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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: A. WitheyPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Pivot Edition: 1st ed. 2015 Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.372kg ISBN: 9781137467478ISBN 10: 1137467479 Pages: 162 Publication Date: 03 December 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews“Divided into seven short chapters, Withey’s book … functions as a valuable introduction to the study of the intersection of consumer culture, new industrial processes (particularly the production of ‘cast’ or ‘crucible’ steel) and the cultivation of what Withey terms the ‘purposeful management of the body during the Enlightenment’. … Technology, Self-fashioning and Politeness in Eighteenth-century Britain is a very readable and useful work of cultural history.” (Jonathan Sawday, Social History of Medicine, Vol. 30 (1), February, 2017) Divided into seven short chapters, Withey's book ... functions as a valuable introduction to the study of the intersection of consumer culture, new industrial processes (particularly the production of 'cast' or 'crucible' steel) and the cultivation of what Withey terms the 'purposeful management of the body during the Enlightenment'. ... Technology, Self-fashioning and Politeness in Eighteenth-century Britain is a very readable and useful work of cultural history. (Jonathan Sawday, Social History of Medicine, Vol. 30 (1), February, 2017) Divided into seven short chapters, Withey's book ... functions as a valuable introduction to the study of the intersection of consumer culture, new industrial processes (particularly the production of `cast' or `crucible' steel) and the cultivation of what Withey terms the `purposeful management of the body during the Enlightenment'. ... Technology, Self-fashioning and Politeness in Eighteenth-century Britain is a very readable and useful work of cultural history. (Jonathan Sawday, Social History of Medicine, Vol. 30 (1), February, 2017) Author InformationAlun Withey is a historian of medicine and the body, and a Wellcome Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK. Withey's work on the medical history of early modern Wales (2012) was awarded the EAHMH Book Prize in 2013. His current research project explores the health and hygiene history of facial hair in Britain c. 1700-1918. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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