This book, first published in 2000, explores the geography of risk produced by a wide spectrum of once-popular literature.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
List of illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: the practice of paradise 1. Banishing panic: J. R. McCulloch, Harriet Martineau and the popularization of political economy 2. The rhetoric of visible hands: Edwin Chadwick, Florence Nightingale and the popularization of sanitary reform 3. Groundless optimism: regression in the service of the ego, England and empire in Victorian ballooning memoirs 4. The uses of pain: cultural masochism and the colonization of the future in Victorian mountaineering memoirs 5. A field for enterprise: the memoirs of David Livingstone and Mary Kingsley Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.
List of illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: the practice of paradise 1. Banishing panic: J. R. McCulloch, Harriet Martineau and the popularization of political economy 2. The rhetoric of visible hands: Edwin Chadwick, Florence Nightingale and the popularization of sanitary reform 3. Groundless optimism: regression in the service of the ego, England and empire in Victorian ballooning memoirs 4. The uses of pain: cultural masochism and the colonization of the future in Victorian mountaineering memoirs 5. A field for enterprise: the memoirs of David Livingstone and Mary Kingsley Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.
Es gelten unsere Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen: www.buecher.de/agb
Impressum
www.buecher.de ist ein Internetauftritt der buecher.de internetstores GmbH
Geschäftsführung: Monica Sawhney | Roland Kölbl | Günter Hilger
Sitz der Gesellschaft: Batheyer Straße 115 - 117, 58099 Hagen
Postanschrift: Bürgermeister-Wegele-Str. 12, 86167 Augsburg
Amtsgericht Hagen HRB 13257
Steuernummer: 321/5800/1497
USt-IdNr: DE450055826
