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Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Collins Classics)
by Thomas HardyHarperCollins is pround to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.
The Three Musketeers: Classics Illustrated (Collins Classics)
by Alexandre DumasHarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
by Friedrich EngelsThe Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884), was a provocative and profoundly influential critique of the Victorian nuclear family. Engels argued that the traditional monogamous household was in fact a recent construct, closely bound up with capitalist societies. Under this patriarchal system, women were servants and, effectively, prostitutes. Only Communism would herald the dawn of communal living and a new sexual freedom and, in turn, the role of the state would become superfluous.
Cranford: Large Print (Collins Classics)
by Elizabeth GaskellHarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
The Woman in White: A Novel (part Two) And Short Stories: The Dead Alive; The Fatal Cradle; Fatal Fortune; Blow Up With The Brig (Collins Classics #Vol. 1)
by Wilkie CollinsHarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
The Mummy!: A Victorian Tale of the 22nd Century
by Jane Webb LoudonWithin a decade of the 1818 publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, another Englishwoman invented a foundational work of science fiction. Seventeen-year-old Jane Webb Loudon took up the theme of reanimation, moved it three hundred years into the future, and applied it to Cheops, an ancient Egyptian mummy. Unlike Shelley's horrifying, death-dealing monster, this revivified creature bears the wisdom of the ages and is eager to share his insights with humanity. Cheops boards a hot-air balloon and travels to 22nd-century England, where he sets about remedying the ills of a corrupt government.In recounting Cheops' attempts to put the futuristic society to rights, the young author offers a fascinating portrait of the preoccupations of her own era as well as some remarkably prescient predictions of technological advances. The Mummy! envisions a world in which automatons perform surgery, undersea tunnels connect England and Ireland, weather-control devices provide crop irrigation, and messages are transmitted with the speed of cannonball fire. The first novel to feature the concept of a living mummy, this pioneering tale offers an engaging mix of comedy, politics, and science fiction.
Vanity Fair: Official ITV tie-in edition
by William Makepeace ThackerayThe classic novel of 'villainy, crime, merriment, lovemaking, jilting, laughing, cheating, fighting and dancing', soon to be a major new ITV series from the producers of Poldark, Victoria and And Then There Were None.William Makepeace Thackeray's witty literary classic Vanity Fair is set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, and follows anti-heroine and ruthless social climber Becky Sharp as she attempts to claw her way out of poverty and scale the heights of English Society. Her story takes her all the way to the court of King George IV, via the Battle of Waterloo, breaking heart and fortunes as she goes.ITV's new adaptation of will be one of the biggest drama series of 2018: its script comes from BAFTA-nominated writer Gwyneth Hughes, the series is co-produced by leading production companies Mammoth Screen and Amazon Studios, and Olivia Cooke - star of Steven Spielberg's hit blockbuster Ready Player One - plays Thackeray's timeless heroine Becky Sharp.Read the book before you see the series, then devour it all over again.
The Moral and Physical Condition of the Working Classes Employed in the Cotton Manufacture of Manchester (Routledge Revivals)
by James Philips ShuttleworthThis book was originally published in 1832. Dr. James Philips Kay (later Sir James Kay Shuttleworth) studied medicine in Edinburgh and then began to practise in Manchester where he acquired a wide knowledge of working-class conditions and diseases. In 1831-2 he acted as secretary to the Manchester Board of Health which was set up to combat the threatened cholera epidemic, and it is thanks in part to the devoted labours of Kay and his colleagues that the epidemic in Manchester was less severe than in other cities. This vividly written pamphlet embodies the fruits of Kay Shuttleworth's experiences in the capital of the cotton kingdom. He describes the newly set up Boards of Health investigatings into the state of Manchester's poor, and enumerates the causes of their physical depression, with all its attendant moral degradation and predisposition to disease. As well as supplying statistics for pauperism, crime and mortality, Shuttleworth provides suggestions for improving working class conditions. This is the best known of all the literature produced about workers' ocnditions in the early nineteenth century, and is a work which has been widely quoted and used by both economic and social historians.
