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  • Eating the Enlightenment

    Food and the Sciences in Paris, 1670–1760

    by E.C. Spary ...
    Eating the Enlightenment offers a new perspective on the history of food, looking at writings about cuisine, diet, and food chemistry as a key to larger debates over the state of the nation in Old Regime France. Embracing a wide range of authors and scientific or medical practitioners—from physicians and poets to philosophes and playwrights—E. C. Spary demonstrates how public discussions of eating ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Feeding France

    New Sciences of Food, 1760–1815

    by E. C. Spary ...
    Series Book 21 - Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories
    Feeding France is the first comprehensive study of the French food industry in the decades surrounding the French Revolution of 1789. Though the history of gastronomy and the restaurant have been explored by scholars, few are aware that France was also one of the first nations to produce industrial foods. In this time of political and social upheaval, chemists managed to succeed both as public ... Read more

    $48.79 CAD

  • Exoticizing Consumption

    European Drug Cultures, 1670-1740

    Edited by E. C. Spary, Justin Rivest ...
    Exotic drugs and spices, from tea to opium, were among the first fruits of European commercial expansion in the sixteenth century. By the eighteenth, many had become profitable products of the European empires that had spread across the globe. Often, they were objects of appropriation—substances whose curative virtues were known to Indigenous peoples and assimilated into European knowledge and ... Read more

    $44.79 CAD

  • Performing Representation

    Women Members in the Indian Parliament

    Edited by Shirin M. Rai, Carole Spary ...
    Seven decades after India’s independence women members occupy 1 in 10 seats in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian Parliament. In analysing women’s limited presence in the Indian Parliament, Performing Representation breaks new ground in scholarship on gender and politics. It explores the possibilities and limits of parliamentary democracy and the participation of women in its ... Read more

    $60.49 CAD

  • Worlds of Natural History

    Edited by Helen Anne Curry, Nicholas Jardine, James Andrew Secord, Emma C. Spary ...
    From Aztec accounts of hibernating hummingbirds to contemporary television spectaculars, human encounters with nature have long sparked wonder, curiosity and delight. Written by leading scholars, this richly illustrated volume offers a lively introduction to the history of natural history, from the sixteenth century to the present day. Covering an extraordinary range of topics, from curiosity ... Read more

    $59.19 CAD

  • Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe

    Between Market and Laboratory

    Edited by Ursula Klein, E. C. Spary ...
    It is often assumed that natural philosophy was the forerunner of early modern natural sciences. But where did these sciences’ systematic observation and experimentation get their starts? In Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe, the laboratories, workshops, and marketplaces emerge as arenas where hands-on experience united with higher learning. In an age when chemistry, mineralogy, ... Read more

    $80.29 CAD

  • Osiris, Volume 35: Food Matters

    Critical Histories of Food and the Sciences

    Edited by Anya Zilberstein, E. C. Spary ...
    Series Book 35 - Osiris
    Since the early modern period, science has played an ever-growing role in healthcare, agriculture, the regulation of food and drink trades, and the standardization of nutrition guidelines. Yet until now, few studies had explored the historical processes through which scientific claims of knowledge gained the power to shape food supply chains and consumer choices. This volume of Osiris reveals how ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Gender, Development, and the State in India

    by Carole Spary ...
    Series series Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series
    This book explores the relationship between the state, development policy, and gender (in)equality in India. It discusses the formation of state policy on gender and development in India in the post-1990 period through three key organising concepts of institutions, discourse, and agency. The book pays particular attention to whether the international policy language of gender mainstreaming has ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

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  • Sentimental Savants

    Philosophical Families in Enlightenment France

    by Meghan K. Roberts ...
    An illuminating study of the marriages and family lives of Diderot, Lavoisier, and other geniuses of the Age of Reason.We may imagine the lone scientific or philosophical genius generating insights in isolation—but in reality, the families of scientists and philosophers during the Enlightenment played a substantial role, not only making space for inquiry within the home but also assisting in ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Metamorphoses of Fat

    A History of Obesity

    Translated by C. Jon Delogu ...
    by Georges Vigarello ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    Georges Vigarello maps the evolution of Western ideas about fat and fat people from the Middle Ages to the present, paying particular attention to the role of science, fashion, fitness crazes, and public health campaigns in shaping these views. While hefty bodies were once a sign of power, today those who struggle to lose weight are considered poor in character and weak in mind. Vigarello traces ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Selling Beauty

    Cosmetics, Commerce, and French Society, 1750–1830

    by Morag Martin ...
    Series series The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
    An "enjoyable" history of the French cosmetic industry and the evolution of beauty standards and commercial culture during a revolutionary era ( European History Quarterly).As the French citizenry rebelled against the excesses of the aristocracy, there was a parallel shift in consumer beauty practices. Powdered wigs, alabaster white skin, and rouged cheeks disappeared in favor of a more natural ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sensational Past

    How the Enlightenment Changed the Way We Use Our Senses

    by Carolyn Purnell ...
    Sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch—as they were celebrated during the Enlightenment and as they are perceived today.Blindfolding children from birth? Playing a piano made of live cats? Using tobacco to cure drowning? Wearing “flea”-colored clothes? These actions may seem odd to us, but in the eighteenth century, they made perfect sense.As often as we use our senses, we rarely stop to think ... Read more

    $27.39 CAD

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