The Non-Representation of the Agricultural Labourers in 18th and 19th Century English Paintings - 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 Non-Representation of the Agricultural Labourers in 18th and 19th Century English Paintings write by Penelope McElwee. This book was released on 2016-02-08. The Non-Representation of the Agricultural Labourers in 18th and 19th Century English Paintings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The life of the poor rural worker appears to have been one of unmitigated toil within an unequal society, a reality seldom endorsed in paintings of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The contemporary viewer, who constituted less than three per cent of the population, wished to see visions of the idyllic golden landscapes of Merrie England peopled by happy contented workers, or, alternatively, images of the Big House, a feature and phenomenon now marching over the countryside, fed by a new building frenzy. This particular element would soon evolve into an all-consuming preoccupation for the wealthy throughout the period. Members of the upper echelons of society, with their families all attired in fine silks and satins, look out at their audience from ornately framed canvases as individuals. Yet the rural poor, the rabble at the gates, the unseen workforce, who toiled at the behest of the Master, are virtually unknown. They have left few records. Enclosure came at a price. The Poorhouse beckoned. And still the agricultural labourer did virtually nothing, for most of the eighteenth century, to protest or rebel against the inequalities of his downtrodden existence. Only the dreaded behemoth of the nineteenth century, the threshing machine, would stir him into action. How would it end?
Consumption and Advertising in Eastern Europe and Russia in the Twentieth Century
Consumption and Advertising in Eastern Europe and Russia in the Twentieth Century - 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 Consumption and Advertising in Eastern Europe and Russia in the Twentieth Century write by Magdalena Eriksroed-Burger. This book was released on 2023-02-27. Consumption and Advertising in Eastern Europe and Russia in the Twentieth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores Eastern European consumer cultures in the twentieth century, taking a comparative perspective and conceptualizing the peculiarities of consumption in the region. Contributions cover lifestyles and marketing strategies in imperial contexts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; urban consumer cultures in the Interwar Period; and consumer and advertising cultures in the Soviet Union and its satellite republics. It traces the development of marketing throughout the century, and the changes in society brought about by democratization and the 'Americanization' of consumption. Taken together, the essays gathered here make a valuable contribution to our understanding of consumption and advertising in the region.
Living with the Land
Living with the Land - 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 Living with the Land write by Liesbeth van de Grift. This book was released on 2022-11-07. Living with the Land available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For a long time agriculture and rural life were dismissed by many contemporaries as irrelevant or old-fashioned. Contrasted with cities as centers of intellectual debate and political decision-making, the countryside seemed to be becoming increasingly irrelevant. Today, politicians in many European countries are starting to understand that the neglect of the countryside has created grave problems. Similarly, historians are remembering that European history in the twentieth century was strongly influenced by problems connected to the production of food, access to natural resources, land rights, and the political representation and activism of rural populations. Hence, the handbook offers an overview of historical knowledge on a variety of topics related to the land. It does so through a distinctly activity-centric and genuinely European perspective. Rather than comparing different national approaches to living with the land, the different chapters focus on particular activities – from measuring to settling the land, from producing and selling food to improving agronomic knowledge, from organizing rural life to challenging political structures in the countryside. Furthermore, the handbook overcomes the traditional division between East and West, North and South, by embracing a transregional approach that allows readers to gain an understanding of similarities and differences across national and ideological borders in twentieth-century Europe.
Export of objects of cultural interest 2009/10
Export of objects of cultural interest 2009/10 - 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 Export of objects of cultural interest 2009/10 write by Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest. This book was released on 2010-12-16. Export of objects of cultural interest 2009/10 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The UK's export controls of objects of cultural interest are aimed to strike a balance between the need to protect the heritage, the rights of owners and the encouragement of a thriving art market. This is the sixth annual report on the operation of export controls on objects of cultural interest which covers the period 1 May 2009 to 30 April 2010. As well as the Reviewing Committee report, it includes descriptions of 22 individual export cases that were referred to the Committee by expert advisors.
The politics of hunger
The politics of hunger - 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 politics of hunger write by Carl J. Griffin. This book was released on 2020-02-18. The politics of hunger available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The 1840s witnessed widespread hunger and malnutrition at home and mass starvation in Ireland. And yet the aptly named ‘Hungry 40s’ came amidst claims that, notwithstanding Malthusian prophecies, absolute biological want had been eliminated in England. The eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were supposedly the period in which the threat of famine lifted for the peoples of England. But hunger remained, in the words of Marx, an ‘unremitted pressure’. The politics of hunger offers the first systematic analysis of the ways in which hunger continued to be experienced and feared, both as a lived and constant spectral presence. It also examines how hunger was increasingly used as a disciplining device in new modes of governing the population. Drawing upon a rich archive, this innovative and conceptually-sophisticated study throws new light on how hunger persisted as a political and biological force.
