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Eating the Enlightenment
Food and the Sciences in Paris, 1670-1760
Av E. C. Spary
Häftad, 2014
289 kr
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Eating the Enlightenment offers a new perspective on the history of food, looking at writings about cuisine, diet, and food chemistry as a key to larger debates over the state of the nation in Old Regime France. Embracing a wide range of authors and scientific or medical practitioners - from …
Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe
Between Market and Laboratory
Inbunden, 2010
631 kr
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It is often assumed that natural philosophy was the forerunner of early modern natural sciences. But where did these sciences' systematic observation and experimentation get their starts? In "Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe", the laboratories, workshops, and marketplaces emerge as …
Utopia's Garden
French Natural History from Old Regime to Revolution
Av E. C. Spary
Inbunden, 2000
1485 kr
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The royal Parisian botanical garden, the Jardin du Roi, was a jewel in the crown of the French Old Regime, praised by both rulers and scientific practitioners. Yet unlike many such institutions, the Jardin not only survived the French Revolution but by 1800 had become the world's leading public …
Utopia's Garden
French Natural History from Old Regime to Revolution
Av E. C. Spary
Häftad, 2000
395 kr
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The royal Parisian botanical garden, the Jardin du Roi, was a jewel in the crown of the French Old Regime, praised by both rulers and scientific practitioners. Yet unlike many such institutions, the Jardin not only survived the French Revolution but by 1800 had become the world's leading public …
Eating the Enlightenment
Food and the Sciences in Paris, 1670-1760
Av E. C. Spary
Inbunden, 2012
879 kr
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"Eating the Enlightenment" offers a new perspective on the history of food, looking at writings about cuisine, diet, and food chemistry as a key to larger debates over the state of the nation in Old Regime France. Embracing a wide range of authors and scientific or medical practitioners - from …
Taking Drugs in the Sun King’s Reign
Av E. C. Spary
Inbunden, 2027
1020 kr
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The first full-length history of drugs during the first French Empire.Taking Drugs in the Sun King’s Reign is the story of how the French came to know and consume new non-European plants between 1660 and 1730, a period during which many exotic substances—like coffee, tea, cinchona bark, chocolate, …
Taking Drugs in the Sun King’s Reign
Av E. C. Spary
Häftad, 2027
403 kr
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The first full-length history of drugs during the first French Empire.Taking Drugs in the Sun King’s Reign is the story of how the French came to know and consume new non-European plants between 1660 and 1730, a period during which many exotic substances—like coffee, tea, cinchona bark, chocolate, …
Cultures of Natural History
Av Nicholas Jardine, James a. Secord m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
927 kr
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This lavishly illustrated volume is the first systematic general work to do justice to the fruits of recent scholarship in the history of natural history. Public interest in this lively field has been stimulated by environmental concerns and through links with the histories of art, collecting and …
Exoticizing Consumption
European Drug Cultures, 1670-1740
Inbunden, 2025
1722 kr
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Exotic drugs and spices, from tea to opium, were among the first fruits of European commercial expansion in the sixteenth century. By the eighteenth, many had become profitable products of the European empires that had spread across the globe. Often, they were objects of appropriation—substances …
Exoticizing Consumption
European Drug Cultures, 1670-1740
Häftad, 2025
517 kr
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Exotic drugs and spices, from tea to opium, were among the first fruits of European commercial expansion in the sixteenth century. By the eighteenth, many had become profitable products of the European empires that had spread across the globe. Often, they were objects of appropriation—substances …
Feeding France
New Sciences of Food, 1760-1815
Av E. C. Spary
Inbunden, 2014
1739 kr
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Feeding France is the first comprehensive study of the French food industry in the decades surrounding the French Revolution of 1789. Though the history of gastronomy and the restaurant have been explored by scholars, few are aware that France was also one of the first nations to produce industrial …
Feeding France
New Sciences of Food, 1760-1815
Av E. C. Spary
Häftad, 2017
687 kr
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Feeding France is the first comprehensive study of the French food industry in the decades surrounding the French Revolution of 1789. Though the history of gastronomy and the restaurant have been explored by scholars, few are aware that France was also one of the first nations to produce industrial …
Osiris, Volume 35
Food Matters: Critical Histories of Food and the Sciences
Av E. C. Spary, Anya Zilberstein
Häftad, 2020
306 kr
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