Inheritance: The tragedy of Mary Davies. Property & madness in eighteenth-century London, Paperback - Leo Hollis

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...

The tragic story of madness, forced marriages and how the super-rich came to own London

The story of London, told through twelve of its most seminal buildings. 'Excellent ...this is an imaginative book that finds a convincing new way t...

The remarkable and inspiring story of how London was transformed after the Great Fire of 1666 into the most powerful city in the world, and the men...

The dramatic untold story of the Grey sisters, heirs to the Tudor throne. 'Leanda de Lisle brings the story of nine days' queen, Lady Jane Grey and...

Felice Giardini and Professional Music Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London explores Giardini's influence on British musical life through his m...

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

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 ...

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

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

Reducere. Macbeth is Shakespeare's shortest, darkest and most violent tragedy. Although initially written to interest and perhaps flatter James I, it has est...

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Contributor(s): Author: Elizabeth CaryEditor: Karen BritlandThe Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry is a Jacobean closet drama by Elizabeth ...

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A new edition of this seminal survey on the history of graphic design in the twentieth century.Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Richard Hol...

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

"In this necessary tale grappling with some of the prickly parts of life--mental health, loss, friendship--Spears proves once again that she's a ma...

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

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

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

An unexplained disappearance spirals into an unrelenting murder mystery. In October 2014, local Michigan police chief Laura Frizzo faced a perplexi...

A study of the internal tensions of British imperial rule told through murder and insanity trialsPublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Catheri...

Reducere. For this updated critical edition of King Lear, Lois Potter has written a completely new introduction, taking account of recent productions and rei...

A play of darkness originally conceived for daylight performance at the Globe, Macbeth is a tour de force of theatrical illusion from the supernatu...

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

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

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

In September 1726, Mary Toft was found to have given birth to seventeen rabbits in Godalming, Surrey. The case caused a sensation and was reported ...

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

Reducere. The Tragedy of Kabul Bank is the story of a massive fraud, deception and betrayal by a group of crony capitalists aided and abetted by the then hig...

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

Collecting diverse critical perspectives on the topic of play - from dolls, bilboquets, and lotteries, to writing itself - this volume offers new i...

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

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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...

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Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

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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...