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Describes the life and activities of the middle-class married woman of London between 1875 and 1900 and reveals how housewives unwittingly became engines for change as the new century neared.

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This study of competing representations of the Virgin Mary examines how Victorian anxieties about religious and gender identities intersected to create public controversies that, whilst ostensibly about theology and liturgy, were also attempts to define the role and nature of women -- .

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The men of the Victorian army ruled a large part of the world. As the visible power behind the greatest empire there had ever been, they were involved in wars wherever British interests demanded it. This book looks at the men and their leaders from a variety of angles, using particular incidents and battles to show how the army lived and fought.

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Ever since Lytton Strachey mocked Thomas Arnold, Florence Nightingale and General Gordon in "Eminent Victorians", the reputation of the Victorians and what they stood for has provoked vigorous debate. Subjects of abuse, satire, nostalgia and even adulation, they continue to defy easy definition.

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This book presents a radical reconsideration of the role of key players in developing an organised, politically oriented antisemitism in Vienna in the decades leading to the 1938 Anschluss. It pays particular attention to the clergy and how their antisemitism fitted the worldview of an authoritarian, hierarchical society. -- .

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A guide to the weapons, armour and tactics of the archetypical Viking warrior from his origins in Scandinavia through the devastating explosion into British history to the end of the Anglo-Danish monarchy at Hastings. The exploded and cutaway artwork shows details of armour and weaponry.

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This collection examines crime and punishment in medieval and early modern Bologna. Drawing from the citys singularly rich archival resources and employing a variety of perspectives, the contributors analyze various types of violence and place the citys institutions of criminal justice within their social, political, and cultural contexts.

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First book to bring together the wide range of violent entertainments that characterised popular culture in nineteenth-century London and seriously assesses their origins, functions and impact. Draws upon the methodologies of social and cultural history to better understand the texture of Victorian society, and the mental world of the lower orders.

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First book to bring together the wide range of violent entertainments that characterised popular culture in nineteenth-century London and seriously assesses their origins, functions and impact. Draws upon the methodologies of social and cultural history to better understand the texture of Victorian society, and the mental world of the lower orders.

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This book explores the historical context surrounding various debates, decisions and beliefs about the future in recent centuries. Religious, political, literary and ecological visions of the future in America and Germany are addressed comparatively.

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Voices of Shakespeare's England offers students and public library patrons over 50 primary documents that illuminate the character, personalities, and events of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.

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This fascinating collection of primary source documents furnishes the accounts-in their own words-of those who initiated, advanced, or lived through the Reformation.

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The Victorian age was a period of transition as Britain industrialized and society underwent profound changes. Here, contemporary voices provide students with an up-close look at this pivotal time.

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The two volumes of The Russian Experience of War demonstrate the critical significance of the war myth to Russia through primary documents.

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The two volumes of The Russian Experience of War demonstrate the critical significance of the war myth to Russia through primary documents.

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Born into a world still reeling from the earth-shattering events of the Great War, they grew up during the appalling economic depression of the 1930s, and emerged from post-war austerity determined to create a society for their children. This book reveals the story of people who raised their families during the social upheaval of the 50s and 60s.

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While some 400,000 Romanian Jews died in the "Final Solution" in World War II, some 300,000 others were rescued. In this volume, a continuation of "Silent Holocaust", Butnaru examines the Jewish underground resistance in Romania, and the efforts to save the Jewish population of that country.

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This unique collection of essays examines the many relationships that existed between Wales and the expanding British overseas empire between 1650 and 1830. -- .

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This unique collection of essays examines the many relationships that existed between Wales and the expanding British overseas empire between 1650 and 1830. -- .