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Publisher to the Decadents
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 456

Publisher to the Decadents

Publisher to the Decadents chronicles the experiences of Leonard Smithers (1861-1907), a key figure in the literary culture of late Victorian England. In his day he was known primarily for publishing books of upscale pornography. He became the publisher of choice for the Decadents, including most notably Oscar Wilde and Audrey Beardsley. While a young solicitor in his native Sheffield, Smithers established a correspondence with the famed explorer and translator of exotic texts, Captain Sir Richard Burton. Burton translated The Thousand Nights and a Night (popularly known as The Arabian Nights), which was published by Smithers in 1885. Smithers collaborated with Burton in the publication of t...

The Westminster Review
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 756

The Westminster Review

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1894
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus
  • Language: la
  • Pages: 352

The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1894
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Highly Civilized Man
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 363

The Highly Civilized Man

Though best remembered as an adventurer who entered Mecca in disguise and sought the source of the White Nile, Richard Burton contributed so forcefully to his generation that he provides us with a singularly panoramic perspective on the world of the Victorians. Engagingly written and vigorously argued, this book is an important contribution to our understanding of a remarkable man and a crucial era.

The Thousand and One Quarters of an Hour
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

The Thousand and One Quarters of an Hour

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1893
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Home Grown
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

Home Grown

Historian Isaac Campos combines wide-ranging archival research with the latest scholarship on the social and cultural dimensions of drug-related behavior in this telling of marijuana's remarkable history in Mexico. Introduced in the sixteenth century by the Spanish, cannabis came to Mexico as an industrial fiber and symbol of European empire. But, Campos demonstrates, as it gradually spread to indigenous pharmacopoeias, then prisons and soldiers' barracks, it took on both a Mexican name--marijuana--and identity as a quintessentially "Mexican" drug. A century ago, Mexicans believed that marijuana could instantly trigger madness and violence in its users, and the drug was outlawed nationwide i...

Slave Trade Profiteers in the Western Indian Ocean
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 231

Slave Trade Profiteers in the Western Indian Ocean

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-10-12
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book examines how slave traders interacted with and resisted the British suppression campaign in the nineteenth-century western Indian Ocean. By focusing on the transporters, buyers, sellers, and users of slaves in the region, the book traces the many links between slave trafficking and other types of trade. Drawing upon first-person slave accounts, travelogues, and archival sources, it documents the impact of abolition on Zanzibar politics, Indian merchants, East African coastal urban societies, and the entirety of maritime trade in the region. Ultimately, this ground-breaking work uncovers how western Indian Ocean societies experienced the slave trade suppression campaign as a political intervention, with important implications for Indian Ocean history and the history of the slave trade.

Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 872

Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1895
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Publishers' circular and booksellers' record
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 766

Publishers' circular and booksellers' record

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1895
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Academy; a Weekly Review of Literature, Learning, Science and Art
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 584

Academy; a Weekly Review of Literature, Learning, Science and Art

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1895
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The Poetical gazette; the official organ of the Poetry society and a review of poetical affairs, nos. 4-7 issued as supplements to the Academy, v. 79, Oct. 15, Nov. 5, Dec. 3 and 31, 1910