2005, ISBN: 9781560257417

Viking for Penguin, London, 2005. 19.5 x 12.5cms, 398pp, b/w illusts, fine hardback & cover This book traces the empires that cotton has built and destroyed, the fortunes it has created … Mehr…

Viking for Penguin, London, 2005. 19.5 x 12.5cms, 398pp, b/w illusts, fine hardback & cover This book traces the empires that cotton has built and destroyed, the fortunes it has created and the revolutions it has stirred up as it journeyed from India to continental Europe, Great Britain and the United States., Viking for Penguin, London, 2005, 0, Chichester : Summersdale, 2005. First Edition. Hardback. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 126 pages; Physical desc. : 126 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. Subjects: Great Britain --Social life and customs --19th century --History --Social History --Humour --Social and cultural history c1800 to c1900. Summary: Did you know that washing your teeth with charcoal was once believed to make them whiter? Or that Victorian ladies were encouraged to drink vinegar in order to appear pale and delicate? The Victorians may have given us the Industrial Revolution and advances in medicine and science, but they also relied on child labour and extolled the benefits of opium. From the strange to the downright unsavoury, learn 'What the Victorians Didn't Do For Us'., Chichester : Summersdale, 2005, 0, Text unmarked, but book has been read.. important document not only for the 60's but what was the dream for America. Blew me away when I first read it in 1963 and in 1966, as the war in Vietnam heated up the Port Huron Statement made more sense., Thunder's mouth Press, 2005, 3<