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Merely for Money?
Business Culture in the British Atlantic, 1750-1815
Häftad, 2014
568 kr
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In 1780 Richard Sheridan noted that merchants worked ‘merely for money’. However, rather than being a criticism, this was recognition of the important commercial role that merchants played in the British empire at this time. Of course, merchants desired and often made profits, but they were …
Civilians and War in Europe 1618–1815
Av Erica Charters, Eve Rosenhaft m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
599 kr
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Civilians and War in Europe 1618–1815 examines the relationship between civilians and warfare from the start of the Thirty Years War to the end of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. The volume interrogates received narratives of warfare that identify the development of modern 'total' war with …
Talking Revolution
Edward Rushton’s Rebellious Poetics, 1782–1814
Inbunden, 2014
2388 kr
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This book is the first academic study entirely devoted to Liverpool labouring-class poet and activist Edward Rushton (1756-1814), whose name was for a long time only associated with the foundation of the Royal School for the Blind in 1791. A former sailor, tavern keeper and editor of a paper, as of …
John Baskerville
Art and Industry in the Enlightenment
Av Caroline Archer-Parré, Malcolm Dick
Inbunden, 2017
2204 kr
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This book is concerned with the eighteenth-century typographer, printer, industrialist and Enlightenment figure, John Baskerville (1707-75). Baskerville was a Birmingham inventor, entrepreneur and artist with a worldwide reputation who made eighteenth-century Birmingham a city without typographic …
Figurations of the Feminine in the Early French Women’s Press, 1758–1848
Inbunden, 2019
2138 kr
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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.In this original study, Siobhán McIlvanney examines the beginnings of the women’s press in France. Figurations of the Feminine is the first work in English to assess the most …
Comedy and Crisis
Pieter Langendijk, the Dutch, and the Speculative Bubbles of 1720
Av Joyce Goggin, Frans De Bruyn
Inbunden, 2020
2388 kr
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Comedy and Crisis contains the first ever scholarly English translation of Pieter Langendijk’s Quincampoix, or the Wind Traders [Quincampoix of de Windhandelaars], and Harlequin Stock-Jobber [Arlequin Actionist]. The first play is a full-length satirical comedy, and the second is a short, comic …
Pen, print and communication in the eighteenth century
Av Caroline Archer-Parré, Malcolm Dick
Inbunden, 2020
2388 kr
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During the eighteenth century there was a growing interest in recording, listing and documenting the world, whether for personal interest and private consumption, or general record and the greater good. Such documentation was done through both the written and printed word. Each genre had its own …
Britain’s Soldiers
Rethinking War and Society, 1715–1815
Av Kevin Linch, Matthew McCormack
Häftad, 2021
560 kr
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The British soldier was a fascinating and complex figure in the century between the Hanoverian accession and the Battle of Waterloo. The ‘war and society’ approach has shed much light on Britain’s frequent experience of conflict in this period, but Britain’s Soldiers argues that it is time to …
Talking Revolution
Edward Rushton’s Rebellious Poetics, 1782–1814
Häftad, 2021
625 kr
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This book is the first academic study entirely devoted to Liverpool labouring-class poet and activist Edward Rushton (1756-1814), whose name was for a long time only associated with the foundation of the Royal School for the Blind in 1791. A former sailor, tavern keeper and editor of a paper, as of …
John Baskerville
Art and Industry in the Enlightenment
Av Caroline Archer-Parré, Malcolm Dick
Häftad, 2021
622 kr
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This book is concerned with the eighteenth-century typographer, printer, industrialist and Enlightenment figure, John Baskerville (1707-75). Baskerville was a Birmingham inventor, entrepreneur and artist with a worldwide reputation who made eighteenth-century Birmingham a city without typographic …
Charles Macklin and the Theatres of London
Av Ian Newman, David O'Shaughnessy
Häftad, 2022
625 kr
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Charles Macklin (1699?–1797) was one of the most important figures in the eighteenth-century theatre. Born in Ireland, he began acting in London in around 1725 and gave his final performance in 1789 – no other actor can claim to have acted across seven decades of the century, from the reign of …
Figurations of the Feminine in the Early French Women’s Press, 1758–1848
Häftad, 2022
560 kr
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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched.In this original study, Siobhán McIlvanney examines the beginnings of the women’s press in France. Figurations of the Feminine is the first work in English to assess the most …
Looking for Longitude
A Cultural History
Av Katy Barrett
Inbunden, 2022
1876 kr
