Enlightenment. Discovering the World in the Eighteenth Century, Paperback - ***

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

Publisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Evelyn S. RawskiNumber of pages: 270Publication date: 1989Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 15Cover type: Paperbac...

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

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...

Medicine was transformed in the eighteenth century. Aligning the trajectories of intellectual and material wealth, this book uncovers how medicine ...

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

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

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...

Through studies of the literature of Antoine Francois Prevost, Claude Crebillon, Pierre de Marivaux, and Francoise de Graffigny among others, Rutle...

Publisher: Unicorn Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Philip KellewayIllustration(s): 110 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2021Dim...

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

The mesmerising story of the eighteenth-century financier of genius who rose from humble Scottish origins to control of the purse-strings of the mo...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Gillian JonesIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 62Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 233 x 9Co...

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

George Washington was inaugurated as president in 1789 with one tooth in his mouth, a lower left bicuspid. The Father of His Country had sets of fa...

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

Reducere. In the mid-eighteenth century, the French naturalist Buffon contended that the New World was in fact geologically new--that it had recently emerged...

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University PressAuthor(s): Robert James MerrettNumber of pages: 384Collection: McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of I...

This collection of essays addresses the belly and the bowels as key elements in our understanding of eighteenth-century mentalities, emotions, and ...

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

This collection centres on the remarkable life and career of the writer and actor Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821), active in Great Britain in the la...

Publisher: Hodder EducationAuthor(s): Keith ShephardIllustration(s): colour illustrations, glossary, indexNumber of pages: 136Collection: ReDiscove...

Publisher: Bucknell University PressAuthor(s): George E. HaggertyNumber of pages: 186Collection: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850...

This comprehensive work on the development of summary jurisdiction, early policing and the emergence of London's embryonic modern criminal justice ...

The 'whores' and 'highwaymen' of the title are just some of the dubious characters met within this absorbing work, including thief-takers, trading ...

This book examines how sensory experience is conceptualised during the eighteenth century. It draws novel connections between theories of perceptio...

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

Contributor(s): Author: Peter McNeilThe term "macaroni" was once as familiar a label as "punk" or "hipster" is today. In this handsomely illustrate...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

This Element provides an overview of the Reinventing Capitalism series, explains the background of its development and contains eight sections that...

Women in Wartime demonstrates the startling acuity and prescience of the repertoire in responding to the war-steeped culture of the period.Publishe...

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

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

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

This book offers the first full-length study of Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets and clarifies its 'place' - in multiple ways - in literary histor...