Stone is one of the most beautiful, enduring building materials available. This book offers information on the basics, from tools to mortar and site preparation to pattern design. It features a selection of photographs and illustrations that show various steps of the 20 attractive projects.
Stone is one of the most beautiful, enduring building materials available. This book offers information on the basics, from tools to mortar and site preparation to pattern design. It features a selection of photographs and illustrations that show various steps of the 20 attractive projects.
Birthing the Nation analyses two intertwined narratives that shaped eighteenth-century British life: the development of the modern British state, and the emergence of the man-midwife as the pre-eminent authority over sex and childbirth. By exploring peculiar episodes in the history of the reproductive body and the body politic, from stories of pregnant men to rumours that a midwife had foisted a 'suppositious' child on the nation as the Prince of Wales, this original andprovocative work proposes how national, religious, ethnic, and gendered identities were experienced through and symbolized by birth and midwifery.
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