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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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Mumford Memoirs
James Gregory Mumford
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R912
Discovery Miles 9 120
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Spanning over 2 centuries, James Gregory's Mercy and British
Culture, 1760 -1960 provides a wide-reaching yet detailed overview
of the concept of mercy in British cultural history. While there
are many histories of justice and punishment, mercy has been a
neglected element despite recognition as an important feature of
the 18th-century criminal code. Mercy and British Culture,
1760-1960 looks first at mercy's religious and philosophical
aspects, its cultural representations and its embodiment. It then
looks at large-scale mobilisation of mercy discourses in Ireland,
during the French Revolution, in the British empire, and in warfare
from the American war of independence to the First World War. This
study concludes by examining mercy's place in a twentieth century
shaped by total war, atomic bomb, and decolonisation.
In the first detailed study of its kind, James Gregory's book takes
a historical approach to mercy by focusing on widespread and varied
discussions about the quality, virtue or feeling of mercy in the
British world during Victoria’s reign. Gregory covers an
impressive range of themes from the gendered discourses of
‘emotional’ appeal surrounding Queen Victoria to the exercise
and withholding of royal mercy in the wake of colonial rebellion
throughout the British empire. Against the backdrop of major events
and their historical significance, a masterful synthesis of rich
source material is analysed, including visual depictions (paintings
and cartoons in periodicals and popular literature) and literary
ones (in sermons, novels, plays and poetry). Gregory’s
sophisticated analysis of the multiple meanings, uses and
operations of royal mercy duly emphasise its significance as a
major theme in British cultural history during the ‘long 19th
century’. This will be essential reading for those interested in
the history of mercy, the history of gender, British social and
cultural history and the legacy of Queen Victoria’s reign.
Put On Your Boots and Go is a collection of four stories that span
over 30 years of traipsing around in the backcountry. The love of
the outdoors permeates these stories of decades-old friendships,
miles and miles of trails walked, and shared challenges and
accomplishments, both on and off the trail.
The growing demand for social housing is one of the most pressing
public issues in the UK today, and this book analyses its role and
impact. Anchored in a discussion of different approaches to the
meaning and measurement of wellbeing, the author explores how these
perspectives influence our views of the meaning, value and purpose
of social housing in today's welfare state. The closing arguments
of the book suggest a more universalist approach to social housing,
designed to meet the common needs of a wide range of households,
with diverse socioeconomic characteristics, but all sharing the
same equality of social status.
28 Dog Years is a reminiscence of another time and place. Set in
the Mississippi Delta in the late 1950's and early 1960's, it is
the story of a young boy, his grandparents, and the homely little
dog that they all loved.
This volume examines the nineteenth century not only through
episodes, institutions, sites and representations concerned with
union, concord and bonds of sympathy, but also through moments of
secession, separation, discord and disjunction. Its lens extends
from the local and regional, through to national and international
settings in Britain, Europe and the United States. The contributors
come from the fields of cultural history, literary studies,
American studies and legal history.
The growing demand for social housing is one of the most pressing
public issues in the UK today, and this book analyses its role and
impact. Anchored in a discussion of different approaches to the
meaning and measurement of wellbeing, the author explores how these
perspectives influence our views of the meaning, value and purpose
of social housing in today's welfare state. The closing arguments
of the book suggest a more universalist approach to social housing,
designed to meet the common needs of a wide range of households,
with diverse socioeconomic characteristics, but all sharing the
same equality of social status.
This volume examines the nineteenth century not only through
episodes, institutions, sites and representations concerned with
union, concord and bonds of sympathy, but also through moments of
secession, separation, discord and disjunction. Its lens extends
from the local and regional, through to national and international
settings in Britain, Europe and the United States. The contributors
come from the fields of cultural history, literary studies,
American studies and legal history.
This volume concerns judges, judgment and judgmentalism. It studies
the Victorians as judges across a range of important fields,
including the legal and aesthetic spheres, and within literature.
It examines how various specialist forms of judgment were conceived
and operated, and how the propensity to be judgmental was viewed.
Nineteenth-century Britain was one of the birthplaces of modern
vegetarianism in the west, and was to become a reform movement
attracting thousands of people. From the Vegetarian Society's
foundation in 1847, men, women and their families abandoned
conventional diet for reasons as varied as self-advancement,
personal thrift, dissatisfaction with medical orthodoxy and
repugnance for animal cruelty. They joined in the pursuit of a
perfect society in which food reform combined with causes such as
socialism and land reform, stimulated by the concern that
carnivorism was in league with alcoholism and bellicosity. James
Gregory provides a rich exploration of the movement, with its often
colourful and sometimes eccentric leaders and grass-roots
supporters. He explores the rich culture of branch associations,
competing national societies, proliferating restaurants and food
stores and experiments in vegetarian farms and colonies. "Of
Victorians and Vegetarians" examines the wider significance of
Victorian vegetarians, embracing concerns about gender and class,
national identity, race and empire and religious authority.
Vegetarianism embodied the Victorians' complicated response to
modernity in its hostility to aspects of the industrial world's
exploitation of technology, rejecting entrepreneurial attempts to
create the foods and substitute artefacts of the future. Hostile,
like the associated anti-vivisectionists and anti-vaccinationists,
to a new 'priesthood' of scientists, vegetarians defended
themselves through the new sciences of nutrition and chemistry. "Of
Victorians and Vegetarians" uncovers who the vegetarians were, how
they attempted to convert their fellow Britons (and the world
beyond) to their 'bloodless diet' and the response of
contemporaries in a variety of media and genres. Through a close
study of the vegetarian periodicals and organisational archives,
extensive biographical research and a broader examination of texts
relating to food, dietary reform and allied reform movements, James
Gregory provides us with the first fascinating foray into the
impact of vegetarianism on the Victorians, the history of animal
welfare, reform movements and food history.
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