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Languages : en
Pages : 1450
Book Description
Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
Author: Book Auction Records
Author: Frank KarslakePublisher:
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Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
A priced and annotated annual record of international book auctions.
Catalogue of the Pennsylvania State Library: Catalogue of miscellaneous books. 742 p
Author: Publishers' circular and booksellers' record
Author: Book-prices Current
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Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
Book Description
The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature, Containing an Account of Rare, Curious, and Useful Books, Published in Or Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the Invention of Printing ... and the Prices at which They Have Been Sold in the Present Century
Author: William Thomas LowndesPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
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.
American Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular
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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
American Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular
Author: Charles R. RodePublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The Bookseller
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1178
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.