Mann - 18th Century 1

Entdecken Sie die faszinierende Welt des 16. Jahrhunderts durch die Augen eines unerschrockenen Entdeckers! Ulrich Schmidel von Robert Lehmann-Nitsche entführt Sie auf eine abenteuerliche Reise in d……続きを見る

Entdecken Sie die faszinierende Verbindung zwischen der Leinwand und der Welt, die sie abbildet! In "Kino und Erdkunde" von Hermann Hafker entfaltet sich eine spannende Reise durch die Landschaften ……続きを見る

Violence was a constant on all colonial frontiers, from the British expansion into the Australian and African continents, to the expansion of the United States and the Napoleonic Empire's many incur……続きを見る

Eighteenth-century British culture was transfixed by the threat of contagion, believing that everyday elements of the surrounding world could transmit deadly maladies from one body to the next. Phys……続きを見る

**A perceptive introduction to the mind of one of German's greatest writers, in a new translation for the first time in 150 years 'The best German book there is' Nietzsche** By the turn of the ninet……続きを見る

For more than twenty years, The Age of Johnson has aspired to present to a wide readership a body of influential Johnsonian scholarship “in the broadest sense,” as founder Paul J. Korshin put it. In……続きを見る

From 1642 to 1660, live theater was banned in England. The market for printed books, howeverーincluding playsーflourished. How did this period, when plays could be read but not performed, affect the……続きを見る

Convinced he was the Elijah Messiah, the Spanish peasant Bartolomé Sánchez believed that God had sent him in divine retribution for the crimes committed by the Inquisition and the Church. Sánchez's ……続きを見る

This accessibly written volume examines the major periods of Jewish history around the world, from the Jews' distant origins in antiquity through the beginnings of the modern period and the emergenc……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Gesammelte historische Romane: Christoph Columbus + Alexander in Babylon + Das Gold von Caxamalca + Von Helden und ihrem Widerspiel + Caspar Hauser und viel mehr" ist mit einem detail……続きを見る

Exploratory, investigative, and energetically analytical, 1650*–1850 covers the full expanse of long eighteenth-century thought, writing, and art while delivering abundant revelatory detail. Essays ……続きを見る

Born in Salzburg in 1756, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was one of the most prolific musicians that ever lived. Here, the author Judith Grohmann takes us behind the curtain of the career to reveal the rea……続きを見る

The acclaimed historian "creatively use[s] the real-life murder of Count Joseph Visconti . . . to examine 18th-century European life and politics" ( Library Journal). In Liaisons Dangereuses, Mary L……続きを見る

Through a number of significant case studies, this volume examines changing Iberian dynamics in the Pacific, bridging the gaps between English and Spanish speaking scholarship to highlight understud……続きを見る

Western Europe rose in global power during the early modern period as overseas expansion opened new trade routes. At the same time, intense rivalries pitted European states against one another in re……続きを見る

Recognizing distance as a central concern of the Enlightenment, this volume offers eight essays on distance in art and literature; on cultural transmission and exchange over distance; and on distanc……続きを見る

In her own time and in ours, Hannah More (1745-1833) has been seen as a benefactress of the poor, writing and working selflessly to their benefit. Mona Scheuermann argues, however, that More's agend……続きを見る

In 'Etta Palm' vertelt Wil Schackmann, met veel gevoel voor historische details, het levensverhaal van Etta Palm (1743-1799). Zij behoort tot Nederlands interessantste historische figuren. In Gronin……続きを見る

Mozarts Opern Idomeneo, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni und Così fan tutte gehören ebenso wie das Singspiel Die Zauberflöte – um nur einige wenige seiner Bühnenwerke zu nennen – zum festen Repertoi……続きを見る

Der Russe Michail Vasil'evi? Lomonosov (1711-1765) zählt zu dem bekanntesten europäischen Gelehrtenpersönlichkeiten. Seine wissenschaftliche Karriere begann zu einer Zeit, als die russische Wissensc……続きを見る

Michail W. Lomonossow (1711 - 1765) zählt zu den großen russischen Gelehrten des 18. Jahrhunderts. Nach seiner Ausbildung an der Universität Marburg unter der Obhut von Christian Wolff und in der Be……続きを見る

In her own time and in ours, Hannah More (1745-1833) has been seen as a benefactress of the poor, writing and working selflessly to their benefit. Mona Scheuermann argues, however, that More's agend……続きを見る

Winner, 2020 Association for the Study of Food and Society Book Award, Edited Volume Long before the founding of the Jamestown, Virginia, colony and its Starving Time of 1609–1610ーone of the most f……続きを見る

Shifting the focus from the medical use of spas to their cultural and social functions, this study shows that eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century German spas served a vital role as spaces where……続きを見る

Benjamin Hoffmann’s Posthumous America examines the literary idealization of a lost American past in the works of French writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. For writers such as John ……続きを見る

Western Europe rose in global power during the early modern period as overseas expansion opened new trade routes. At the same time, intense rivalries pitted European states against one another in re……続きを見る