Kathleen Kete – författare
Visar alla böcker från författaren Kathleen Kete. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
8 produkter
Alpine Enlightenment
Horace-Bénédict de Saussure and Nature’s Sensorium
Inbunden, 2024
988 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A study of the experience of nature in the eighteenth century based on the life of Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1740–99). In The Alpine Enlightenment, historian Kathleen Kete takes us into the world of the Genevan geologist, physicist, inventor, and mountaineer Horace-Bénédict de Saussure. During …
Alpine Enlightenment
Horace-Bénédict de Saussure and Nature’s Sensorium
Häftad, 2024
283 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A study of the experience of nature in the eighteenth century based on the life of Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1740–99). In The Alpine Enlightenment, historian Kathleen Kete takes us into the world of the Genevan geologist, physicist, inventor, and mountaineer Horace-Bénédict de Saussure. During …
Making Way for Genius
The Aspiring Self in France from the Old Regime to the New
Inbunden, 2012
821 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Examining the lives and works of three iconic personalities —Germaine de Staël, Stendhal, and Georges Cuvier—Kathleen Kete creates a groundbreaking cultural history of ambition in post-Revolutionary France. While in the old regime the traditionalist view of ambition prevailed—that is, ambition as …
Beast in the Boudoir
Petkeeping in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Häftad, 1994
515 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Kathleen Kete's wise and witty examination of petkeeping in nineteenth-century Paris provides a unique window through which to view the lives of ordinary French people. She demonstrates how that cliché of modern life, the family dog, reveals the tensions that modernity created for the Parisian …
Beast in the Boudoir
Petkeeping in Nineteenth-Century Paris
E-bok, 1994
357 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Kathleen Kete's wise and witty examination of petkeeping in nineteenth-century Paris provides a unique window through which to view the lives of ordinary French people. She demonstrates how that cliché of modern life, the family dog, reveals the tensions that modernity created for the Parisian …
Beast in the Boudoir
Petkeeping in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Inbunden, 1994
1190 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Kathleen Kete's wise and witty examination of petkeeping in nineteenth-century Paris provides a unique window through which to view the lives of ordinary French people. She demonstrates how that cliché of modern life, the family dog, reveals the tensions that modernity created for the Parisian …
Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Empire
Inbunden, 2009
1616 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2008 A Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Empire explores the cultural position of animals in the period from 1800 to 1920. This was a time of extraordinary social, political and economic change as the Western world rapidly industrialised and modernised. …
Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Empire
Häftad, 2011
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
445 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2008 A Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Empire explores the cultural position of animals in the period from 1800 to 1920. This was a time of extraordinary social, political and economic change as the Western world rapidly industrialized and modernized. …
