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  • Hollandpelzchen

    Nur für kurze Zeit können Magdalene und Willem in Rotterdam zusammenleben. Er muss verreisen, einen Auftrag als Kundschafter ohne sie erfüllen.Kann Magdalene nicht genau so gut wie Willem schwierige Fragen lösen? Sie will es ihm beweisen, indem sie das Grab ihres früh verstorbenen Milchbruders findet. Dessen Hollandpelzchen ist das Einzige, was auf sein Schicksal verweist. Das merkwürdige ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • L’età dell’informazione

    Una guida non convenzionale al Settecento

    George Washington aveva gravi problemi di denti – tant’è che a Mount Vernon sono conservate diverse dentiere: di legno, di avorio, di zanna di tricheco o di ippopotamo. A partire da una constatazione apparentemente marginale ed eterodossa, Robert Darnton, con la sua immensa erudizione e con il suo talento di narratore, ci porta all’interno di un mondo molto più complesso e contraddittorio di come ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • L'amitié en révolution, 1789-1799

    De l'histoire à la mémoire

    by Collectif ...
    Series series Histoire
    Valeur héritée, valeur refondée à l’aune de la régénération, de l’unité et de la fraternité espérées, quel est le statut de l’amitié dans les projets républicains et les communautés utopiques ? Que deviennent dans la Révolution la culture salonnière et l’idéal maçonniques qui reposent ô combien sur l’entrelacs des relations individuelles ? Comment se nouent, se dénouent ou, au contraire, résistent ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • LA GUERRA DI SARDEGNA E DI SICILIA 1717-1720 vol. 2/2. GLI ESERCITI CONTRAPPOSTI

    SAVOIA, SPAGNA, AUSTRIA - Parte 2 L’Esercito Spagnolo nel 1717-1720 e la Guerra per la conquista e la difesa della Sardegna e della Sicilia - Tomo 2

    Series Book 14 - Soldiers Weapons & Uniforms 700
    Nella trattazione, in tre parti, delle vicende che ebbero luogo nelle isole di Sardegna e di Sicilia tra il 1717 ed il 1720 si presenterà lo svolgersi delle operazioni militari che videro contrapposti l’esercito e la marina spagnola e quelli austriaci e sabaudi e un’analisi delle forze militari impiegate. Filippo V Borbone, Re di Spagna, non si era rassegnato alla situazione che si era creata alla ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Problems and Promise of Commercial Society

    Adam Smith's Response to Rousseau

    Adam Smith is popularly regarded as the ideological forefather of laissez-faire capitalism, while Rousseau is seen as the passionate advocate of the life of virtue in small, harmonious communities and as a sharp critic of the ills of commercial society. But, in fact, Smith had many of the same worries about commercial society that Rousseau did and was strongly influenced by his critique.In this ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Uniformi piemontesi XVIII sec.

    Sardinian & French uniforms of XVIII century

    Series Book 1 - SOLDIERS, UNIFORMS & WEAPONS 700
    Libro dedicato alle uniformi sabaude del XVIII secolo, disegnate e commentate negli aspetti uniformologic dal bravo artista piemontese Guglielmo Aimaretti. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Sources and Methods in Histories of Colonialism

    Approaching the Imperial Archive

    Edited by Kirsty Reid, Fiona Paisley ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources
    Sources and Methods in Histories of Colonialism provides an in-depth study of the relationships between archives, knowledge and power. Exploring a diverse range of examples and surveying the now substantial scholarly literatures on the functions and scope of the ‘imperial archive’, it facilitates a deeper understanding of the challenges of working with a range of specific source genres within ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Emotions in Europe, 1517-1914

    Volume III: Revolutions, 1714-1789

    Series series Routledge Historical Resources
    This volume of primary sources focuses on the history of emotions in Europe and its empires between 1714 and 1789. The study examines the subjects of the self, family and community, religion, politics and law, science and philosophy, and art and culture.Sources include letters, diaries, legal papers, institutional records, newspapers, science and philosophical writings, literature and art from a ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Baptism Through Incision

    The Postmortem Cesarean Operation in the Spanish Empire

    Translated by Nina M. Scott ...
    Series series Latin American Originals
    In 1786, Guatemalan priest Pedro José de Arrese published a work instructing readers on their duty to perform the cesarean operation on the bodies of recently deceased pregnant women in order to extract the fetus while it was still alive. Although the fetus’s long-term survival was desired, the overarching goal was to cleanse the unborn child of original sin and ensure its place in heaven. Baptism ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Imperial Script of Catherine the Great

    Governing with the Literary Pen

    Series series Ars Rossica
    Empress Catherine II produced a body of written material so vast and diverse that it seems impossible to provide a general characterization of the works contained in the authoritative twelve-volume collection assembled by A. N. Pypin from handwritten source material. This book does not attempt an all-embracing review of Catherine’s entire literary output, which consists of works in multiple genres ... Read more

    $107.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • For the Common Good and Their Own Well-Being

