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  • Studies in the Eighteenth Century III

    Papers presented at the Third David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, Canberra 1973

    Edited by R.F. Brissenden, J.C. Eade ...
    Series series Heritage
    This volume of essays, from the Third David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, continues the valuable and lively tradition established in the two earlier seminars and volumes.The essays, by distinguished international scholars, range over many of the topics that make the eighteenth century a rich area of study: the burgeoning of ideas about man and his place in the world, social history, philosophy ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

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    Past and Present in Contemporary Culture

    by Raphael Samuel ...
    When Theatres of Memory was first published in 1994, it transformed the debate about what is to be considered history and questioned the role of “heritage” that lies at the heart of every Western nation’s obsession with the past. Today, in the age of Downton Abbey and Mad Men, we are once again conjuring historical fictions to make sense of our everyday lives.In this remarkable book, Samuel looks ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763–98), A Life

    The Definitive Short Biography of the Founding Father of Irish Republicanism

    by Henry Boylan ...
    The definitive short biography of Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763–98), the founding father of Irish republicanism Originally published in 1981 as part of the groundbreaking Gill's Irish Lives series, Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763–98), A Life remains the most concise, accessible and authoritative introduction to one of Irish history's most seminal figures. Theobald Wolfe Tone, founder of the United Irishmen, ... Read more

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  • On Historical Distance

    by Mark Salber Phillips ...
    Series series The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-C
    Conceptions of distance are foundational to historical thought, but Mark Salber Phillips gives the idea new subtlety and meaning. He argues that distance is a matter not just of time and space but also of form, affect, ideology, and understanding. In this exceptionally wide-ranging study, Phillips examines Renaissance, Enlightenment, and contemporary histories, as well as a broad spectrum of ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Studies in the Eighteenth Century

    Papers presented at the David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, Canberra 1966

    Edited by R.F. Brissenden ...
    Series series Heritage
    The papers brought together in this volume bear witness to the growing vigour and diversity of eighteenth-century studies. The seminar at which they were presented was held to honour the memory of a literary scholar, David Nichol Smith. It is therefore understandable and fitting that the majority of the contributions should be concerned primarily with literature. History, art, and philosophy, ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Making of a Chinese City

    History and Historiography in Harbin

    by Soren Clausen, Stig Thogersen ...
    The history of Harbin, ruled by the Russians, by an international coalition of allied powers, by Chinese warlords, by the Soviet Union and finally by the Chinese Communists - all in the course of 100 years - is presented here as an example of Chinese local-history writing. ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • The New Science of Giambattista Vico

    Unabridged Translation of the Third Edition (1744) with the addition of "Practic of the New Science"

    by Giambattista Vico ...
    Translated by Thomas Goddard Bergin, Max Harold Fisch ...
    A pioneering treatise that aroused great controversy when it was first published in 1725, Vico's New Science is acknowledged today to be one of the few works of authentic genius in the history of social theory. It represents the most ambitious attempt before Comte at comprehensive science of human society and the most profound analysis of the class struggle prior to Marx. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Braudel Revisited

    The Mediterranean World 1600-1800

    by Gabriel Piterberg, Geoffrey Symcox, Teofilo Ruiz ...
    Series series UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
    Fernand Braudel (1912-1985), was a leading French historian and author of, among other books, the groundbreaking The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (1949). One of the founders of the Annales School in France, Braudel insisted on treating the Mediterranean region as a whole, irrespective of religious and national divides. Braudel's new historiography rejected ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Studies in the Eighteenth Century II

    Papers presented at the Second David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, Canberra 1970

    Edited by R.F. Brissenden ...
    Series series Heritage
    This volume presents an array of studies on many aspects of the eighteenth century: on the novel, history, the history of ideas, drama, poetry and sentimentality. The essays are as diverse as ‘Pope’s Essays on Man and the French Enlightenment’ and ‘Of Silk-worms and Farthingales and the Will of God.’ One group is concerned with the works and ideas of Bayle, Alexander Gerard, Diderot, Fuseli, ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • A Time of Sifting

    Mystical Marriage and the Crisis of Moravian Piety in the Eighteenth Century

    by Paul Peucker ...
    Series series Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist Studies
    At the end of the 1740s, the Moravians, a young and rapidly expanding radical-Pietist movement, experienced a crisis soon labeled the Sifting Time. As Moravian leaders attempted to lead the church away from the abuses of the crisis, they also tried to erase the memory of this controversial and embarrassing period. Archival records were systematically destroyed, and official histories of the church ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Origins of David Hume's Economics

    by Willie Henderson ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
    The book covers Hume’s biographical development; his self appraisal as a 'man of letters’; his philosophical writings with emphasis on their direct and indirect economic content; his self-aware criticism of his approach to the Treatise and the development of his rhetorical understanding of the needs/interests of his readers/potential readers; his rhetorical turn and Ciceronian adjustments to his ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Scotland's Pariah

    The Life and Work of John Pinkerton, 1758-1826

    by Patrick O'Flaherty ...
    Scotland’s Pariah is the first book to examine the remarkable life of John Pinkerton: antiquarian, poet, forger, cartographer, historian, serial adulterer, bigamist, and religious skeptic. A pugnacious and persistent man of letters who knew and was admired by literary masters such as Edward Gibbon, Horace Walpole, and William Godwin, Pinkerton’s life was full of personal and professional ... Read more

    $61.99 USD