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Prostitution in Great Britain, 1485-1901 : An Annotated Bibliography
by Nash, S.D
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0810827344
- ISBN 13
- 9780810827349
- Seller
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About This Item
Scarecrow Press 1994, Metuchen, first edition, 1994. Cloth, 8vo,. xl, 226 pp. 390 entries. Aims to cover the key secondary and primary source literature relating to the history of prostitution in Great Britain from the Tudor to the Victorian period, providing critical analyses of many works as well as a detailed subject index to the various aspects of the subjects that they cover. A lengthy introduction provides an overview of the history of prostitution in Britain, as well as discussing the evolution of the various forms of writing on this subject, thus placing the bibliography in historical perspective. Works covered include government documents, broadsides, pamphlets, diaries, doctoral dissertations, and books, book chapters, and scholarly articles, published up to 1992. Annotations include further references to hundreds of other related works. And a detailed subject index permits students and scholars to quickly find relevant works dealing with prostitution and a large number of related subjects, including venereal disease, crime, costume, fictional works and characters, sexuality, the theatre, domestic servants, and homosexuality. Fine.
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- Bookseller
- Wykeham Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIBLIO-01405
- Title
- Prostitution in Great Britain, 1485-1901 : An Annotated Bibliography
- Author
- Nash, S.D
- Format/Binding
- Cloth, 8vo,
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0810827344
- ISBN 13
- 9780810827349
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press 1994, Metuchen, first edition, 1994
- Place of Publication
- Metuchen
- Date Published
- 1994
- Pages
- xl, 226 pp
- Keywords
- prostitution prostitutes whores courtesans sex workers sexology erotica arcana social studies moral conditions women's studies venereal disease history homosexuality Great Britain 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th century fifteenth sixteenth seventeenth eighte
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- Sex & Erotica (Bibliographies);
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Wykeham Books
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