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  • The common writer in modern history
    Martyn Lyons
    This book underlines the importance of writing for the subordinate classes, and the variety of uses to which it was put. In eleven new studies by thirteen leading historians of scribal culture, it foregrounds the ’common writer’ and contributes to a ’New History from Below’. The book presents pauper letters, ego-documents, life-writing of various kinds, soldiers’ and emigrants’...
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    54,08 €

  • The Uses of Literacy in Colonial Australia
    Martyn Lyons
    Relying on autobiographical documents, this book analyses what Australians read in the 19th century, as well as what they wrote, in terms of personal and everyday, non-literary writings. It emphasises the Britishness of colonial society, without forgetting specifically Australian inflections of readers’ responses. Australian reading embraced wide-ranging tastes. ...
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    158,29 €

  • A Modern History of Andorra
    Martyn Lyons
    This book examines the fascinating survival of Andorra, one of Europe’s micro-states nestled between France and Spain. ...
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    98,26 €

  • The common writer in modern history
    Martyn Lyons
    This book underlines the importance of writing for the subordinate classes, and the variety of uses to which it was put. In eleven new studies by thirteen leading historians of scribal culture, it foregrounds the ’common writer’ and contributes to a ’New History from Below’. The book presents pauper letters, ego-documents, life-writing of various kinds, soldiers’ and emigrants’...
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    169,60 €

  • The History of Illiteracy in the Modern World Since 1750
    Martyn Lyons
    This Palgrave Pivot examines the history of literacy with illiterate and semi-literate people in mind, and questions the clear division between literacy and illiteracy which has often been assumed by social and economic historians. Instead, it turns the spotlight on all those in-between, the millions who had some literacy skills, but for whom reading and writing posed difficult...
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    53,08 €

  • The History of Illiteracy in the Modern World Since 1750
    Martyn Lyons
    This Palgrave Pivot examines the history of literacy with illiterate and semi-literate people in mind, and questions the clear division between literacy and illiteracy which has often been assumed by social and economic historians. Instead, it turns the spotlight on all those in-between, the millions who had some literacy skills, but for whom reading and writing posed difficult...
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    48,70 €

  • Dear Prime Minister
    Martyn Lyons
    ’I am sir [sure] you will act as human bean’, wrote one distressed pensioner to Prime Minister Robert Menzies in 1953, pleading for assistance.Robert Menzies received 22,000 letters during his record-breaking 1949-1966 second term as Australian Prime Minister. From war veterans, widows and political leaders to school students and homespun philosophers. Ordinary citizens sent th...
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    41,95 €

  • The Pyrenees in the Modern Era
    Martyn Lyons
    This original study examines different incarnations of the Pyrenees, beginning with the assumptions of 18th-century geologists, who treated the mountains like a laboratory, and romantic 19th-century tourists and habitués of the spa resorts, who went in search of the picturesque and the sublime. The book analyses the individual visions of the heroic Pyrenees which in turn fascin...
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    60,08 €

  • The Pyrenees in the Modern Era
    Martyn Lyons
    This original study examines different incarnations of the Pyrenees, beginning with the assumptions of 18th-century geologists, who treated the mountains like a laboratory, and romantic 19th-century tourists and habitués of the spa resorts, who went in search of the picturesque and the sublime. The book analyses the individual visions of the heroic Pyrenees which in turn fascin...
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    206,42 €

  • A History of Reading and Writing
    Martyn Lyons
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    61,40 €

  • The Writing Culture of Ordinary People in Europe, C.1860 1920
    Martyn Lyons
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    54,00 €

  • The Writing Culture of Ordinary People in Europe, C.1860 1920
    Martyn Lyons
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    153,47 €

  • A History of Reading and Writing
    Martyn Lyons
    Offering a fresh history centred on the reactions and experiences of ordinary readers and writers, Lyons deals with key turning points that occurred throughout the centuries, such as the invention of the codex, the transition from scribal to print culture, the reading revolution and the industrialisation of the book. Tracing the major historical developments across Europe and N...
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    206,60 €

  • Post-revolutionary Europe
    Martyn Lyons
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    66,40 €

  • Post-Revolutionary Europe, 1815-1856
    Martyn Lyons
    Martyn Lyons re-assesses European history between the fall of Napoleon and the Crimean War. Refusing to characterize the period as a 'Restoration.' Lyons presents the struggle of the European monarchies for credibility in the wake of conflicts which had shattered the mystique of kingship. Lyons stresses the invented aspects of emerging nationalism, as well as the important proc...
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    226,01 €

  • Napoleon Bonaparte and the Legacy of the French Revolution
    Martyn Lyons
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    74,04 €

  • France Under the Directory
    Lyons Martyn / Malcolm Lyons / Martyn Lyons
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    59,19 €