduced to its most frivolous features -- last summers in grand aristocratic residences -- or its most destructive ones: the unresolved rivalries of the great European powers, the fear of revolution, violence in the Balkans. In this illuminating history, Charles Emmerson liberates the world of 1913 from this "prelude to war" narrative, and explores it as it was, in all its richness and complexity. Traveling from Europe's capitals, then at the height of their global reach, to the emerging metropolises of Canada and the United States, the imperial cities of Asia and Africa, and the boomtowns of Australia and South America, he provides a panoramic view of a world crackling with possibilities, its future still undecided, its outlook still open. The world in 1913 was more modern than we remember, more similar to our own times than we expect, more globalized than ever before. The Gold Standard underpinned global flows of goods and money, while mass migration reshaped the world's human geography. Steamships and sub-sea cables encircled the earth, along with new technologies and new ideas. Ford's first assembly line cranked to life in 1913 in Detroit. The Woolworth Building went up in New York. While Mexico was in the midst of bloody revolution, Winnipeg and Buenos Aires boomed. An era of petro-geopolitics opened in Iran. China appeared to be awaking from its imperial slumber. Paris celebrated itself as the city of light -- Berlin as the city of electricity. Full of fascinating characters, stories, and insights, 1913: In Search of the World before the Great War brings a lost world vividly back to life, with provocative implications for how we understand our past and how we think about our future.
A Guide to Books for Social Students and Workers ...
Author: Alfred J. RahillyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Thorny Path
Author: Jamie StoopsPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 077355517X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Between 1900 and 1945, Britain and its empire experienced significant technological and social changes that altered its media and entertainment landscape. One aspect of British culture that underwent these changes was pornography. While illegal and socially reviled, the pornography trade adapted and flourished during this period. In The Thorny Path Jamie Stoops situates changes within the pornography trade in the context of an increasingly transnational world. Those who traded in pornography circled the globe, journeying from Britain to its colonies, from colonial holdings to continental Europe, from Europe to North America. In the process, pornographers and their customers developed new vocabularies and norms with which to negotiate their trade. Based on extensive archival research, this book grounds questions of transnationalism and heteronormativity in the day-to-day lives of low-level pornographers and consumers. Stoops’s focus on street-level interactions within the trade is balanced with an analysis of state policies, legal regulations, and debates about obscenity, illustrating the interplay between enforcers of mainstream moral standards and those who represented deviant sexual practices. Raising questions of queerness and sexual normativity, The Thorny Path links these issues to contemporary conversations about pornography, obscenity, and sexuality. It offers timely historical context for current and vibrant debates surrounding marginalized sexualities, gender roles, and pornography in a time of rapid technological and social change.
British Economic History, 1700-1870
Author: William Henry Bassano CourtPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
Author: Round about a Pound a Week
Author: Mrs. Magdalen Stuart ReevesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Bookseller
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
Round about a Pound a Week
Author: Mrs. Pember ReevesPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Round about a Pound a Week" by Mrs. Pember Reeves. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The Place of Home
Author: Alison RavetzPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135158452
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
A comprehensive and in-depth history of the 20th century English home, how it has been created, and how it works for people. It focuses on the various influences bearing on the development of domestic space since 1914 and covers both design and housing policy. Current debates from participation to co-operative housing are examined and several themes not previously brought together are linked, e.g. urban development/house design; technology at home/women and home; social meaning of home.