Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History – serie
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Social Life of Books
Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home
Häftad, 2019
238 kr
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A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth centuryTwo centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral component of domestic social …
Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Av David Eltis, David Richardson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
661 kr
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A monumental cartographic history of the African slave trade, updated and expanded in a new edition In the first edition of Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, two leading historians explored details of the 350-year history of African slave traffic to the New World. They showed, with nearly 200 …
Benjamin Franklin and the Politics of Improvement
Av Alan Houston
Inbunden, 2009
959 kr
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This fascinating book explores Benjamin Franklin’s social and political thought. Although Franklin is often considered “the first American,” his intellectual world was cosmopolitan. An active participant in eighteenth-century Atlantic debates over the modern commercial republic, Franklin combined …
Civil Society and Empire
Ireland and Scotland in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Inbunden, 2009
940 kr
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James Livesey traces the origins of the modern conception of civil society—an ideal of collective life between the family and politics—not to England or France, as many of his predecessors have done, but to the provincial societies of Ireland and Scotland in the eighteenth century. Livesey shows …
Enlightened Pleasures
Eighteenth-Century France and the New Epicureanism
Inbunden, 2010
1186 kr
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Novelists, artists, and philosophers of the eighteenth century understood pleasure as a virtue—a gift to be shared with one’s companion, with a reader, or with the public. In this daring new book, Thomas Kavanagh overturns the prevailing scholarly tradition that views eighteenth-century France …
Enlightenment's Frontier
The Scottish Highlands and the Origins of Environmentalism
Inbunden, 2013
986 kr
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Enlightenment’s Frontier is the first book to investigate the environmental roots of the Scottish Enlightenment. What was the place of the natural world in Adam Smith’s famous defense of free trade? Fredrik Albritton Jonsson recovers the forgotten networks of improvers and natural historians that …
William Beckford
First Prime Minister of the London Empire
Av Perry Gauci
Inbunden, 2013
969 kr
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This first-ever biography of William Beckford provides a unique look at eighteenth-century British history from the perspective of the colonies. Even in his own time, Beckford was seen as a metaphor for the dramatic changes occurring during this era. He was born in 1709 into a family of wealthy …
Christian Monitors
The Church of England and the Age of Benevolence, 1680-1730
Inbunden, 2014
986 kr
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This original and persuasive book examines the moral and religious revival led by the Church of England before and after the Glorious Revolution, and shows how that revival laid the groundwork for a burgeoning civil society in Britain. After outlining the Church of England's key role in the …
Watchful Clothier
The Life of an Eighteenth-Century Protestant Capitalist
Inbunden, 2013
1242 kr
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A clothier and a deeply religious man, Joseph Ryder faithfully kept a diary from 1733 until his death, two and a half million words later, in 1768. Recently rediscovered and brilliantly interpreted by historian Matthew Kadane, Ryder’s diary provides an illuminating, real-life perspective on the …
Mayhem
Post-War Crime and Violence in Britain, 1748-53
Inbunden, 2013
884 kr
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After the end of the War of Austrian Succession in 1748, thousands of unemployed and sometimes unemployable soldiers and seamen found themselves on the streets of London ready to roister the town and steal when necessary. In this fascinating book Nicholas Rogers explores the moral panic associated …
Plague of Informers
Conspiracy and Political Trust in William III's England
Av Rachel Weil
Inbunden, 2014
1016 kr
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Stories of plots, sham plots, and the citizen-informers who discovered them are at the center of Rachel Weil's compelling study of the turbulent decade following the Revolution of 1688. Most studies of the Glorious Revolution focus on its causes or long-term effects, but Weil instead zeroes in on …
1688
The First Modern Revolution
Av Steve Pincus
Häftad, 2011
238 kr
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Based on new archival information, this book upends two hundred years of scholarship on England’s Glorious Revolution to claim that it—not the French Revolution—was the first truly modern revolutionFor two hundred years historians have viewed England’s Glorious Revolution of 1688–1689 as an …
Against War and Empire
Geneva, Britain, and France in the Eighteenth Century
Inbunden, 2012
1091 kr
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As Britain and France became more powerful during the eighteenth century, small states such as Geneva could no longer stand militarily against these commercial monarchies. Furthermore, many Genevans felt that they were being drawn into a corrupt commercial world dominated by amoral aristocrats …
Rest Is Silence
Enlightenment Philosophers Facing Death
Inbunden, 2026
401 kr
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A moving, intimate portrait of the Enlightenment philosophers as they faced the end of their lives and their historical moment“Original and beautifully written.”—Ruth Scurr, Wall Street JournalWhat would the Enlightenment look like if we viewed it through the eyes of the philosophers as they were …
Cunegonde's Kidnapping
A Story of Religious Conflict in the Age of Enlightenment
Inbunden, 2015
913 kr
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How a popular religious war erupted on the Dutch-German border, despite the ideals of religious tolerance proclaimed by the EnlightenmentIn a remote village on the Dutch-German border, a young Catholic woman named Cunegonde tries to kidnap a baby to prevent it from being baptized in a Protestant …
Fatal Land
War, Empire, and the Highland Soldier in British America
