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af: Mark Darlow
20 b&w illustrations and eight musical examples...
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af: E C Spary
af: Tom L Beauchamp
Presents an edition of two famous works by David Hume. In "A Dissertation on the Passions", Hume sets out his original view of the nature and central role of passion and emotion. "The Natural History ...
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af: Sophie Gee
Beautiful, clever Arabella Fermor is seduced by charming Robert Petre, seventh baron of Ingatestone. Eager to secure herself a rich and handsome husband, Arabella cannot guess that the enigmatic rober...
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af: Rebecca L. Spang
Why are there restaurants? This text is about the French Revolution in taste and of the table - about how Parisians invented the modern culture of food, thereby changing their own social life and that...
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af: Katie Hickman
'Irresistible...history at its most human. Elegant and addictively readable.' William Dalrymple...
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af: Richard Wittman
Offers a study of how architectural practice, theory, patronage, and experience became modern with the rise of a mass public and a reconfigured public sphere. This book depicts architecture's passage ...
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af: Robert Harris
A scholarly study of the polemical press of the 1740s, and a substantial investigation of the complex politics of that decade for a generation. The book contributes to knowledge of political ideology ...
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af: Rebecca L. Spang
Why are there restaurants? This text is about the French Revolution in taste and of the table - about how Parisians invented the modern culture of food, thereby changing their own social life and that...
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af: Jeffrey S. Ravel
1 chart, 1 map, 1 table, 11 b&w photographs...
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af: Joanna Martin
An intimate portrait of the world of women inside the country houses that symbolized the power and taste of 18th-century Britain. 35 illustrations...
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af: Chris Nickson
af: Susan E Whyman & Clare Brant
Nine experts offer accessible and stimulating interpretations of John Gay's poem Trivia: or the Art of Walking the Streets of London (1716). The text of this lively, funny poem about urban life accomp...
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af: Vic Gatrell
Between 1770 and 1830, London was the world's largest and richest city, the centre of hectic social ferment and of sexual liberation. Combining words and images to offer an original panorama of that t...
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af: John Rawls & Barbara Herman
A collection of the lectures on moral philosophy given by John Rawls over three decades of teaching at Harvard. This book looks at thinkers such as Leibniz, Hume and Kant, in their struggle to define ...
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This account of the female revolutionaries during the French Revolution describes their lives within political, social, historical and gender-specific contexts. It highlights the importance of these w...
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af: John Rawls
A collection of the lectures on moral philosophy given by John Rawls over three decades of teaching at Harvard. This book looks at thinkers such as Leibniz, Hume and Kant, in their struggle to define ...
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af: David Bodanis
af: Michael Mason & William Blake
This selection of Blake's poetry represents the full range of his poetic output, from early Poetical Sketches to late lyrics, and reveals that The Songs of Innocence and Experience - Blake's best know...
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af: Carolyn Steedman
A unique account of the hidden history of servants and their employers in late eighteenth-century England. 38 b/w illus. 8 tables...
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Examines the transcendental dimension of Kant's philosophy as a positive resource for theology. This book shows that Kant's philosophy establishes three distinct grounds for transcendental theology, a...
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af: Carolyn Steedman
A unique account of the hidden history of servants and their employers in late eighteenth-century England. 38 b/w illus. 8 tables...
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af: Ken Alder
Documents the forging of a fresh relationship between technology and politics in Revolutionary France, and the inauguration of a distinctively modern form of the 'technological life'. 32 halftones, 3 ...
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af: Edgar Vella
full colour throughout...
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af: L S Jacyna
In this fascinating study of the Edinburgh medical school in the early nineteenth century, L.S.Jacyna analyses the developments in medical education in the context of the social and political relation...
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af: Jan Bondeson
The London monster 33ill....
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af: Jan Bondeson
The truth behind the man who terrorized women on the streets of eighteenth-century London. 38 illustrations...
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af: Miles Ogborn
This text provides a reinterpretation of London during a period of dramatic change, and presents ways of understanding the coming modernity through the transformation of urban landscapes. Illustration...
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af: Drew D Gray
Offers a fascinating view of the social history of Georgian London through the workings of the Summary courts. By analyzing the summary proceedings and the use of the law by ordinary citizens - to pro...
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af: Jan Bondeson
Jan Bondeson recounts a tale that occupies a unique place in criminal history and imagination. Drawing on contemporary evidence, he takes a wry look at the mania surrounding the sensational slashing a...
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af: Hugh Roberts
486 colour illustrations...
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Part of a series of guides to the National Gallery's collection. Following the success of "The National Gallery: Manet to Picasso", this book focuses on 38 masterpieces of Dutch painting, all made bet...
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af: Tim McNeese
af: Julie Flavell
Benjamin Franklin secretly loved London more than Philadelphia: it was simply the most exciting place to be in the British Empire. Offering a portrait of eighteenth-century London as the capital of Am...
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af: Pat Thane & Tanya Evans
A detailed exploration of the real lives of unmarried mothers in England through the past century. Argues that the 'permissive' sixties were largely a revolt against the secrecy and hypocrisy that wen...
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af: Ian Taylor
Taylor questions the widely held belief that the turn of the nineteenth century marked a 'dark age' of musical performance. 5 b/w illus. 27 tables...
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af: Leonard Smith
Offering a comprehensive study of the philanthropic asylum system in Georgian England, this book demonstrates the crucial role of the lunatic hospitals in the early development of a national system of...
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The 17th century was the golden age of Dutch painting, with artists such as Rembrandt, Hals and Vermeer producing a large variety of work, from intimate portraits to dramatic seascapes. This book pres...
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af: Julie Flavell
A portrait of eighteenth-century London as the capital of America. It recreates the famous city's heyday as the centre of an empire that encompassed North America and the West Indies. 36 black-...
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af: Miles Ogborn
This text provides a reinterpretation of London during a period of dramatic change, and presents ways of understanding the coming modernity through the transformation of urban landscapes. Illustration...
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As early as the 1780s, African Americans told stories that enabled them to survive and even thrive in the midst of unspeakable assault. Tracing the narratives from the late eighteenth century to the 1...
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af: William Blake
Contains the full text of "Songs of Innocence", "Songs of Experience", a selection from the Prophetic Books and his didactic poems and prose writings which reveal Blake as a major Romantic poet. Also ...
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af: William Blake & Joseph Skipsey