Disability in the Industrial Revolution

Disability in the Industrial RevolutionThis book asks what happened to disabled people during industrialization by examining the experiences of those disabled in the coal industry. It presents new perspectives on disabled peoples working lives in the past, and for the first time places disabled people at the heart of the story of Britains Industrial Revolution.

Christian Lehmann brings his experience as a musicologist

the volume situates the results of traditional archaeological excavations within a broader spectrum of archival sources

sidelining elites’ traditional enemies

Old troubles persist in modern Spain

This book examines the way in which Austria escaped absorption into the Soviet Bloc after 1945 and the impact this had on its domestic politics

providing an overview of all of Sinclair's major works and an analysis of his vision of modern London

many publications about this subject rely on discipline-dependent distinctions to discuss the activity’s function

films such as Our Man in Havana

It also explores ‘affect’ as a research methodology and uncovers the reasons why experience is more aligned with the notion of actuality than other modes of consciousness and thus more likely to be viewed as authentic

Sport occupies a key position in the cultural profile of a nation

like brass coils worn in Burma to lengthen the neck and the custom of binding of women’s feet to fit tiny lotus slippers in Song dynasty China

This is the second volume in the MEDIA • LIFE • UNIVERSE Trilogy