    Social Estates in Imperial Russia

    Every subject of the Russian Empire had an official, legal place in society marked by his or her social estate, or soslovie. These sosloviia (noble, peasant, merchant, and many others) were usually inherited, and defined the rights, opportunities, and duties of those who possessed them. They were also usually associated with membership in a specific geographically defined society in a particular ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Formation of Turkey

    The Seljukid Sultanate of Rum: Eleventh to Fourteenth Century

    by Claude Cahen ...
    Series series A History of the Near East
    From Byzantium to the Mongols to the Sultans of Rum, this acclaimed book offers an important insight into the evocative history of Turkey before the coming of Ottoman power.Turkey forms a historical bridge between Europe and Asia and as such has played a pivotal role throughout history. The rise of Constantinople and the later Ottoman Empire are well known: less well understood are developments in ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • Reflexions critiques sur les différentes écoles de peinture

    ( Edition intégrale ) annoté

    Series series Oeuvres de Jean-Baptiste Boyer d'Argens
    QUOIQUE nous ayons plusieurs de nos Auteurs, qui ont écrit sur la Peinture, ils font connoître cependant d’une maniere assez foible, le mérite de nos Peintres François, Lorsque Félibien écrivit son Ouvrage, à peine la France avoit-elle eu le quart des grands Peintres, qui y ont brillé dans la suite : on peut dire la même chose du Livre de M. de Pilles, que de celui de Félibien ; toutes les ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Le Siècle des Lumières : bibliographie chronologique. T. XII, Index des auteurs L-Z : 1716-1760

    Series series Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire
    Année après année, l'outil fondamental pour la recherche dix-huitiémiste qu'est le Siècle des Lumières de P.M. Conlon s'accroît d'un nouveau volume. ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Prélude au siècle des Lumières en France : répertoire chronologique de 1680 à 1715. Tome IV, 1708-1715

    Series series Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire
    Avec ce quatrième volume s'achève le monument de bibliographie que représente Prélude au siècle des Lumières. ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Le Siècle des Lumières : bibliographie chronologique. T. VI, 1748-1752

    Series series Histoire des Idées et Critique Littéraire
    Suite de la grande bibliographie de M. Conlon. La période ici représentée comprend la parution de l'Esprit des lois, celle du Siècle de Louis XIV, et les débuts de l'Encyclopédie. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Spectacular Suffering

    Witnessing Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic

    Spectacular Suffering focuses on commodification and discipline, two key dimensions of Atlantic slavery through which black bodies were turned into things in the marketplace and persons into property on plantations. Mallipeddi approaches the problem of slavery as a problem of embodiment in this nuanced account of how melancholy sentiment mediated colonial relations between English citizens and ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Encyclopédie

    It took all human knowledge as its province and required a quarter century to complete. It sold enough copies to justify being called the first commercial bestseller of modern times - and it changed the world. Here, in this short-form book by New York Times bestselling author Robert Wernick, is the remarkable history of the Encyclopédie. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe II

    Enlightenment Bestsellers

    This is a rich and path-breaking comparative study of reading tastes in the final years of old regime Europe. Based on extensive research in the account books of the Swiss publishers, the Société Typographique de Neuchâtel (STN), and related archives, it charts the dissemination of literature and reading tastes across Europe in the years leading up to the French revolution. In the process, it ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • I misteri di Genova

    I rossi e i neri. Vol. 2

    I Misteri di Genova, romanzo d’appendice a puntate di Anton Giulio Barrili, nato sulla scia dei Misteri di Parigi di Eugène Sue e di opere simili, rappresenta la prima pubblicazione che mostrava il capoluogo ligure, minuziosamente descritto sia nel centro storico che nei quartieri allora periferici, come scenario costante di una serie di avventure del pieno Risorgimento, a partire dal 1857. Dopo ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Origins of David Hume's Economics

    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
    The book covers Hume’s biographical development; his self appraisal as a 'man of letters’; his philosophical writings with emphasis on their direct and indirect economic content; his self-aware criticism of his approach to the Treatise and the development of his rhetorical understanding of the needs/interests of his readers/potential readers; his rhetorical turn and Ciceronian adjustments to his ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Russians in California

    by Allan Temko ...
    An Imperial colony on America's West Coast was Russia's aim. But, Pulitzer-Prize winner Allan Temko writes in this essay, the stakes were higher than they realized. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Partitions of Poland 1772, 1793, 1795

    The Partitions of Poland were a key event in the power politics of the late ancien regime, and had major long term consequences for the balance of power in northern and eastern Europe. Over a period of twenty five years Catherine II (Russia), Frederick II (Prussia) and Maria Theresa and Joseph II (Austria) between them wiped Poland xxx; Europe's second largest countryxxx; off the political map, ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Decadence, Radicalism, and the Early Modern French Nobility

    The Enlightened and Depraved

    by Chad Denton ...
    The image of the debauched French aristocrat of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is one that still has power over the international public imagination, from the unending fascination with the Marquis de Sade to the successes of the film Ridicule. Drawing on memoirs, letters, popular songs and pamphlets, and political treatises, The Enlightened and Depraved: Decadence, Radicalism, and the ... Read more

    $83.99 USD