Author: Robert Edward Myhill Peach
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bath (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Historic Houses in Bath, and Their Associations
Author: Robert Edward Myhill Peach
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bath (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bath (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
The Image of Georgian Bath 1700-2000
Author: Peter Borsay
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191542105
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
This interdisciplinary study explores the evolution, structure, and uses of the image of Georgian Bath, from its genesis in the eighteenth century to its renaissance in the twentieth century. In recent decades there has been both a popular resurgence of interest in heritage and tradition, and a growing academic awareness of the power of imagery in shaping the lives of individuals and societies. There is perhaps no city in Britain so saturated in history and layered with historic imagery as Bath. It therefore provides an ideal case-study to investigate the dynamic fusion and impact of the forces of past and representation. The dominant perception of Bath today is that of a classical and particularly Georgian city. In this stimulating and scholarly study, Peter Borsay examines the construction and development of this image. Its principal components, biography and architecture, are explored, together with the media through which it was constructed and transmitted, as well as its commercial, social, political, and psychological uses. Dr Borsay concludes by relating the findings for Bath to current debates on towns, heritage, and the nature of history.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191542105
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
This interdisciplinary study explores the evolution, structure, and uses of the image of Georgian Bath, from its genesis in the eighteenth century to its renaissance in the twentieth century. In recent decades there has been both a popular resurgence of interest in heritage and tradition, and a growing academic awareness of the power of imagery in shaping the lives of individuals and societies. There is perhaps no city in Britain so saturated in history and layered with historic imagery as Bath. It therefore provides an ideal case-study to investigate the dynamic fusion and impact of the forces of past and representation. The dominant perception of Bath today is that of a classical and particularly Georgian city. In this stimulating and scholarly study, Peter Borsay examines the construction and development of this image. Its principal components, biography and architecture, are explored, together with the media through which it was constructed and transmitted, as well as its commercial, social, political, and psychological uses. Dr Borsay concludes by relating the findings for Bath to current debates on towns, heritage, and the nature of history.
Medicine and Charity in Georgian Bath
Author: Anne Borsay
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429832680
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
First published in 1999, this rewarding volume offers a close and systematic analysis of the General Infirmary at Bath, which was founded in 1739 to grant ‘lepers and cripples, and other indigent strangers’ access to the spa waters. Four main themes are pursued in order to locate the hospital within its economic, socio-cultural and political contexts: arrangements for management and finance under the conditions of a prospering commercial economy; the rewards and restrictions experienced by the physicians and surgeons who donated their professional services free of charge; and the constructions of an integrated social and political élite around the physical and moral rehabilitation of the sick poor. In this way, the example of Bath – a stylish resort whose visitors and residents exemplified the dynamic of fashionable philanthropy – is used to open up issues of significance to our understanding of Georgian Britain as a whole.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429832680
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
First published in 1999, this rewarding volume offers a close and systematic analysis of the General Infirmary at Bath, which was founded in 1739 to grant ‘lepers and cripples, and other indigent strangers’ access to the spa waters. Four main themes are pursued in order to locate the hospital within its economic, socio-cultural and political contexts: arrangements for management and finance under the conditions of a prospering commercial economy; the rewards and restrictions experienced by the physicians and surgeons who donated their professional services free of charge; and the constructions of an integrated social and political élite around the physical and moral rehabilitation of the sick poor. In this way, the example of Bath – a stylish resort whose visitors and residents exemplified the dynamic of fashionable philanthropy – is used to open up issues of significance to our understanding of Georgian Britain as a whole.
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
Author: Royal Historical Society (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
"Transactions and publications of the Royal Historical Society" in each vol., ser. 4, v. 18-26.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
"Transactions and publications of the Royal Historical Society" in each vol., ser. 4, v. 18-26.
Life & Letters at Bath in the Xviijth Century
Author: Alfred Barbeau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bath (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bath (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Maggs Bros
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
A Bibliography of Philosophy. Being the Sections Relating to that Subject in The Best Books and The Reader's Guide
Author: William Swan Sonnenschein
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Classified Catalogue
Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 1124
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 1124
Book Description
The Best Books
Author: William Swan Sonnenschein
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 1124
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 1124
Book Description