Eighteenthcentury – Bücher, CDs, Blu-ray Discs und mehr, Seite 8

Robert Demaria, Daniel Hitchens
The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson is a towering figure of eighteenth-century literature. As well as the celebrated Dictionary of the English Language, Johnson was the leading literary critic of his time, and a celebrated au…

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Evgeniya Prusskaya
The French Campaign in Egypt, 1798-1801

This book examines the cultural encounter and conflict that arose during the French occupation of Egypt (1798--1801) by analyzing mutual perceptions of the French and Egyptians. It investigates how the im…

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The Governance of St Davids 1600-1740

Analyzes the restoration of St. Davids Cathedral in Wales using previously unpublished texts.This study of a previously unpublished manuscript is a significant witness to the vigorous life of St. Davids C…

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James Grehan
Empire of Manners

It is easy to believe that manners are empty gestures, little more than social artifice or practiced etiquette whose sole purpose is to project civility and facilitate social interaction. But if we look m…

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Paolo Santori
The Three Economic Enlightenments

When people wonder about the appropriate course of action in a given situation, they are already engaging in moral reasoning. This also applies to the field of business, where an understanding of ethics c…

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Michael J. Douma
The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York

Original and deeply researched, this book provides a new interpretation of Dutch American slavery which challenges many of the traditional assumptions about slavery in New York. With an emphasis on demogr…

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Kelly Kaelin
Women, Race, and the Moravian Church in the Early Modern Atlantic World

"Women , Race, and the Moravian Church in the Early Modern Atlantic World is an important and timely study marking a new direction for scholarship on the intersection of gender, race, and religion in…

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James Grehan
Empire of Manners

It is easy to believe that manners are empty gestures, little more than social artifice or practiced etiquette whose sole purpose is to project civility and facilitate social interaction. But if we look m…

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Stephen A Harris
Catesby's Natural History

A beautiful reproduction of naturalist Mark Catesby's flora and fauna illustrations of North America and the Caribbean.Mark Catesby was an eighteenth-century naturalist and artist whose work on the natura…

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Wiley Blackwell Companion to French Art

A comprehensive exploration of the evolutions, innovations, and legacies of French art from the late eighteenth-century to the present Charting the artistic eras from the transformative upheavals of the F…

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Cameron Sullivan
The Red Winter

**Inspired by the eighteenth-century legend of the Beast of Gévaudan,The Red Winter is a lusty, dark, queer fantasy - perfect for fans of The Witcher and Susanna Clarke. 'Charming, haunting, ambitious'T. …

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Michael G Laramie
Sentinels by the Sea

Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century warfare centered on sieges, not seeking out and destroying the enemy's army in battle. A captured fortress or town was a bargaining piece in the inevitable peace treaty…

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Diana Gabaldon
The Fiery Cross

Outlander - Band 05

Crossing the boundaries of genre with its unrivalled storytelling, Diana Gabaldon's new novel is a gift both to her millions of loyal fans and to the lucky readers who have yet to discover her. In the ten…

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John Lidwell-Durnin
Explaining Famine in the British Empire

Famine is humanity's oldest fear. Famine memorials and stories are literally carved into the stones that lie on the beds of Europe's rivers. Our science fiction and fantasy literature often begin by evoki…

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Andrea Wulf
The Traveler

Step into the life and times of George Forster, the young naturalist and revolutionary who journeyed to the far reaches of the known world and whose radical ideas about humanity and freedom made waves in …

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Lelia Packer, Charles Beddington
Canaletto and Guardi

A gorgeous celebration of the beauty of Venice as conveyed in the paintings of Canaletto and his followers.Among the renowned Old Master paintings at the Wallace Collection in London is an important group…

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Andrea Wulf
The Traveller

The Traveller spreads out before us the life and times of George Forster, who journeyed to the far reaches of the known world, and whose radical ideas about humanity, equality and freedom challenged the w…

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Anna Hope
Albion

"Albion explores the complexities of family, trauma, nature, human nature, landscape and escape in language that is as provocative as it is tender."---Miranda Cowley Heller, #1 New York Times be…

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Justin Marozzi
Captives and Companions

Slavery in the Islamic world has a long, diverse and controversial history. Captives and Companions is a brilliant synthesis of history and contemporary reportage that brings to life the voices of the ens…

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Charles Ignatius Sancho,
Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African

'In short, I write just what I think.'After a successful career in the service of an aristocratic family, Charles Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729-1780) established a successful grocery business in Westminster an…

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