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Charity and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century Britain

The nineteenth century in Britain was a markedly philanthropic and charitable age. The sources in this five-volume edition provide a foundational basis for studying the many reasons for and the…

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Charity and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century Britain

The materials in this volume provide essential context for understanding the role of religion in nineteenth-century charity and philanthropy. Topics be covered include the Church of England, Protestant dissenting religions…

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Charity and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century Britain

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, many individuals were motivated by their religious creeds to give. The contents of this volume introduce readers to the many individuals who distinguished…

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Charity and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Throughout the nineteenth-century, charitable efforts emerged from and were carried out through networks of individuals and public cooperative groups. The materials in this volume introduce readers to various forms and…

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Charity and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century Britain

This volume focuses on individuals who, unlike those documented in volume two, did not have significant financial resources but were nevertheless leading figures in the philanthropic landscape. It also focuses…

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Charity and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century Britain

From newsletters and magazines to bazaars and dinners to festivals and concerts, charities and philanthropic enterprises competed among one another to obtain financial support for their causes and to justify…

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I Can Speak Bully

Kevin Morrison

A tool for parents to use in bringing their children on the journey of understanding bullies and how to help them find the friendship and acceptance they are truly looking…

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Victorian Pets and Poetry

Some of the most celebrated poets of the Victorian era wrote about their pets, yet poems about pets have not received the kind of critical analysis devoted to fictional works…

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Victorian Pets and Poetry

Some of the most celebrated poets of the Victorian era wrote about their pets, yet poems about pets have not received the kind of critical analysis devoted to fictional works…

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Political and Sartorial Styles: Britain and its Colonies in the Long Nineteenth Century

This book starts with the premise that clothing is political and that analysing clothing can enhance understanding of political style. It offers a ground-breaking examination of the role of dress…

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Living in a Material World: The Commodity Connection

Kevin Morrison

An inside look at the commodities market boom–from the beginning to the current bubble This book provides an insider’s perspective on the shadowy world of commodity traders, the people who…

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Making the Grade: Reimagining the Graduate Seminar Essay in Literary Studies

This book is a great resource for new graduate students interested in knowing how to navigate their studies more effectively and creatively.

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Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction

Includes more than 300 cross-referenced entries on works written for the British mass market. Biographical sketches cover the writers and their publishers, the topics that concerned them and the genres…

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Making the Grade: Reimagining the Graduate Seminar Essay in Literary Studies

This book is a great resource for new graduate students interested in knowing how to navigate their studies more effectively and creatively.

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Affections and Domesticities

Kevin A Morrison

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Critical Edition of The Silence of Dean Maitland by Maxwell Gray

This volume includes a fully annotated edition of Maxwell Gray’s highly successful novel of 1886. A bestseller of its day, The Silence of Dean Maitland combines evocative descriptions of the…

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Walter Besant: The Business of Literature and the Pleasures of Reform

In the 1880s and 1890s, Walter Besant was one of Britain’s most lionized living novelists. Today he is comparatively unknown. Bringing together literary critics and book historians, as well as…

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Study Abroad Pedagogy, Dark Tourism, and Historical Reenactment: In the Footsteps of Jack the Ripper and His Victims

Kevin A. Morrison

This book is a genre-breaking response to the literature on study abroad. Drawing on the author’s experience of teaching short-term summer programs and courses in London between 2011 and 2018…

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A Micro-History of Victorian Liberal Parenting: John Morley’s Discreet Indifference

Kevin A. Morrison

This book explores the theory and practice of Victorian liberal parenting by focusing on the life and writings of John Morley, one of Britain’s premier intellectuals and politicians.

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A Micro-History of Victorian Liberal Parenting: John Morley’s Discreet Indifference

Kevin A. Morrison

This book explores the theory and practice of Victorian liberal parenting by focusing on the life and writings of John Morley, one of Britain’s premier intellectuals and politicians.

