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  • Good and Comfortable Words

    The Coded Sermon Notes of John Pynchon and the Frontier Preaching Ministry of George Moxon

    par David M. Powers ...
    Thanks to coded notes taken by the teenager John Pynchon, this volume transports the reader, virtually, back to Sundays in the seventeenth century, when the community gathered to listen to the Rev. George Moxon. The setting was Springfield, Massachusetts, founded in 1636 by John's father William Pynchon. As a note-taker, John recorded just what he heard in this rare resource, which allows the ... En savoir plus

    $29.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Damnable Heresy

    William Pynchon, the Indians, and the First Book Banned (and Burned) in Boston

    par David M. Powers ...
    Misunderstandings between races, hostilities between cultures. Anxiety from living in a time of war in one's own land. Being accused of profiteering when food was scarce. Unruly residents in a remote frontier community. Charged with speaking the unspeakable and publishing the unprintable. All of this can be found in the life of one man--William Pynchon, the Puritan entrepreneur and founder of ... En savoir plus

    $33.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • From Plantation to Paradise?

    Cultural Politics and Musical Theatre in French Slave Colonies, 1764–1789

    par David M. Powers ...
    In 1764 the first printing press was established in the French Caribbean colonies, launching the official documentation of operas and plays performed there, and marking the inauguration of the first theatre in the colonies. A rigorous study of pre–French Revolution performance practices in Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), Powers’s book examines the elaborate system of social ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

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  • Cesaire, Cesairology, and Universal Humanism

    Cesaire, Cesairology, and Universal Humanism (in English) Csaire, Csairologie et Humanisme Universel (en franais) By Zekeh S. Gbotokuma, Editor/Translator Book Summary This two-part, twelve chapter, and bilingual work (English-French) is the Gospel of Negritude according to the world renowned poet and politician Aim Csaire of Martinique. The work is also a vivid account of the busy life and works ... En savoir plus

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  • Antonine Maillet : Les trésors cachés - Our Hidden Treasures

    Les trésors cachés - Our Hidden Treasures

    Collections series The Symons Medal Series/Collection de la Médaille Symons
    A veritable artist, Maillet becomes a “creator of sounds, of colours, of forms and words.” As she speaks, she paints a vast landscape of mountains and oceans, history and story, using the tools on her palette: blending the colours of myths and those of contemporary issues, creating an epic poem in a profoundly personal voice. This country she portrays is both young and old, speaks two languages, ... En savoir plus

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  • A Natural History of Revolution

    Violence and Nature in the French Revolutionary Imagination, 1789–1794

    How did the French Revolutionaries explain, justify, and understand the extraordinary violence of their revolution? In debating this question, historians have looked to a variety of eighteenth-century sources, from Rousseau's writings to Old Regime protest tactics. A Natural History of Revolution suggests that it is perhaps on a different shelf of the Enlightenment library that we might find the ... En savoir plus

    $47.99 CAD

  • The Anatomy of Blackness

    Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment

    2012 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice MagazineThis volume examines the Enlightenment-era textualization of the Black African in European thought. Andrew S. Curran rewrites the history of blackness by replicating the practices of eighteenth-century readers. Surveying French and European travelogues, natural histories, works of anatomy, pro- and anti-slavery tracts, philosophical treatises, and ... En savoir plus

    $39.99 CAD

  • The French Atlantic Triangle

    Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade

    The French slave trade forced more than one million Africans across the Atlantic to the islands of the Caribbean. It enabled France to establish Saint-Domingue, the single richest colony on earth, and it connected France, Africa, and the Caribbean permanently. Yet the impact of the slave trade on the cultures of France and its colonies has received surprisingly little attention. Until recently, ... En savoir plus

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  • Style and Performance for Bowed String Instruments in French Baroque Music

    par Mary Cyr ...
    Mary Cyr addresses the needs of researchers, performers, and informed listeners who wish to apply knowledge about historically informed performance to specific pieces. Special emphasis is placed upon the period 1680 to 1760, when the viol, violin, and violoncello grew to prominence as solo instruments in France. Part I deals with the historical background to the debate between the French and ... En savoir plus

    $107.99 CAD

  • The Memoir of Toussaint Louverture

    Here is an annotated, scholarly, multilingual edition of the only lengthy text personally written by Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture: the memoirs he wrote shortly before his death in the French prison of Fort de Joux. The translation is based on an original copy in Louverture's hand never before published. Historian Philippe Girard begins with an introductory essay that retraces ... En savoir plus

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  • Robespierre and the Festival of the Supreme Being

    The search for a republican morality

    par Jonathan Smyth ...
    Collections series Studies in Modern French and Francophone History
    The search for a republican morality provides an exciting new study of an important event in the French Revolution and a defining moment in the career of its principal actor, Maximilien Robespierre, the Festival of the Supreme Being. This day of national celebration was held to inaugurate the new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, and whilst traditionally it has been dismissed as a ... En savoir plus

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