New Trends in Education in the Eighteenth Century
New Trends in Education in the Eighteenth Century

Author: Nicholas A Hans

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-08-21

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1136240799

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This is Volume VII of nine in a collection on Historical Sociology. Originally published in 1951, this is a study of educational institutions and movements, social and economic conditions and developments in a period that is seen as the actual realisation of modern education.

Early Modern Fire
Early Modern Fire

Author: Gianenrico Bernasconi

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2024-11-20

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9004521763

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Early Modern Fire offers new perspectives on the history of fire in early modern Europe (ca. 1600–1800). Far from the background role that scholarship has traditionally assigned to fire, the essays in this volume demonstrate its centrality to understanding the entangled histories of science, technology, and society in the pre-industrial period. Analysing case studies ranging from alchemy to cooking and from firefighting to fireworks, the contributors show that the history of fire is not only one of change and progress, but also of continuity, characterised by the persistence of traditional know-how, small-scale innovation, and the coexistence of different paradigms. Contributors: Gianenrico Bernasconi, Catherine Denys, Hannah Elmer, Liliane Hilaire-Pérez, Olivier Jandot, Cyril Lacheze, Andrew M.A. Morris, Cornelia Müller, Bérengère Pinaud, Stefano Salvia, Marco Storni, Marie Thébaud-Sorger, and Simon Werrett.

The Materiality of Color
The Materiality of Color

Author: Andrea Feeser

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 9781409429159

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The purpose of this essay collection is to recover color's complex and sometimes morally troubling past. By emphasising color's materiality, and how it was produced, exchanged and used, contributors draw attention to the disjuncture between the beauty of color and the blood, sweat, and tears that went into its production, circulation and application as well as to the complicated and varied social meanings attached to color within specific historical and social contexts.