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With Additions and Alterations. Boyle's new Fashionable Court and Country Guide, and Town Visiting Directory for 1799. Containing an Alphabetical Arrangement of the Names and Places of Abode of all the Ladies and Gentlemen of Fashion
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its …
Sinews of Power
`The book is a distinguished work - of importance to students of governmental development generally. It is written in a fluent, non-technical manner that should reach a wide …
Wicked Waltz and Other Scandalous Dances
The waltz, perhaps the most beloved social dance of the 19th and early 20th centuries, once provoked outrage from religious leaders and other self-appointed arbiters of social …
Between Daily Routine and Violent Protest
Most human action has a technical dimension. This book examines four components of this technical dimension. First, in all actions, various individual, organizational or …
Italy and Libya
This volume proposes a historical analysis of Italian-Libyan relations in contemporary times. After examining the colonialism of liberal Italy, which in 1911 culminated in the …
Society, Culture and Opera in Florence, 1814-1830
Following the defeat of Napoleon in 1814, an event that signalled an end to nearly fourteen years of French domination, Florence seemed to enter a new cultural 'golden age' and by …
Memory in Hungarian Fascism
Memory in Hungarian Fascism: A Cultural History argues that fascist memory had a key role in the historical formation and later return of fascism. Tracing the trajectory of a …
Counterhegemony in the Colony and Postcolony
This volume offers an unusual, interdisciplinary collaboration of scholars working on the major regions of the global South. The authors probe important episodes of resistance in …
Radetzky's Marches
In the spring of 1848, revolution threatened to sweep away the old order throughout Europe. In the Austrian-occupied north of Italy, newly nurtured nationalism, further fueled by …
Games and War in Early Modern English Literature
This pioneering collection of nine original essays carves out a new conceptual path in the field by theorizing the ways in which the language of games and warfare inform and …
A Sportive Matka Polka - Nationalism and Feminism in Women's Physical Culture in Modern Poland
A Short Description of the Tennassee Government, or the Territory of the United States South of the River Ohio, to Accompany and Explain a map of That Country
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its …