The Usufructuary Ethos. Power, Politics, and Environment in the Long Eighteenth Century, Hardback - Erin Drew

Traces the usufructuary ethos from the religious and legal writings of the seventeenth century through mid-eighteenth-century poems of colonial com...

Our Early Modern period runs from 1700 to 1815. England was never at peace. Yet the primary sources show that parties with disputes got on with the...

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

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

Demonstrating the centrality of animals to an eighteenth-century literary and philosophical tradition, Animals and Other People argues for the impo...

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

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

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

Reducere. How did castrati manage to amaze their eighteenth-century audiences by singing the same aria several times in completely different ways? And how co...

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...

Examines how and why marriage plots became the English novel's most popular form in the eighteenth century. This book will be of interest to studen...

The period from 1650 to 1800 was a time of immense change in Scotland, witnessing the Union of 1707, the Jacobite Risings, and the flowering of the...

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

Sheds new light on the cultural origins and practical ambitions of the French Revolution through an analysis of debates over education in eighteent...

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

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

This historical study shows how the peach emerged as a viable commodity precisely when the South was desperate for an improved reputation. The book...

Reducere. The phenomenon of caste has probably aroused more controversy than any other aspect of Indian life. This volume explores the emergence of ideas and...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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...

Eighteenth-century theatre critics reserved their highest praise for the transitions of a play, recognising its most striking passages as moments o...

The 'whores' and 'highwaymen' of the title are just some of the dubious characters met within this absorbing work, including thief-takers, trading ...

The dramatic story of a tumultuous period of English history - a time when kings fell, families were split and a way of life was lost forever. Pack...

Publisher: Bucknell University PressAuthor(s): George E. HaggertyNumber of pages: 186Collection: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850...

Publisher: Transcript VerlagAuthor(s): Nadine Boehm-schnitkerNumber of pages: 220Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 149 x 225 x 21Cover type: Paperb...

This book examines how sensory experience is conceptualised during the eighteenth century. It draws novel connections between theories of perceptio...

This is the first book for a century to explore the development of French opera with spoken dialogue from its beginnings. David Charlton considers ...

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 ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury AcademicAuthor(s): Peter (University of Kent, UK) GoodNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 163 x 241 x 22Cov...

Introduces the concepts of emergy and transformity. This book presents the natural energies such as solar radiation and the cycling of water, carbo...

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

The first in a two-part volume offering an authoritative account of the relationship between literature and medicine during the eighteenth century....

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

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

Starting from the key concept of geo-economics, this book investigates the new power politics and argues that the changing structural features of t...

Reducere. This book brings together key essays that seek to make visible and expand our understanding of the role of government (policies, programs, and inve...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Alan R. H. (University of Cambridge, UK) BakerIllustration(s): 13 MapsNumber of pages: 248Publica...

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

Looking at the careers of significant political commentators of the 20th century, this sourcebook includes print and broadcast journalists, scholar...

Approaches Greek political and military history in the fourth century BC from the perspective of Thebes and neighbouring Phocis. The authors uncove...