Bodies Complexioned. Human Variation and Racism in Early Modern English Culture, c. 1600-1750, Paperback - Mark Dawson

Skin-tones mattered in early modern England. Indexing health, social status, religious affiliation and national allegiance, they helped explain (aw...

DescriptionBodily contrasts from the colour of hair, eyes and skin to the shape of faces and skeletons - allowed the English of the seventeenth and...

A major study of ideas of truth and falsehood in early modern England from the advent of the Reformation to the aftermath of the failed Gunpowder P...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressIllustration(s): 2 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 154 x 2...

The only book that comprehensively studies the soliloquy's history and diversity of form, its theatrical functions, rhetoric, and socio-cultural si...

Conserving Health brings together scholarship from across the disciplinary spectrum to illustrate the role of preventive culture in early modern En...

Defines the economic history of early modern Britain. This book describes about the basic institutions and relationships of economic life, tracing ...

This is the first book to systematically analyze the role the performing arts played in English schools after the Reformation. Amanda Eubanks Winkl...

Counsel and Command in Early Modern English Thought establishes the precise role political counsel played during the 'monarchy of counsel', from th...

As chaste women devoted to God, nuns are viewed as the purest of the pure. Yet, as females who reject courtship, sex, marriage, child bearing, and ...

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

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

Counsel and Command in Early Modern English Thought establishes the precise role political counsel played during the 'monarchy of counsel', from th...

Constructing 'Monsters' in Shakespearean Drama and Early Modern Culture argues for the crucial place of the 'monster' in the early modern imaginati...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor Drew DanielIllustration(s): 3 halftonesNumber of pages: 288Collection: Thinking Lite...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor Drew DanielIllustration(s): 3 halftonesNumber of pages: 288Collection: Thinking Lite...

DescriptionEarly modern England was a nation alive with intense religious debate, with often violent results. Central to these debates were questio...

A panoramic reinterpretation of global history, this title traces the emergence and development of the modern world from the sixteenth to the twent...

This introductory textbook is a wide-ranging, accessible survey of the political, social, cultural and economic history of early modern Britain. Th...

From the recovery of ancient ritual magic at the height of the Renaissance to the ignominious demise of alchemy at the dawn of the Enlightenment, M...

This is a revisionist account of the origins of the British Empire in Asia in the early modern period. David Veevers shows that it was the integrat...

Representing a history of drinking "from below", this book explores the role of the alehouse in seventeenth-century English society.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Casey J. (University of California Davis, USA) SullivanIllustration(s): 65 bw illusNumber of page...

DescriptionWhat did it mean to be a spectator during the lifetime of Shakespeare or of Aphra Behn? In Early Modern Spectatorship contributors use t...

DescriptionThis is the first anthology ever devoted to early modern Japanese literature, spanning the period from 1600 to 1900, known variously as ...

An innovative, substantial intervention in critical race theory, this book brings together an impressive roster of thinkers to trace the question o...

Reducere. The legendary splendor of Genoese baroque artGenoa completed its transformation from a faded maritime power into a thriving banking center for Euro...

DescriptionPeople have always been xenophobic, but an explicit philosophical and scientific view of human racial difference only began to emerge du...

This book brings together leading researchers from around the world to examine key questions around 'race', ethnicity and racism in sport coaching....

From the very inception of the United States, few issues have been so divisive and defining as American slavery. Even as the U.S. was founded on pr...

Reducere. Technically speaking, slavery was not legal in the English-speaking world before the mid-seventeenth century. But long before race-based slavery wa...

Reducere. Iolanda Tighiliu prezinta, in acest volum, locul și rolul Bisericii – in special contribuția slujitorilor sfintelor altare – in viața spirituala a ...

Building on the previous edition's success, this book tells the story of English from its early stages to today's still-evolving language, using re...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): He BianIllustration(s): 9 b/w illus. 3 tables. 4 maps.Number of pages: 264Publication date: 2022Dim...

This edited collection provides a uniquely expansive history of how corruption has undermined and exercised public life in modern Britain, from the...

This volume updates current assumptions about the early modern English sonnet and its reception and inclusion in poetic collections. It deals both ...

Reducere. "Acknowledgement is the first step in the journey of unpacking the ways our cities are built with systems of power and erasure. True reconciliation...

The concept of cultural history has in the last few decades come to the fore of historical research into early modern Europe. Due in no small part ...

This book describes the English language between the years 1500 and 1700 - the different varieties of the language, the attitudes of its speakers t...

Publisher: Modern Language Association of AmericaNumber of pages: 396Collection: Options for Teaching 25Publication date: 2010Cover type: HardbackE...

Brings to light largely unreported and unanalysed types of non-standard relative clauses in everyday English. A sophisticated and empirically rich ...