High minds: the Victorians and the birth of modern Britain 9781446473825, 9781847946775, 1446473821

High Minds: The Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain 9781643139173, 9781643139180

An ambitious exploration of the making of the Victorian Age—and the Victorian mind—by a master historian. Britain in the

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Public relations and the making of modern Britain: Stephen Tallents and the birth of a progressive media profession 9781526129666

This book tells the story of how the unorthodox liberalism of the public sector svengali Stephen Tallents helped reshape

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Of Victorians and Vegetarians: The Vegetarian Movement in Nineteenth-century Britain 9780755696147, 9780857715265

Nineteenth-century Britain was one of the birthplaces of modern vegetarianism in the west, and was to become a reform mo

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Modern Muslim India and the Birth of Pakistan

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Freemasonry and the Birth of Modern Science 1592330649

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Victorians Against the Gallows: Capital Punishment and the Abolitionist Movement in Nineteenth-Century Britain 9780755698493, 9781848856943

By the time that Queen Victoria ascended the throne in 1837, the list of crimes liable to attract the death penalty had

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Bugs and the Victorians 9780300160031

In the wake of the Scientific Revolution, the impulse to name and classify the natural world accelerated, and insects pr

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Evolution and the Victorians: Science, Culture and Politics in Darwin’s Britain 9781441136091, 9781441130907, 9781474210645, 9781441187529

Charles Darwin’s discovery of evolution by natural selection was the greatest scientific discovery of all time. The publ

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The business of birth control: Contraception and commerce in Britain before the sexual revolution 9781526136299

This volume provides a significant new commercial perspective on contraception in modern Britain. It is the first book-l

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The Conquest of Death: Violence and the Birth of the Modern English State 9780300227864

A fresh and fascinating history of crime and violence in England through the office of the coroner In his fascinating

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