Format:
vii, 306 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Porträts
ISBN:
9780813940755
Content:
"With essays on book history, literature, anthropology, music, theater, art and architecture, this book examines the Enlightenment across a range of disciplines and geographical boundaries"--
Note:
Literaturangaben
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Knowledge and the lives of books. Introduction
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Enlightenment, some assembly required
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An inventory of the estate of William Strahan in 1759
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Understanding an obscure text : "The fortunate foundlings" and the limits of interdisciplinarity
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Human economies. Introduction
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How long does blood last? Degeneration as Blanqueamiento in the Americas
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Thomas Jefferson : breeding and buying horses, connecting family, friends, and neighbors
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The Jamaican plantation : industrial, global, contested
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Artists' geographies. Introduction
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Emotional geographies : Watteau and the fate of women
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Painting New England in the Dutch West Indies : John Greenwood's "Sea captains carousing in Surinam"
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Dramatic politics. Introduction
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Mozart and the American Revolution
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The drama of marriage in eighteenth-century Venice : Carlo Goldoni's "La locandiera"
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Performances of suffering and the stagecraft of sympathy
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The aesthetics of excess : Rococo vestiges of "Tartuffe" in Isla's "Father Gerundio"
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813940762
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Gies, David T The Eighteenth Centuries Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2018 ISBN 9780813940762
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Aufklärung
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Globalisierung
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Geistesleben
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Geschichte 1700-1800
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