Author: Robert W. Malcolmson
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521295956
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Professor Malcolmson provides a full account of the sports, pastimes and festive celebrations of the English labouring people in the eighteenth century.
Popular Recreations in English Society 1700-1850
Author: Robert W. Malcolmson
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521295956
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Professor Malcolmson provides a full account of the sports, pastimes and festive celebrations of the English labouring people in the eighteenth century.
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521295956
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Professor Malcolmson provides a full account of the sports, pastimes and festive celebrations of the English labouring people in the eighteenth century.
Longman Handbook to Modern British History 1714 - 2001
Author: Chris Cook
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317875249
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
This compact and accessible reference work provides all the essential facts and figures about major aspects of modern British history from the death of Queen Anne to the end of the 1990s. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History has been extended to include a fully-revised bibliography (reflecting the wealth of newly published material in recent years), the new statistics on social and economic history and an expanded glossary of terms. The political chronologies have been revised to include the electoral defeat of John Major and the record of New Labour in office. Designed for the student and general reader, this highly-successful handbook provides a wealth of varied data within the confines of a single volume.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317875249
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
This compact and accessible reference work provides all the essential facts and figures about major aspects of modern British history from the death of Queen Anne to the end of the 1990s. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History has been extended to include a fully-revised bibliography (reflecting the wealth of newly published material in recent years), the new statistics on social and economic history and an expanded glossary of terms. The political chronologies have been revised to include the electoral defeat of John Major and the record of New Labour in office. Designed for the student and general reader, this highly-successful handbook provides a wealth of varied data within the confines of a single volume.
English Society 1580–1680
Author: Keith Wrightson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134858248
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
First Published in 1982. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134858248
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
First Published in 1982. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Popular Cultures in England 1550-1750
Author: Barry Reay
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317872630
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Explores the important aspects of popular cultures during the period 1550 to 1750. Barry Reay investigates the dominant beliefs and attitudes across all levels of society as well as looking at different age, gender and religious groups.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317872630
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Explores the important aspects of popular cultures during the period 1550 to 1750. Barry Reay investigates the dominant beliefs and attitudes across all levels of society as well as looking at different age, gender and religious groups.
The Routledge History Handbook of Gender and the Urban Experience
Author: Deborah Simonton
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351995758
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
Play, thrills, danger and excitement
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351995758
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
Play, thrills, danger and excitement
A Sport-loving Society
Author: J. A. Mangan
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780714682297
Category : Middle class
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
A selection of essays exploring the role of social institutions and political, economic and technological change in shaping the sport of middle class Victorians and Edwardians.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780714682297
Category : Middle class
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
A selection of essays exploring the role of social institutions and political, economic and technological change in shaping the sport of middle class Victorians and Edwardians.
Urbane and Rustic England
Author: Carl B. Estabrook
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719053191
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The rapid growth and renewed vitality of English cities and towns in the century after 1660 was remarkable. But what was the effect of this urban renaissance on villages and those ordinary people whose roots were in the countryside?
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719053191
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The rapid growth and renewed vitality of English cities and towns in the century after 1660 was remarkable. But what was the effect of this urban renaissance on villages and those ordinary people whose roots were in the countryside?
British Sporting Literature and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century
Author: Sharon Harrow
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317171438
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Sport as it is largely understood today was invented during the long eighteenth century when the modern rules of sport were codified; sport emerged as a business, a spectacle, and a performance; and gaming organized itself around sporting culture. Examining the underexplored intersection of sport, literature, and culture, this collection situates sport within multiple contexts, including religion, labor, leisure time, politics, nationalism, gender, play, and science. A poetics, literature, and culture of sport swelled during the era, influencing artists such as John Collett and writers including Lord Byron, Jonathan Swift, and Henry Fielding. This volume brings together literary scholars and historians of sport to demonstrate the ubiquity of sport to eighteenth-century life, the variety of literary and cultural representations of sporting experiences, and the evolution of sport from rural pastimes to organized, regular events of national and international importance. Each essay offers in-depth readings of both material practices and representations of sport as they relate to, among other subjects, recreational sports, the Cotswold games, clothing, women archers, tennis, celebrity athletes, and the theatricality of boxing. Taken together, the essays in this collection offer valuable multiple perspectives on reading sport during the century when sport became modern.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317171438
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Sport as it is largely understood today was invented during the long eighteenth century when the modern rules of sport were codified; sport emerged as a business, a spectacle, and a performance; and gaming organized itself around sporting culture. Examining the underexplored intersection of sport, literature, and culture, this collection situates sport within multiple contexts, including religion, labor, leisure time, politics, nationalism, gender, play, and science. A poetics, literature, and culture of sport swelled during the era, influencing artists such as John Collett and writers including Lord Byron, Jonathan Swift, and Henry Fielding. This volume brings together literary scholars and historians of sport to demonstrate the ubiquity of sport to eighteenth-century life, the variety of literary and cultural representations of sporting experiences, and the evolution of sport from rural pastimes to organized, regular events of national and international importance. Each essay offers in-depth readings of both material practices and representations of sport as they relate to, among other subjects, recreational sports, the Cotswold games, clothing, women archers, tennis, celebrity athletes, and the theatricality of boxing. Taken together, the essays in this collection offer valuable multiple perspectives on reading sport during the century when sport became modern.
William Blake’s Comic Vision
Author: N. Rawlinson
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230287239
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Blake's comic brilliance has been variously dismissed as the nervous ramblings of a neglected genius, the tomfool doodles of a distracted youngster, or a crude tool for destabilizing textual authority. But, for the eighteenth century, comedy played a pivotal role in debates on aesthetics, education, spirituality and morality. This exciting new study blends a close reading of Blake's early work with fascinating historical research to demonstrate that the comic was an essential component of Blake's artistic Vision.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230287239
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Blake's comic brilliance has been variously dismissed as the nervous ramblings of a neglected genius, the tomfool doodles of a distracted youngster, or a crude tool for destabilizing textual authority. But, for the eighteenth century, comedy played a pivotal role in debates on aesthetics, education, spirituality and morality. This exciting new study blends a close reading of Blake's early work with fascinating historical research to demonstrate that the comic was an essential component of Blake's artistic Vision.
Making History
Author: Peter Lambert
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134546947
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Making History offers a fresh perspective on the study of the past. It is an exhaustive exploration of the practice of history, historical traditions and the theories that surround them. Discussing the development and growth of history as a discipline and of the profession of the historian, the book encompasses a huge diversity of influences, organized around the following themes: the professionalization of the discipline the most significant movements in historical scholarship in the last century, including the Annales School the increasing interdisciplinary trends in scholarship theory in historical practice including Marxism, post-modernism and gender history historical practice outside the academy. The volume offers a coherent set of chapters to support undergraduates, postgraduates and others interested in the historical processes that have shaped the discipline of history.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134546947
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Making History offers a fresh perspective on the study of the past. It is an exhaustive exploration of the practice of history, historical traditions and the theories that surround them. Discussing the development and growth of history as a discipline and of the profession of the historian, the book encompasses a huge diversity of influences, organized around the following themes: the professionalization of the discipline the most significant movements in historical scholarship in the last century, including the Annales School the increasing interdisciplinary trends in scholarship theory in historical practice including Marxism, post-modernism and gender history historical practice outside the academy. The volume offers a coherent set of chapters to support undergraduates, postgraduates and others interested in the historical processes that have shaped the discipline of history.