History from Sorensen Books : Your Vancouver Island Bookshop

Condition: clean copy. top edge bumped. sun fade spine. sound copy. Content: Sima Qian [115?-90? BC]was the first major Chinese historian. His 'Records of the Grand Historian,' documents the history of China and it neighboring countries from the ancient past to his own time. 506 pages, index.

Condition: clean copy. Content:Exploring patterns of popular devotion to the cult of the saints in b oth late imperial and early Soviet Russia, the author argues for an interpretation of Orthodoxy as a proactive faith grounded in the needs and realities of everyday life. This book straddles the customary historiographical dividing line of 1917, illustrating how the devotional practices associated with… Read more about this item

Condition: clean copy. Content:The author shows a new side fo the Victorian era - the role of the bourgeois as reactionaries, revolutionaries, and middle-of-the-roaders in the passage of high culture toward modernism. The Victorians in this richly peopled narrative maneuvered through decades marked by frequent shits in taste, some seeking safety in traditional styles, others drawn to the avant-garde of artists,… Read more about this item

The British middle class of the early nineteenth century was defined by its nervous complaints—hysteria, hypochondria, vapours, melancholia, and other maladies. Peter Melville Logan explores the link between medical theories of nervous physiology and narrative issues central to the literary writing of the period. He examines the assumption, implicit in medical thinking at the time, that the nervous body—unlike its… Read more about this item