Author: Great Britain. Parliament. Joint Select Committee on Municipal Trading
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Report ... Together with the Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, Appendix and Index
First and Second Reports from the Select Committee of Public Accounts Together with the Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, Appendices and Index ...
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee of Public Accounts
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Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 1322
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 1322
Book Description
Report and Special Report from the Select Committee on the Daylight Saving Bill
Author: Great Britain. Daylight Saving Bill Committee
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Report from the Select Committee on Post Office (Telephone Agreement), 1905
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select committee on Post office (Telephone agreement) 1905
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Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Report from the Select Committee on Repayment of Loans by Local Authorities
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Repayment of Loans by Local Authorities
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Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Report from the Joint Select Committee of the House of Lords and the House of Commons on Municipal Trading
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. Joint Select Committee of the House of Lords and the House of Commons on Municipal Trading
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Category : Municipal finance
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Municipal finance
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
I Hope I Don't Intrude
Author: David Vincent
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191038148
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
'I Hope I Don't Intrude' takes its title from the catch-phrase of the eponymous hero of the 1825 play Paul Pry, which was an immense success on the London stage and then rapidly in New York and around the English-speaking world. It tackles the complex, multi-faceted subject of privacy in nineteenth-century Britain by examining the way in which the tropes, language, and imagery of the play entered public discourse about privacy in the rest of the century. The volume is not just an account of a play, or of late Georgian and Victorian theatre. Rather it is a history of privacy, showing how the play resonated through Victorian society and revealed its concerns over personal and state secrecy, celebrity, gossip and scandal, postal espionage, virtual privacy, the idea of intimacy, and the evolution of public and private spheres. After 1825 the overly inquisitive figure of Paul Pry appeared everywhere - in songs, stories, and newspapers, and on everything from buttons and Staffordshire pottery to pubs, ships, and stagecoaches - and 'Paul-Prying' rapidly entered the language. 'I Hope I Don't Intrude' is an innovative kind of social history, using rich archival research to trace this cultural artefact through every aspect of its consumer context, and using its meanings to interrogate the largely hidden history of privacy in a period of major transformations in the role of the home, mass communication (particularly the new letter post, which delivered private messages through a public service), and the state. In vivid and entertaining detail, including many illustrations, David Vincent presents the most thorough account yet attempted of a recreational event in an era which saw a decisive shift in consumer markets. His study casts fresh light on the perennial tensions between curiosity and intrusion that were captured in Paul Pry and his catchphrase. Giving a new account of the communications revolution of the period, it re-evaluates the role of the state and the market in creating a new regime of privacy. And its critique of the concept and practice of surveillance looks forward to twenty-first-century concerns about the invasion of privacy through new technologies.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191038148
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
'I Hope I Don't Intrude' takes its title from the catch-phrase of the eponymous hero of the 1825 play Paul Pry, which was an immense success on the London stage and then rapidly in New York and around the English-speaking world. It tackles the complex, multi-faceted subject of privacy in nineteenth-century Britain by examining the way in which the tropes, language, and imagery of the play entered public discourse about privacy in the rest of the century. The volume is not just an account of a play, or of late Georgian and Victorian theatre. Rather it is a history of privacy, showing how the play resonated through Victorian society and revealed its concerns over personal and state secrecy, celebrity, gossip and scandal, postal espionage, virtual privacy, the idea of intimacy, and the evolution of public and private spheres. After 1825 the overly inquisitive figure of Paul Pry appeared everywhere - in songs, stories, and newspapers, and on everything from buttons and Staffordshire pottery to pubs, ships, and stagecoaches - and 'Paul-Prying' rapidly entered the language. 'I Hope I Don't Intrude' is an innovative kind of social history, using rich archival research to trace this cultural artefact through every aspect of its consumer context, and using its meanings to interrogate the largely hidden history of privacy in a period of major transformations in the role of the home, mass communication (particularly the new letter post, which delivered private messages through a public service), and the state. In vivid and entertaining detail, including many illustrations, David Vincent presents the most thorough account yet attempted of a recreational event in an era which saw a decisive shift in consumer markets. His study casts fresh light on the perennial tensions between curiosity and intrusion that were captured in Paul Pry and his catchphrase. Giving a new account of the communications revolution of the period, it re-evaluates the role of the state and the market in creating a new regime of privacy. And its critique of the concept and practice of surveillance looks forward to twenty-first-century concerns about the invasion of privacy through new technologies.
Report
Author: State Library of Massachusetts
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 922
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Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
Report from the Joint Select Committee of the House of Lords and the House of Commons on London Underground Railways
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. Joint select committee on London underground railways
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Category : Subways
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Publisher:
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Category : Subways
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Report from the Joint Select Committee ...
Author: Great Britain. London Underground Railways, Committee on
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Category : Subways
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subways
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description