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  • The Thousand and One Nights and Orientalism in the Dutch Republic, 1700-1800

    Antoine Galland, Ghisbert Cuper and Gilbert de Flines

    by Arnoud Vrolijk, Richard van Leeuwen ...
    Antoine Galland's French translation of the Thousand and One Nights appeared in 1704. One year later a pirate edition was printed in The Hague, followed by many others. Galland entertained a lively correspondence on the subject with the Dutch intellectual and statesman Gisbert Cuper (1644-1716). Dutch orientalists privately owned editions of the ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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    Jean-Baptiste Colbert's Secret State Intelligence System

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    "Colbert has long been celebrated as Louis XIV's minister of finance, trade, and industry. More recently, he has been viewed as his minister of culture and propaganda. In this lively and persuasive book, Jake Soll has given us a third Colbert, the information manager."---Peter Burke, University of Cambridge"Jacob Soll gives us a road map drawn from the French state under Colbert. With a stunning ... Read more

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  • The Republic of Arabic Letters

    Islam and the European Enlightenment

    by Alexander Bevilacqua ...
    A Longman–History Today Book Prize FinalistWinner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial PrizeA Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year“Deeply thoughtful…A delight.”—The Economist“[A] tour de force…Bevilacqua’s extraordinary book provides the first true glimpse into this story…He, like the tradition he describes, is a rarity.”—New RepublicIn the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a pion... ... Read more

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  • Interdisciplinary Explorations of Postmortem Interaction

    Dead Bodies, Funerary Objects, and Burial Spaces Through Texts and Time

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    Series series History (R0)
    In the present as in the past, the dead have been deployed to promote visions of identity, as well as ostensibly wider human values. Through a series of case studies from ancient Egypt through prehistoric, historic, and present-day Europe, this book discusses what is constant and what is locally and historically specific in our ways of interacting with the remains of the dead, their objects, and ... Read more

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  • Gender, Power and Identity in the Early Modern House of Orange-Nassau

    by Susan Broomhall, Jacqueline Van Gent ...
    How do gender and power relationships affect the expression of family, House and dynastic identities? The present study explores this question using a case study of the House of Orange-Nassau, whose extensive visual, material and archival sources from both male and female members enable the authors to trace their complex attempts to express, gain and maintain power: in texts, material culture, and ... Read more

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  • The First European

    A History of Alexander in the Age of Empire

    by Pierre Briant ...
    Translated by Nicholas Elliott ...
    "A truly remarkable forgotten chapter of European intellectual history, laid out with passion and integrity." ( The Wall Street Journal)The exploits of Alexander the Great were so remarkable that for centuries after his death the Macedonian ruler seemed a figure more of legend than of history. Thinkers of the European Enlightenment, searching for ancient models to understand contemporary affairs, ... Read more

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  • Experiencing Exile

    Huguenot Refugees in the Dutch Republic, 1680�1700

    by David van der Linden ...
    Series series Politics and Culture in Europe, 1650-1750
    The persecution of the Huguenots in France, followed by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, unleashed one of the largest migration waves of early modern Europe. Focusing on the fate of French Protestants who fled to the Dutch Republic, Experiencing Exile examines how Huguenot refugees dealt with the complex realities of living as strangers abroad, and how they seized upon religion and ... Read more

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  • Publishing The Prince

    History, Reading, and the Birth of Political Criticism

    by Jacob Soll ...
    Series series Cultures Of Knowledge In The Early Modern World
    As new ideas arose during the Enlightenment, many political thinkers published their own versions of popular early modern "absolutist" texts and transformed them into manuals of political resistance. As a result, these works never achieved a fixed and stable edition. Publishing The Prince illustrates how Abraham-Nicolas Amelot de La Houssaye created the most popular late seventeenth- and ... Read more

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  • Nostradamus

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    by Stéphane Gerson ...
    We all know the name Nostradamus, but who was he really? Why did his predictions become so influential in Renaissance Europe and then keep resurfacing for nearly five centuries? And what does Nostradamus's endurance in the West say about us and our own world?In Nostradamus: How an Obscure Renaissance Astrologer Became the Modern Prophet of Doom, historian Stéphane Gerson takes readers on a journey ... Read more

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  • A History of Booksellers and the Bookshop

    by Jean-Yves Mollier ...
    Translated by George Forty ...
    'In this fascinating book, the historian Jean-Yves Mollier highlights the astonishing diversity of roles assumed by booksellers throughout the ages and the continents' Express'Jean-Yves Mollier . . . traces meticulously the transformations of a profession and a trade recognised now as essential . . . helping us to understand why bookshops remain dear to the hearts of readers' Le MondeA fascinating ... Read more

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  • Cities, Texts and Social Networks, 400–1500

    Experiences and Perceptions of Medieval Urban Space

    Edited by Caroline Goodson, Anne E. Lester, Carol Symes ...
    Cities, Texts and Social Networks examines the experiences of urban life from late antiquity through the close of the fifteenth century, in regions ranging from late Imperial Rome to Muslim Syria, Iraq and al-Andalus, England, the territories of medieval Francia, Flanders, the Low Countries, Italy and Germany. Together, the volume's contributors move beyond attempts to define 'the city' in purely ... Read more

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  • The Egyptian Revival

    Ancient Egypt as the Inspiration for Design Motifs in the West

    by James Stevens Curl ...
    In this beautifully illustrated and closely argued book, a completely updated and much expanded third edition of his magisterial survey, Curl describes in lively and stimulating prose the numerous revivals of the Egyptian style from Antiquity to the present day. Drawing on a wealth of sources, his pioneering and definitive work analyzes the remarkable and persistent influence of Ancient Egyptian ... Read more

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