Roy 1946 2002 porter (10 Ergebnisse)

Reprint. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xvii, 541 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm. Subjects; London History. London Social life and customs. 1 Kg.…

Porter, Roy, 1946-2002. London, a social history. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1995, xv, 431pp., very good dust-jacket with nick at top of spine and a few along top edge, very good large green cloth, previous owner's neat Christmas gift inscription on half-title. This dazzling and yet intimate book is the first modern one-volume history of London from Roman times to the present. An extraordinary city, London grew from a backwater in the Classical age into an important medieval city, a significant Renaissance urban center, and a modern collossus. Roy Porter writes a whole life of this world-renowned place - from the grid streets and fortresses of Julius Caesar and William the Conqueror to the medieval, walled "most noble city" of churches, friars, and crown and town relationships. Within the crenellated battlements, manufactures and markets developed and street-life buzzed, enlivened with the cries of hawkers and peddlers. People worked, talked, haggled, and relaxed in London's medieval streets, while craftsmen lived where they worked, nestled trade-by-trade in neighborhoods. London's profile in 1500 was much as it was at the peak of Roman power.^, The city owed its courtly splendor and national pride of the Tudor Age to the phenomenal expansion of its capital. It was the envy of foreigners, the spur of civic patriotism, and a hub of culture, architecture, and great literature and new religion. Tudor Londoners had an insatiable appetite for new workshops, yards and stores, and comfortable homes; and makeshift quarters for laborers from rural areas began to dot the rising city. London experienced a cruel civil war, fires, enlightenment in thought, government, and living, and the struggle and benefits of empire from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. From the lament that "London was but is no more" to "you, who are to stand a wonder to all Years and ages . a phoenix," London became an elegant, eye-catching, metropolitan hub. It was a mosaic that represented the shared values of a people - both high and low born - at work and play. London was and is a wonder city, a marvel.^, Not since ancient times has there been such a city - not eternal, but vibrant, living, full of a free people ever evolving. As no one before him, Roy Porter captures the deep pulse of his hometown and makes it our own. London's fortunes, people, and imperial glory are recaptured with brio and wit. This is a transcendent book for all lovers of London, cities, and the habits and fortunes of peoples. - CONTENTS: 1. Introduction -- 2. Formation to Reformation -- 3. Tudor London -- 4. War, Plague and Fire -- 5. The Triumph of Town: From Restoration to Regency -- 6. Commercial City: 1650-1800 -- 7. Culture City: Life under the Georges -- 8. Capitalism in the Capital: The Victorian Age -- 9. 'The Contagion of Numbers': The Building of the Victorian Capital 1820-1890 -- 10. Bumbledom? London's Politics 1800-1890 -- 11. Social Problems, Social Improvement: 1820-1890 -- 12. Victorian Life -- 13. 'A Fungus-Like Growth': Expansion 1890-1945 -- 14. Modern Growth, Modern Government: 1890-1945 -- 15. Swinging London, Dangling Economy: 1945-1975 -- 16. Thatcher's London -- 17. Conclusion: The London Marathon. 9780674538382 ISBN 0674538382.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a fine, very slightly edge-bumped dust wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description: (328 pages) : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color). Subjects; 17th-19th centuries. Medicine Great Britain History ; Pictorial works. Physicians Great Britain History. Death Great Britain History ; Pictorial works. Diseases ; Pictorial works. Diseases Social aspects Great Britain History. Body Image. History of Medicine. 1 Kg.…

Second Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xxiv, 727 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects; 1700-1799 Enlightenment Great Britain. Social conditions. Enlightenment Europe. Great Britain History 18th century. Great Britain Social conditions 18th century. Great Britain Intellectual life 18th century. Europe Intellectual life 18th century. Genres; Bibliography. History. Illustrated. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original publisher's gilt-blocked aniline calf, edges very slightly toned. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Series; Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical series 0068-2306 ; v. 8. Physical description; 157 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographic references. Contents; Includes a transcript of Hobbs' manuscript. Subjects; Hobbs, William. 18th century. Earth sciences - History - 18th century. Earth - Early works to 1800. Earth sciences - Early works to 1800. Earth (Planet) - Early works to 1800. Earth - - Early works. Geology. Tides. Hobbs, William. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated. 1 Kg.…

