In an era of intense religious conflict in Europe and ongoing exploration of the lands beyond Europe, Ceremonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (1723-37) set a new agenda for thinking about faith and provided a lasting visual template for representing the world's religions. In the work's seven massive volumes, Jean Frederic Bernard and the renowned engraver Bernard Picart invited readers to view religions and their institutions as cultural practices. Bernard Picart and the First Global Vision of Religion approaches this much-cited but little-studied work from a...
In an era of intense religious conflict in Europe and ongoing exploration of the lands beyond Europe, Ceremonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les p...
This title considers the history of the first comparative religion book that made way for religious tolerance. It explores Bernard Picart and Jean Frederic Bernard's 'The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of all the Peoples of the World'.
This title considers the history of the first comparative religion book that made way for religious tolerance. It explores Bernard Picart and Jean Fre...
Situating the French Revolution in the context of early modern globalization for the first time, this book offers a new approach to understanding its international origins and worldwide effects. A distinguished group of contributors shows that the political culture of the Revolution emerged out of a long history of global commerce, imperial competition, and the movement of people and ideas in places as far flung as India, Egypt, Guiana, and the Caribbean. This international approach helps to explain how the Revolution fused immense idealism with territorial ambition and combined the drive...
Situating the French Revolution in the context of early modern globalization for the first time, this book offers a new approach to understanding i...
Situating the French Revolution in the context of early modern globalization for the first time, this book offers a new approach to understanding its international origins and worldwide effects. A distinguished group of contributors shows that the political culture of the Revolution emerged out of a long history of global commerce, imperial competition, and the movement of people and ideas in places as far flung as India, Egypt, Guiana, and the Caribbean. This international approach helps to explain how the Revolution fused immense idealism with territorial ambition and combined the drive...
Situating the French Revolution in the context of early modern globalization for the first time, this book offers a new approach to understanding i...
This latest work from an author known for her contributions to the new cultural history is a daring, multidisciplinary investigation of the imaginative foundations of modern politics. Hunt uses the term 'Family Romance', (coined by Freud to describe the fantasy of being freed from one's family and belonging to one of higher social standing), in a broader sense, to describe the images of the familial order that structured the collective political unconscious. In a wide-ranging account that uses novels, engravings, paintings, speeches, newspaper editorials, pornographic writing, and...
This latest work from an author known for her contributions to the new cultural history is a daring, multidisciplinary investigation of the imaginativ...
George Orwell wrote that "history is written by the winners." Even if that seems a bit too cut-and-dried, we can say that history is always written from a viewpoint but that viewpoints change, sometimes radically.
The history of workers, women, and minorities challenged the once-unquestioned dominance of the tales of great leaders and military victories. Then, cultural studies--including feminism and queer studies--brought fresh perspectives, but those too have run their course.
With globalization emerging as a major economic, cultural, and political force, Lynn Hunt examines whether...
George Orwell wrote that "history is written by the winners." Even if that seems a bit too cut-and-dried, we can say that history is always written fr...
