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To Overcome Oneself: The Jesuit Ethic and Spirit of Global Expansion, 1520–1767 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Offers a novel retelling of the emergence of the Western concept of "modern self," demonstrating how the struggle to forge a... Læs mere
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Undertaker of the Mind: John Monro and Mad-Doctoring in Eighteenth-Century England (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)As visiting physician to Bethlem Hospital, the archetypal 'Bedlam' and Britain's first and (for hundreds of years) only public institution for the insane, Dr John Monro (1715-1791) was a celebrity in his own day. This study explores Monro's colorful and contentious milieu.
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Women Writing Opera: Creativity and Controversy in the Age of the French Revolution (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)This study explains how women composers and librettists gained access to concert halls in the age of the French... Læs mere
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Venice Incognito: Masks in the Serene Republic (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Offers an analysis of masking in Venice city. This title explores the world view of maskers, both during and outside of carnival, and reconstructs their... Læs mere
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The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)To be one of 'the middling sort' in urban England in the late seventeenth or eighteenth century was to live a life tied, one way or... Læs mere
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The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Contending that Japan's industrial and imperial revolutions were also geographical revolutions, this interdisciplinary study analyzes the changing spatial order of the countryside in early modern Japan. Its focus is the Ina Valley, the gateway to Japan's mountainous interior.
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Pictures for Use and Pleasure: Vernacular Painting in High Qing China (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Traditional Chinese collectors, like present-day scholars of Chinese painting, have favored the 'literati' paintings of the Chinese... Læs mere
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Polyandry and Wife-Selling in Qing Dynasty China: Survival Strategies and Judicial Interventions (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Offers a study of polyandry, wife-selling, and a variety of related practices in China during the Qing... Læs mere
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Education and Society in Late Imperial China, 1600-1900 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)Exploring the significance of education to Chinese social, political and intellectual life in late imperial China, this volume contains 15 essays providing a wide-ranging study of China's early education policies.
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Cultivating Music: The Aspirations, Interests, and Limits of German Musical Culture, 1770-1848 (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)German and Austrian music of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries stands at the heart of the Western... Læs mere
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Customers and Patrons of the Mad-Trade: The Management of Lunacy in Eighteenth-Century London (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)A commentary on the 18th-century mad-business, its practitioners, its patients (or "customers"), and its patrons, viewed through the unique lens of the private case book kept by the most famous mad-doctor in Augustan England, Dr. John Monro (1715-1791).
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Distant Strangers: How Britain Became Modern (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)What does it mean to live in the modern world? How different is that world from those that preceded it, and when did we become modern? This book argues that the world was made modern not by revolution, industrialization, or the Enlightenment.
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