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Author: Vivien Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-03-09
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780521586801
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, first published in 2000, is an authoritative volume of new essays on women's writing and reading in the eighteenth century.
Author: Karen Green
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-12-04
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 1316195503
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the eighteenth century, elite women participated in the philosophical, scientific, and political controversies that resulted in the overthrow of monarchy, the reconceptualisation of marriage, and the emergence of modern, democratic institutions. In this comprehensive study, Karen Green outlines and discusses the ideas and arguments of these women, exploring the development of their distinctive and contrasting political positions, and their engagement with the works of political thinkers such as Hobbes, Locke, Mandeville and Rousseau. Her exploration ranges across Europe from England through France, Italy, Germany and Russia, and discusses thinkers including Mary Astell, Emilie Du Châtelet, Luise Kulmus-Gottsched and Elisabetta Caminer Turra. This study demonstrates the depth of women's contributions to eighteenth-century political debates, recovering their historical significance and deepening our understanding of this period in intellectual history. It will provide an essential resource for readers in political philosophy, political theory, intellectual history, and women's studies.
Author: Fariba Zarinebaf
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2011-01-10
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0520947568
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis vividly detailed revisionist history exposes the underworld of the largest metropolis of the early modern Mediterranean and through it the entire fabric of a complex, multicultural society. Fariba Zarinebaf maps the history of crime and punishment in Istanbul over more than one hundred years, considering transgressions such as riots, prostitution, theft, and murder and at the same time tracing how the state controlled and punished its unruly population. Taking us through the city's streets, workshops, and houses, she gives voice to ordinary people—the man accused of stealing, the woman accused of prostitution, and the vagabond expelled from the city. She finds that Istanbul in this period remains mischaracterized—in part by the sensational and exotic accounts of European travelers who portrayed it as the embodiment of Ottoman decline, rife with decadence, sin, and disease. Linking the history of crime and punishment to the dramatic political, economic, and social transformations that occurred in the eighteenth century, Zarinebaf finds in fact that Istanbul had much more in common with other emerging modern cities in Europe, and even in America.
Author: Bertil Sundby
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 1991-01-01
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 9027277680
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEighteenth-century English grammarians plead eloquently for purity, precision and perspicuity, but their method of teaching largely amounts to citing examples of impurity, imprecision and lack of clarity from contemporary writings. This book is the first of its kind to provide a detailed systematic account of such 'errors'. Apart from source and page references, the Dictionary gives the context of the error (I have not wept this forty years), the correct or 'target' form ('these forty years'), the name of the authors quoted by the grammarians ('Addison', 'Swift'), and the labels which sum up their assessment of the error ('absurd', 'solecism'). It operates with error categories such as ambiguity, ellipsis and government (fourteen in all), which are subdivided into grammatically described main entries, subentries, and so on. The Introduction includes a guide to the use of the Dictionary, the grammatical code, and a discussion of grammatical concepts, error typologies, problems of identifying literary sources, attitudes to correctness, grammatical figures, and other topics. A Bibliography and an Index of lexical items and technical terms round off the volume. The way the Dictionary is organized should make it possible to find in it the answer to a wide variety of questions pertaining to grammar, style and linguistic historiography.
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 436
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Time-Life Books
Publisher: Alexandria, Va. : Time-Life Books
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780809464586
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a perspective of world history between 1700 and 1800 including developments in Russia, Prussia, America and France.
Author: John Stewart Davenport
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 348
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jacqueline Broad
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-01-22
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 0521888174
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Author: Tim Hitchcock
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 1997-03-05
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 134925407X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis fascinating and wide-ranging analysis of gender and sexualities brings together the disparate literatures on demography, love and marriage, the body, homosexuality, lesbianism, and the regulation of sexuality. It makes available to both undergraduates and professionals these complex literatures in an accessible and readable form, and in the process changes our understanding of the nature of the origins and development of modern sexual roles and gender relations.
Author: Colin Gordon Calloway
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0195331273
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this superb volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series, Colin Calloway reveals how the Treaty of Paris of 1763 had a profound effect on American history, setting in motion a cascade of unexpected consequences, as Indians and Europeans, settlers and frontiersmen, all struggled to adapt to new boundaries, new alignments, and new relationships. Most Americans know the significance of the Declaration of Independence or the Emancipation Proclamation, but not the Treaty of Paris. Yet 1763 was a year that shaped our history just as decisively as 1776 or 1862. This captivating book shows why.
