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Sur la côte septentrionale du golfe du Forth, dans le comté de Fife (Écosse), s’étend, sur 5 kilomètres de longueur, la petite ville de Kirkaldy. C’est là qu……続きを見る

Scotland’s Pariah is the first book to examine the remarkable life of John Pinkerton: antiquarian, poet, forger, cartographer, historian, serial adulterer, bigamist, and religious skeptic. A pugnaci……続きを見る

In Slavery and the Founders, Paul Finkelman addresses a central issue of the American founding: how the first generation of leaders of the United States dealt with the profoundly important question ……続きを見る

Abigail L. Swingen’s insightful study provides a new framework for understanding the origins of the British Empire while exploring how England’s original imperial designs influenced contemporary Eng……続きを見る

Edinburgh-born James Boswell, at twenty-two, kept a daily diary of his eventful second stay in London from 1762 to 1763. This journal, not discovered for more than 150 years, is a deft, frank and ar……続きを見る

Winner of the Phi Alpha Theta Best Subsequent Book Award Finalist: Los Angeles Times Book Prize The captivating and definitive account of the most consequential natural disaster of modern times. On ……続きを見る

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 crit……続きを見る

How did the French Revolution’s ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity descend into violence and terror? Timothy Tackett offers a new interpretation of this turning point in world history. Pene……続きを見る

Conceptions of distance are foundational to historical thought, but Mark Salber Phillips gives the idea new subtlety and meaning. He argues that distance is a matter not just of time and space but a……続きを見る

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……続きを見る

The Lower Canadian Rebellion of 1837 has been called the most important event in pre-Confederation history. Previously, it has been explained as a response to economic distress or as the result of m……続きを見る

Many people assume that a French-English cleavage has always existed and historians have been uncertain as to just how it unfolded. This book provides the answer. Greenwood re-creates a Quebec in wh……続きを見る

Extrait : "L'histoire a été, dans tous les siècles, une étude si recommandée, qu'on croirait perdre son temps d'en recueillir les suffrages, aussi importants par le poids de leurs auteurs que par le……続きを見る

Extrait : "Pendant plus de vingt ans, l'histoire de la France a été l'histoire de l'Europe ; pendant plus de quinze ans, l'histoire de Napoléon a été l'histoire de la France : histoire cruellement s……続きを見る

Extrait :"Par un phénomène d'idiosyncrasie, dont je ne me vante ni ne m'excuse, je n'ai jamais eu peur de Paris. Il est vrai que j'y suis né..." 続きを見る

Le 18 Brumaire an VIII (9 novembre 1799) dont on commémore en cette fin de siècle le 200e anniversaire, constitue l'un des événements les plus considérables de l'histoire de France. Il a non seuleme……続きを見る

William James (January 11, 1842 - August 26, 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher trained as a medical doctor. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, ……続きを見る

Thomas Gordon and John Trenchard published Catos Letters from 1720 to 1723, a series of letters arguing against British tyranny and advancing further freedom and free speech. This letter by Cato is……続きを見る

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz born in Leipzig, Germany, is one of the most influential mathematicians and philosopher of the Enlightenment. The Monadology is one of Leibnizs best known later philosophic……続きを見る

For fans of The Lost Kingdom, Black Sails and Crossbones comes a new rip-roaring history of the Golden Age of Piracy. . . In the early eighteenth century a number of the great pirate captains, inclu……続きを見る

This compelling book chronicles a young boy’s journey from the horrors of Jamaican slavery to the heart of London’s literary world, and reveals the unlikely friendship that changed his life. Francis……続きを見る

Early modern English canonical sources and sermons often urge the subordination of women. In Household Politics, Don Herzog argues that these sources were blather—not that they were irrelevant, bu……続きを見る

Spaces for Feeling explores how English and Scottish people experienced sociabilities and socialities from 1650 to 1850, and investigates their operation through emotional practices and particular s……続きを見る

In this collection, thirteen distinguished contributors examine the influence of the ancient skeptical philosophy of Pyrrho of Elis and Sextus Empiricus on early modern political thought. Classical ……続きを見る

The first major work on this enigmatic British general for more than 40 years, William Howe and the American War of Independence offers fascinating new insights into his performance during the revol……続きを見る

Extrait : "C'est une des chances les plus heureuses pour une femme littéraire que d'avoir à parler de madame de Staël..., cette femme dont le génie a jeté de si brillants rayons, non seulement sur n……続きを見る

Extrait : "La première réunion dont nous occuperons est celle qui avait lieu toutes les semaines chez Valentin Conrart, rue Saint-Martin, au cœur de Paris. Elle se composait de Godeau, Gombauld, Cha……続きを見る

Extrait : "Le dix-huitième siècle a compté, comme le dix-septième, un grand nombre de cercles littéraires, offrant la même diversité d'origine, les mêmes contrastes de ton. Nous rencontrerons, au co……続きを見る

Extrait : "Une année nouvelle s'ouvre devant nous ; elle réclame de nous un esprit nouveau. C'est une condition particulière à l'homme qui paraît dans ces chaires, que son auditoire rajeunit et se r……続きを見る

Extrait : "L'Empereur ordonnait à tous ceux qui avaient une position dans l'État de beaucoup recevoir, et surtout d'inviter les étrangers de distinction. Il y avait alors à Paris deux ou trois maiso……続きを見る