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Johanna Frymoyer
Modernist Movements

Topic theory examines the lexicon of conventions that emerged in the late eighteenth century through which composers evoked dances, marches, hunting, the pastoral, and the supernatural. While scholars hav…

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An Unavoidable Evil: Siege Warfare in the Age of Napoleon

From Reason to Revolution 1721-1815

Sieges were the exception, rather than the norm, of the Napoleonic Wars. This simple truth may seem unremarkable to the modern reader, yet it represented a significant shift from the norms of eighteenth-c…

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Lottery fantasies, follies, and controversies

The volume explores the ways in which the lottery was imagined in early modern and long eighteenth-century Europe. It presents a series of interconnected case studies from Denmark-Norway, the German-speak…

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Jane Austen,
Northanger Abbey

The Cambridge Jane Austen

Northanger Abbey is both an ingenious Gothic parody and a realistic portrait of the social education of a naive young girl in late eighteenth-century England. Conceived in the 1790s but not published unti…

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James E Caron,
Comic Belles Lettres

Comic Belles Lettres presents a significant rethinking of standard categories in scholarship on antebellum American humor--such as Old Southwest humorists and literary comedians--to provide a richer analy…

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James Grehan
Empire of Manners

Stanford Ottoman World Series: Critical Studies in Empire, Nature, and Knowledge

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Analyzes the restoration of St. Davids Cathedral in Wales using previously unpublished texts.This study of a previously unpublished manuscript is a significant witness to the vigorous life of St. Davids C…

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Kate Smith
Keeping Hold

What did it mean to possess something - or someone - in eighteenth-century Britain? What was the relationship between owning things and a person's character and reputation, and even their sense of self? A…

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A Companion to French Art

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

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Kate Smith
Keeping Hold

What did it mean to possess something - or someone - in eighteenth-century Britain? What was the relationship between owning things and a person's character and reputation, and even their sense of self? A…

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Questioning Credible Commitment

Financial capitalism emerged in a recognisably modern form in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Great Britain. Following the seminal work of Douglass C. North and Barry R. Weingast (1989), many sch…

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Nicole Nehrig
With Her Own Hands

Psychologist and knitter Nicole Nehrig delves into the myriad ways that art forms such as knitting, sewing and embroidery are liberating for women. Spanning continents and centuries, Nehrig brings togethe…

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David Chanoff
Anthony Benezet

Wilberforce, Clarkson, Wesley. Britain's great abolitionist activist Granville Sharp. Each of these consequential figures of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world were galvanized by the moral power of a m…

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Anthony Phillip Blasi
Frontier Rangers of Colonial New England

Warfare in the WildernessFew images reflect the character of hardy New Englanders like that of the eighteenth-century colonial ranger. Rugged characters such as Robert Rogers, Israel Putnam and John Stark…

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Andreas Caminada
Beyond Peaks

Experience the extraordinary food and philosophy of Schloss Schauenstein, the three-Michelin-starred culinary destination in the heart of the Swiss AlpsSchloss Schauenstein is more than a restaurant - it …

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Zoe Ann Griffith
Egypt's Mediterranean

Egypt's Mediterranean explores the intersections of commerce and statecraft in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire through the lives of overlooked intermediaries who lived and worked on Egypt's Mediterr…

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Peter Budrin
Laurence Sterne and His Readers in Early Soviet Russia

This book examines the 1920s and 1930s as a critical juncture in the history of the Russian reception of Laurence Sterne, author of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy (1759-1767) and A Sentimental J…

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Gillian Russell
The Ephemeral Eighteenth Century

Often regarded as trivial and disposable, printed ephemera, such as tickets, playbills and handbills, was essential in the development of eighteenth-century culture. In this original study, richly illustr…

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Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative
Writing Architectural History

Over the past two decades, scholarship in architectural history has transformed, moving away from design studio pedagogy and postmodern historicism to draw instead from trends in critical theory focusing …

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Stacey Margolis
Future Is Fiction

The Future is Fiction is the first cultural history of the idea that people have an obligation to protect the world for future generations. While political philosophers have regarded intergenerational jus…

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