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Invisible Hands
Self-Organization and the Eighteenth Century
Av Jonathan Sheehan, Dror Wahrman
Häftad, 2022
360 kr
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A synthesis of eighteenth-century intellectual and cultural developments that offers an original explanation of how Enlightenment thought grappled with the problem of divine agency.Why is the world orderly, and how does this order come to be? Human beings inhabit a multitude of apparently ordered …
Making of the Modern Self
Identity and Culture in Eighteenth-Century England
Av Dror Wahrman
Häftad, 2006
244 kr
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Toward the end of the eighteenth century, a radical change occurred in notions of self and personal identity. This was a sudden transformation, says Dror Wahrman, and nothing short of a revolution in the understanding of selfhood and of identity categories including race, gender, and class. In this …
Mr. Collier's Letter Racks
A Tale of Art and Illusion at the Threshold of the Modern Information Age
Av Dror Wahrman
Inbunden, 2012
837 kr
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For 300 years, a unique and complex artistic puzzle has been hidden, the solution of which reveals an extraordinary critique of what can be described as the first modern media revolution. The mind behind this puzzle was a Dutch/British still-life painter named Edward Collier. Working around 1700, …
Mr. Collier's Letter Racks
A Tale of Art and Illusion at the Threshold of the Modern Information Age
Av Dror Wahrman
E-bok, 2012
428 kr
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Three hundred years ago, an unprecedented explosion in inexpensive, disposable print--newspapers, pamphlets, informational publications, artistic prints--ushered in a media revolution that forever changed our relationship to information. One unusually perceptive man, an obscure Dutch/British still …
Mr. Collier's Letter Racks
A Tale of Art and Illusion at the Threshold of the Modern Information Age
Av Dror Wahrman
E-bok, 2012
428 kr
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Three hundred years ago, an unprecedented explosion in inexpensive, disposable print--newspapers, pamphlets, informational publications, artistic prints--ushered in a media revolution that forever changed our relationship to information. One unusually perceptive man, an obscure Dutch/British still …
Invisible Hands
Self-Organization and the Eighteenth Century
Av Dror Wahrman, Jonathan Sheehan
E-bok, 2015
778 kr
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A synthesis of eighteenth-century intellectual and cultural developments that offers an original explanation of how Enlightenment thought grappled with the problem of divine agency. Why is the world orderly, and how does this order come to be? Human beings inhabit a multitude of apparently ordered …
Invisible Hands
Self-Organization and the Eighteenth Century
Av Jonathan Sheehan, Dror Wahrman
Inbunden, 2015
431 kr
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Why is the world orderly, and how does order occur? Humans inhabit many systems - natural, social, political, economic, cognitive, and others - with seemingly obscure origins. In the eighteenth century, older certainties, rooted in divine providence or mechanistic explanations, began to fall away. …
Throne of the Great Mogul in Dresden
The Ultimate Artwork of the Baroque
Av Dror Wahrman
Inbunden, 2023
373 kr
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A masterful deciphering of an extraordinary art object, illuminating some of the biggest questions of the eighteenth centuryThe Throne of the Great Mogul (1701–8) is a unique work of European decorative art: an intricate miniature of the court of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb depicted during the …
Age of Cultural Revolutions
Britain and France, 1750-1820
Häftad, 2002
289 kr
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In this vanguard collection, a stellar group of internationally known scholars explores a key period in the making of the modern West. Although the long-standing notion of 'dual revolutions,' economic in Britain and political in France, has been vigorously challenged in recent years, these authors …
Imagining the Middle Class
The Political Representation of Class in Britain, c.1780-1840
Av Dror Wahrman
Inbunden, 1995
1777 kr
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Why and how did the British people come to see themselves as living in a society centred around a middle class? The answer provided by Professor Wahrman challenges most prevalent historical narratives: the key to understanding changes in conceptualisations of society, the author argues, lies not in …
Imagining the Middle Class
The Political Representation of Class in Britain, c.1780-1840
Av Dror Wahrman
Häftad, 1995
838 kr
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Why and how did the British people come to see themselves as living in a society centred around a middle class? The answer provided by Professor Wahrman challenges most prevalent historical narratives: the key to understanding changes in conceptualisations of society, the author argues, lies not in …
