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Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-19 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 236
Pages: 236
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-04-28 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis
This is the first study to focus specifically on destitute children who became part of the early British Empire, uniting separate historiographies on poverty, c
Language: en
Pages: 313
Pages: 313
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-03-03 - Publisher: Routledge
This book is a study of shame in English society in the two centuries between c.1550 and c.1750, demonstrating the ubiquity and powerful hold it had on contempo
Language: en
Pages: 314
Pages: 314
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-07-08 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
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