Capitalism and the Emergence of Civic Equality in Eighteenth-Century France

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

This is the first book for a century to explore the development of French opera with spoken dialogue from its beginnings. David Charlton considers ...

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Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Colin McGinnNumber of pages: 208Collection: The MIT PressPublication date: 2017Dimensions: 138 x 203 x 15Cover t...

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

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DescriptionShowcasing diverse methodologies, this volume illuminates London's role in the development of a European art market at the turn of the n...

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

In the latter decades of the nineteenth century, in the midst of dramatic and far-reaching developments, humanity's ancient relationship with God w...

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

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 ...

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The kaleidoscope, the stereoscope, and other nineteenth-century optical toys analyzed as "new media" of their era, provoking anxieties similar to o...

All those who despair at the state of the world and its multiple problems will find in this book ambitious but reasonable proposals that will give ...

The Great Fire of 1835 nearly leveled Manhattan-consuming some 700 buildings-yet also created the ashes from which the city was reborn. Manhattan P...

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

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

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An interdisciplinary cultural history of exploration and mountaineering in the nineteenth century

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Though persistently overshadowed by the Great War in historical memory, the two Balkan conflicts of 1912-1913 were among the most consequential of ...

When this book first appeared in 1972, Karsten, a former naval officer, was taken to task for its portrayal of the Naval Academy and the officer co...

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

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

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

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...

Initially created to counteract broadcasts from Nazi Germany, the BBC's Eastern Service became a cauldron of global modernism and an unlikely nexus...

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DescriptionThe impeachment trial of Warren Hastings lasted from 1788 until 1795. Hastings was the first Governor-General of Bengal and his trial ha...

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The first book to systematically reconstruct the centrality of women's labor to eighteenth-century personal credit relationships, To Her Credit wil...

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

Publisher: Bloomsbury AcademicAuthor(s): Peter (University of Kent, UK) GoodNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 163 x 241 x 22Cov...

Shoplifting in Eighteenth-Century England examines the nature and impact on society of this commercial crime at a time of rapid retail expansion du...

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DescriptionHow competing visions of world order in the 1940s gave rise to the modern concept of globalismDuring and after the Second World War, pub...