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  • The Volunteer Force
    Hugh Cunningham
    Originally published in 1975, The Volunteer Force is a study of the part-time military force which came into being to meet the mid-nineteenth century. ...
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    65,43 €

  • Children and Childhood in Western Society Since 1500
    Hugh Cunningham
    Incorporating recent scholarship on the subject, this new edition of Hugh Cunningham’s classic text investigates the relationship between ideas about childhood and the actual experience of being a child, and assesses how it has changed over the span of five hundred years. ...
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    77,51 €

  • Leisure in the Industrial Revolution
    Hugh Cunningham
    First published in 1980. This book is a study of what different classes of society understood by leisure and how they enjoyed it. It argues that many of the assumptions which have underlain the history of leisure are misleading, and in particular the notions that there was a vacuum in popular leisure in the early Industrial Revolution; that with industrialisation there was shar...
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    65,24 €

  • Time, work and leisure
    Hugh Cunningham
    This book traces the history of the relationship between work and leisure, from the ’leisure preference’ of male workers in the eighteenth century, through the increase in working hours in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, to their progressive decline from 1830 to 1970. It examines how trade union action was critical in achieving the decline; how class struct...
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    24,69 €

  • The Challenge of Democracy
    Hugh Cunningham
    Based on the latest research, this authoritative and thought-provoking history takes a fresh view of what was a period of unprecedented and rapid change. A key theme is the challenge presented by democracy in a period framed by the First and the Fourth Reform Acts. The book explores the implications of this challenge for the role of the state, for the governance of Empire, and ...
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    94,57 €