Product Description: A team of prominent historians and curators have produced this innovative cultural history of gold and its impact on the development of Australian society. Throughout history, gold has been the "stuff" of legends, fortunes, conflict and change...read more

Product Description: A group portrait of the three British voyagers who became fierce defenders of Darwin’s theory of evolution.Award-winning cultural historian Iain McCalman tells the stories of Charles Darwin and his most vocal supporters and colleagues: Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley, and Alfred Wallace...read more

Product Description: Explores how Historical Re-enactment seeks to portray the past in various forms, holding perhaps both a sensual and cognitive key to what it felt like to live in the past. Chapters engage with the philosophical and practical questions revolving around the vexed relationship between historical realism and affect...read more

Product Description: Newgate in Revolution provides a useful and thought-provoking anthology of radical literature - satirical, philosophical and political writings - issued by the radicals and religious dissenters imprisoned in Newgate during the turbulent and nervous period 1780-1848.

Product Description: The Enlightenment World offers an informed, comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the European Enlightenment (c. 1720–1800) as both an historical epoch and a cultural formation. This prestigious collection begins with the intellectual origins of the Enlightenment, and spans early formations up to both contemporary and modern critics of the Enlightenment...read more

A portrait of the influential freemason leader notes his influence on the works of major eighteenth-century artists and his notoriety in royal circles, citing his alleged theft of Marie Antoinette's diamond necklace and his arrest by the Inquisition for heresy. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.

A portrait of the influential freemason leader notes his influence on the works of major eighteen-century artists and his notoriety in royal circles, citing his alleged theft of Marie Antoinette's diamond necklace and his arrest by the Inquisition for heresy.

Product Description: For the first time, this innovative reference book surveys the Romantic Age through all aspects of British culture, rather than in literary or artistic terms alone. This multi-disciplinary approach treats Romanticism both in aesthetic terms--its meaning for painting, music, design, architecture, and literature--and as a historical epoch of "revolutionary" transformations which ushered in modern democratic and industrialized society...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This highly acclaimed study draws on information from spy reports and contemporary literature to look at English popular radicalism during the period between the anti-Jacobin government "Terror" of the 1790s and the beginnings of Chartism...read more

Product Description: "Horrors of Slavery" records the history, ideas and rhetoric of Robert Wedderburn, a Scottish-West Indian slave offspring who lived an extraordinary life in the slums of Georgian and Regency London. Working successively as a sailor, tailor, thief, prophet, blasphemous preacher, revolutionary conspirator and bawdy house keeper, Robert Wedderburn was a key figure in the insurrectionary ferment of the French wars and Reform agitation...read more

Product Description: "Horrors of Slavery" records the history, ideas and rhetoric of Robert Wedderburn, a Scottish-West Indian slave offspring who lived an extraordinary life in the slums of Georgian and Regency London. Working successively as a sailor, tailor, thief, prophet, blasphemous preacher, revolutionary conspirator and bawdy house keeper, Robert Wedderburn was a key figure in the insurrectionary ferment of the French wars and Reform agitation...read more

Product Description: This is a study of English popular radicalism during the period between the anti-Jacobin government 'Terror' of the 1790s and the beginnings of Chartism. Challenging distinctions between 'high' and 'low' culture, Iain McCalman reveals the links between the political underworld and literary culture, poverty, crime, and prophetic religion...read more