Kategoria BISAC: History >> Modern - 18th Century

This innovative new book is overtly and explicitly about female agency in eighteenth-century European towns. However, it positions female activity and decisions unequivocally in an urban world of institutions, laws, regulations, customs and ideologies. Gender politics complicated and shaped the day-to-day experiences of working women. Town rules and customs, as well as police and guilds regulations, affected women s participation in the urban economy: most of the time, the formally recognized and legally accepted power of women which is an essential component of female agency was very...

This is a rich and path-breaking comparative study of reading tastes in the final years of old regime Europe. Based on extensive research in the account books of the Swiss publishers, the Societe typographique de Neuchatel (STN), and related archives, it charts the dissemination of literature and reading tastes across Europe in the years leading up to the French revolution. In the process, it recasts our understanding of late 18th-century print culture and the contours of the enlightenment. The fruit of a widely acclaimed five year database project, the STN database, it is also a...

Dynastic Colonialism analyses how women and men employed objects in particular places across the world during the early modern period in order to achieve the remarkable expansion of the House of Orange-Nassau. Susan Broomhall and Jacqueline Van Gent explore how the House emerged as a leading force during a period in which the Dutch accrued one of the greatest seaborne empires. Using the concept of dynastic colonialism, they explore strategic behaviours undertaken on behalf of the House of Orange-Nassau, through material culture in a variety of sites of interpretation from palaces and...

This innovative book explores the role of cast steel in instruments for refining the body in the eighteenth century, amidst the changing climate of ideas surrounding 'polite' bodily form and appearance.

Wenn das Jahrhundert von etwa 1750 bis 1850 - die von Reinhart Koselleck so genannte Sattelzeit - die Formierungsphase der westlichen Moderne war: Was bedeutete der damalige Ubergang vom alteuropaischen zum modernen Begriffs- und Denkmusterarsenal fur das Schreiben der Geschichte? Ist es angemessen, diesen Wandel vor allem als 'Verwissenschaftlichung' zu charakterisieren? Welche Rolle spielten demgegenuber ein zunehmend reklamiertes 'Vergnugen' an Geschichte, politische Wirkabsichten, die Orientierung auf Kunstformigkeit und asthetische Eindrucklichkeit oder der Entwurf hypothetischer...

Reassessing the Radical Enlightenment comprises fifteen new essays by a team of international scholars that reevaluates the characteristics, meaning and impact of the Radical Enlightenment.

This collection examines aspects of the Radical Enlightenment between 1660 and 1825, spanning England, Ireland, the Dutch Republic, France, Germany and the Americas. In addition to dealing with canonical authors and celebrated texts such as Spinoza and his Tractus theologico politicus, authors discuss many less well-known figures and debates from the period. Divided into three parts,...

What was the end of fortuna? The contributions aim at investigating the question whether there does exist a historical link between the last and manifold blossoming of a discourse on "Fortuna" between the late 16th and the early 17th century, the final demise of such a discourse roughly after mid-17th century, and the rise of modernity.

Seit der Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts wurden in Europa Friedens- und andere machtepolitische Vertrage zu Sammlungen zusammengestellt und im Druck veroffentlicht. Diese Werke wurden in unterschiedlichen Kontexten der Auseinandersetzung mit europaischer Machtepolitik genutzt, in der Volkerrechtslehre und Geschichtsschreibung ebenso wie in der Gesandtenausbildung und diplomatischen Praxis. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht erstmals die Entstehung, Formen, Funktionen und Rezeption dieser Medien und beurteilt ihre Relevanz fur die Genese fruhneuzeitlicher Deutungen und Konzepte auswartiger...