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Interest and Connection in the Eighteenth Century recovers the small, densely networked world of Hanoverian Britain and its self-consciously inventive language for talking about human connection.
This collection takes a thematic approach to eighteenth-century history, covering such topics as domestic politics (including popular political culture), religious developments and changes, social and demographic structure and growth, and ...
Polly Harris Stone. Slate, 1787. Charlestown, Mass. Gravestone. Death's left arm is raised above his head, about to pierce Harris's portrait with his arrow and set into motion the process of putrefaction that will desecrate her formerly ...
Thomas Sheppard examines Lourmarin, a mainly Protestant village with a small textile industry. He seeks to answer a series of questions posed at the outset of the book: What was daily life like in an eighteenth-century French village?
"The Art Through the Century series introduces readers to important visual vocabulary of Western art."--Back cover.
Continuing Oxford's five-volume comprehensive history of the British Empire, Volume II examines the history of British expansion from the Glorious Revolution of 1689 to the end of the Napoleonic Wars, a crucial phase in the creation of the ...
Published to accompany an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Apr. 26-Aug. 7, 2011, and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Sept. 18-Dec. 10, 2011.
" In a new foreword, Johnson Kent Wright looks at the book's continuing relevance within the context of current discussion about the Enlightenment. "Will remain a classic--a beautifully finished literary product.
The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America Haulman explores how and why fashion--both as a concept and as the changing style of personal adornment-- shaped the revolutionary-era struggles of the 1760s and 1770s, influenced ...
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