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Sandrine Bergès
Why Read Wollstonecraft Today?

What relevance does Mary Wollstonecraft's thought have today? In this insightful book, Sandrine Bergès engages Wollstonecraft with contemporary social and political issues, demonstrating how this pioneeri…

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A Marvellous Science

You can find a reading sample at "https://verlag.sandstein.de/reader/98-865_WunderWissenschaft-engl" Early eighteenth-century Europe was possessed by an ardent enthusiasm for the new material of…

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Temporalities, Texts, Ideologies

Temporalities, Texts, Ideologies provides a new analysis of the significance of time in Classical and early modern literature, demonstrating that literary temporality continually intervenes in questions o…

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Nathan L. M. Tabor
City of Lyrics

For centuries, Urdu-speaking poets and their audiences have gathered for mushāʿirahs, literary competitions for spoken-word verse. Today the mushāʿirah is a global phenomenon, as audiences in the millions…

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Economic Warfare and Sanctions Since 1688

How have economic warfare and sanctions been applied in modern history, with what success and with what unintended consequences? In this book, leading economic historians provide answers through case stud…

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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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Economic Warfare and Sanctions Since 1688

How have economic warfare and sanctions been applied in modern history, with what success and with what unintended consequences? In this book, leading economic historians provide answers through case stud…

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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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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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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 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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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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Anthony R. Deldonna
Naples, Capital of Dance

Renowned as a city of entertainment, Naples was unequaled in eighteenth-century Italy for the diversity of its musical life. During the reigns of Carlo di Borbone and his heir Ferdinando IV, the sponsorsh…

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Leith Davis
Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland

Mediating Cultural Memory is the first book to analyze the relationship between cultural memory, national identity and the changing media ecology in early eighteenth-century Britain. Leith Davis focuses o…

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Raymond Malewitz
Animal Illness and the Literary Imagination

This book shows how major literary works from the eighteenthcentury to the present not only reflect but also shape the thoughts and anxieties of people struggling to navigate crises brought about by anima…

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Catherine Hall
Lucky Valley

Why does Edward Long's History of Jamaica matter? Written in 1774, Long's History, that most 'civilised' of documents, attempted to define White and Black as essentially different and unequal. Long deploy…

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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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An Unavoidable Evil: Siege Warfare in the Age of Napoleon

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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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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