Modern historia före 1900-talet: ca 1700 – ca 1900
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This book examines the life and work of the eighteenth-century scientist, philosopher and feminist, Madame du Chatelet.
This ground-breaking, revisionist collection of essays, based on the most recent research, provides a long-needed reassessment of the legacy of the French Revolution and the …
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2008 The period of the Enlightenment saw great changes in the way animals were seen. The codifying and categorizing impulse of the age of …
While the simultaneously creative and destructive forces of modernity in Western Europe have been well studied, the case of Spain has often been overlooked. Visualizing Spanish …
Among the legacies of the colonial encounter are any number of contemporary 'mixed-race' populations, descendants of the offspring of unions involving European men and local women. …
Looking at women, business and finance in the long nineteenth century, this book challenges our traditional understanding of 'separate spheres' - whereby men operated in the public …
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2008 A Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Empire explores the cultural position of animals in the period from 1800 to 1920. This was a …