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Whether it was 'the batille', 'the spike', 'the work'us' or simply 'the house', the Victorian workhouse was the cause of dread and shame for thousands of men, women and children. This book looks at the principles that lay beind the New Poor Law of 1834, at the design and construction of workhouses, and at the lives of those who entered them.

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An indispensable resource for readers investigating Victorian literature and culture, this book offers a comprehensive summary of the historical, social, political, and cultural contexts of Victorian England.

The Victorian era was a time of great social, scientific, and cultural change.

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A picture can say a thousand words and the images caught on camera during the Victorian and Edwardian periods provide a fascinating insight into the lives of Britons during this time. This book lets you take a step back between 1840 and 1910 and explore the world of work and working conditions experienced by the Victorians and Edwardians.

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Many of the sports that have spread across the world, from athletics and boxing to golf and tennis, had their origins in nineteenth-century Britain. This work offers an account of the role sport played in both Victorian Britain and its empire. It provides details of individual sports and sportsmen.

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A comprehensive history of sport in 19th-century Britain, with the early history of many sports that are now international.

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Capturing the strength of the British Army from 1815 to 1914, this groundbreaking reference presents the most recent research on the most significant wars, campaigns, battles, and leaders.

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Who were the Victorians This work provides a guide to the changing reputation of the Victorians during the twentieth century. Different social, political and aesthetic values, two world wars, youth culture, nostalgia, historical trends and the heritage industry have all affected the way we see the age and its men and women.

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Video games have become a limitless and multifaceted medium through which major corporations and Hollywood visionaries alike are reaching broader global audiences and influencing cultural trends at a rate unmatched by any other media. This book traces the growth of a global phenomenon that has become an integral part of popular culture.

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This book shows how over the hundred years between the Vienna Congress and the dissolution of the Empire, the waltz altered from signifier of upper-class artificecovering with glitz and glamour the poverty and war central to the timeto the link between the three classes, between man and nature, and between Viennese and Other.

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An encyclopedia of American literature, songs, and films.

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The Vietnam War was different from most previous U.S. wars of the twentieth century.

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A useful reference for any scholar of the Vietnam War, The Vietnam War as History will appeal to the general reader as well, particularly those who served in Vietnam.

The chapters offer a diverse set of approaches of the war.

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There are many lessons to be learned from the Vietnam War, foremost among them being that war as an instrument of peace is not viable.

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An examination of Vietnam War protests that occurred among Midwestern and Southern college students American high schoolers, conservative students, and women students.

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An assessment of research on the Vietnam War over the last 17 years. Contributors evaluate significant literature, films and TV programmes. Research covered includes personal narratives and oral histories, fiction and non-fiction, military strategy and operations, and Indochinese histories.

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An important contribution to the understanding of Vietnam and the Vietnamese American immigrant experience.

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This is one of the very few scholarly Western-language studies of the Vietnamese reaction to the French colonial conquest of Vietnam during the nineteenth century.