7,464円 This study represents a significant reinterpretation of literary networks during what is often called the transition from manuscript to print during the early modern period. It is based on a survey of 28,000 letters and over 850 mainly English correspondents, ranging from consumers to authors, si...

6,500円 Escaping Bondage: A Documentary History of Runaway Slaves in Eighteenth-Century New England, 1700–1789 is an edited collection of runaway slave advertisements that appeared in newspapers in eighteenth-century Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire. In addition to documenting ...

6,500円 Novel Histories: British Women Writing History, 1760–1830 argues that British women’s history and historical fiction in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries changed not only the shape but also the political significance of women’s writing. At a time when women’s participation in the...

13,965円 Scholars, librarians, students, and database vendors have all applauded the increase in access to rare, old, venerated, and obscure texts that has resulted from the rise of electronic resources. Almost everyone associated with any branch of cultural history has heard the claims about unlimited re...

6,500円 Taking the Enlightenment and the feminist tradition to which it gave rise as its historical and philosophical coordinates, Feminism and the Politics of Travel After the Enlightenment explores travel as a “technology of gender.” It also investigates the way travel’s utopian dimension and feminism’...

6,621円 Implication, Readers' Resources, and Thomas Gray's Pindaric Odes presents an account of “the Poets’ Secret,” the quite belated, historically recent, discovery by scholars and critics of something many poets have recognized and employed for ages: the sense expressed by allusively parallel parts wi...

14,205円 This volume considers women's roles in the conflicts and negotiations of the early modern world. Essays explore the ways that gender shapes women's agency in times of war, religious strife, and economic change. How were conflict and concord gendered in histories, literature, music, and political,...

4,000円 Das vorliegende Werk von Willi Kollo bezieht sich auf die Aufzeichnungen des Schweizers Henri de Catt, Privatsekretär und enger Vertrauter Friedrich II., der dem Preußenkönig während des Siebenjährigen Krieges (1756-1763) als Vorleser diente. Willi Kollo übersetzte diese Aufzeichnungen aus dem Fr...

1,500円 Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur la Terreur en moins d’une heure ! Trois ans après la prise de la Bastille, la France est à un tournant critique de son histoire. Alors que la Première République vient d’être proclamée, des dissensions se font jour entre l’Assemblée législative et la...

1,500円 Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur James Cooks et l’exploration du Pacifique en moins d’une heure ! Le 25 août 1768, un charbonnier d’apparence banale quitte le port de Plymouth. À son bord, le jeune James Cook, officiellement chargé d’aller observer un phénomène rarissime : l’interpos...

11,440円 As the meeting point between Europe, colonial America, and Africa, the history of the Atlantic world is a constantly shifting arena, but one which has been a focus of huge and vibrant debate for many years. In over thirty chapters, all written by experts in the field, The Atlantic World takes up ...

6,905円 The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution draws on a wealth of new scholarship to create a vibrant dialogue among varied approaches to the revolution that made the United States. In thirty-three essays written by authorities on the period, the Handbook brings to life the diverse multitudes o...