The Farington Diary, [1793-1821]
Author : Joseph Farington
Publisher :
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 39,38 MB
Release : 1802
Category : Artists
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Author : Joseph Farington
Publisher :
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 39,38 MB
Release : 1802
Category : Artists
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Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 35,74 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780521530613
The essays in this volume provide an unusual historical perspective on the experience of illness: they try to reconstruct what being ill (from a minor ailment to fatal sickness) was like in pre-industrial society from the point of view of the sufferers themselves. The authors examine the meanings that were attached to sickness; popular medical beliefs and practices; the diffusion of popular medical knowledge; and the relations between patients and their doctors (both professional and 'fringe') seen from the patients' point of view. This is an important work, for illness and death dominated life in earlier societies to an enormous degree. Yet almost no studies of this kind have ever been carried out before, practically all previous treatments having been written from the traditional point of view of the doctor, the hospital, or medical science. It will accordingly interest a wide range of readers interested in social history as well as the history of medicine itself.
Author : William Beckford
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 36,1 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Europe
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Author : William Beckford
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 18,38 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Europe
ISBN :
Author : Shanshan Chen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 12,78 MB
Release : 2023-04-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9819911605
This book examines how the Embassy members approached, selected, and represented information, and how, in doing so, they helped to shape European perceptions of China. The Macartney Embassy of 1793 was the first British diplomatic mission to China, seeking to open ties between the two empires. As part of the mission, the British government commissioned writers and artists to chronicle the geography and culture of a civilization that had, until then, been shrouded in mystery. A central focus of the book is the artwork itself, which provides a window into the diplomatic, artistic and scientific viewpoints underlying the mission. Drawing on archival research, the study recreates the processes through which the Embassy’s draughtsmen, scientists, and diplomats collaborated to represent the visual images, and how the materials were reworked for publication in London. The finished product demonstrates that the artists offered a distinct viewpoint in the representation of China, sometimes differing from the textual accounts, by blending scientific elements and artistic aesthetics in order to demystify China and make it more knowable to a British audience. It was in the interposition of text and image that the British public formulated an ambivalent perception of China that embraced both admiration and disdain. In addition to the scholars, the book targets general readers who are interested in global art and history, and East–West interactions. It contains important images with detailed visual and historical analysis that enable readers to acquire knowledge on how the British represented China and how that image helped to shape the European perception of China during the British global expansion in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and beyond.
Author : Irvine Loudon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 14,42 MB
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198227939
This study is concerned not with famous doctors, but with the rank and file practitioners of the 18th and 19th centuries. Some common assumptions about the history of the medical profession are challenged in this book, based largely on manuscript sources.
Author : B.H. Blackwell Ltd
Publisher :
Page : 1388 pages
File Size : 12,17 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
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Author : S. Maccoby
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 42,47 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415265720
This is volume 2 of the set ^English Radicalism (1935-1961). Reissuing the epic undertaking of Dr S. Maccoby, these volumes cover the story of English Radicalism from its origins right through to its questionable end. By Combining new sources with the old and often long forgotten, the volumes provide an impressive history of radicalism and shed light on the course of English political development. The six volumes are arranged chronologically from 1762 through to the perceived end of British Radicalism in the mid-twentieth century.
Author : S. Maccoby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 16,28 MB
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 113644940X
This is volume 2 of the set ^English Radicalism (1935-1961). Reissuing the epic undertaking of Dr S. Maccoby, these volumes cover the story of English Radicalism from its origins right through to its questionable end. By Combining new sources with the old and often long forgotten, the volumes provide an impressive history of radicalism and shed light on the course of English political development. The six volumes are arranged chronologically from 1762 through to the perceived end of British Radicalism in the mid-twentieth century.
Author : Robert A. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 19,51 MB
Release : 2004-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521528641
A guide to historical literature on England between 1760 and 1837, emphasising more recent work.