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The nineteenth century saw huge changes in design and technology. This book looks at the social history of rooms in the Victorian home and at how, thanks to industrialised mass production, people were empowered to make choices about how to decorate their homes.

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

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How a nascent radio station, led by legendary broadcaster Ahmed Said, could influence Arab countries during the 1950s and 1960s, and help them in their struggle to liberate from British and French colonialism.

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A companion to "Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt", this book contains the voices of the poor themselves, found in documents heretofore largely ignored. It provides access to the attitudes and philanthropic activities of the charitable, alongside the dramatic writings of the poor themselves.

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The War on Poverty: A Retrospective examines the strategies and programs launched since 1964 through the eyes of academics and practitioners engaged in education, health care, social services provision, and community economic development.

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The War on Poverty: A Retrospective examines the strategies and programs launched since 1964 through the eyes of academics and practitioners engaged in education, health care, social services provision, and community economic development.

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This enlightening narrative takes a look at the wedding nightits origins, history, customs, cultural expressions, and fictional representations through the ages.

Though just outside of public view, the wedding night is loaded with expectation and consequence.

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Wine was one of the earliest commodities to be traded across the whole of western Europe. Wine has held its place for centuries at the heart of social and cultural life in western Europe. This book will explain how and why this came about, providing a thematic history of wine and the wine trade in Europe in the middle ages from c 1000 to c 1500.

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Academics and students researching modern and contemporary social and cultural history, sociology, cultural studies and human geography -- .

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Discussing the dynamics of English aristocratic society, this book investigates the rewards and obligations of status, including birth, wealth, the importance of public and royal service and the need to participate in local affairs, especially legal and administrative business.

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An important new book discussing the unexplored dynamics of English aristocratic society.

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The last years of the nineteenth century saw the birth of a new phenomenon: international terrorism. Alex Butterworth interweaves group biography, cultural history and meticulous detective work to create a revelatory account of the age.

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Michael Kranish writes about the remarkable Major Taylor, who became the worlds fastest bicyclist at the height of the Jim Crow era.

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The thirteenth-century monarch Alfonso the Learned of Castile and his contemporary rival James the Conqueror, of Aragon-Catalonia, are key figures who made enduring contributions to Western civilization--although neither is well known to American students. This book explores the contrasts and convergences not only of the kings but of the scholarly-