Winner of the 2020 PROSE Award for Multivolume Reference/Humanities The period 1800–1920 was one in which work processes were dramatically transformed by mech

A Cultural History of Education in the Age of Empire presents essays that examine the following key themes of the period: church, religion and morality; knowled

During the age of empires (1800–1900), marriage was a key transition in the life course worldwide, a rite of passage everywhere with major cultural significan

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