The interdisciplinary essays in this volume represent innovative scholarship on the Enlightenment in Britain, Europe, and North America. Contributors and contents: Dennis Moore, Colloquy with the Author: Vincent Carretta and Equiano, the African Toni Bowers, Behn's Monmouth: Sedition, Seduction, and Tory Ideology in the 1680s Tita Chico, Details ......
For more than 80 years, this book has been the bible for U.S. Army officers. Condensed from Army regulations and the customs and traditions of the service, this fully updated new edition provides the latest soldier information and frank advice on a variety of issues relating to service life, for officers of all ranks, branches, and components.
Gregorian chant, the Catholic Church's very own music, is proper to the Roman liturgy, but during the course of its long history it has experienced periods of ascendancy and decline. A century ago, Pope Pius X called for a restoration of the sacred melodies, and the result was the Vatican Edition. This book presents for the first time in English ......
Emphasises that chocolate is much more than just a sweet treat - it encompasses a culture, a cuisine, and a treatment. This title helps you learn how to savour and expand the sensual experience that is chocolate. It traces the history and culture of the product around the world and that eaten in moderation, it can have healing powers.
The essays in this volume share a common concern with investigating Enlightenment categories of historical understanding and determining how these categories helped shape Enlightenment culture. The contributors address the question of how eighteenth-century writers make sense of the pasthow they interpret it, give it meaning and form, and deploy ......
Friedrich Nicolai as Bookseller and Publisher in the Age of Enlightenment
In his popular book The Germans (1982), Stanford historian Gordon Craig remarked: "When German intellectuals at the end of the eighteenth century talked of living in a Frederican age, they were sometimes referring not to the monarch in Sans Souci, but to his namesake, the Berlin bookseller Friedrich Nicolai." Such was the ......
This new volume continues the tradition of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture of publishing innovative interdisciplinary scholarship on the interpretive edge. Undertaking critical investigation of eighteenth-century ideas and practices, it discusses the possibilities and limitations of print; royal portraiture, the sentimental novel, and ......
Part of the ""History of Psychology in Autobiography"" series, this book takes personal and intellectual journeys of nine eminent people whose research has psychology into the 21st century.
