Trefferliste "Eighteenthcentury" - alle Bücher, CDs, Super Audio CDs und mehr

Tom M. Devine

The Tobacco Lords

In the eighteenth century, Glasgow and its outports became the dominant force in the highly lucrative tobacco commerce from the Americas to Europe. This prize-winning book explains why such remarkable suc…

Natania Meeker

Illusive Materialisms

"This compelling and timely book makes an innovative argument that should substantially reframe the field. In Meeker's sensitive readings, women authors who did not engage explicitly or dogmatically …

Natania Meeker

Illusive Materialisms

Examining a strain of feminine speculative thought that resonates with contemporary efforts to recenter pleasure.

Ruth Mack

Handicraft Philosophies

"The term "Enlightenment" still carries its tie to a grand philosophical tradition that in Britain moves through Bacon, Locke, and Hume. But the literature and philosophy of the Enlightenme…

Carolyn Day

Remembering Anne Beach

Remembering Anne Beach explores illness, love, and scandal in eighteenth-century Britain through the eyes of one doomed couple.

Ruth Mack

Handicraft Philosophies

"The term "Enlightenment" still carries its tie to a grand philosophical tradition that in Britain moves through Bacon, Locke, and Hume. But the literature and philosophy of the Enlightenme…

Louis-Sebastian Mercier

Neighbours and Rivals

The great French journalist Louis-Sébastien Mercier's descriptions of an optimistic, utopian 18th-century London. First English translation by Laurent Turcot and Jonathan Conlin. Contemporary illustration…

Franny Moyle

Mrs Kauffman and Madame Le Brun

From the acclaimed author of *The King's Painter,*a vivid life-and-times biography of two unjustly neglected women artists, Angelica Kauffman and Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun.

Norifumi Daito

Sugar and the Indian Ocean World

Tracing the history of the sugar trade and its consumption in the Persian Gulf during the 18th century, this book explores the interplay of social, economic and political interests created by this popular…

Anne Murphy

Virtuous Bankers

An intimate account of the eighteenth-century Bank of England that shows how a private institution became "a great engine of state"The eighteenth-century Bank of England was an institution that …

Stephanie M Hilger,

Medicalizing Difference

Exploring 18th-century medicine's construction of individuals with non-standard sexual anatomy as "hermaphrodites", this book draws on insights from gender, critical race, and disability studies.

Nigel Aston

Enlightened Oxford

Enlightened Oxford takes a fresh look at the eighteenth-century University of Oxford and its relation to the state, society, and religion of the time, and how a long-established institution managed to nav…

Roman Alexander Barton

The Making of the Sympathetic Imagination

How is it that we feel with fictional characters and so approve or disapprove of their actions? For many British Enlightenment thinkers writing at a time when sympathy was the pivot of ethics as well as p…

Adam James Smith, Dominic Bridge, John Hinks, Rachel Stenner

The People of Print

This collection profiles understudied figures in the book and print trades of the eighteenth century. With an explicit focus on intervening in the critical history of the trades, this volume profiles seve…

Matthew P Brown

The Novel and the Blank

"This book explores eighteenth-century British American print shops, highlighting their diverse output--including blank forms, novels, and religious tracts-and their impact on literary culture, the p…

Händel-Jahrbuch 2024, 70. Jahrgang

Amanda Auerbach

Getting Lost in the Novel

"Focusing on the psychological needs that drew readers in the past - and that still draw readers today - to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels, Amanda Auerbach reveals the conditions within re…

Michael Schneider - The Baroque Recorder Concerto (An Anthology)

Michael Schneider, Cappella Academica Frankfurt, La Stagione Frankfurt, Camerata Köln

Johann Mattheson (1681-1764)

Weihnachtsoratorium "Die heilsame Geburt"

Nicki Kennedy, Anna Crookes, Stephan MacLeod, Andreas Post, Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens