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A follow-up volume to "Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor", which was published to accompany the critically acclaimed exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum in October 2007. More

Addressing epistemological questions about embodiment and perception, author Tara Pedersen furthers research about early modern theatrical culture by focusing on under-theorized representations of mermaids in English locations and texts. More

This is an economic, social and cultural analysis of the nature and variety of production and consumption acitivities in households in the counties of Kent and Cornwall. More

…everything most people needed was locally made and sold in locally owned stores. Patent medicines, bicycles, motorcycles, and even automobiles were added to the list of products made in Massachusetts. This work pays tribute to the state's manufacturing enterprises during their period of prominence. More

This book explains the literary history of Scotland in the early modern period (1560-1625) through the investigation of manuscript production, arguing that scottish Renaissance manuscript culture was far more colourful than is generally understood. More

This book explains the literary history of Scotland in the early modern period (1560-1625) through the investigation of manuscript production, arguing that scottish Renaissance manuscript culture was far more colourful than is generally understood. More

This is a study of one of the most widely read publications of 19th century Britain, the London Journal. Treating the magazine as a case study, the book maps the Victorian mass market periodical in general and provides both new bibliographical and theoretical knowledge of this area. More

Holy Scripture Speaks reveals the rich complexity of the literary, theological, and cultural dimensions of Erasmus' Paraphrases on the New Testament and indicates future directions that research in this area should take. More

The history of an entrepreneurial family whose work influenced followers of the Arts and Crafts Movement, Gothic Revivalism, Art Needlework and Aestheticism More

This volume covers both the public and private contracting of martial arms in the Commonwealth of Virginia, c 1660 to 1865. More

This book explores the connections between culture, economy and built environment in cities during the period 1840-1930, focusing principally on London, New York and Toronto. It discusses both the cultural experience of modernity and the material modernization of cities, as well as the gendered… More

The development of toys in late nineteenth century Germany represents a valuable tool for understanding the influence of consumerism on Wilhelmine society. Through the lenses of producers, distributors, retailers, consumers and pedagogues, this work explores how this industry helped to lead the way… More

Part one of a three-volume work, this text studies the Hotel Guenegaud, the first home of the Paris Opera in 1670 and the first home of the Comedie Francaise ten years later. All quotations from French sources are given in English translation. More

…Yet, as the essays in this collection make clear, the term 'luxury' is one that can be fraught with difficulties for historians. Focusing upon the consumption, commercialisation and production of luxury textiles in Italy and the Low Countries during the late medieval and early modern period, More

Small beginnings in 1822, followed by dramatic action by entrepreneurs and workers, saw the rapid expansion of the Birmingham steel pen trade to world centre status. This graphic account traces an intriguing and dramatic reduction of the trade, accelerated by the invention of the biro in 1938. More

Performance Anxiety analyses the efforts of German elites, from 1890 to 1945, to raise the productivity and psychological performance of workers through the promotion of mass sports. More

In this book, Ulbe Bosma details how the British and Dutch introduced the sugar plantation model in Asia around 1800, when abolitionist campaigns in the Caribbean began, and refashioned it over time. Previously, European markets had almost exclusively relied on Caribbean sugar produced by slave… More

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This landmark study of family relations in a village in southern Germany is the product of deep reflection on anthropological approaches to historical problems. More

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, a profound change swept across Britain. The rapid advance of technology increased industrial productivity to a level previously unimaginable. To support this technology, people flocked from the countryside into the cities to take jobs in the factories. This… More

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How advertising and product packaging have kept women in the kitchen. More

Part social history and part design catalogue, this innovative book delves into the sinister history of 19th-century wallpaper. More

By viewing Taiwan-China relations as a product of the history of Qing expansionism, the author contributes to our understanding of several political events in the region. More

The Revolution was the product of social tensions that developed throughout France in the second half of the 18th century. Hampson analyzes the nature of these social conflicts within their political framework. More

This book demonstrates that the defining features of nineteenth-century electoral politics were the product of institutions in the states that prescribed how votes were cast and how those votes were converted into political offices. More

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Illustrating that product marketing, patent litigation, and even ghostwriting pervaded natural history and medicine - the "big sciences" of the early modern era, this book argues that the growth of global trade during the Dutch Golden Age gave rise to an entrepreneurial network of transnational… More

Eighteenth-century British culture is often seen as polite and sentimental - the product of an emerging middle class. This title uncovers a strain of cruelty coursing through the period that reminds us just how slowly ordinary sufferings became worthy of sympathy. It expands our understanding of… More

This edited collection is the product of a National Research Working Group (NRWG) established by Said Adejumobi and supported by the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA). It analyzes the progress made in Nigeria since the return to democratic rule in 1999 and the prospects of democratic… More

Traditionally Dutch art is seen and presented as a coherent phenomenon-the product of state formation in the late 16th century. Elisabeth de Bievre challenges this view and its assumptions in a radical new account. Arguing that the Dutch Golden Age was far from unified, de Bievre exposes how… More

…shows how sectarianism was a manifestation of modernity that transcended the physical boundaries of a particular country. It challenges those who have viewed sectarian violence as an Islamic response to westernization or simply as a product of social and economic inequities among religious groups. More

