Absolutist Attachments
Reveals the affective and media connections that shaped Louis XIV's absolutism. Studying...
EAN: 9780810139411
French Idea of Freedom
This book explores the origins of the Declaration in the political thought and practice of the...
EAN: 9780804728065
New World Drama
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon explores how new publics were convened and contested around the riotous...
EAN: 9780822353416
Merchants and Revolution
"Merchants and Revolution" details the transformation of English commerce in the century after...
EAN: 9781859843338
Town in-Between
This study of eighteenth-century Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and its Scots-Irish inhabitants...
EAN: 9780812242362
Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches
Writing Brazilian women back into history, this book presents the first comprehensive study in...
EAN: 9781477302194
Revival: A History of Modern Culture: Volume I (1930)
The best excuse for writing the history of anything is the intrinsic interest of the subject....
EAN: 9781138551978
1619
An extraordinary year in which American democracy and American slavery emerged hand in hand
EAN: 9780465064694
Creative Tensions
The primary aim of this book is to provide an introduction, principally for students but also for...
EAN: 9780715628010
Converging on Cannibals
In Converging on Cannibals, Jared Staller demonstrates that one of the most terrifying discourses...
EAN: 9780821423530
Last Troubadours
First published in 1991. Deirdre O'Grady's study of the Italian operatic librettist identifies...
EAN: 9781138365124
Traces of Vermeer
The iconic paintings of the 17th century Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer have been the source of...
EAN: 9780198789734
Cultivating Peace
The poets discussed in Cultivating Peace imagine states of peace and war to be fundamentally and...
EAN: 9781684480470
Feuds and State Formation, 1550–1700
This book re-evaluates the role of local agency and provides a new perspective to the political,...
EAN: 9783319946429
Impoverishment of the African Red Sea Littoral, 1640–1945
Steven Serels charts the erosion of this moral economy, a slow-moving process that began during...
EAN: 9783319941646
Scottish Presbyterianism Re-established
Presbyterianism and the governance of the Church of Scotland at the turn of the eighteenth century
EAN: 9781474447393
Scottish Presbyterianism Re-established
Presbyterianism and the governance of the Church of Scotland at the turn of the eighteenth century
EAN: 9781474447386
Musical Creativity in Restoration England
Rebecca Herissone's study is the first comprehensive investigation of approaches to creating...
EAN: 9781108700979
Spinoza's Political Psychology
This book is for readers in Spinoza studies and the history of political thought. It advances a...
EAN: 9781107141308
Privateering and Colonization in the Reign of Elizabeth I
Privateering, ship design, English society, the lost colonists, the drawing of John White, and...
EAN: 9780859892520
John Locke: Literary and Historical Writings
This is the first critical edition of the literary and historical writings of John Locke...
EAN: 9780198824381