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The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ship and Its Cargo of Female Convicts
ISBN: 9780786886746 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now in paperback, the incredible true story of a shipload of "disorderly girls" and the men who transported them, fell for them, and sold them.
This riveting work of rediscovered history tells for the first time the plight of the female convicts aboard the Lady Julian, which set sail from England in 1789 and arrived in Australia's Sydney Cove a year later. The women, most of them petty criminals, were destined for New South Wales to provide its hordes of lonely men with both sexual favors and progeny. But the story of their voyage is even more incredible, and here it is expertly told by a... Now in paperback, the incredible true story of a shipload of "disorderly girls" and the men who transported them, fell for them, and sold them.
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87,32 zł |
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The Global Eighteenth Century
ISBN: 9780801868658 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Historians have generally come to accept the idea of a -long eighteenth century, - one that extended from circa 1660 to 1830. In The Global Eighteenth Century, editor Felicity Nussbaum and the contributing authors take this idea one step further, positing an eighteenth century that is -wide- as well as long, reaching beyond Europe into the African diaspora, the Americas, the Levant, China, India, and Oceania. Showcasing the work of twenty-one leading scholars in literature, world history, art history, geography, and environmental studies, this collection of essays explores both the... Historians have generally come to accept the idea of a -long eighteenth century, - one that extended from circa 1660 to 1830. In The Global Eigh... |
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284,43 zł |
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The Global Eighteenth Century
ISBN: 9780801882692 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Historians have generally come to accept the idea of a -long eighteenth century, - one that extended from circa 1660 to 1830. In The Global Eighteenth Century, editor Felicity Nussbaum and the contributing authors take this idea one step further, positing an eighteenth century that is -wide- as well as long, reaching beyond Europe into the African diaspora, the Americas, the Levant, China, India, and Oceania. Showcasing the work of twenty-one leading scholars in literature, world history, art history, geography, and environmental studies, this collection of essays explores both the... Historians have generally come to accept the idea of a -long eighteenth century, - one that extended from circa 1660 to 1830. In The Global Eigh... |
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140,84 zł |
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Venice and the Slavs: The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment
ISBN: 9780804739467 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book studies the nature of Venetian rule over the Slavs of Dalmatia during the eighteenth century, focusing on the cultural elaboration of an ideology of empire that was based on a civilizing mission toward the Slavs. The book argues that the Enlightenment within the "Adriatic Empire" of Venice was deeply concerned with exploring the economic and social dimensions of backwardness in Dalmatia, in accordance with the evolving distinction between "Western Europe" and "Eastern Europe" across the continent. It further argues that the primitivism attributed to Dalmatians by the Venetian... This book studies the nature of Venetian rule over the Slavs of Dalmatia during the eighteenth century, focusing on the cultural elaboration of an ... |
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146,86 zł |
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The Atlantic Slave Trade: Effects on Economies, Societies and Peoples in Africa, the Americas, and Europe
ISBN: 9780822312437 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Debates over the economic, social, and political meaning of slavery and the slave trade have persisted for over two hundred years. "The Atlantic Slave Trade" brings clarity and critical insight to the subject. In fourteen essays, leading scholars consider the nature and impact of the transatlantic slave trade and assess its meaning for the people transported and for those who owned them.
Among the questions these essays address are: the social cost to Africa of this forced migration; the role of slavery in the economic development of Europe and the United States; the short-term and... Debates over the economic, social, and political meaning of slavery and the slave trade have persisted for over two hundred years. "The Atlantic Slave...
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131,12 zł |
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Lessons of Romanticism: A Critical Companion
ISBN: 9780822320777 / Angielski / Twarda / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Moving beyond views of European Romanticism as an essentially poetic development, "Lessons of Romanticism" strives to strengthen a critical awareness of the genres, historical institutions, and material practices that comprised the culture of the period. This anthology--in recasting Romanticism in its broader cultural context--ranges across literary studies, art history, musicology, and political science and combines a variety of critical approaches, including gender studies, Lacanian analysis, and postcolonial studies.
With over twenty essays on such diverse topics as the aesthetic and... Moving beyond views of European Romanticism as an essentially poetic development, "Lessons of Romanticism" strives to strengthen a critical awareness ...
