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Explores the art of acting in Europe between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, demonstrating how stage acting was understood as a branch of r...

Scholars of eighteenth-century Britain, Ireland, and Enlightenment theatre will welcome this book as it uncovers the considerable contribution made...

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

In this ground-breaking work, Bridget Orr shows that popular eighteenth-century theatre was about much more than fashion, manners and party politic...

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Anecdotes of Enlightenment is the first literary history of the anecdote in English. In this wide-ranging account, James Robert Wood explores the a...

Reducere. The Enlightenment is often either praised as the wellspring of modern egalitarianism or condemned as the cradle of scientific racism. How should we...

This book shows how British Enlightenment writers and thinkers used science as a metaphor to reconfigure evidence and authority, to reimagine the s...

This book interrogates the enduring and controversial legend of Casanova, from a seducer of women to a man of science and key participant in the En...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Rebecca CypessIllustration(s): 39 halftones, 29 line drawingsNumber of pages: 368Publication d...

Presents accessible, translated selections from the writings of fifteen major Catholic Enlightenment authors, including women, priests, lay intelle...

The Enlightenment that Failed explores the growing rift between those Enlightenment trends and initiatives that appealed exclusively to elites and ...

Reducere. In a brilliant recreation of the epoch between the 1770s and the 1820s, Emma Rothschild reinterprets the ideas of the great revolutionary political...

Reducere. Is our Greek and Roman heritage merely allusive and illusory? Or were our founders, and so our republican beginnings, truly steeped in the stuff of...

In the wake of the Scientific Revolution, the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw the complete demolition of traditional structures of au...

Reducere. The follow-up to Pinker's groundbreaking The Better Angels of Our Nature presents the big picture of human progress: people are living longer, heal...

This book focuses on how Enlightenment ideas shaped plantation management and slave work routines. It shows how work dictated slaves' experiences a...

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A sweeping history of premodern architecture told through the material of stonePublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Fabio BarryIllustration(s...

This volume examines the Enlightenment-era textualization of the Black African in European thought. Andrew S. Curran rewrites the history of blackn...

A fascinating collective biography of six female scientists in eighteenth-century France, whose stories were largely written out of history This bo...

A bold new look at war and diplomacy in Europe that traces the idea of a unified continent in attempts since the eighteenth century to engineer las...

Through accessible prose, ethnographically-grounded analysis, and emotionally compelling stories, this book explores the rich pastiche of daily lif...

James Watt is celebrated as the inventor of the energy efficient pumping and rotative steam engines. Studies of Watt have focused on his inventiven...

Reducere. The Military Enlightenment brings to light a radically new narrative both on the Enlightenment and the French armed forces from Louis XIV to Napole...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Andrzej WalickiNumber of pages: 476Publication date: 1979Dimensions: 227 x 153 x 27Cover type: Paper...

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Reducere. In the late-18th century, a group of publishers in what historian Robert Darnton calls the "Fertile Crescent" countries located along the French bo...

Presents an analysis of one of history's greatest intellectual epochs: the Enlightenment. Arguing that there was a common foundation beneath the di...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Thomas D. WilsonThe statesman and reformer James Oglethorpe was a significant figure in the philosophical and political lan...

This innovative study of political upheaval, revolution and Enlightenment in Europe views this tumultuous period through the prism of printed texts...

During and especially after World War II, a group of leading scholars who had been perilously close to the war's devastation joined others fortunat...

The first study of popular eighteenth-century English theatre to engage with voices of radical dissent that argued for religious toleration, attack...

Reducere. GONG YOGA is a comprehensive book on practicing and teaching yoga with the sound of the gong. You will learn about the origin, history and use of t...

Avram Alpert combines personal experience and readings of modern novels to offer another way to understand modern Buddhism. He argues that it repre...

Reducere. Although the Enlightenment is often associated with the emergence of human rights and humanitarian sensibility, humanity is an elusive category in ...

Reducere. At the beginning of the eighteenth century most European Jews lived in restricted settlements and urban ghettos, isolated from the surrounding domi...

Reducere. A study in the formation and development of a Soviet government institution after the Revolution of October 1917. The commissariat - which was resp...

DescriptionAn acclaimed biography of the Enlightenment's greatest mathematicianThis is the first full-scale biography of Leonhard Euler (1707-1783)...

Reducere. A lively examination of the life and work of one of the great Enlightenment intellectuals Philosopher, translator, novelist, art critic, and editor...

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

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Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Ross CarrollNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 155 x 234 x 20Cover type: Paperba...

Reducere. Inspired by the reading and writing habits of citizens leading up to the French Revolution, The Writing Public is a compelling addition to the long...

Reducere. The "spiritual but not religious" are the fastest-growing denomination on America today. Yet what are the roadmaps? What does the spiritual search ...

An engaging and unique study of Enlightenment philosopher David Hume's understanding of money and his role in the rise of capitalismIllustrations: ...

At this stalled and disillusioned juncture in postcolonial history--when many anticolonial utopias have withered into a morass of exhaustion, corru...

"Expanded, revised and translated edition of Goauter le monde: une histoire culturelle du goaut aa l'aepoque moderne, published in French by PIE Pe...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Max HorkheimerAuthor: Theodor W. AdornoEditor: Gunzelin Schmid NoeriDialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most infl...

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

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A Longman-History Today Book Prize FinalistWinner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial PrizeA Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year"Deeply thought...

Publisher: Redcliffe Press LtdAuthor(s): Michael SymesNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 212 x 269 x 15Cover type: Paperback / s...

DescriptionAfter the Enlightenment is the first attempt at understanding modern political realism as a historical phenomenon. Realism is not an ete...

This book offers the first extended comparison of the philosophies of Gilles Deleuze and David Hume.

Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment has come to be regarded as a classic work in 18th-century Scottish history and Enlightenment st...

This is a study of Enlightenment in Edinburgh like no other. Using data and models provided by urban studies theory, it pinpoints the distinctive f...

Addresses the philosophy and politics of slavery during the French Enlightenment. This book scrutinizes Condorcet's "Reflections on Negro Slavery" ...

Reducere. Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment Isn't One Kind of Enlightenment - It's the Only Kind THE MARK OF A TRUE MASTER is that he can express a subject...

In Vodou Cosmology and the Haitian Revolution in the Enlightenment Ideals of Kant and Hegel, Vivaldi Jean-Marie begins with an interpretation of th...

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Reducere. From a Spiritual Master Unlike Any, A Spiritual Masterpiece Like No Other AUTHOR, TEACHER AND SPIRITUAL MASTER Jed McKenna tells it like it's never...

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

This treatise challenges Western assumptions concerning medieval Tantric Buddhism. The author draws on interviews and archival research to demonstr...

In this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia's medieval enli...

Reducere. Few teachers in the West possess both the spiritual training and the scholarship to lead us along the path to enlightenment. Robert Thurman is one ...

The fascinating story of how the modern, Western view of the world was born. It offers an insightful panorama of Enlightenment thought, and persuas...

Reducere. Are you ready to play some Dungeons and Fucking Dragons? The Kobold Wizard's Dildo of Enlightenment +2 is an absurd comedy about a group of adventu...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Hemadpant DabholkarTranslator: Nagesh Vasudev GunajiEditor: Evan RofheartWho was Shirdi Sai Baba? Baba lived all his adult ...

Reducere. SACRED REVOLUTION: A Woman's path to Love, Power & Sensual Enlightenment. This is a woman's book of sensual enlightenment - a sacred revolution tha...