The Moral and Physical Condition of the Working Classes Employed in the Cotton Manufacture of Manchester (Routledge Revivals)
by James Philips ShuttleworthThis book was originally published in 1832. Dr. James Philips Kay (later Sir James Kay Shuttleworth) studied medicine in Edinburgh and then began to practise in Manchester where he acquired a wide knowledge of working-class conditions and diseases. In 1831-2 he acted as secretary to the Manchester Board of Health which was set up to combat the threatened cholera epidemic, and it is thanks in part to the devoted labours of Kay and his colleagues that the epidemic in Manchester was less severe than in other cities. This vividly written pamphlet embodies the fruits of Kay Shuttleworth's experiences in the capital of the cotton kingdom. He describes the newly set up Boards of Health investigatings into the state of Manchester's poor, and enumerates the causes of their physical depression, with all its attendant moral degradation and predisposition to disease. As well as supplying statistics for pauperism, crime and mortality, Shuttleworth provides suggestions for improving working class conditions. This is the best known of all the literature produced about workers' ocnditions in the early nineteenth century, and is a work which has been widely quoted and used by both economic and social historians.
Diverse Histories: A source book for teaching Black, Asian and minority ethnic histories at Key Stage 3, in association with The National Archives (The\johns Hopkins University Studies In Historical And Political Science Ser. #123)
by Clare Horrie Rachel HillmanThe ultimate resource for developing a diverse history curriculum in secondary schools.Exclusively based on historical sources from The National Archives, this book is an indispensable tool for history departments to diversify their Key Stage 3 curriculum and uncover important stories from British history that are often missing from textbooks.With downloadable sources, exciting lesson plans, activities and photocopiable resources, this is a must-have book for every humanities department in every secondary school. Allowing for a unique enquiry-based approach for teaching history, this is a flexible resource that will save teachers hours of searching for authentic sources online and ensure that students develop a diverse knowledge of British history.In addition to John Blanke, Euan Lucie-Smith, Princess Sophia Duleep Singh and the arrival of the Empire Windrush, students will learn about key figures and events in British history that don't always come up in history lessons. From Shapurji Saklatvala, one of the first people of Indian heritage to become an MP in Britain, to the British Black Power movement in the 1970s, Diverse Histories allows teachers to offer comprehensive and inclusive history lessons that both prepare students for their assessments and enrich their learning.
The Trials of Charles I
by Ian WardOne of the iconic moments in English history, the trial and execution of King Charles I has yet to be studied in-depth from a contemporary legal perspective. Professor Ian Ward brings his considerable legal and historical acumen to bear on the particular constitutional issues raised by the regicide of Charles, and not only analyses the unfolding of events and their immediate historical context, but also draws out their wider importance and legacy for the generations of historians, politicians, and writers over the ensuing three and a half centuries.This is a book about constitutional history and thought, but also about the writing of constitutional history and thought and the forms they have taken -whether as scholarship, polemics, or literary experiments - in collective British memory. Chapters range from the events leading up to and through the trial and execution of Charles; to their theatricality, legality, and constitutionality; to the political writings such as Milton's Tenure of Kings and Hobbes' Leviathan that followed; and finally trace the various subsequent histories and trials of Charles I that presented him either as martyr, Tory or -- in the 18th and 19th centuries -- the Whig.
Ueber die Existenz des Luft- und Wasserdrucks: In Beziehung zu den dagegen gemachten Einwürfen des Herrn Baron von Drieberg Ein Beitrag zur neueren Physik
by S. Sachs
Die Allgemeine Gewerbe-Ordnung vom 17. Januar 1845 und deren praktische Ausführung, namentlich mit Rücksicht auf die Innungs-Verhältnisse Berlins
by O. Th Risch
englische Tarifreform und ihre materiellen, sozialen und politischen Folgen für Europa
by John Prince-Smith
Geordnete Uebersicht der Verhandlungen des ersten Preussischen Vereinigten Landtages, gehalten in Berlin 1847
by A. Hofmann
Historische Entwickelung der taktischen Uebungen der Preußischen Infanterie
by Karl Rudolf von Ollech
The Foreign Political Press in Nineteenth-Century London: Politics from a Distance
by Constance Bantman Ana Cláudia da SilvaIn a period of turmoil when European and international politics were in constant reshaping, immigrants and political exiles living in London set up periodicals which contributed actively to national and international political debates. Reflecting an interdisciplinary and international discussion, this book offers a rare long-term specialist perspective into the cosmopolitan and multilingual world of the foreign political press in London, with an emphasis on periodicals published in European languages. It furthers current research into political exile, the role of print culture and personal networks as intercultural agents and the dynamics of transnational political and cultural exchange in global capitals. Individual chapters deal with Brazilian, French, German, Indian, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Spanish American, and Russian periodicals. Overarching themes include a historical survey of foreign political groups present in London throughout the long 19th century and the causes and movements they championed; analyses of the press in local and transnational contexts; and a focus on its actors and on the material conditions in which this press was created and disseminated. The Foreign Political Press in Nineteenth-Century London is a useful volume for students and academics with an interest in 19th-century politics or the history of the press.