This book examines discriminations against horses in the literature and culture of the long eighteenth century alongside changing animal welfare and anticruelty activism. In doing so, it challenges per...Lasīt vairāk
A thoughtful, lavishly illustrated, and highly readable account of the fabulous French fashion world in the pre-Revolutionary period This award-winning book, now available in paperback, chronicles one of the most exciting, controvers...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 09-Sep-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691153957)
A new intellectual biography of Goethe, examining the paradox of his thought. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was a poet, a novelist, a scientist and an essayist on a dizzying range of topics. In the nineteenth century, he was widely regarded...Lasīt vairāk
Painting the fullest picture to date of early modern Englands bilingual poetic culture, this study contextualises landmark texts ranging from Tottels miscellany to the hymns of Isaac Watts, via Shakespeare, Jonson, Herbert, Marvell, Milton and Cow...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1978 English Verse Satire aims to provide a critical study of the major English verse satirists as well as an account of the historical development of verse satire. Critical accounts are offered of important writers inclu...Lasīt vairāk
Latin Political Propaganda offers the first comprehensive study of the central role played by the Latin language to celebrate or undermine political power during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1715). Waged as much on the printed pa...Lasīt vairāk
The eighteenth century was a time of major global transitions. Movements of religious and intellectual revival challenged established ideas, European colonies emerged in the Western hemisphere, global trade expanded, and political revolutions and rev...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-May-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399540674)
How a scandalous actress influenced one of the greatest philosophers of the eighteenth century. The economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith was committed to a practical system of Morality. George Anne Bellamy was a well-known actress...Lasīt vairāk
Looks at the history and meanings of plants in the period from 1650-1800, a time of global exploration and the discovery of new species of plants and their potential uses. A Cultural History of Plants in the Seventeenth and Eighteent...Lasīt vairāk
This volume makes an important contribution to the understanding of translation theory and practice in the Early Modern period, focusing on the translation of knowledge, literature and travel-writing, and examining discussions about the role of wo...Lasīt vairāk
The Eighteenth Century: A World History shows how the eighteenth century was a distinctive period, as the world transformed from the medieval into the modern era. It tells the stories of changes in political structures, of revolutions, the e...Lasīt vairāk
A Sunday Times, Times Literary Supplement, and The Times Book of the Year Robert Darnton is one of the worlds greatest historians, and this is an exceptional book: a huge social and cultural portrait of Paris in the build-up to the French...Lasīt vairāk
Sets the progress of science and technology in its cultural context during the period often described as a chemical revolution from 1700-1815. ** A Cultural History of Chemistry: Volumes 1-6 is a 2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academi...Lasīt vairāk
A sweeping history of the Age of Reason, which shows how, although it was a time of progress in many areas, it was also an era of brutality and intolerance, by the author of The Borgias and The Florentines....Lasīt vairāk
The early German Enlightenment is seen as a reform movement that broke free from traditional ties without falling into anti-Christian and extremist positions. But how did the works which were radical and critical of religion during this period come a...Lasīt vairāk
Atlantic Circulations investigates literary conversations about empire in the British Atlantic world, c.1650-1750. Reading texts by Anne Bradstreet, John Milton, Daniel Defoe, Benjamin Franklin, as well as writing by overlooked authors who deserve m...Lasīt vairāk
Infantry in Battle rewrites the story of combat in the eighteenth century by placing enlisted infantrymen and their experiences at centre stage. While popular memory and film portray these men as robotic automata they fought in flexible and adaptable...Lasīt vairāk
Suppressed for centuries, the ideas of French philosopher Émilie Du Chātelet are ever relevant today... Just as the Enlightenment was gaining momentum throughout Europe, philosopher Émilie Du Chātelet broke through the many barriers facin...Lasīt vairāk
The Revolutionary War was fought between Britain and the British colonies in North America. This conflict resulted in the formation of the United States. It also inspired others to fight for their independence, particularly in France. The French Revo...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Dec-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Rosen Young Adult, ISBN-13: 9781499478686)
The Revolutionary War was fought between Britain and the British colonies in North America. This conflict resulted in the formation of the United States. It also inspired others to fight for their independence, particularly in France. The French Revo...Lasīt vairāk
