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The Eighteenth Centuries
Language: en
Pages: 405
Authors: David T. Gies
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-02-02 - Publisher: University of Virginia Press

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Today, when "globalization" is a buzzword invoked in nearly every realm, we turn back to the eighteenth century and witness the inherent globalization of its de
The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century British America
Language: en
Pages: 457
Authors: Jennifer Van Horn
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-02-23 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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Over the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods. The Power of Objects in Eighteenth-Century Brit
The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-century Philosophers
Language: en
Pages: 200
Authors: Carl Lotus Becker
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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Here a distinguished American historian challenges the belief that the eighteenth century was essentially modern in its temper. In crystalline prose Carl Becker
Body and Text in the Eighteenth Century
Language: en
Pages: 364
Authors: Veronica Kelly
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-09-01 - Publisher: Stanford University Press

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Twelve scholars from the fields of English, French, and German literature here examine the complex ways in which the human body becomes the privileged semiotic
The Eighteenth-Century Revolution in Spain
Language: en
Pages: 501
Authors: Richard Herr
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-12-08 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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The first part of the book is an able survey of 'the Enlightenment’ in eighteenth-century Spain. The second part, on ’the Revolution,’ is something more.