Ｙ．Ａ - 18th Century 1

Nancy Armstrong argues that the history of the novel and the history of the modern individual are, quite literally, one and the same. She suggests that certain works of fiction created a subject, on……続きを見る

'Drama, betrayal, religion and sex, it's all here ... Fascinating' GUARDIAN 'Beautifully paced, impeccably written ... Don't miss it' INDEPENDENT 'Fraser is at her best here, lucid, authoritative an……続きを見る

The church of the eighteenth century was still reeling in the wake of the huge religious upheavals of the two previous centuries. Though this was a comparatively quiet period, this book shows that f……続きを見る

Featuring updates and revisions that reflect recent historiography, this new edition of The Portuguese Empire in Asia 1500-1700 presents a comprehensive overview of Portuguese imperial history that ……続きを見る

For several decades, interest in the British Romantics’ theorizations and representations of the world beyond their national borders has been guided by postcolonial and, more recently, transatlantic……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Lafayette en moins d’une heure ! Parti en Amérique contre la volonté de son entourage et même du roi, Lafayette, tout juste âgé de 20 ans, se lance à co……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Louis XVI en moins d’une heure ! Devenu roi malgré lui suite au décès de son frère aîné et de ses parents, Louis XVI n’a pas le tempérament d’un monarqu……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Napoléon Bonaparte en moins d’une heure ! Qui mieux que Napoléon Bonaparte incarne le pouvoir de la volonté ? Issu d’un milieu modeste, son ascension es……続きを見る

Social clubs as they existed in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Scotland were varied: they could be convivial, sporting, or scholarly, or they could be a significant and dynamic social forc……続きを見る

In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the p……続きを見る

Seeks to explore the nature of the relationship between Britain and India at the height of imperial expansion. This collection is of interest among academic communities exploring British and Indian ……続きを見る

Xinjiang, named in 1759 by Emperor Qianlong (乾隆 1711-1799) of the Manchu-led Qing dynasty of China, was ruled by the Qing from the final phase of the Dzungar-Qing Wars when the Dzungar Khanate was……続きを見る

Rigorously inventive and revelatory in its adventurousness, 1650–1850 opens a forum for the discussion, investigation, and analysis of the full range of long-eighteenth-century writing, thinking, an……続きを見る

La série en sept tomes, Les-Bourbons.Club, vous présente son quatrième opus sur les rois Bourbons qui ont marqué l'Histoire Orphelin à l’âge de 2 ans, Louis XV succède à son arrière-grand-père à la ……続きを見る

La série en sept tomes, Les-Bourbons.Club, vous présente son cinquième opus sur les rois Bourbons qui ont marqué l'Histoire Louis XVI est le dernier roi de France de la période dite de l’Ancien Régi……続きを見る

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wurde oft als der letzte Renaissance-Mensch bezeichnet. Der renommierte Germanist Jeremy Adler zeigt in dieser neuen Biographie, dass Goethe mit gleichem Recht als Erfinde……続きを見る

Music and Urban Life in Baroque Germany offers a new narrative of Baroque music, accessible to non-music specialists, in which Tanya Kevorkian defines the era in terms of social dynamics rather than……続きを見る

This study of Lebanese historical thought and its role in national identity formation in the eighteenth century focuses on a sample of historians, mainly Christians, who lived and wrote during the S……続きを見る

In the years between 1776 and 1815, grand square-rigged sailing ships dominated warfare on the high seas. Fighting Sail is a tabletop wargame of fleet battles in this age of canvas, cannon, and timb……続きを見る

A pioneering exploration of how differences in material textual forms conveyed and altered ideas in diverse but connected parts of the world in a period of exceptional social, political and intellec……続きを見る

In The Art of Being In-between Yanna Yannakakis rethinks processes of cultural change and indigenous resistance and accommodation to colonial rule through a focus on the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca, a ru……続きを見る

Taking the Enlightenment and the feminist tradition to which it gave rise as its historical and philosophical coordinates, Feminism and the Politics of Travel After the Enlightenment explores travel……続きを見る

A rip-roaring account of the dramatic four-year siege of Britain’s Mediterranean garrison by Spain and Franceーan overlooked key to the British loss in the American Revolution For more than three an……続きを見る

When Italian forces landed on the shores of Libya in 1911, many in Italy hailed it as an opportunity to embrace a Catholic national identity through imperial expansion. After decades of acrimony bet……続きを見る

For over three and a half years, from 1779 to 1783, the tiny territory of Gibraltar was besieged and blockaded, on land and at sea, by the overwhelming forces of Spain and France. It became the long……続きを見る

Découvrez une nouvelle étude sur le XVIIIe siècle, qui s'intéresse à la place des femmes dans les échanges polémiques censés garantir leur foi et faire taire les propos des philosophes des Lumières.……続きを見る

Exile was a potent form of punishment and a catalyst for change in colonial Asia between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries. Vast networks of forced migration supplied laborers to emergin……続きを見る

As one of the most prolific historians of his generation, Allan I. Macinnes, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Strathclyde, has been foremost in promoting an international rather th……続きを見る

Provides for a historical perspective of Scotland's interaction with the world beyond its borders. As one of the most prolific historians of his generation, Allan I. Macinnes, Emeritus Professor of ……続きを見る

This volumeuses the extreme case of misers to examine interlocking categories that undergirded the emergence of modern British society, including new perspectives on charity, morality, and marriage;……続きを見る