The Fabrication of Virtue - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Fabrication of Virtue write by Robin Evans. This book was released on 2011-08-18. The Fabrication of Virtue available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 1982, this book describes a new kind of prison architecture that developed in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The book concentrates on architecture, but places it in the context of contemporary penal practice and contemporary thought. Beginning with an exploration on the eighteenth-century prisons before reform, the book goes on to consider two earlier kinds of imprisonment that were modified by eighteenth-century reformers. The theory and practice of prison design is covered in detail. The later parts of the book deals with alliance between architecture and reform, and with the connection between the utilitarian architecture of the reformed prisons and academic neo-classicism. The overall aim of the book is to show the profound change that was being wrought in the nature of architecture, which was exemplified in the reformed prisons. Architecture, one emblem of the social order, was now one of its fundamental instruments.
The Courthouses of Early Virginia
The Courthouses of Early Virginia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Courthouses of Early Virginia write by Carl Lounsbury. This book was released on 2005. The Courthouses of Early Virginia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Court day in early Virginia transformed crossroads towns into forums for citizens of all social classes to transact a variety of business, from legal cases heard before the county magistrates to horse races, ballgames, and the sale and barter of produce, clothing, food, and drink. The Courthouses of Early Virginia is the first comprehensive history of the public buildings that formed the nucleus of this space and the important private buildings that grew up around them.
Rotten Bodies
Rotten Bodies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rotten Bodies write by Kevin Siena. This book was released on 2019-05-28. Rotten Bodies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A revealing look at how the memory of the plague held the poor responsible for epidemic disease in eighteenth-century Britain Britain had no idea that it would not see another plague after the horrors of 1666, and for a century and a half the fear of epidemic disease gripped and shaped British society. Plague doctors had long asserted that the bodies of the poor were especially prone to generating and spreading contagious disease, and British doctors and laypeople alike took those warnings to heart, guiding medical ideas of class throughout the eighteenth century. Dense congregations of the poor--in workhouses, hospitals, slums, courtrooms, markets, and especially prisons--were rendered sites of immense danger in the public imagination, and the fear that small outbreaks might run wild became a profound cultural force. Extensively researched, with a wide body of evidence, this book offers a fascinating look at how class was constructed physiologically and provides a new connection between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries and the ravages of plague and cholera, respectively.
The Printer as Author in Early Modern English Book History
The Printer as Author in Early Modern English Book History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Printer as Author in Early Modern English Book History write by William E. Engel. This book was released on 2022-04-26. The Printer as Author in Early Modern English Book History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first book to demonstrate how mnemotechnic cultural commonplaces can be used to account for the look, style, and authorized content of some of the most influential books produced in early modern Britain. In his hybrid role as stationer, publisher, entrepreneur, and author, John Day, master printer of England’s Reformation, produced the premier navigation handbook, state-approved catechism and metrical psalms, Book of Martyrs, England’s first printed emblem book, and Queen Elizabeth’s Prayer Book. By virtue of finely honed book trade skills, dogged commitment to evangelical nation-building, and astute business acumen (including going after those who infringed his privileges), Day mobilized the typographical imaginary to establish what amounts to—and still remains—a potent and viable Protestant Memory Art.
Hume's Morality
Hume's Morality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hume's Morality write by Rachel Cohon. This book was released on 2008-10-02. Hume's Morality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rachel Cohon offers an original interpretation of the ethical thinking of the 18th-century philosopher David Hume. She focuses on two claims: that human beings figure out what is good or evil by using our feelings or emotions, and that some of the good traits we recognize are produced by informal social agreement and teaching.
