Against the Map. The Politics of Geography in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Paperback - Adam Sills

Publisher: University of Virginia PressAuthor(s): Adam SillsNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 176 x 255 x 21Cover type: Paperba...

The debut publication in a new series devoted to the body as an object of historical study, Sight Correction provides an expansive analysis of blin...

In bringing biography and celebrity together, the essays in this volume interrogate contemporary and current understandings of each. Contributors p...

A portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. It covers topics that include - di...

In this provocative, startling book, Robert D. Kaplan, the bestselling author of Monsoon and Balkan Ghosts, offers a revelatory new prism through w...

This volume explores the notion of the 'self' as it was elaborated and expressed by philosophers, novelists, churchmen, poets and diarists in the E...

Examines how and why marriage plots became the English novel's most popular form in the eighteenth century. This book will be of interest to studen...

Traces the usufructuary ethos from the religious and legal writings of the seventeenth century through mid-eighteenth-century poems of colonial com...

Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Hester GrantNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 33Cover type: Paperback / sof...

Reducere. The phenomenon of caste has probably aroused more controversy than any other aspect of Indian life. This volume explores the emergence of ideas and...

The reclaimed history of a woman whose tragic life tells a story of madness, forced marriages and how the super-rich came to own LondonPublisher: O...

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First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Paul Langford's Very Short Introduction to Eighteenth-Centur...

Embracing history and society, literature and theatre, medicine and religion, author and magician Ian Keable reveals our susceptibility to being du...

Sheds new light on the cultural origins and practical ambitions of the French Revolution through an analysis of debates over education in eighteent...

Explores the representation of everyday life across several disciplines in a century known for its interest in individual experience of the mundane...

The Other Rise of the Novel relies on new research concerning the relevance of bourgeois values and ideals in the early modern period in France to ...

Transylvania in the eighteenth century. Aspects of regional identity - Laura Stanciu, Cosmin Popa-Gorjanu

This is the first study of women's leading contribution to animal protection in nineteenth-century Britai -- .Illustrations: 30 black & white illus...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 8 colour & 74 bw illusNumber of pages: 328Collection: Material Culture of Art and DesignPublic...

Reducere. Although a number of important studies of American slavery have explored the formation of slave cultures in the English colonies, no book until now...

Bad English examines the impact of increasing language diversity in transforming contemporary literature in Britain, in the context of its conteste...

The Conversational Enlightenment traces the spread of the concept of conversation during the Enlightenment, including the project of politeness, th...

This is the first study of women's leading contribution to animal protection in nineteenth-century Britai -- .

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Reducere. God's accomplishments through George Whitefield are to this day virtually unparalleled. In an era when many ministers were timid and apologetic in ...

Publisher: Transcript VerlagAuthor(s): Lucas HaasisNumber of pages: 600Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 155 x 240 x 48Cover type: Paperback / soft...

Through both longer essays and shorter case studies, this book examines the relationship of European women from various countries and backgrounds t...

Publisher: British Museum PressIllustration(s): 25 Illustrations, black and white; 245 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 20...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Emerita Ruth Pritchard (University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA) DawsonIllustration(s): 60 bw i...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Unchained Voices, Vincent Carretta has assembled the most comprehensive anthology ever published of writings by eighteenth-century pe...

Reducere. The Complexion of Race Categories of Difference in Eighteenth-Century British Culture Roxann Wheeler "A substantial contribution to the investigati...

Reducere. How writers after Adam Smith helped shape our thinking about economics and politics Few issues are more central to our present predicaments than th...

Reducere. In this volume, Caroline Robbins adeptly presents a history of the Commonwealthmen, "a gifted and active minority of the population of the British ...

Eighteenth-century theatre critics reserved their highest praise for the transitions of a play, recognising its most striking passages as moments o...

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In this book, David Porter analyses the processes by which Chinese aesthetic ideas were assimilated within English culture. Illustrated with many e...

Reducere. How did castrati manage to amaze their eighteenth-century audiences by singing the same aria several times in completely different ways? And how co...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr. Jocelyn (Independent Scholar, Courtauld Institute of Art, UK) AndersonIllustration(s): 8 colour ...

Reducere. In nineteenth-century England, sodomy was punishable by death; even an accusation could damage a man's reputation for life. The last executions for...

Our understanding of warfare at sea in the eighteenth century has always been divorced from the practical realities of fighting at sea under sail; ...

An important part of eighteenth-century maritime conflict involved the destruction of enemy commerce and the protection of home trade. Privateering...

Reducere. Against Anti-Semitism: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Polish Writings Anti-Semitism in Poland has always been a deeply problematic subject. In t...

A novel, set in the late eighteenth century, about smuggling off the coast of south-east Kent, EnglandPublisher: The Conrad PressAuthor(s): Simon G...

DescriptionOver the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods. The Power of Objects in...