Product Description: This book considers patterns of women's employment in the period 1700-1850. Focusing on the county of Essex, material on the worsted industry, agriculture, fashion trades, service, prostitution, and marriage and family life will shed light on contemporary debates in history such as the sexual division of labour, controversy over continuity or change in women's employment, the importance of ideas of 'separate spheres' and 'domestic ideology', and the overall effects of capitalism on women's employment...read more

Product Description: This book offers a detailed examination of the living arrangements and material circumstances of the poor betweeen 1650 and 1850. Chapters investigate poor households in urban, rural and metropolitan contexts, and contribute to wider investigations into British economic and social conditions in the long Eighteenth century...read more

Product Description: The TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) is an internet-based test, or iBT, and this brand-new package that combines two instructive books with a CD-ROM and a set of 10 audio Compact Discs offers students the most comprehensive program for excelling on the TOEFL available anywhere...read more

Product Description: This revised and updated shorter version of Barron's full-size TOEFL iBT test preparation manual prepares ESL students for the internet-based test. It presents three model TOEFL iBTs, all with explanations or example answers. The author also provides an overview of the test format and follows with a brief review of academic skills that test takers must master...read more

Offers test-taking strategies, subject reviews, and four model tests with answers and explantions.

Product Description: This book is a vivid and refreshing consideration of everyday life in a town visited by plague, Civil War, religious radicalism and industrial changes. What really happened in the place once described as 'the most rebellious town in Devon'? The town of Colyton in Devon has been intensively analysed by historians interested in population trends, but this book combines demographic information with extensive details of the economy, society and local politics of the parish and region...read more

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Product Description: Over the last twenty years more and more historians of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries have turned their eyes away from the records of central administration, towards local archives, and the lives of the poor. What they have found is a wealth of sources some of which chronicle the lives, and many of which record the words, of working people...read more

Considering patterns of women's employment from 1700 to 1850, this text focuses on Essex to examine contemporary debates such as the sexual division of labour, continuity or change in women's employment, 'separate spheres', 'domestic ideology', and the effects of capitalism on women's employment.

Product Description: This shorter version of Barron's full-size TOEFL manual presents four model TOEFLs styled after the actual computer-based TOEFL test. All questions are explained and additional practice material is provided. A compact disc (audio only) is included...read more