Staging Civilization. A Transnational History of French Theater in Eighteenth-Century Europe, Hardback - Jane Marie Todd

Eighteenth-century France is understood to have been the dominant cultural power on that era's international scene. Considering the emblematic case...

Publisher: Zone BooksAuthor(s): Jane Marie ToddNumber of pages: 448Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 160 x 236 x 37Cover type: HardbackRedescopera ...

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

For more than a century, skin lighteners have been a ubiquitous feature of global popular culture--embraced by consumers even as they were fiercely...

The history of Japanese aviation offers countless stories of heroic achievements and dismal failures, passionate enthusiasm and sheer terror, brill...

A vibrant new history of twentieth-century Europe - covering everything from war and politics to social, cultural, and economic developments in a p...

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

Dobie explores the place of the colonial world in the culture of the French Enlightenment, tracing the displacement of colonial questions onto two ...

DescriptionPartition--the physical division of territory along ethno-religious lines into separate nation-states--is often presented as a successfu...

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University PressIllustration(s): 15 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 15...

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 ...

Publisher: Lexington BooksAuthor(s): Leo Shingchi YipIllustration(s): Illustrations, unspecified; Halftones, Black & White including Black & White ...

Offers a collection of scholarship that reveals the important French element in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century creation of the singular Medi...

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

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Micaela BaranelloIllustration(s): 39 music examples, 6 b-w photographs, 1 tableNumber of pages:...

This landmark book reveals that resistance to occupation by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy during the Second World War was not narrowly delineated ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Susan Whyman's latest book tells the story of William Hutton, a self-taught workman who rose to prominence during the Industrial Revolution in the ...

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...

The Argonauts in the Pacific have not been exempt from general historical developments in the world around them. By focusing on two plays performed...

Reducere. The ethnically and geographically heterogeneous countries that comprise Latin America have each produced music in unique styles and genres - but ho...

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

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

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...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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

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

Reducere. DescriptionThe French Traveler -- Letters to "Ch re Madame" Adventure, Exploration & Indian Life In Eighteenth-Century Canada The First English Tra...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Choi (California State University, Los Angeles, USA) ChatterjeeIllustration(s): 11 bw illu...

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

A sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe, Out of Ashes tells the story of an era of unparalleled violence and barbarity yet also of humanity,...

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

The debut publication in a new series devoted to the body as an object of historical study, Sight Correction provides an expansive analysis of blin...

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

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

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