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Prostitution

Raelene Frances

Raelene Frances

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A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Age of Empire Volume 5

Bloomsbury Academic, 2011

Cultural History Chapter

...In 1877 the newly installed governor of Hong Kong, Sir John Pope-Hennessy, learned to his dismay that two Chinese women, A-Sau and Tai-Yau, had fallen to their deaths while being chased across rooftops of the brothel district by officers...

Introduction: Cartographing the Long Nineteenth Century

Peter W. Marx

Peter W. Marx is Professor at the Institute for Media Culture and Theater, University of Cologne, Germany. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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A Cultural History of Theatre in the Age of Empire Volume 5

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

Cultural History Chapter

...The period comprised in this volume is genuinely a ‘performing century’ Davis and Holland 2007. or even a ‘theatrical age’. Marx 2008. This diagnosis is not only true with respect...

Technologies of Performance

Sophie Nield

Sophie Nield

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A Cultural History of Theatre in the Age of Empire Volume 5

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

Cultural History Chapter

...Were we required to characterize this age of ours by any single epithet, we should be tempted to call it, not an Heroical, Devotional, Philosophical or Moral Age, but, above all others, the Mechanical Age. It is the Age of Machinery...

Knowledge Transmission: Media and Memory

Derek Miller

Derek Miller

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A Cultural History of Theatre in the Age of Empire Volume 5

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

Cultural History Chapter

...The nineteenth-century public consumed knowledge about theatre – from dramatic texts and staging practices to how to make a theatrical career – on a scale unimaginable by previous generations. Information about theatre hitherto acquired...

The Exhibitionary Construction of the “Islamic Interior”

Solmaz Mohammadzadeh Kive

Solmaz Mohammadzadeh Kive

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Oriental Interiors: Design, Identity, Space

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...A “flying carpet” straight out of the Arabian Nights will soon float over the Louvre’s collection of Islamic art, one of the most spectacular in the world . . .“Islamic art” became the subject of public displays only in the late nineteenth...

Literature and the Performing Arts: A Poetic Case Study

Margrit Vogt

Margrit Vogt

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A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Industry Volume 5

Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

Cultural History Chapter

...Introduction: The industrial background This chapter concentrates on the literature of Germany, as an example of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century work in that field. It begins with an overview of colorant production and use...

Religion and Ritualized Belief: Myth, Folklore, and Spiritualism in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Representations of Hair

Richard Leahy

Richard Leahy

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A Cultural History of Hair in the Age of Empire Volume 5

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

Cultural History Chapter

...The chapter engages with the presence of hair in supernatural and spiritual rituals of the nineteenth century, before examining the influence of such practices in literature of the period and neo-Victorian recreations. Of particular...

Sarajevo at the Centre of the Developing Bosnian Economy

Mary Sparks

Mary Sparks is an independent scholar with a PhD in history from the Open University, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Development of Austro-Hungarian Sarajevo, 1878–1918 : An Urban History

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...The business community played a major role in the development of the urban fabric of Sarajevo. At street level, in the Western-style shops and offices and also with larger business concerns such as factories and warehouses, they were...

Chronic Pain and Illness

Maria Frawley

Maria Frawley

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A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume 5

Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

Cultural History Chapter

...In 1855, Harriet Martineau—journalist, essayist, fiction writer, and cultural commentator—wryly wrote in her autobiography of the “tracts and religious books” that “swarm among us, and are thrust into the hands of every body by every body...

Family, Community, and Sociability

Catherine Sloan

Catherine Sloan

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A Cultural History of Education in the Age of Empire Volume 5

Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

Cultural History Chapter

...In 1875, twelve-year-old pupil Frank Bunting diligently wrote a long essay on “The Albatross” during free time at his school, the Croydon Friends’ School, a small Quaker boarding school near London.Minutes of the Juvenile Literary Society...