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519,44 zł |
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Lessons of Romanticism: A Critical Companion
ISBN: 9780822320913 / Angielski / Miękka / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Moving beyond views of European Romanticism as an essentially poetic development, "Lessons of Romanticism" strives to strengthen a critical awareness of the genres, historical institutions, and material practices that comprised the culture of the period. This anthology--in recasting Romanticism in its broader cultural context--ranges across literary studies, art history, musicology, and political science and combines a variety of critical approaches, including gender studies, Lacanian analysis, and postcolonial studies.
With over twenty essays on such diverse topics as the aesthetic and... Moving beyond views of European Romanticism as an essentially poetic development, "Lessons of Romanticism" strives to strengthen a critical awareness ...
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136,36 zł |
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Shifting The Boundaries: Transformation of the Languages of Public and Private in the Eighteenth Century
ISBN: 9780859894449 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays, written by specialists in their fields, examines and challenges the notion that there was a clear distinction between the emerging public sphere, which mediated between the State and individuals and provided a forum for Enlightenment debates, and the private, intimate or familial sphere. The essays focus on political, legal, historiographic, literary and gender issues in an attempt to create a more subtle and differentiated view of how men and women established and understood various public and private domains, and used the languages of public and private actions...
This collection of essays, written by specialists in their fields, examines and challenges the notion that there was a clear distinction between the e...
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604,77 zł |
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Scottish Public Opinion and the Anglo-Scottish Union, 1699-1707
ISBN: 9780861932894 / Angielski / Twarda / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the early modern period, ordinary subjects began to find a role in national politics through the phenomenon of public opinion: by drawing on entrenched ideological differences, oppositional leaders were able to recruit popular support to pressure the government with claimed representations of a national interest. This is particularly well demonstrated in the case of the Anglo-Scottish union crisis of 1699-1707, in which Country party leaders encouraged remarkable levels of participation by non-elite Scots. Though dominant accounts of this crisis portray Scottish opinion as impotent in the...
In the early modern period, ordinary subjects began to find a role in national politics through the phenomenon of public opinion: by drawing on entren...
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419,75 zł |
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Libertine Enlightenment: Sex, Liberty and License in the Eighteenth-Century
ISBN: 9781403917638 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sex in the Eighteenth-century was not simply a pleasure; it had profound philosophical and political implications. This book explores those implications, and in particular the links between sexual freedom and liberty in a variety of European and British contexts. Discussing prostitutes and politicians, philosophers and charlatans, confidence tricksters and novelists, Libertine Enlightenment presents a fascinating overview of the sexual dimension of enlightened modernity.
Sex in the Eighteenth-century was not simply a pleasure; it had profound philosophical and political implications. This book explores those implicatio...
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390,87 zł |
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Ordering the World in the Eighteenth Century
ISBN: 9781403938206 / Angielski / Twarda / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Eighteenth century is often represented, applying Tom Paine's phrase, as 'The Age of Reason': an age when progressive ideals triumphed over autocracy and obscurantism, and when notions of order and balance shaped consciousness in every sphere of human knowledge. Yet the debates which surrounded the development of Eighteenth-century thought were always open to troubling doubts. Was nature itself truly an ordered entity, as Newton had argued, or was it a mass of chaotic, randomly moving atoms, as some materialist thinkers believed? This book explores the tensions and conflicts in these...
The Eighteenth century is often represented, applying Tom Paine's phrase, as 'The Age of Reason': an age when progressive ideals triumphed over autocr...
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195,42 zł |
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Enlightened Feudalism: Seigneurial Justice and Village Society in Eighteenth-Century Northern Burgundy
ISBN: 9781580462716 / Angielski / Twarda / 321 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thousands of seigneurial courts covered the French countryside in the early modern era. By the eighteenth century these courts were subject to mounting criticism, as Enlightenment concerns about rationality and standardization combined with older absolutist worries that lords' ownership of justice weakened the king's authority. Although the courts were abolished in 1789, this criticism persisted, with historians traditionally portraying them as marginal and abusive relics of a bygone feudal age. In Enlightened Feudalism, Jeremy Hayhoe demonstrates that these local institutions actually...
Thousands of seigneurial courts covered the French countryside in the early modern era. By the eighteenth century these courts were subject to mountin...
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498,46 zł |
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The Hamilton Letters: The Naples Dispatches of Sir William Hamilton
ISBN: 9781845116118 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sir William Hamilton personified the age of the Enlightenment - a collector and connoisseur, amateur scientist and archaeologist, vulcanologist, anthropologist and above all a gentleman of taste and intellectual curiosity - and in Naples, one of the most fascinating stations on the Grand Tour, he had found his ideal setting.