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: xii, 415 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-397) and index. Contents: pt. I. From the Restoration to Victoria -- Introduction: Histories of Sex. 1. Contexts: from the Restoration to the Accession of Queen Victoria. 2. Medical Folklore in High and Low Culture: Aristotle's Master-Piece. 3. Doctors and the Medicalization of Sex in the Enlightenment. 4. Masturbation in the Enlightenment: Knowledge and Anxiety. 5. Quackery and Erotica -- pt. II. The Victorians and Beyond -- Introduction: Towards Victoria. 6. The Victorian Polyphony, 1850-85. 7. From the Primeval Protozoa to the Laboratory: the Evolution of Sexual Science from 1889 to the 1930s. 8. The Authority of Individual Experience and the Opinions of Experts: Sex as a Social Science. 9. 'Good Sex': the New Rhetoric of Conjugal Relations. 10. Public Faces in Private Places: Sex, Law, Politics and Pressure Groups. 11. Silent Stares, Smut, Censorship and Surgical Stores: the Makings of Popular Sexual Knowledges. Subjects: Sexology Great Britain History; Sex instruction literature Great Britain History; Sex instruction literature Great Britain History; Sex Education history; Sex Manuals; Sex instruction literature; Sexology; Sex history; Sex Education history; Sexology History; Sex; Sexuality; Social History. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Provenance: From the library of Eric George Hatfield Moody with his personalized bookplate to front pastedown.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 328 pages; Physical description. : 328 p. : ill. (some col. ), facsims. (some col. ), ports. Subject: Physicians - Great Britain - History - Pictorial works. Medicine - Great Britain - History - Pictorial works. Death - Great Britain - History - Pictorial works. Medicine - Great Britain - Pictorial works - History. Medical personnel - Great Britain - Pictorial works - History. Summary: In a historical tour de force, Roy Porter takes a critical look at representations of the body in death, disease and health, and at images of the healing arts in Britain from the mid-seventeenth to the twentieth century. Porter's key assumptions are that the human body is the chief signifier and communicator of all manner of meanings religious, moral, political and medical and that pre-scientific medicine was an art which depended heavily on ritual, rhetoric and theatre. Porter argues that great symbolic weight was attached to contrasting conceptions of the healthy and diseased body, and that such ideas were mapped onto antithetical notions of the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly. With these images in mind, he explores aspects of being ill alongside the practice of medicine, paying special attention to self-presentations by physicians, surgeons and quacks, and to changes in practitioners' public identities over time. Porter also examines the wider symbolic meanings of disease and doctoring and the 'body politic'. Porter's book is packed with outrageous and amusing anecdotes portraying diseased bodies and medical practitioners alike. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; xii, 275 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; First published 1981. Contents; The Enlightenment in England / by Roy Porter -- The Scottish Enlightenment / by Nicholas Phillipson -- The Enlightenment in France / by Norman Hampson -- The Enlightenment in the Netherlands / by Simon Schama -- The Enlightenment in Switzerland / by Samuel S.B. Taylor -- The Italian Enlightenment / by Owen Chadwick -- The Protestant Enlightenment in Germany / by Joachim Whaley -- The Enlightenment in Catholic Germany / by T.C.W. Blanning -- Reform Catholicism and political radicalism in the Austrian Enlightenment / by Ernst Wangermann -- Bohemia: from darkness into light / by Mikulá Teich -- The Enlightenment in Sweden / by Tore Frängsmyr -- The Russian Enlightenment / by Paul Dukes -- Enlightenment and the politics of American nature / by J.R. Pole. Subjects; Enlightenment. Europe. Intellectual life. 18th century. Europe. History. 18th century. Philosophy, Modern. 18th century. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. 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.

Hardcover. Reprinted. Octavo, Two volumes. In Very Good condition. Spines are brown with white print. Boards in brown paper, white print. CONTENTS: Vol. 1. (ISBN 041509226) xxvi, 778 pages - Vol. 2. (ISBN 0415092434) paged x, 783-1806. [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates]. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, ND-HV Section. 1415264. FP New Rockville Stock.…