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The English House, 1860-1914: The Flowering of English Domestic Architecture

1 review
Gavin Stamp, Andr[5]e Goulancourt

University Of Chicago Press, 1986

Excellent period overview of English Domestic Architecture
Inspired by early 20th Century German arts/social commentator Herman Multheusius' classic work "Das Englishe Haus", this book provides an excellent overview of English Domestic Architecture during the arts & crafts period. From early examples of architects like Street and Butterfield, through William Morris, Webb, Shaw and later practitionerslike Voysey and Lutyens, it offers brief yet ...

European Imperialism, 1860-1914 (Studies in European History)
Andrew Porter

Palgrave Macmillan, 1996

This concise and penetrating study surveys the growth of European intervention in areas outside Europe between 1860 and 1914. Its subject is 'imperialism' as a process of increasing contact, influence, and control, rather than discussion of existing empires or the nature and consequences of colonial rule.

Russian Imperialism: The Interaction of Domestic and Foreign Policy, 1860-1914
Dietrich Geyer

Yale University Press, 1987

A fresh and stimulating analysis of the relationship between domestic and foreign policy in Russia before the First World War, now available in English for the first time. "By far the most perceptive, knowledgeable, and intelligent work on the last half century of imperial Russia in print."-Theodore H. Von Laue, Russian History "This important, tightly packed book . . . analyzes the basic problems of Russian imperialism thoroughly and with ...

Women, Marriage, and Politics, 1860-1914
Pat Jalland

Oxford University Press, USA, 1987

Although women are often seen as "hidden from history," this book finally unveils the personal experiences of wives, mothers, and sisters in more than fifty British political families in Victorian and Edwardian England. Drawing on rich new evidence from women's correspondence and diaries between 1860 and 1914, Pat Jalland examines the experience of courtship, marriage, and childbirth and analyzes the vital domestic and political functions they ...

The Birth of Big Business in the United States, 1860-1914: Commercial, Extractive, and Industrial Enterprise
David O. Whitten, Bessie E. Whitten

Praeger Publishers, 2005

The economic and cultural roots of contemporary American business can be traced directly to developments in the era between the Civil War and World War I. The physical expansion of the country combined with development of transportation and communication infrastructures to create a free market of vast proportion and businesses capable of capitalizing on the accompanying "economies of scale," through higher productivity, lower costs, and broader ...

The Hidden Consumer: Masculinities, Fashion and City Life 1860-1914 (Studies in Design)

1 review
Christopher Breward

Manchester University Press, 1999

From a Costumers Point of View
The title of this book doesn't misrepresent itself. It really is about consumerism. Unfortunately I hoped the "Masculinities, fashion and city life 1860-1914" part of the title would discuss in more detail what was actually worn. There is very little of that at all. This would be a great book for someone who is studing commerce, but not much use to a costumer. In fact, there aren't even ...

Indian Infantry Regiments 1860-1914 (Men-at-Arms)
Michael Barthorp

Osprey Publishing, 1979

The Indian Army underwent significant changes in command, organization and composition from the time of the Indian Mutiny of 1857-59, to the outbreak of World War I. Prior to the Mutiny, the government of British India was exercised by the East India Company, who divided the country into three Presidencies, each with its own army under its own commander-in-chief. When Lord Kitchener was appointed Commander-in-Chief India in 1902, he undertook a ...

The Alliance of Iron and Wheat in the Third French Republic 1860-1914: Origins of the New Conservatism

1 review
Herman Lebovics

Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1988

The Alliance of Iron and Wheat in the Third French Republic
In this illuminating study, Herman Lebovics offers a provacative and original interpretation of the origins of the conservative stability of the Third Republic in France, using the Great Depression of the late nineteenth century as his focus. According to Lebovics, the new conservative republican order created by the Opportunist politicians and their formally monarchist allies was first made ...

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