The Acadian Diaspora: An Eighteenth-Century History, Paperback - Christopher Hodson

Reducere. Late in 1755, an army of British regulars and Massachusetts volunteers completed one of the cruelest, most successful military campaigns in North A...

The real life Pemberley.Publisher: Amberley PublishingAuthor(s): Carolyn & Peter HammondIllustration(s): 56 Illustrations, unspecified; 56 Illustra...

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...

Reducere. A seafaring story with a twist -- the incredible voyage of a shipload of disorderly girls and the men who transported them, fell for them, and sold...

An Lasair (The Flame) is a colorful new anthology of over sixty poems from one of the most dynamic periods of Gaelic literature.

The eighteenth century was the Jews' first modern century. The deep changes that took place during its course shaped the following generations, and...

The first book to evoke the fantasy world of turquerie in all its diversity and richness in eighteenth-century Europe.

Reducere. A seafaring story with a twist--the incredible voyage of a shipload of "disorderly girls" and the men who transported them, fell for them, and sold...

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

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

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

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

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Danielle BobkerIllustration(s): 32 b/w illus.Number of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: ...

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

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...

During the 18th century, there was a great proliferation of poetry published by women. Most of their work has since fallen into obscurity and their...

DescriptionThe journal of Philadelphia Quaker Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker (1735-1807) is perhaps the single most significant personal record of eigh...

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

One of England's most respected and influential architects, James Gibbs was born in Scotland, studied in Rome, and left a legacy of design the worl...

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

This volume offers 18 studies linked together by a common focus on the circulation and reception of motifs and beliefs in the field of folklore, ma...

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

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

Take a romp through the long eighteenth-century in this collection of 25 short tales - meet actresses, whores and high-born ladies, politicians, in...

Oriental Networks explores forms of interconnectedness between Western and Eastern hemispheres during the long eighteenth century, a period of impr...

Reducere. Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Anisfield-Wolf Award Winner In New York Burning, Bancroft Prize-winning historian Jill Lepore recounts these dramatic e...

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

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

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

Reducere. The book "" The Bookbinder in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg; An Account of His Life & Times, & of His Craft, has been considered important throug...

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

Lady Hyegyong's memoirs, which recount the chilling murder of her husband by his father, form one of the best known and most popular classics of Ko...

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

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...

Through analysis of the life and writings of eighteenth-century Quaker artist and author Mary Knowles, Judith Jennings uncovers concrete but comple...

Reducere. Jewish Igbo scholar Remy Ilona presents and analyzes Judaic history, practices and concept within the Igbo culture of Nigeria. Remy has been honore...

Publisher: Rowman & LittlefieldAuthor(s): Dong WangIllustration(s): Illustrations, unspecified; Tables; Black & White IllustrationsNumber of pages:...

DescriptionTragedy and destruction abound in this region and in these pages, but heroism, glory and Cajun flair come in equal measure. From the imp...

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

85 authentic recipes for your manor or boarding house ... The mouthwatering Poldark cookery book you've dreamed about The ultimate gift for Poldark...

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...

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

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...

Reducere. In the spring of 1793, eighteen-year-old Nancy Randolph, the fetching daughter of one of the greatest of the great Virginia tobacco planters, was a...

First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Paul Langford's Very Short Introduction to Eighteenth-Centur...

A celebratory volume that gathers distinguished eighteenth-century studies scholars to honor the achievements, professional generosity, and sociabi...

Reducere. A century on, the twisted wreckage from the Ricohoc disaster smolders, passenger trains turned into husks amid predawn fog. Would-be assassins draw...

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 ...

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 ...