Spectacles and the Victorians

Spectacles and the VictoriansThis book explores how the Victorians standardised vision and transformed spectacle use. It offers new insights into how technology and its adoption in medical and non medical contexts shaped, and continues to shape, our understanding of sensory perception and the assimilation of assistive devices.

It explores the variety of work that libraries are doing across the world to deliver resources to users via mobile and hand-held devices

The book traces the development of the state's approach in tandem with occurrences in Irish political economy and examines the impact of global trends on different approaches to hydrocarbon management

in governance

UK winner of the 2020 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in the Best Food Writing category

opportunities and false dawns of modern British political history

This is the first in-depth academic study of the Labour Government’s 1969 attempt to introduce industrial relations to curb strikes by trade unions

cassava is cultivated under a wide range of ecological and agronomic conditions

this book investigates everything from oil paintings to album cover art

An exciting new contribution from Australia’s foremost scholar of television

It reveals the role of mass and amateur photography in fostering modes of imperial citizenship at royal celebrations in the East Indies during the reigns of Queens Wilhelmina (1898–1948) and Juliana (1948–80)

This is the first book to consider clowning venues and styles in light of play theory

the religious movement associated in the popular imagination with nineteenth-century parlour séances and ghost photography