Nineteenth-Century Science, Technology and Medicine: Sources and Documents
Food in Nineteenth-Century British History: Volume IV: Britain, Food and the World
1st Edition
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By Ian Miller
August 31, 2025
Volume 4 examines the British diet from its colonial and global perspectives. Colonialism, combined with rapidly improving global transport networks, introduced the British introduced to a plethora of unfamiliar foods from overseas. Changing economic trading patterns also impacted massively on the ...
Food in Nineteenth-Century British History: Volume Three: Mealtimes
1st Edition
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By Ian Miller
July 25, 2025
A curious phenomenon occurred in British food writing from around the 1860s. Publishers began printing books dedicated to specific meals. Breakfast. Luncheons. Afternoon Tea. Dinners. Until this time, most cookbooks had been hefty tomes containing hundreds of pages of recipes, but the new recipe ...
Women in Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century: Volume I: Debates
1st Edition
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By Claire Brock
July 31, 2024
The volume explores the range of reactions to medical women from the mid-nineteenth century up until the start of the Great War in 1914. By covering this period, readers will be introduced to ongoing debates surrounding women in medicine, via sources which explore the possibilities for – as well as...
Women in Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century: Volume II: Medical Women in Fiction
1st Edition
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By Claire Brock
July 31, 2024
As an exciting, challenging, and for some, repulsive, novelty and phenomenon, the medical woman was fictionalised swiftly in the second half of the nineteenth century. This volume reproduces literary examples which explore the many facets of women’s entry into the medical profession, and their ...
Women in Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century: Volume III: Global Experiences
1st Edition
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By Claire Brock
July 31, 2024
This volume explores medical women as a global phenomenon during the long nineteenth century. The volume considers, firstly, how especially British medical women travelled internationally to treat patients who, for reasons of religious, cultural, or social beliefs, were reluctant to seek ...
Women in Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century: Volume IV: Patient Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Claire Brock
July 31, 2024
Vital to the acceptance of medical women was the willingness of patients – largely women and children – to be treated by them. By the end of 1914, this more usual patient base was expanded to include injured soldiers. To provide a full consideration of the medical and surgical world of this period,...
Women in Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Claire Brock
July 31, 2024
This four-volume collection explores medical women as a global phenomenon during the long nineteenth century. The set explores how British medical women travelled internationally to treat patients who, for reasons of religious, cultural, or social beliefs, were reluctant to seek treatment from male...
Science and Sound in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Philosophies and Epistemologies of Sound
1st Edition
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By Edward J. Gillin
December 22, 2023
Science and Sound in Nineteenth-Century Britain is a four-volume set of primary sources which seeks to define our historical understanding of the relationship between British scientific knowledge and sound between 1815 and 1900. In the context of rapid urbanization and industrialization, as well as...
Science and Sound in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Sound Transformed
1st Edition
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By Edward J. Gillin
December 22, 2023
Sound and Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain is a four-volume set of primary sources which seeks to define our historical understanding of the relationship between British scientific knowledge and sound between 1815 and 1900. In the context of rapid urbanization and industrialization, as well ...
Science and Sound in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Sound in Context
1st Edition
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By Edward J. Gillin
December 22, 2023
Science and Sound in Nineteenth-Century Britain is a four-volume set of primary sources which seeks to define our historical understanding of the relationship between British scientific knowledge and sound between 1815 and 1900. In the context of rapid urbanization and industrialization, as well as...
Science and Sound in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Sounds Experimental and Entertaining
1st Edition
Edited
By Edward J. Gillin
December 22, 2023
Sound and Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain is a four-volume set of primary sources which seeks to define our historical understanding of the relationship between British scientific knowledge and sound between 1815 and 1900. In the context of rapid urbanization and industrialization, as well ...
Science and Sound in Nineteenth-Century Britain
1st Edition
Edited
By Edward J. Gillin
December 22, 2023
Sound and Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain is a four-volume set of primary sources which seeks to define our historical understanding of the relationship between British scientific knowledge and sound between 1815 and 1900. In the context of rapid urbanization and industrialization, as well ...