As King George III's ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples from 1764-1800, Sir William was witness to some pivotal events in European history. The Hamilton Letters is the first collection of his complete correspondence with the English court between 1797 and 1799. It... Sir William Hamilton personified the age of the Enlightenment - a collector and connoisseur, amateur scientist and archaeologist, vulcanologist, anthr...
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288,58 zł |
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East India Patronage and the British State: The Scottish Elite and Politics in the Eighteenth Century
ISBN: 9781845116613 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Act of Union in 1707 brought with it a new ""Great Britain."" How did the English bind the Scottish elites to the new British State, ensuring the stability of this new power in the face of possible Jacobite and international threat? This book looks at the effects of the Act of the Union on Britain and its colonies. From 1725 onward, a patronage system existed in Britain enabling government ministries to use posts in the East India Company and its shipping to secure political majorities in Scotland and Westminster. Scots went to India as Company servants, ships' crews, soldiers and...The Act of Union in 1707 brought with it a new ""Great Britain."" How did the English bind the Scottish elites to the new British State, ensuring t... |
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682,09 zł |
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An Account of the Life & Death of Mrs. Elizabeth Bury
ISBN: 9781892777997 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work, which contains both a biography and autobiographical material from Elizabeth Bury's diary and letters over the period 1690-1720, was widely known among the Dissenters and was treasured for its example of piety, godliness, and grace. Also included in this new edition are transcripts of the last will and testament of Elizabeth's two husbands, Griffith Lloyd and Samuel Bury, as well as the "Last Legacy" of Samuel Bury, dictated or written by him as he approached death in 1730. Of her life, William Tong, the eminent Presbyterian minister and biographer of Matthew Henry, wrote, "It is a...
This work, which contains both a biography and autobiographical material from Elizabeth Bury's diary and letters over the period 1690-1720, was widely...
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122,30 zł |
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Social justice through the eyes of Wesley: John Wesley's theological challenge to slavery
ISBN: 9781894400237 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Until the late 18th century, evangelical leaders often used the Bible to justify slavery. A notable exception emerged: John Wesley. Dr. Brendlinger has brought to light the strength of Wesley's convictions about slavery and demonstrates how his theology compelled him to work to abolish it.
Until the late 18th century, evangelical leaders often used the Bible to justify slavery. A notable exception emerged: John Wesley. Dr. Brendlinger ha...
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131,00 zł |
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Perfectibilists: The 18th Century Bavarian Order of the Illuminati
ISBN: 9780977795383 / Angielski / Miękka / 515 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presenting an advanced and authoritativeperspective, this definitive study chroniclesthe rise and fall of the Order of the Illuminati, a mysterious Enlightenment-era guild surrounded by myth. Describing thisenigmatic communityin meticulous detail, more than 1,000endnotes are included, citing scholars, professors, and academics. Contemporary accounts and the original documents of the Illuminati themselves are covered as well. Copiously illustrated andfeaturing biographies of more than 400 confirmed members, this survey brings to light a 200-year-old mystery."
Presenting an advanced and authoritativeperspective, this definitive study chroniclesthe rise and fall of the Order of the Illuminati, a mysterious En...
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108,98 zł |
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Mapping the Renaissance World : The Geographical Imagination in the Age of Discovery
ISBN: 9780745611471 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses on the work of the great sixteenth-century traveller and map-maker Andre Thevat and explores the interrelations between representation and power in the age of discovery.
This book focuses on the work of the great sixteenth-century traveller and map-maker Andre Thevat and explores the interrelations between representati...
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303,77 zł |
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The Fortunes of the Courtier : The European Reception of Castiglione's Cortegiano
ISBN: 9780745611518 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book aims to understand the different readings of Castiglione's Cortegiano or Book of the Courtier from the Renaissance to the twentieth century.
This book aims to understand the different readings of Castiglione's Cortegiano or Book of the Courtier from the Renaissance to the twentieth century....
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99,36 zł |
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Cultures in Conflict : Encounters Between European and Non-European Cultures, 1492 - 1800
ISBN: 9780745611570 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many histories of exploration are written from the viewpoint of the explorers. This book focuses instead on the cultural encounters between European explorers and non-European people, reconstructing the experiences of both sides. The result is a work of comparative cultural history, ranging from North America to the South Pacific, and from the voyages of Columbus to those of Captain Cook.
Many histories of exploration are written from the viewpoint of the explorers. This book focuses instead on the cultural encounters between European e...
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99,36 zł |
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