A Pictorial and Descriptive Guide to Bath
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Page : 328 pages
File Size : 35,80 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Bath (England)
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Page : 328 pages
File Size : 35,80 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Bath (England)
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Author : Ward, Lock & Co., Ltd (Londres)
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Page : 476 pages
File Size : 40,42 MB
Release : 1819
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Page : 452 pages
File Size : 27,16 MB
Release : 1931
Category : London (England)
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Author : Ward, Lock and Company, ltd
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Page : 482 pages
File Size : 41,24 MB
Release : 1904
Category : London (England)
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Page : 324 pages
File Size : 32,2 MB
Release : 1929
Category : Ripon (England)
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Author : Peter Borsay
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 23,91 MB
Release : 2000-07-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0191542105
This interdisciplinary study explores the evolution, structure, and uses of the image of Georgian Bath, from its genesis in the eighteenth century to its renaissance in the twentieth century. In recent decades there has been both a popular resurgence of interest in heritage and tradition, and a growing academic awareness of the power of imagery in shaping the lives of individuals and societies. There is perhaps no city in Britain so saturated in history and layered with historic imagery as Bath. It therefore provides an ideal case-study to investigate the dynamic fusion and impact of the forces of past and representation. The dominant perception of Bath today is that of a classical and particularly Georgian city. In this stimulating and scholarly study, Peter Borsay examines the construction and development of this image. Its principal components, biography and architecture, are explored, together with the media through which it was constructed and transmitted, as well as its commercial, social, political, and psychological uses. Dr Borsay concludes by relating the findings for Bath to current debates on towns, heritage, and the nature of history.
Author : Lock Ward (firm, publishers, London)
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Page : 322 pages
File Size : 16,77 MB
Release : 1933
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Author : Ward, Lock and co, ltd
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Page : 318 pages
File Size : 12,40 MB
Release : 1898
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Author : Anne Borsay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 23,55 MB
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0429832680
First published in 1999, this rewarding volume offers a close and systematic analysis of the General Infirmary at Bath, which was founded in 1739 to grant ‘lepers and cripples, and other indigent strangers’ access to the spa waters. Four main themes are pursued in order to locate the hospital within its economic, socio-cultural and political contexts: arrangements for management and finance under the conditions of a prospering commercial economy; the rewards and restrictions experienced by the physicians and surgeons who donated their professional services free of charge; and the constructions of an integrated social and political élite around the physical and moral rehabilitation of the sick poor. In this way, the example of Bath – a stylish resort whose visitors and residents exemplified the dynamic of fashionable philanthropy – is used to open up issues of significance to our understanding of Georgian Britain as a whole.
Author : Rowland Ward Ltd
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