Inbunden, 2015
959 kr
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More than 12,000 soldiers from the Highlands of Scotland were recruited to serve in Great Britain’s colonies in the Americas in the middle to the late decades of the eighteenth century. In this compelling history, Matthew P. Dziennik corrects the mythologized image of the Highland soldier as a …
Allure of the Archives
Häftad, 2015
173 kr
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An exquisite appreciation of the distinctive rewards of historical research and a classic guide to the personal yet disciplined craft of discovery, now in its first English translation.Arlette Farge’s Le Goût de l’archive is widely regarded as a historiographical classic. While combing through …
Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Av David Eltis, David Richardson
Häftad, 2015
422 kr
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A extraordinary work, decades in the making: the first atlas to illustrate the entire scope of the transatlantic slave trade Winner of the Association of American Publishers’ 2010 R. R. Hawkins Award and PROSE Award “A monumental chronicle of this historical tragedy.”—Dwight Garner, New York Times …
Politics of Parody
A Literary History of Caricature, 1760-1830
Inbunden, 2018
563 kr
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This engaging study explores how the works of Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, and others were taken up by caricaturists as a means of helping the eighteenth-century British public make sense of political issues, outrages, and personalities. The first in-depth exploration of the relationship between …
Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright
Häftad, 2018
349 kr
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An eye-opening biography of a woman whose life intersected with three distinct cultures in eighteenth-century America: colonial New England, French Canadian, and Native American“Esther Wheelwright’s journey—from Puritan girl, to Wabanaki captive, to mother superior of the largest Catholic convent …
Vagrant Figures
Law, Literature, and the Origins of the Police
Inbunden, 2021
738 kr
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How vagrancy, as legal and imaginative category, shaped the role of policing in colonialism, racial formation, and resource distribution In this innovative book demonstrating the important role of eighteenth-century literary treatments of policing and vagrancy, Nicolazzo offers a prehistory of …
Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist
Three Lives in an Age of Empire
Inbunden, 2020
426 kr
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A portrait of empire through the biographies of a Native American, a Pacific Islander, and the British artist who painted them both Three interconnected eighteenth-century lives offer a fresh account of the British empire and its intrusion into Indigenous societies. This engaging history brings …
Pathologies of Motion
Historical Thinking in Medicine, Aesthetics, and Poetics
Inbunden, 2023
526 kr
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An original study of late Enlightenment aesthetics, poetics, and environmental medicine as overlapping ways of comprehending the dislocations of historical existence lodged in the movements of bodies and minds This book studies later eighteenth-century medicine, aesthetics, and poetics as …
Practical Form
Abstraction, Technique, and Beauty in Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics
Inbunden, 2021
750 kr
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A groundbreaking study of the development of form in eighteenth-century aesthetics In this original work, Abigail Zitin proposes a new history of the development of form as a concept in and for aesthetics. Her account substitutes women and artisans for the proverbial man of taste, asserting them as …
Democracy in Darkness
Secrecy and Transparency in the Age of Revolutions
Inbunden, 2024
372 kr
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How debates over secrecy and transparency in politics during the eighteenth century shaped modern democracy “Thought-provoking. . . . As Carter’s history shows with wonderful nuance, democratic governance is about a process of ongoing negotiation, not merely being in the know.”—Bronwen Everill, …
Affairs of Humanity
The Religious Origins of Humanitarian Diplomacy in Britain and Europe, 1690-1748
Inbunden, 2025
538 kr
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A new look at the origins of humanitarian intervention We are encouraged to empathize with the suffering of distant strangers every day, from ads for UNICEF to the outcry over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But where did this type of politics come from? Historian and practicing barrister Catherine …
Making the Imperial Nation
Colonization, Politics, and English Identity, 1660-1700
Inbunden, 2023
405 kr
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How did the creation of an overseas empire change politics in England itself?After 1660, English governments aimed to convert scattered overseas dominions into a coordinated territorial power base. Stuart monarchs encouraged schemes for expansion in America, Africa, and Asia, tightened control over …
Patriots Before Revolution
The Rise of Party Politics in the British Atlantic, 1714-1763
Av Amy Watson
Inbunden, 2025
661 kr
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A new history of the Patriot movement before the American Revolution, tracing its origins to reform movements in British politics The American revolutionaries—George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John and Abigail Adams—called themselves Patriots. But what exactly did it mean to be a Patriot? …
Staging "The Mysterious Mother"
Av Cynthia E. Roman, Jill Campbell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
738 kr
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The first book-length study of Horace Walpole’s scandalous The Mysterious Mother, including critical essays, an abridged script, and a facsimile edition Horace Walpole’s five-act tragedy The Mysterious Mother (1768), a sensational tale of incest and intrigue, was initially circulated only among the …
Race and the Scottish Enlightenment
A Colonial History, 1750-1820
Av Linda Andersson Burnett, Bruce Buchan
Inbunden, 2025
661 kr
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How colonialism shaped the Scottish Enlightenment’s conception of race and humanity In the decades after 1750, an increasing number of former medical students from the University of Edinburgh construed humanity as a subject of both intellectual curiosity and colonial interest. They drew on a shared …
