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  • Medical Consulting by Letter in France, 1665–1789

    by Robert Weston ...
    Series series The History of Medicine in Context
    Ailing seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French men and women, members of their families, or their local physician or surgeon, could write to high profile physicians and surgeons seeking expert medical advice. This study, the first full-length examination of the practice of consulting by letter, provides a cohesive portrayal of some of the widespread ailments of French society in the latter part ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • A Country Doctor in the French Revolution

    Marie-François-Bernadin Ramel

    by Robert Weston ...
    This book will be of interest to those studying French medical and Revolutionary history. It traces the life of an early-modern rural French physician from childhood to death — how he worked as a physician for six years in North Africa (taking a particular interest in medical meteorology); sought to establish himself as a savant in the Republic of Letters by publishing texts and prize-winning ... Read more

    $48.08 CAD

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    by Samuel Pepys ...
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    The diary which Samuel Pepys kept from January 1660 to May 1669 ...is one of our greatest historical records and... a major work of English literature, writes the renowned historian Paul Johnson. A witness to the coronation of Charles II, the Great Plague of 1665, and the Great Fire of 1666, Pepys chronicled the events of his day. Originally written in a cryptic shorthand, Pepys's diary provides ... Read more

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  • The Crisis of the European Mind

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    by Paul Hazard ...
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    Paul Hazard’s magisterial, widely influential, and beloved intellectual history offers an unforgettable account of the birth of the modern European mind in all its dynamic, inquiring, and uncertain glory. Beginning his story in the latter half of the seventeenth century, while also looking back to the Renaissance and forward to the future, Hazard traces the process by which new developmentsin the ... Read more

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  • Seventeenth-Century Ireland (New Gill History of Ireland 3)

    Making Ireland Modern – The Quest For a Settlement

    by Raymond Gillespie ...
    Series Book 3 - New Gill History of Ireland
    In Seventeenth-Century Ireland, Professor Raymond Gillespie, one of Ireland's most eminent historians, tries to understand Ireland in the seventeenth century in a new way. Most surveys of seventeenth-century Ireland approach the period using war, conquest, plantation and colonisation as their organising themes. It does not see Ireland as a passive receptor of colonial ideas imposed from above. In ... Read more

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  • To The Hebrides

    Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands and James Boswell's Journal of a Tour

    by Samuel Johnson, James Boswell ...
    Samuel Johnson and James Boswell spent the autumn of 1773 touring through the Lowlands and Highlands of Scotland as far west as the islands of Skye, Raasay, Coll, Mull, Inchkenneth and Iona. Both kept detailed notes of their impressions, and later published separate accounts of their journey. These works contain some of the finest pieces of travel writing ever produced: they are also magnificent ... Read more

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  • The Secret: Edward Wilson And The Government Conspiracy

    by Netta Murray Goldsmith ...
    This book suggests a solution to an episode that has remained a mystery to this day. It is a story involving a king, his mistress, one of Princess Diana's ancestors and a financial genius.The solution offered here is a hypothesis, but as will be shown, a more plausible one than two published well after Wilson's death. These earlier accounts written anonymously by authors with a political axe to ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ill Composed

    Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England

    by Prof. Olivia Weisser ...
    In the first in-depth study of how gender determined perceptions and experiences of illness in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, Olivia Weisser invites readers into the lives and imaginations of ordinary men and women. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including personal diaries, medical texts, and devotional literature, the author enters the sickrooms of a diverse sampling of early ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Why Did the US Government Need More Land? The Louisiana Purchase - US History Books | Children's American History

    by Baby Professor ...
    Did you know that Louisiana has not always been a part of the US? There was a time that the government actually had to buy Louisiana. Learn why it was so and how it happened by going over the pages of this history book for children. Treat this book as a means of supplementary reading to boost your child’s historical knowledge. Encourage reading today! ... Read more

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  • Getting Along?

    Religious Identities and Confessional Relations in Early Modern England - Essays in Honour of Professor W.J. Sheils

    by Adam Morton ...
    Examining the impact of the English and European Reformations on social interaction and community harmony, this volume simultaneously highlights the tension and degree of accommodation amongst ordinary people when faced with religious and social upheaval. Building on previous literature which has characterised the progress of the Reformation as 'slow' and 'piecemeal', this volume furthers our ... Read more

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  • Anatomy and Anatomists in Early Modern Spain

    by Bjørn Okholm Skaarup ...
    Series series The History of Medicine in Context
    Taking the Vesalian anatomical revolution as its point of departure, this volume charts the apparent rise and fall of anatomy studies within universities in sixteenth-century Spain, focussing particularly on primary sources from 1550 to 1600. In doing so, it both clarifies the Spanish contribution to the field of anatomy and disentangles the distorted political and historiographical viewpoints ... Read more

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