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Why make a joke out of a niche and complex scientific problem? That is the question at the heart of this book, which unearths the rich and surprising history of trying to find longitude at sea in the eighteenth century. Not simply a history on water, this is the story of longitude on paper, of the …
Visual Worlds of Life Writing
Portraits and Biographies in England, c. 1660 to 1750
Häftad, 2025
756 kr
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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.Early modern life writing extended far beyond the written word. People were painted, drawn, and sculpted; their biographies were illustrated, their pictures inscribed, and their …
Pen, print and communication in the eighteenth century
Av Caroline Archer-Parré, Malcolm Dick
Häftad, 2023
669 kr
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During the eighteenth century there was a growing interest in recording, listing and documenting the world, whether for personal interest and private consumption, or general record and the greater good. Such documentation was done through both the written and printed word. Each genre had its own …
Comedy and Crisis
Pieter Langendijk, the Dutch, and the Speculative Bubbles of 1720
Av Joyce Goggin, Frans De Bruyn
Häftad, 2023
669 kr
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Comedy and Crisis contains the first ever scholarly English translation of Pieter Langendijk’s Quincampoix, or the Wind Traders [Quincampoix of de Windhandelaars], and Harlequin Stock-Jobber [Arlequin Actionist]. The first play is a full-length satirical comedy, and the second is a short, comic …
Crisis and Resilience in the Bristol-West India Sugar Trade, 1783-1802
Inbunden, 2024
1876 kr
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Additional resources for this book are available on our Manifold site, which can be accessed via https://liverpooluniversitypress.manifoldapp.org/projects/crisis-and-resilienceHow did merchants deal with crises? From warfare to financial upheaval, from political machinations to the abolition of the …
Looking for Longitude
A Cultural History
Av Katy Barrett
Häftad, 2025
567 kr
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Why make a joke out of a niche and complex scientific problem? That is the question at the heart of this book, which unearths the rich and surprising history of trying to find longitude at sea in the eighteenth century. Not simply a history on water, this is the story of longitude on paper, of the …
Crisis and Resilience in the Bristol-West India Sugar Trade, 1783-1802
Häftad, 2026
489 kr
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Additional resources for this book are available on our Manifold site, which can be accessed via https://liverpooluniversitypress.manifoldapp.org/projects/crisis-and-resilienceHow did merchants deal with crises? From warfare to financial upheaval, from political machinations to the abolition of the …
Civilians and War in Europe 1618–1815
Av Erica Charters, Eve Rosenhaft m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
2138 kr
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Civilians and War in Europe 1618–1815 examines the relationship between civilians and warfare from the start of the Thirty Years War to the end of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. The volume interrogates received narratives of warfare that identify the development of modern 'total' war with …
News from Abroad
Letters Written by British Travellers on the Grand Tour, 1728–71
Av James T. Boulton, T. O. McLoughlin
Inbunden, 2012
2204 kr
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This book provides a selection of private letters written to family and friends from a variety of people while they were on the Grand Tour in the eighteenth century. Although many have been published previously, this is the first time that letters of this kind have been brought together in a single …
Irish London
Middle-Class Migration in the Global Eighteenth Century
Av Craig Bailey
Inbunden, 2013
2138 kr
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The familiar story of Irish migration to eighteenth and nineteenth-century London is one of severe poverty, hardship and marginalization. This book explores a very different set of Irish encounters with the metropolis by reconstructing the lives, experiences and activities of middle-class migrants. …
Britain’s Soldiers
Rethinking War and Society, 1715–1815
Av Kevin Linch, Matthew McCormack
Inbunden, 2014
2138 kr
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The British soldier was a fascinating and complex figure in the century between the Hanoverian accession and the Battle of Waterloo. The ‘war and society’ approach has shed much light on Britain’s frequent experience of conflict in this period, but Britain’s Soldiers argues that it is time to …
Charles Macklin and the Theatres of London
Av Ian Newman, David O'Shaughnessy
Inbunden, 2022
2388 kr
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Charles Macklin (1699?–1797) was one of the most important figures in the eighteenth-century theatre. Born in Ireland, he began acting in London in around 1725 and gave his final performance in 1789 – no other actor can claim to have acted across seven decades of the century, from the reign of …
Merely for Money?
Business Culture in the British Atlantic, 1750–1815
Inbunden, 2012
2138 kr
Tillfälligt slut
In 1780 Richard Sheridan noted that merchants worked ‘merely for money’. However, rather than being a criticism, this was recognition of the important commercial role that merchants played in the British empire at this time. Of course, merchants desired and often made profits, but they were …