This text looks at the Ben Bowen phenomenon as a product both of his view of himself as a great poet and a Wales that fed that assumption. It traces his escape from a miner's life in the Rhondda, his stay in South Africa, his talent for controversy and his growing awareness of his early death. More

Born in 1533, the product of the doomed marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth was heir to her father's title, then disinherited and finally imprisoned her half sister Mary. Many tried to use her for their own ends, however she rose out of the shadows and on the death of her sister, she… More

Sunderland is largely a product of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when coalmining and shipbuilding fuelled rapid expansion and development. Once known as the `largest shipbuilding town in the world', Sunderland's proud and distinctive identity is embodied in its historic buildings and in… More

…and Civil War veterans of both sidesathey may have been the deadliest collection of shooters to ever hit the trail. This is the most detailed work ever produced on the obscure legend of the 1874 Yellowstone Wagon Road Prospecting Expedition in the Montana Territoryathe product of multi-year re More

The first biography to appear in more than a generation on the most influential Tejano leader of the nineteenth century, this fills one of the most glaring gaps in the current historical literature on Texas. The product of a lifetime of research, this is the definitive treatment of Navarro's life. More

As much as the nineteenth and early twentieth century gardens and their designs were a product and representation of industrialization and urbanization, they were also motors of change. Gardens became an industry in and of themselves. They were both the last resting places of the dead and cultivated… More

…Brown is often thought of as an innovative genius who single-handedly pioneered a new, 'naturalistic' style of landscape design. Illustrated with over 120 images, this beautiful book shows that Brown's style, like the organization of his business, was the product of a distinctly modern world. More

The Army of Louis XIV is frequently depicted as being the apogee of the early modern standing army. It was large, well organised and the product of the French Absolutist Monarchy. The result was the creation of an entirely original instrument of war unlike any other European armies. More

Enticing, eye catching, and artistic, the graphic art of product labels from years past also offers clues to understanding the contemporary culture and ways of life of everyday consumers. Here is a showcase of remarkable packaging and advertising art created from 1890 through 1976, primarily in… More

Reinterprets the rise of giant corporations, especially International Harvester Corporation (IHC), arguing that mass production was achieved in Chicago in the 1880s, where unprecedented urban growth made possible a break with the constraints felt elsewhere in the dispersed production system. More

The first comprehensive history of late medieval printmaking, which transformed image production and led to profound changes in Western culture More

This book contains expansive, multifaceted narrative of British women's literary and textual production from the Reformation to the Restoration. More

Sketches on the Shores of the Caspian is the product of the author's journey through the Caspian region as part of an expedition headed by his cousin James Brant, the British Consul at Erzeroum. Holmes provides a wonderfully intimate portrait of the country. Written in a very accessible style it… More

Based on original research from Charles Urban's own papers, this is the first biography of this influential film maker and innovator. A historical study of the development of the non-fiction film in Britain and America in the early years of cinema. Winner of the Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book… More

Based on new research this fascinating book draws together a group of works from public and private collections to examine, for the first time, the relationship that Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88) had with the theatrical world and the most celebrated stage artists of his day, such as James Quin,… More

This biography, written by the subject's daughter, brings to life the details of existence on a southern tobacco farm in 20th-century America. Courtship, birth, death, tragedy, planting, the rigors of survival during the Great Depression, are all told in an authentic southern voice. More

Students of the American Civil War will welcome this fresh study of military-industrial production and procurement on the home front-long an obscure topic. More

The first dedicated study of how and why Irish consumption and production customs dramatically transformed after the famine and independence -- . More

A social history of poverty in Mexico City, based on a study of a poorhouse designed to incarcerate and train "deserving" beggars to be productive and responsible citizens. More

In The Queen's Library, Cynthia J. Brown examines the cultural issues surrounding female modes of empowerment and book production in late medieval and early Renaissance France. More

Labors Lost offers a fascinating and wide-ranging account of working women's behind-the-scenes and hitherto unacknowledged contributions to theatrical production in Shakespeare's time. More

Opens up significant paths for conversation about how musical concepts, practices and products were shaped by interrelationships between culture and commerce. More

Considering silk as a major force of cross-cultural interaction, this book examines the integration of silk production and consumption into various cultures in the pre-modern world. More

Writing at Russia's Border upends popular ideas of national cultural production and is a fascinating study of the social implications of nineteenth-century Russian literature. More

A social history of poverty in Mexico City, based on a study of a poorhouse designed to incarcerate and train "deserving" beggars to be productive and responsible citizens. More

A presentation of research on the small-scale bronze production of the Renaissance. The contributors analyze the production and collecting of small bronze sculptures from the 15th to the early-17th century in both Italy and the North, and offer assessments and attributions of these works of art. More

…industry from its inception in the 1870s. This book presents the fundamental geology of the two main producing basins (Volga-Ural and West Siberia) along with a review of key production technologies. It describes the technical, economic, and policy aspects of achieving the 1987-88 peak production. More

Since the production of the first negative by William Henry Fox Talbot 1835, English photography has played a central role in revolutionizing the production of images, yet has largely evaded critical attention. Edwards investigates this new enterprise, and specifically how professional photographers… More