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Nicholas Mcdowell
Comic Enlightenment

How the seventeenth-century translations of notoriously obscene tales by Rabelais shaped some of the great works of eighteenth-century English fictionFrançois Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel ---loosel…

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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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Danielle Allen
Radical Duke

When Danielle Allen discovered a parchment of the Declaration of Independence buried away in Sussex, little did she know that she had stumbled onto a larger story that fundamentally changes our understand…

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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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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

University of Wales Press

Analyzes the restoration of St. Davids Cathedral in Wales using previously unpublished texts.This study of a previously unpublished manuscript is a significant witness to the vigorous life of St. Davids C…

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Evgeniya Prusskaya
The French Campaign in Egypt, 1798-1801

War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850

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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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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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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Nicole Nehrig
With Her Own Hands

WW Norton & Co

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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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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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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Alexis De Tocqueville,
The Old Regime and the Revolution, Volume II

The continuation of Alexis de Tocqueville's great meditation on the origins and meanings of the French Revolution.With his monumental work The Old Regime and the Revolution , Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-5…

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Elena Fabietti
Glass Bodies

Cultural Memory in the Present

Glass Bodies tells the story of how transparent humans have appeared throughout European history -- in fiction, philosophy, and science -- and what they reveal about changing ideas of the human.The book t…

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Ana Lucia Araujo
The Gift

Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora

The Gift explores how objects of prestige contributed to cross-cultural exchanges between Africans and Europeans during the Atlantic slave trade. An eighteenth-century silver ceremonial sword, commissione…

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Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair
Dares Paradise

The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation

Two long poems by eighteenth-century Scottish Gaelic poet, Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, revived and reintroduced for twenty-first century Anglophone readersLittle of Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair'…

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Katherine Walker
The Norms of Taste and the Music of Mozart

The Norms of Taste and the Music of Mozartuncovers what contemporaries meant when they praised composers like Mozart for their "good taste" and, in the process, illustrates how judgments of tast…

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Theresa Shiban
The Firing

A reimagining of the life of an extraordinary eighteenth-century woman. Eleanor Coade was a British sculptor and businesswoman whose artificial stone - Coade stone - was used by every leading architect of…

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Cassidy Percoco
Eighteenth Century Women's Dress

Eighteenth Century Women's Dress: Techniques and Patternsfeatures patterns drawn from twenty-seven extant eighteenth-century women's garments in museum collections, with a focus on Anglo-American and Fren…

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Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair
Dares Paradise

The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation

Two long poems by eighteenth-century Scottish Gaelic poet, Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, revived and reintroduced for twenty-first century Anglophone readersLittle of Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair'…

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