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Walter Besant: The Business of Literature and the Pleasures of Reform

In the 1880s and 1890s, Walter Besant was one of Britain’s most lionized living novelists. Today he is comparatively unknown. Bringing together literary critics and book historians, as well as…

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Affections and Domesticities: Writings on Victorian Family Life

Presents a collection of key poems, excerpts from prose works, and full-length texts that explore the complexities of emotional life during the British Victorian period. The material introduces readers to…

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Children of Gibeon

Giving readers a fascinating look deep into Victorian England, this critical edition of Walter Besant’s Children of Gibeon is ideally suited to courses in Victorian literature and history. The book…

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Encyclopedia of London’s East End

Through its evolution, London’s East End has been the birthplace of radical political and social movements and the social centre for a variety of diasporic communities. This reference work serves…

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The Provincial Fiction of Mitford, Gaskell and Eliot

Kevin A. Morrison

Considers the interrelated careers of three significant nineteenth-century writers who have never been extensively studied together

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Victorian Liberalism and Material Culture: Synergies of Thought and Place

Kevin A. Morrison

Victorian Liberalism and Material Culture’ assesses the unexplored links between Victorian material culture and political theory.

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Victorian Liberalism and Material Culture

Kevin A. Morrison

Victorian Liberalism and Material Culture assesses the unexplored links between Victorian material culture and political theory.

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Nontaxation and Representation: The Fiscal Foundations of Political Stability

Kevin M. Morrison (University of Pittsburgh)

Does oil make countries autocratic? Can foreign aid make countries democratic? Does taxation lead to representation? In this book, Kevin M. Morrison develops a novel argument about how government revenues…

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Children of Gibeon

Kevin R Morrison

Giving readers a fascinating look deep into Victorian England, this critical edition of Walter Besant’s Children of Gibeon is ideally suited to courses in Victorian literature and history. The book…

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Historical Research, Creative Writing, and the Past

Historical Research, Creative Writing, and the Past brings together researchers in a wide array of disciplines who employ imagination, creativity, or fiction in their own historical scholarship or who analyze…

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All Sorts and Conditions of Men: An Impossible Story

Sir Walter Besant

First published in 1882, All Sorts and Conditions of Men chronicles daily life in the East-end district of Whitechapel road, where people go about their business with an air of…

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Curing the Postmodern Blues: Reading Grant Morrison and Chris Weston’s The Filth in the 21st Century

Grant Morrison,Chris Weston

Published in 2002-2003, Grant Morrison and Chris Weston’s THE FILTH is disgusting, deeply disturbing, and a comic-book masterpiece that inoculates readers against the problems of the postmodern condition. So says…

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Ireland’s Credit Crunch

Kevin Keating,Jonathan Morrison,Joe Corrigan

Kevin Keating is a trade union activist, a long-standing opponent of social partnership in the Irish Trade Union movement and advocate of rank and file organisation. Jonathan Morrison is a…

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The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010

Lucille Clifton

Landmark volume containing all of Lucille Clifton’s published work and 55 previously unpublished poems. Foreword by Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison.

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Collaboration Economy: Eliminate the Competition by Creating Partnership Opportunities

John Spencer Ellis,Topher Morrison

The information age is over. For you to become successful in today s economy, you have to build powerful, mutually beneficial relationships with the right people, who have the right…

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Foundations for Advancing Animal Ecology

Michael L. Morrison (Professor and Caesar Kleberg Chair in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Texas A&M University),Leonard A. Brennan (Professor and C. C. Winn Endowed Chair for Quail Research, Texas A & M University),Bruce G. Marcot (Research Wildlife Biologist, Pacific Northwest Research Station and USDA Forest Service),William M. Block (U.S. Forest Service),Kevin S. McKelvey

A major advancement in understanding the factors underlying wildlife-habitat relationships, Foundations for Advancing Animal Ecology will be an invaluable resource to professionals and practitioners in natural resource management in public…

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