The Emergence of Football: Sport, Culture and Society in the Nineteenth Century 1351334034, 9781351334037

Spain in the nineteenth century: New essays on experiences of culture and society 9781526124753

Confronted by a complex new society, nineteenth-century Spaniards wrestled with how to envisage their lives. From trying

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Sport as Social Policy: Midnight Football and the Governing of Society 1032124776, 9781032124773

This book analyses the increasing use of sport in European and Western welfare states as a tool of social policy and its

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Lamarckism and the Emergence of 'Scientific' Social Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France 3031527569, 9783031527562

The book presents an original synthesizing framework on the relations between ‘the biological’ and ‘the social’. Within

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Lamarckism and the Emergence of 'Scientific' Social Sciences in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France 3031527569, 9783031527562

The book presents an original synthesizing framework on the relations between ‘the biological’ and ‘the social’. Within

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Desire and Excess: The Nineteenth-Century Culture of Art 9780691049144

In this fascinating look at the creative power of institutions, Jonah Siegel explores the rise of the modern idea of the

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The emergence of Latin America in the nineteenth century 9780195084023, 9780195084016

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Peak Pursuits: The Emergence of Mountaineering in the Nineteenth Century 9780300252828

An interdisciplinary cultural history of exploration and mountaineering in the nineteenth century

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The Emergence of the English Native Speaker: A Chapter in Nineteenth-Century Linguistic Thought 9781614511052, 9781614511403

The native speaker is one of the central but at the same time most controversial concepts of modern linguistics. With re

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The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America 0226327205, 9780226327204

Americans commonly recognize television, e-mail, and instant messaging as agents of pervasive cultural change. But many

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The Grateful Slave: The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture 9780521885713

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