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A Strange Business

By: James Hamilton

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Britain in the nineteenth century saw a series of technological and social changes which continue to influence and direct us today. Its reactants were human genius, money and influence, its crucibles the streets and institutions, its catalyst time, its control the market. In this rich and fascinating book, James Hamilton investigates the vibrant exchange between culture and business in nineteenth-century Britain, which became a center for world commerce following the industrial revolution. He explores how art was made and paid for, the turns of fashion, and the new demands of a growing middle-class, prominent among whom were the artists themselves. While leading figures such as Turner, Constable, Landseer, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Dickens are players here, so too are the patrons, financiers, collectors and industrialists; publishers, entrepreneurs, and journalists; artists' suppliers, engravers, dealers and curators; hostesses, shopkeepers and brothel keepers; quacks, charlatans, and auctioneers. Hamilton brings them all vividly to life in this kaleidoscopic portrait of the business of culture in nineteenth-century Britain, and provides thrilling and original insights into the working lives of some of the era's most celebrated artists.

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Simon and Schuster

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1605988715

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9781605988719

History of Livingston County, New York

By: James Hadden Smith

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History of Livingston County, New York

By: James Hadden Smith

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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3385427665

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9783385427662

Locations of the Sacred

Essays on Religion, Literature, and Canadian Culture

By: William Closson James

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Locations of the Sacred

Essays on Religion, Literature, and Canadian Culture

By: William Closson James

Where do Canadians encounter religious meaning? Not where they used to! In ten lively and wide-ranging essays, William Closson James examines various derivations of the sacred in contemporary Canadian culture. Most of the essays focus on the religious aspects of modern Canadian English fiction — for example, in essays on the fiction of Hugh MacLennan, Morley Callaghan, Margaret Atwood and Joy Kogawa. But James also explores other, non-literary events and activities in which Canadians have found something transcendant or revelatory. Each of the chapters in Locations of the Sacred can be read independently as a discrete analysis of its subject. Taken as a whole, the essays make up a powerful argument for a new way of looking at the religious in contemporary Canada — not in the traditional ways of being religious, but in activities and locations previously thought to be “secular.” Thus, the domains and modes of the religious are expanded, not restricted.

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289

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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0889207577

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9780889207578

Mercy and British Culture, 1760-1960

By: James Gregory

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Mercy and British Culture, 1760-1960

By: James Gregory

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.

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288

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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135014259X

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9781350142596

Kenneth Clark

Life, Art and Civilisation

By: James Stourton

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Kenneth Clark

Life, Art and Civilisation

By: James Stourton

The definitive biography of this brilliant polymath--director of the National Gallery, author, patron of the arts, social lion, and singular pioneer of television--that also tells the story of the arts in the twentieth century through his astonishing life. Kenneth Clark's thirteen-part 1969 television series, Civilisation, established him as a globally admired figure. Clark was prescient in making this series: the upheavals of the century, the Cold War among others, convinced him of the power of barbarism and the fragility of culture. He would burnish his image with two memoirs that artfully omitted the more complicated details of his life. Now, drawing on a vast, previously unseen archive, James Stourton reveals the formidable intellect and the private man behind the figure who effortlessly dominated the art world for more than half a century: his privileged upbringing, his interest in art history beginning at Oxford, his remarkable early successes. At 27 he was keeper of Western Art at the Ashmolean in Oxford and at 29, the youngest director of The National Gallery. During the war he arranged for its entire collection to be hidden in slate mines in Wales and organized packed concerts of classical music at the Gallery to keep up the spirits of Londoners during the bombing. WWII helped shape his belief that art should be brought to the widest audience, a social and moral position that would inform the rest of his career. Television became a means for this message when he was appointed the first chairman of the Independent Television Authority. Stourton reveals the tortuous state of his marriage during and after the war, his wife's alcoholism, and the aspects of his own nature that he worked to keep hidden. A superb work of biography, Kenneth Clark is a revelation of its remarkable subject.

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Vintage

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038535116X

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9780385351164

Death on the Barrens

A True Story of Courage and Tragedy in the Canadian Arctic

By: George James Grinnell

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Death on the Barrens

A True Story of Courage and Tragedy in the Canadian Arctic

By: George James Grinnell

Set in the remote arctic region of Northern Canada, this book takes readers on a harrowing canoe voyage that results in tragedy, redemption, and, ultimately, transformation. George Grinnell was one of six young men who set off on the 1955 expedition led by experienced wilderness canoeist Art Moffatt. Poorly planned and executed, the journey seemed doomed from the start. Ignoring the approaching winter, the men became entranced with the peace and beauty of the arctic in autumn. As winter closed in, they suddenly faced numbing cold and dwindling food. When the crew is swept over a waterfall, Moffatt is killed and most of the gear and emergency food supplies destroyed. Confronting freezing conditions and near starvation, the remaining crew struggled to make it back to civilization. For Grinnell, the three-month expedition was both a rite of passage and a spiritual odyssey. In the Barrens, he lost his sense of identity and what he had been conditioned to think about society and himself. Forever changed by the experience, he unsparingly describes how the expedition influenced his adult life and what powerful insights he was able to glean from this life-altering experience.

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297

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North Atlantic Books

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1556438826

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9781556438820

Material Towards: A Statistical Account of the Town and Island of Bombay

Vol. III

By: James MacNabb Campbell

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Material Towards: A Statistical Account of the Town and Island of Bombay

Vol. III

By: James MacNabb Campbell

Reprint of the original, first published in 1894.

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686

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3385315913

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9783385315914

The History of the Company, Part I Vol 1

Development of the Business Corporation, 1700-1914

By: Robin Pearson,James Taylor,Mark Freeman

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The History of the Company, Part I Vol 1

Development of the Business Corporation, 1700-1914

By: Robin Pearson,James Taylor,Mark Freeman

Exploring the changing economic, social and political role of the Anglo-American firm, this two-part collection of rare texts covers the period 1700-1850. Each part features an introduction which provides an overview of the development of the British and American business corporation in their respective periods and places it in its wider contexts.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040244351

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9781040244357

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A Strange Business

A Strange Business

History of Livingston County, New York

History of Livingston County, New York

Locations of the Sacred

Locations of the Sacred

Mercy and British Culture, 1760-1960

Mercy and British Culture, 1760-1960

Kenneth Clark

Kenneth Clark

Death on the Barrens

Death on the Barrens

Material Towards: A Statistical Account of the Town and Island of Bombay

Material Towards: A Statistical Account of the Town and Island of Bombay

The History of the Company, Part I Vol 1

The History of the Company, Part I Vol 1

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