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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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Hilary Sapire
British Royal Visits and Black Loyalism in Twentieth-century Southern Africa

Exploring the entwined histories of British royal visits to Southern Africa in the twentieth century, this book analyses the clashing voices of dissent and cheering crowds that accompanied royal tours, pr…

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Harriet Constable
The Instrumentalist

A dazzling historical debut set in eighteenth-century Venice, about the woman written out of the story of one of history's greatest musical masterpieces'Enthralling, passionate, vivid. The Instrumentalist…

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Tom Jones
George Berkeley

A comprehensive intellectual biography of the Enlightenment philosopher In George Berkeley: A Philosophical Life, Tom Jones provides a comprehensive account of the life and work of the preeminent Irish p…

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Jack Hartnell
Wound Man

A spectacularly illustrated history of an enigmatic surgical diagramThe Wound Man-a medical diagram depicting a figure fantastically pierced by weapons and ravaged by injuries and diseases-was reproduced …

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Christopher Baker
Creator of Nightmares

A critical biography of the eighteenth-century painter.Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) was one of the eighteenth century's most provocative and inventive artists. He is best known for his painting The Nightmare …

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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