David Garrick and the Mediation of Celebrity
Uncovers new material concerning David Garrick's ownership and manipulation of the media that...
EAN: 9781108469197
Theatres of Feeling
This engaging account of theatregoing in the later eighteenth century explores the playhouse as a...
EAN: 9781108466998
Partisan Politics
Linked to new research on 18th-century middle orders, this book looks deep into small-town...
EAN: 9781905816675
As Night Falls
In a world that is constantly illuminated, there is much to gain from looking into the darkness...
EAN: 9781108832144
Poverty of Disaster
Eighteenth-century Britain saw significant numbers of the middle classes imprisoned for debt,...
EAN: 9781108739252
Reading History in Britain and America, c.1750–c.1840
This book explores the success of historical literature from the perspective of the reading...
EAN: 9781108716185
Revolutionary France's War of Conquest in the Rhineland
What for revolutionary France started as a war for liberty in the Rhineland became a war for...
EAN: 9781108703055
Art and Identity in Scotland
This lively and erudite cultural history of Scotland, from the Jacobite defeat of 1745 to the...
EAN: 9781108405584
Fall of Robespierre
The day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the...
EAN: 9780198715955
Those They Called Idiots
A humane, thoughtful and yet clear-eyed history of people with learning disabilities since 1700.
EAN: 9781789143010
Historical Fencing Manual
A true, modern fencing manual for training in the tradition of the southern Italian school of the...
EAN: 9781937439408
Places of Early Modern Criticism
This book takes an interdiscplinary approach to the many different places of early modern...
EAN: 9780198834687
Bringing the People Back In
This book highlights new historical research from Europe’s northern frontier, bringing ‘the...
EAN: 9780367686963
Rome
This book deals with the city of Rome and its buildings in the period between Bernini's death in...
EAN: 9780367301675
Howe Dynasty
Finally revealing the family’s indefatigable women among its legendary military figures, The Howe...
EAN: 9781631490613
Illuminating History
The brilliance of a master historian shines through this personal account of a lifetime’s work.
EAN: 9780393541526
Merchants, Bankers, Governors: British Enterprise In Singapore And Malaya, 1786-1920
EAN: 9789813222410
Globalisation Of Variolation: The Overlooked Origins Of Immunity For Smallpox In The 18th Century
EAN: 9781786345844
Politics of Gender in Early American Theater – Revolutionary Dramatists and Theatrical Practices
This collection explores the role and relevance of gender in the formation of American theatrical...
EAN: 9783837652536
Bass Rock
And across the centuries the fates of three women are linked: to this place, to each other. In...
EAN: 9781784705497
Music in the London Theatre from Purcell to Handel
The book is concerned with musical settings (c.1650–1750) for voices and instruments of mostly...
EAN: 9781316608289
Minerva's French Sisters
A fascinating collective biography of six female scientists in eighteenth-century France, whose...
EAN: 9780300252569
