Rob - 18th Century 1

¿Qué llevó a Francia a la Revolución? Un ensayo excepcional sobre el temperamento responsable de cambiar el curso de la Historia. «Este libro es, sencillamente, un festín que, gracias a su magnífica……続きを見る

With the stroke of a pen, Britain acquired approximately 34 million acres of land in 1763ーterritory that had been Spain’s La Florida since 1565. Trade was the economic engine of the time, and the c……続きを見る

Il nome del Conte di Cagliostro esercita ancora una grande suggestione, a ben duecentotrent’anni dalla sua morte e persino nelle persone che non hanno un’idea precisa di chi fosse, di cosa facesse, ……続きを見る

Concentrates solely on North-Western Europe, examines the crucial structural changes that shaped the modern world The History of North-Western Europe provides a broad account of the regions included……続きを見る

Looking at America through the Irish prism and employing a comparative approach, leading and emerging scholars of early American and Atlantic history interrogate anew the relationship between imperi……続きを見る

Today, when "globalization" is a buzzword invoked in nearly every realm, we turn back to the eighteenth century and witness the inherent globalization of its desires and, at times, its accomplishmen……続きを見る

Anecdotes of Enlightenment is the first literary history of the anecdote in English. In this wide-ranging account, James Robert Wood explores the animating effects anecdotes had on intellectual and ……続きを見る

A pioneering social history of French writers during the Age of Revolution, from a world-renowned scholar and National Book Critics Circle Award winner. In eighteenth-century France, writers emerged……続きを見る

Between 1768 and 1779, Captain James Cook of the British Royal Navy made three voyages of exploration for purposes of scientific research. On each voyage he kept a log of scenes and adventures. Cook……続きを見る

La légende veut qu’en réponse aux murmures de ses soldats qui lui reprochaient sa mollesse le sultan Mahomet II ait tranché la tête à une captive grecque qu’il aimait éperdument. Imaginée en 1554 pa……続きを見る

Frédéric Deloffre poursuit son travail inlassable d’édition des œuvres de Robert Challe, ce “passager clandestin de la littérature”. Après les Illustres françaises (cf. TLF 400) et la Continuation d……続きを見る

This deeply accomplished and lively monograph charts the career of a travelling French actor-manager whose impact and significance have been overlooked. The "inimitable Monsieur Francisque" (Françoi……続きを見る

Romanzi a chiave che svelano gli intrighi di corte, opere troppo fiacche quanto a faziosità socialista, storie d'amore in bengali da cui traspare l'odio per la dominazione inglese, e poi censori or……続きを見る

Examines the evolving relationship between Church and State, the character of radical thought in Enlightenment England, and the nature of that Enlightenment itself. A tribute to the work of the late……続きを見る

This book explores the foundational economic principles established by Adam Smith in his seminal work, The Wealth of Nations (1776), and examines their enduring impact on economic thought, policy, a……続きを見る

Using the categories of status, political power, and wealth, Robert W. Patch shows how Hispanic society in Mérida, Yucatán was stratified into upper, middle, and lower classes. Lacking any exportabl……続きを見る

Civil Religion - a tradition of political thought that has argued for a close connection between religion and the state - made an important contribution to the development of religious and political……続きを見る

The seventh edition of this two-volume narrative of English history draws on the most up-to-date primary and secondary research, encouraging students to interpret the full range of England's social,……続きを見る

The seventh edition of this two-volume narrative of English history draws on the most up-to-date primary and secondary research, encouraging students to interpret the full range of England's social,……続きを見る

'The best single-volume study of the Enlightenment that we have' Literary Review The Enlightenment is one of the formative periods of Western history, yet more than 300 years after it began, it rema……続きを見る

Il 27 luglio 1794, che secondo il calendario rivoluzionario francese corrispondeva al 9 Termidoro, la maggioranza della Convenzione Nazionale mise fine al governo di Robespierre che aveva instaurato……続きを見る

”A major achievement of American scholarship and in the first rank of those which have been transforming our view of French history during the last twenty years.“ ーNew York Review of Books A great ……続きを見る

Palaces of Reason traces the fascinating history of three royal residences built outside of Naples in the eighteenth century at Capodimonte, Portici, and Caserta. Commissioned by King Charles of Bou……続きを見る

**“A scarifying, blood-soaked portrait of savagery on the early frontierーmuch of it committed by European settlers . . . superb.”ーKirkus Reviews (starred) An acclaimed historian captures the true ……続きを見る

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 constatazion……続きを見る

In ‘De opstand van Tula’ beschrijft Robin Raven het verhaal van de Curaçaose slaafgemaakte Tula, die in 1795 de grootste slavenopstand in de geschiedenis van de Nederlandse Antillen leidde. In ‘De o……続きを見る

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • An epic, extraordinary account of scientific rivalry and obsession in the quest to survey all of life on Earth **“[An] engaging and thought-provoking book, one focused on the……続きを見る

A vivid portrait of the life and work of Carl Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778), known as the father of modern biological taxonomy, formalized and popularized the system of binomial nomenclature us……続きを見る

**A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice “This captivating history of the decades leading up to the French Revolution…immerse[s] readers in what agitated Parisians read, wore, ate and sang on ……続きを見る

**A Sunday Times, Times Literary Supplement, and The Times Book of the Year ‘Robert Darnton is one of the world’s greatest historians, and this is an exceptional book: a huge social and cultural por……続きを見る