Scott - 18th Century 1

There was much uncertainty about how voice related to body in the early eighteenth century, and this became a major subject of scientific and cultural interest. In Voices from Beyond, Scott Sanders ……続きを見る

Before the rise of private homes as we now understand them, the realm of personal, private, and local relations in England was the parish, which was also the sphere of poverty management. Between th……続きを見る

No genre manifests the pleasure of readingーand its power to consume and enchantーmore than romance. In suspending the category of the novel to rethink the way prose fiction works, Without the Novel……続きを見る

Ambivalent Pleasures explores how Europeans wrestled with the novel experience of consuming substances that could alter moods and become addictive. During the early modern period, psychotropic drugs……続きを見る

“Offers an impressively learned and evenhanded treatment of the Enlightenment’s key ideas and the reactions to them over the past two centuries.” ーZoltan Barany, author of The Soldier and the Chang……続きを見る

A highly illustrated study of the British siege of Savannah in the American Revolution and the French and American attempt to take the city back that followed. In 1778 Great Britain launched a secon……続きを見る

Il était aussi près que possible ; mais ce qu’était cet objet, elle ne pouvait le dire. Il semblait être arrêté près d’un chêne vieux et immense. COLERIDGE. Ainsi commence le manuscrit de mistress B……続きを見る

The Bride of Lammermoor Walter Scott - Edgar, the brooding young master of Ravenswood, retains none of his ancestral estates but a crumbling castle. Embittered by the lawsuits that have stripped him……続きを見る

To understand modern science, it is essential to recognize that many of the most fundamental scientific principles are drawn from the knowledge of ancient civilizations. Taking a global yet comprehe……続きを見る

A magisterial account of how the cultural and maritime relationships between the British, Dutch and American territories changed the existing world order – and made the Industrial Revolution possibl……続きを見る

Part biography and part microhistory, Jacob Green’s Revolution focuses on two key figures in New Jersey’s revolutionary dramaーJacob Green, a radical Presbyterian minister who advocated revolution, ……続きを見る

A magisterial account of how the cultural and maritime relationships between the British, Dutch and American territories changed the existing world order – and made the Industrial Revolution possibl……続きを見る

Whitehorse Farmhouse, Morton-on-the-Hill, located just outside Norwich, served as an Inn from the late C17 through to 1912. References to this hostelry can be found in Parson James Woodforde's count……続きを見る