The French Traveler: Adventure, Exploration & Indian Life In Eighteenth-Century Canada, Paperback - William D. Gairdner

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

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 ...

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

Reducere. White Mughals is the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that crossed and transcended all the cultural, religious and p...

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

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

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Reducere. THE FIRST FULLY ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHY OF JAPAN'S GREATEST SWORDSMANMiyamoto Musashi (1584-1645) is the most celebrated swordsman in Japanese histor...

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

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

Reducere. The French and Indian War was the world's first truly global conflict. When the French lost to the British in 1763, they lost their North American ...

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

Reducere. In the early morning of September 8, 1755, a force of French Regulars, Canadians and Indians crouched unseen in a ravine south of Lake George. Unde...

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 ...

William Ellis, who lived and farmed at Little Gaddesden in Hertfordshire in the first half of the eighteenth century (d. 1759), is an important fig...

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...

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

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

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

In early 1790, a young Virginia frontiersman and former medical student travel to the Ohio Country to serve as a scout for the U.S. Army in the Nor...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat is the point? What is the purpose of life? Why must I suffer the stress, and anxiety that comes with it? Why does it all seem so ha...

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

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

Reducere. DescriptionWILLIAM GAIRDNER has published a dozen books, a half-dozen journal articles, and hundreds of insightful essays online. As a consequence,...

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

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

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...

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

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

Many more people encountered newspapers, business press products or jobbing print than the glamorous books of the Enlightenment. This book looks at...

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

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

Reducere. In the early morning of September 8, 1755, a force of French Regulars, Canadians and Indians crouched unseen in a ravine south of Lake George. Unde...

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

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

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

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

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In 1841 U.S. government authorities sent Major Ethan Allen Hitchcock to Indian Territory to investigate numerous charges of fraud and profiteering ...

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

The book offers new perspectives on works that were central to the visual and literary culture of the Anglo-American world-ephemeral print-but whic...

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

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

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

Revealing the origins of graduate folklore programs, as well as their accomplishments, challenges, and connections, Folklore in the United States a...