L. perry curtis (18 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: New. This richly illustrated pamphlet seeks to contextualize the mass evictions by focussing on the ideological and economic factors as well as the role of religious and racial prejudice in prompting owners to rid their estates of what was known as a "surplus population." Num Pages: 44 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JFFC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 283 x 231 x 5. Weight in Grams: 250. . 2015. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 43 pages. 11.25x9.25x0.25 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

hardcover. Zustand: near fine. very good(-). Black & white illustrations. small slim 4to, green cloth, d.w. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1971. First Edition. A near fine copy in a very good(-) dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Dust jacket in good condition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Foxing on the edges. Notations made on a few pages. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

VG orig. cream canvas in price-clipped illus. dj. xvi, 114 p.; front. (bustof Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle, by Isaac Gosset); 23.5 cm. OnWhig preferment in 1741 From the front jacket flap: Intrigue, humor, and illuminating insights into the social structure of eighteenth-century Englandare entwined in this engaging work of historical craftsmanship.The essenceof the story unfolded in Chichester Towers is simple: a certain archdeaconwho was offered a deanery inan English cathedral wrote a letter stating why he should decline the offer. Reading the letter, then pursuing its implications, is like tossing a pebble into a pool and watching the ever-wideningrings on the surface of the water. A contested by-election for the countyof Sussex is going on at the same time. That most famous of borough-mongers, the Duke of Newcastle, happens to be directing the electoral campaign inSussex for Sir Robert Walpole's declining administration and on that account, no less than for the Whig cause in general, has offered the vacant deanery to a master wirepuller, the Rev. Thomas Ball, Archdeacon of Chichester.In tracking down the personalities and machinations that lie implicit in the letter, Mr. Curtis soon fills the stage with a galaxy of characters who act out a historical comedy of almost inconceivable complexity. Two meaningsreveal themselves as intimately associated: the story illustrates what used to be known as the alliance between church and state; and it suggests thedegree to which ecclesiastical politics were subordinated to the secular needs of the state. The author mirrors eighteenth-century English society, revealing fascinating aspects of the structure of social subordination and political gamesmanship. Inherently the story has a timeless significance. 1st edition. Binding is Hardcover.…

cloth, 8vo x+145 pp. 6 essays by different authors; very good condition.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ireland's Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University publishes the Famine Folios, a unique resource for students, scholars and researchers, as well as general readers, covering many aspects of the Famine in Ireland from 1845-1852--the worst demographic catastrophe of nineteenth-century Europe. The essays are interdisciplinary in nature, and make available new research in Famine studies by internationally established scholars in history, art history, cultural theory, philosophy, media history, political economy, literature and music.During the peak years of the great famine at least 750,000 men, women, and children died from either starvation or disease. At the same time roughly 350,000 individuals were driven out of their dwellings. Overall the population of Ireland fell from some 8.5 million people in 1845 to around 6.5 million in 1851. This ominous drain of humanity continued at a slower rate well into the twentieth century. Whereas nature could be blamed for the lethal effects of acute hunger or malnutrition, human agency caused much of this devastating loss owing to mass evictions of the poorest tenants and squatters after the agent or bailiff had served them with the dreaded Notice To Quit.This richly illustrated pamphlet contextualizes the mass evictions by focusing on the ideological and economic factors as well as the role of religious and racial prejudice in prompting owners to rid their estates of what was known as a 'surplus population.' Determined to avoid paying for the maintenance of unprofitable tenants and squatters, landlords sought to avoid insolvency by expelling these pauperized peasants. After destroying their cabins, they consolidated all these small holdings into larger farms or cattle ranches that were rented to solvent tenants. Relying on the laws governing land tenure, letting contracts, and rent, these landlords used the mechanism of eviction to ensure that their estates would become profitable enough to pay for their own privileged way of life.Whether or not the victims of eviction received private or public assistance to emigrate overseas, the results of these clearances were much the same. Thousands of acres were converted to pasturage in parts of Munster and Connaught and small villages or clachans were abandoned. Only the skeletal remains of stone cottages remained--some of which can still be seen today. No wonder that many Irish contemporaries called the evictors 'exterminators.'.…

Hardcover. 8vo. Pp: viii, 354. First Edition First Printing. Publisher's colour-illustrated dust jacket with red and white lettering. Publisher's black boards lettered in copper at spine. Black and white illustrations.ISBN: 9780300088724 Very good. Instances of pencil underlining and marginalia throughout. Head of spine a little crumpled.…

Hardcover. 8vo. pp xi, 126. Green dust jacket illustrated and lettered in white and green. Publisher's green buckram lettered in gilt at spine. Illustrated in black and white throughout. ISBN: 0874741076 Very good indeed, a little rubbed at spine ends. In good, price-clipped dust jacket, with surface rubbing, creases and chipping at spine ends.…

Zustand: New. This richly illustrated pamphlet seeks to contextualize the mass evictions by focussing on the ideological and economic factors as well as the role of religious and racial prejudice in prompting owners to rid their estates of what was known as a surplus po.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Excellent used condition hardcover. Unclipped jacket showing light edge wear. Unmarked text. Ships from Berlin bookshop bxn79.

Zustand: New. In English.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Press coverage of the 1888 mutilation murders attributed to Jack the Ripper was of necessity filled with gaps and silences, for the killer remained unknown and Victorian journalists had little experience reporting serial murders and sex crimes. This engrossing book examines how fourteen London newspapers--dailies and weeklies, highbrow and lowbrow--presented the Ripper news, in the process revealing much about the social, political, and sexual anxieties of late Victorian Britain and the role of journalists in reinforcing social norms. L. Perry Curtis surveys the mass newspaper culture of the era, delving into the nature of sensationalism and the conventions of domestic murder news. Analyzing the fourteen newspapers--two of which emanated from the East End, where the murders took place--he shows how journalists played on the fears of readers about law and order by dwelling on lethal violence rather than sex, offering gruesome details about knife injuries but often withholding some of the more intimate details of the pelvic mutilations. He also considers how the Ripper news affected public perceptions of social conditions in Whitechapel.…

1st ed. - With index. - Cloth, fine.