Tag: Nineteenth

Free Download Victorian Automata: Mechanism and Agency in the Nineteenth Century
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009100270 | 360 Pages | PDF | 5 MB
The relationship between lifelike machines and mechanistic human behaviour provoked both fascination and anxiety in Victorian culture. This collection is the first to examine the widespread cultural interest in automata – both human and mechanical – in the nineteenth century. It was in the Victorian period that industrialization first met information technology, and that theories of physical and mental human automatism became essential to both scientific and popular understandings of thought and action. Bringing together essays by a multidisciplinary group of leading scholars, this volume explores what it means to be human in a scientific and industrial age. It also considers how Victorian inquiry and practices continue to shape current thought on race, creativity, mind, and agency. This title is part of the Flip it Open programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Free Download Elizabeth Tilley, "The Periodical Press in Nineteenth-Century Ireland"
English | 2020 | pages: 304 | ISBN: 3030300722, 3030300757 | PDF | 6,6 mb
This book offers a new interpretation of the place of periodicals in nineteenth-century Ireland. Case studies of representative titles as well as maps and visual material (lithographs, wood engravings, title-pages) illustrate a thriving industry, encouraged, rather than defeated by the political and social upheaval of the century.

Free Download Ephraim Chamiel, "The Dual Truth, Volumes I & II: Studies on Nineteenth-Century Modern Religious Thought and Its Influence on Twentieth-Ce"
English | ISBN: 161811882X | 2019 | 596 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book explores three schools of fascinating, talented, and gifted scholars whose philosophies assimilated the Jewish and secular cultures of their respective homelands: they include halakhists from Rabbi Ettlinger to Rabbi Eliezer Berkowitz; Jewish philosophers from Isaac Bernays to Yeshayau Leibowitz; and biblical commentators such as Samuel David Luzzatto and Rabbi Umberto Cassuto.

Free Download Sea Currents in Nineteenth-Century Art, Science and Culture: Commodifying the Ocean World (Biotechne: Interthinking Art, Science and Design) edited by Charissa N. Terranova, Kathleen Davidson, Molly Duggins, Meredith Tromble
English | May 18, 2023 | ISBN: 1501352784 | True EPUB | 336 pages | 31.6 MB
How did scientists, artists, designers, manufacturers and amateur enthusiasts experience and value the sea and its products? Examining the commoditization of the ocean world during the nineteenth century, this book demonstrates how the transaction of oceanic objects inspired a multifaceted material discourse stemming from scientific exploration, colonial expansion, industrialization, and the rise of middle-class leisure.

Free Download John Breuilly, "Nineteenth-Century Germany: Politics, Culture, and Society 1780-1918 Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 1474269478 | 2019 | 408 pages | PDF | 32 MB
John Breuilly brings together a distinguished group of international scholars to examine Germany’s history from 1780 to 1918, featuring chapters on economic, demographic and social as well as cultural and intellectual history. There are also chapters on political and military history covering the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, the post-Napoleonic period, the revolutions of 1848-1849, the unification of Germany, Bismarckian Germany and Wilhelmine Germany, and Germany during the First World War.

Free Download John Breuilly, "Nineteenth-Century Germany: Politics, Culture, and Society 1780-1918 Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 1474269478 | 2019 | 408 pages | PDF | 32 MB
John Breuilly brings together a distinguished group of international scholars to examine Germany’s history from 1780 to 1918, featuring chapters on economic, demographic and social as well as cultural and intellectual history. There are also chapters on political and military history covering the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, the post-Napoleonic period, the revolutions of 1848-1849, the unification of Germany, Bismarckian Germany and Wilhelmine Germany, and Germany during the First World War.

Free Download Meaningful places : landscape photographers in the nineteenth-century American West By Sailor, Rachel McLean
2014 | 207 Pages | ISBN: 082635422X | PDF | 54 MB
The early history of photography in America coincided with the Euro-American settlement of the West. This thoughtful book argues that the rich history of western photography cannot be understood by focusing solely on the handful of well-known photographers whose work has come to define the era. Art historian Rachel Sailor points out that most photographers in the West were engaged in producing images for their local communities. These pictures didn’t just entertain the settlers but gave them a way to understand their new home. Photographs could help the settlers adjust to their new circumstances by recording the development of a place–revealing domestication, alteration, and improvement. The book explores the cultural complexity of regional landscape photography, western places, and local sociopolitical concerns. Photographic imagery, like western paintings from the same era, enabled Euro-Americans to see the new landscape through their own cultural lenses, shaping the idea of the frontier for the people who lived there.

Free Download Laugh Lines: Caricaturing Painting in Nineteenth-Century France by Julia Langbein
English | April 14, 2022 | ISBN: 1350186856, 1350186899 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 13.9 MB
Laugh Lines: Caricaturing Painting in Nineteenth-Century France is the first major study of Salon caricature, a kind of graphic art criticism in which press artists drew comic versions of contemporary painting and sculpture for publication in widely consumed journals and albums. Salon caricature began with a few tentative lithographs in the 1840s and within a few decades, no Parisian exhibition could open without appearing in warped, incisive, and hilarious miniature in the pages of the illustrated press.

Free Download Alysa Levene, "Jews in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Charity, Community and Religion, 1830-1880"
English | ISBN: 1350102180 | 2020 | 264 pages | PDF | 20 MB
This book examines Jewish communities in Britain in an era of immense social, economic and religious change: from the acceleration of industrialisation to the end of the first phase of large-scale Jewish immigration from Europe.

Free Download Monica Miniati, "Italian Jewish Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries "
English | ISBN: 3030740528 | 2021 | 379 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book investigates one of the major issues that runs through the history of Italian Judaism in the aftermath of emancipation: the correlation between integration, seen as the acquisition of citizenship and culture without renouncing Jewish identity, and assimilation, intended as an open refusal of Judaism of any participation in the community. On account of that correlation, identity has become one of the crucial problems in the history of the Italian Jewish community. This volume aims to discuss the setting of construction and formation-the family- and focuses on women’s experiences, specifically. Indeed, women were called through emancipation to ensure the continuity of Jewish religious and cultural heritage. It speaks to the growing interest for Women’s and Gender Studies in Italy, and for the research on women’s organizations which testify to the strong presence of Jewish women in the emancipation movement. These women formed a sisterhood that fought to obtain rights that were until then only accorded to men, and they were deeply socially engaged in such a way that was crucial to the overall process of the integration of Jews into Italian society.