The Social Life of Books

Abigail Williams

• Hardcover | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth century Two centuries before the ad... Lees meer

The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist

Kate Fullagar

• Hardcover | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• A portrait of empire through the biographies of a Native American, a Pacific Islander, and the British artist who painted them both Three interconnect... Lees meer

Cunegonde's Kidnapping

Benjamin J Kaplan

• Paperback | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• How a popular religious war erupted on the Dutch-German border, despite the ideals of religious tolerance proclaimed by the Enlightenment In a remote ... Lees meer

World of Trouble

Richard Godbeer

• Hardcover | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• An intimate account of the American Revolution as seen through the eyes of a Quaker pacifist couple living in Philadelphia "Describe[s] in illuminatin... Lees meer

Staging the Mysterious Mother

• Hardcover | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• The first book-length study of Horace Walpole's scandalous The Mysterious Mother , including critical essays, an abridged script, and a facsimile edit... Lees meer

Practical Form

Abigail Zitin

• Hardcover | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• A groundbreaking study of the development of form in eighteenth-century aesthetics In this original work, Abigail Zitin proposes a new history of the ... Lees meer

Adam Smith

Nicholas Phillipson

• Paperback | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• This fascinating intellectual biography of Adam Smith dramatically rewrites the economist's life and offers new insight into his iconic concepts The g... Lees meer

The Global Indies

Ashley L Cohen

• Hardcover | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• A study of British imperialism's imaginative geography, exploring the pairing of India and the Atlantic world from literature to colonial policy In th... Lees meer

Freedom's Debtors

Padraic X Scanlan

• Hardcover | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• A history of the abolition of the British slave trade in Sierra Leone and how the British used its success to justify colonialism in Africa British an... Lees meer

Pathologies of Motion

Kevis Goodman

• Hardcover | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• An original study of late Enlightenment aesthetics, poetics, and environmental medicine as overlapping ways of comprehending the dislocations of histo... Lees meer

Democracy in Darkness

Katlyn Marie Carter

• Hardcover | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• How debates over secrecy and transparency in politics during the eighteenth century shaped modern democracy "Thought-provoking. . . . As Carter's hist... Lees meer

Cunegonde's Kidnapping

Benjamin J Kaplan

• Hardcover | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• How a popular religious war erupted on the Dutch-German border, despite the ideals of religious tolerance proclaimed by the Enlightenment In a remote ... Lees meer

On Empire, Liberty, and Reform

Edmund Burke

• Paperback | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• The great British statesman Edmund Burke had a genius for political argument, and his impassioned speeches and writings shaped English public life in ... Lees meer

American Enlightenments

Caroline Winterer

• Paperback | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• A provocative reassessment of the concept of an American golden age of European-born reason and intellectual curiosity in the years following the Revo... Lees meer

Enlightened Pleasures

Thomas M Kavanagh

• Hardcover | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• Novelists, artists, and philosophers of the eighteenth century understood pleasure as a virtue--a gift to be shared with one's companion, with a reade... Lees meer

1688

Steve Pincus

• Paperback | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• Based on new archival information, this book upends two hundred years of scholarship on England's Glorious Revolution to claim that it--not the French... Lees meer

The Politics of Empire at the Accession of George III

James M Vaughn

• Hardcover | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• An important revisionist history that casts eighteenth-century British politics and imperial expansion in a new light "An important book . . . . Vaugh... Lees meer

Mayhem

Nicholas Rogers

• Hardcover | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• After the end of the War of Austrian Succession in 1748, thousands of unemployed and sometimes unemployable soldiers and seamen found themselves on th... Lees meer

The Social Life of Books

Abigail Williams

• Paperback | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth century Two centuries before the ad... Lees meer

The Allure of the Archives

Arlette Farge

• Paperback | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• Arlette Farge's Le Goût de l'archive is widely regarded as a historiographical classic. While combing through two-hundred-year-old judicial records fr... Lees meer

Making the Imperial Nation

Gabriel Glickman

• Hardcover | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• How did the creation of an overseas empire change politics in England itself? After 1660, English governments aimed to convert scattered overseas domi... Lees meer

The Politics of Parody

David Francis Taylor

• Hardcover | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• This engaging study explores how the works of Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, and others were taken up by caricaturists as a means of helping the eighteen... Lees meer

Vagrant Figures

Sal Nicolazzo

• Hardcover | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• How vagrancy, as legal and imaginative category, shaped the role of policing in colonialism, racial formation, and resource distribution In this innov... Lees meer

The Spanish Resurgence, 1713-1748

Christopher Storrs

• Hardcover | Engels | The Lewis Walpole Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
• A major reassessment of Philip V's leadership and what it meant for the modern Spanish state Often dismissed as ineffective, indolent, and dominated b... Lees meer