Roy Porter Forfatter
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The Penguin Social History of Britain: English Society in the Eighteenth Century (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered include - diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work and wages.
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Bodies Politic: Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650–1900 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A magisterial account of representations of the body in health, disease and death.
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Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Discusses about millennia of human ingenuity in the quest to cheat death. This book features various chapters that sum up one of these battlefields such as... Læs mere
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Flesh in the Age of Reason (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The culmination of a lifelong interest in the metaphysics of the body by the premier social historian of medicine. How did we come to a modern understanding of our bodies and souls? What were the breakthroughs that allowed human beings to see themselves in a new light?
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Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
For generations the traditional focus for those wishing to understand the roots of the modern world has been France on the eve of the... Læs mere
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London: A Social History (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Looking at urban history, this work balances statistics with the words of historians, diarists and novelists, poets and churchmen such as: Pepys, Boswell, Fielding, Walpole,... Læs mere
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Madness: A Brief History (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
What has it been like to be insane? How have the mad been treated? Is madness real or is it just a label? This fascinating story of madness reveals the radically different perceptions of madness and approaches to its treatment, from antiquity to the present day.
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Doctor of Society: Tom Beddoes and the Sick Trade in Late-Enlightenment England (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage)
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Doctor of Society: Tom Beddoes and the Sick Trade in Late-Enlightenment England (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage)
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The Making of Geology: Earth Science in Britain 1660–1815 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This book presents a detailed account of how the discipline of geology developed between the mid-seventeenth century and the early nineteenth century.
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