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The eighteenth-century home, in terms of its structure, design, function, and furnishing, was a site of transformation – of spaces, identities, and practices.
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Authors: Michèle Lalande
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Exploring interiors of breezy elegance, where Pop Art and industrial design mingle with patinaed highboys and carved candelabra, this book reinvents classic ele
The Social Life of Books
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Authors: Abigail Williams
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The Making of the Modern Self
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Authors: Dror Wahrman
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Wahrman argues that toward the end of the 18th century there was a radical change in notions of self & personal identity - a sudden transformation that was a re