The Perraults: A Family of Letters in Early Modern France, Hardcover - Oded Rabinovitch

DescriptionIn The Perraults, Oded Rabinovitch takes the fascinating eponymous literary and scientific family as an entry point into the complex and...

Reducere. Reveals the interaction of politics and religion in France during the crucial years of the long seventeenth century. The author begins with the War...

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Reducere. In The Art of the Jewish Family, Laura Arnold Leibman examines five objects owned by a diverse group of Jewish women who all lived in New York in t...

Reducere. A magisterial history of French society between the end of the middle ages and the Revolution by one of the world's leading authorities on early mo...

Islam in France is often regarded as a political 'issue' and much of the scholarly and public debates about Islam in contemporary France over the l...

Reducere. An innovative history of deep social and economic changes in France, told through the story of a single extended family across five generations Mar...

Reducere. Captives and Corsairs uncovers the forgotten story of Muslim corsair raids on French ships and shores and the resulting captivity of tens of thousa...

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Caroline Kennedy has chosen a rich variety of Kennedy family favorite poems to include in this priceless collection. With thoughtful personal intro...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Emma RothschildIllustration(s): 1 table.Number of pages: 464Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 155 x...

Reducere. From the bestselling author of CRIBSHEET and EXPECTING BETTER, the next step in data driven parenting from economist Emily Oster In The Family Firm...

A double biography of two forgotten Early Medieval queens: Brunhild and Fredegund.Publisher: Head of ZeusAuthor(s): Shelley PuhakIllustration(s): 1...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Reducere. European exploration and conquest expanded exponentially in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and as the horizons of imperial experience ...

The author of The Footnote reflects on scribes, scholars, and the work of publishing during the golden age of the book.From Francis Bacon to Barack...

Reducere. In Making the Miscellany Megan Heffernan examines the poetic design of early modern printed books and explores how volumes of compiled poems, which...

Reducere. Caroline Kennedy has chosen a rich variety of Kennedy family favorite poems to include in this priceless collection. With thoughtful personal intro...

DescriptionHope, sacrifice, and restoration: throughout the American Civil War and its aftermath, the Foster family endured all of these in no smal...

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In its seventeenth-century heyday, the English broadside ballad was a single large sheet of paper printed on one side with multiple woodcut illustr...

Reducere. Could a lifetime of memories...be a lifetime of lies?All her life Ryan Gracey watched her perfect older sister from afar. Knowing she could never t...

DescriptionEmerging at the turn of the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic rose to become a powerhouse of economic growth, artistic creativity,...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 48 bw illusNumber of pages: 280Collection: The Cultural Histories SeriesPublication date: 2022...

What Is Work? offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding labor within the highly gendered realm of household economies.Editor(s): Manuel...

DescriptionThe Concept of Nature in Early Modern English Literature traces a genealogy of ecology in seventeenth-century literature and natural phi...

Reducere. In 1863, Queen Victoria decreed that her son Edward, Prince of Wales, should marry Princess Alexandra, daughter of the obscure and unsophisticated ...

Reducere. Edited by art historian Noelia García Pérez, this first-ever collection of essays on Juana of Austria, the younger daughter of Holy Roman Emperor C...

DescriptionThis study analyses concepts and representations of the soul in the poetry of William Shakespeare and John Donne. During the early moder...