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Specialized dictionaries and encyclopedias, 1650-1800
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the number of specialized dictionaries and encyclopedias grew from a trickle to a flood, while the number of disciplines they were …
Clementi and the woman at the piano
This book takes as its historical point of departure the radical appearance in 1779 of technically difficult keyboard music in a set of six sonatas (Op. 2) by Muzio Clementi. The …
Messengers of empire
Messengers of Empire: Print and Revolution in the Atlantic World examines how news and information moved across the Atlantic world during the Age of Sail. It provides a …
La Monarchie éclairée de l’abbé de Saint-Pierre
L’abbé de Saint-Pierre, connu pour son Projet de paix perpétuelle, a laissé un ensemble bien plus vaste et cohérent d’écrits politiques et moraux jusqu’alors dispersés et …
Ottomans in Eighteenth-Century Prussia
Ottomans in Eighteenth-Century Prussia: Delegates to Diplomats is the first overarching study of Ottomans in Prussia. It examines the embassies of Ahmed Resmi Efendi (1763/4), …
The emergence of literature in eighteenth-century France
The emergence of literature in eighteenth-century France changes our understanding of when, how and why modern ideas of literature emerged in France. Using a unique blend of …
Secrets et surveillance épistolaires dans l’Europe du dix-huitième siècle
En un siècle marqué par d’incessantes querelles théologiques et d’innombrables conflits armés, auxquels s’ajoutent des tensions entre l’Église, l’État et le parti des « Philosophes …
Persia and the Enlightenment
Since the 5th century BCE Persia has played a significant part in representing the “Other” against which European identity has been constructed. What makes the case of Persia …
The Latin Language and the Enlightenment
The long eighteenth century is often seen as the age ‘when Europe spoke French’. After all, many of the leading figures of the Enlightenment were French and even a good number of …
Montesquieu and the Spirit of Rome
Montesquieu and the Spirit of Rome argues that the eighteenth-century French author Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (1689-1755) developed a novel, …
Everyday Politics and Culture in Revolutionary France
The French revolutionary era produced surprises. Why did the French revolutionaries decriminalize sodomy? How did the Revolution alter fundamental attitudes toward time and …
Science and Political Economy in Enlightenment Milan, 1760-1805
This book is about the parlance of political economic ideas with scientific practices in the Duchy of Milan, from the late eighteenth-century Habsburg monarchy to the early …