Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 810
Book Description
The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: In Pursuit of Civility
Author: Keith ThomasPublisher: Brandeis University Press
ISBN: 1512602825
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Keith Thomas's earlier studies in the ethnography of early modern England, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Man and the Natural World, and The Ends of Life, were all attempts to explore beliefs, values, and social practices in the centuries from 1500 to 1800. In Pursuit of Civility continues this quest by examining what English people thought it meant to be "civilized" and how that condition differed from being "barbarous" or "savage." Thomas shows that the upper ranks of society sought to distinguish themselves from their social inferiors by distinctive ways of moving, speaking, and comporting themselves, and that the common people developed their own form of civility. The belief of the English in their superior civility shaped their relations with the Welsh, the Scots, and the Irish, and was fundamental to their dealings with the native peoples of North America, India, and Australia. Yet not everyone shared this belief in the superiority of Western civilization; the book sheds light on the origins of both anticolonialism and cultural relativism. Thomas has written an accessible history based on wide reading, abounding in fresh insights, and illustrated by many striking quotations and anecdotes from contemporary sources.
British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: An Alphabetical Catalogue of the Subscription Library, York, Instituted 1794
Author: York Subscription LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Book-prices Current
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
Book Description
A-Dick
Author: Luther Samuel LivingstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
A-Dick
Author: Luther S. LivingstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
The Bookseller
Author: Publisher and Bookseller
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1232
Book Description
Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.