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  • The Social Life of Coffee

    The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse

    by Brian Cowan ...
    "Easily the most thorough account of the social history of the British coffeehouse ever written." —Adrian Johns, University of ChicagoWhat induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption of this new drink? In this lively book, Brian Cowan locates the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Topics in Statistical Mechanics

    by Brian Cowan ...
    Series series Advanced Textbooks in Physics
    Building on the material learned by students in their first few years of study, Topics in Statistical Mechanics (Second Edition) presents an advanced level course on statistical and thermal physics. It begins with a review of the formal structure of statistical mechanics and thermodynamics considered from a unified viewpoint. There is a brief revision of non-interacting systems, including quantum ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Classical Mechanics

    by Brian Cowan ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    The study of mechanics plays a central role in physics for a whole variety of reasons. It was one of the earliest of the quantitative sciences, and had immediate practical applications. These ranged from the study of the motion of projectiles in warfare to the motion of the planets, predicting the seasons, eclipses, etc. At the present time, even though superseded on the very small scale by ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • The State Trials and the Politics of Justice in Later Stuart England

    by Brian Cowan, Paul Kléber Monod, Annabel Patterson, Scott Sowerby, Stephen C Taylor, Professor Mark Goldie, Tim Harris, Newton Newton Key, Mark Knights0, Professor John Marshall1, Andrea McKenzie2 ...
    State trials provided some of the leading media events of later Stuart England. The more important of these trials attracted substantial public attention, serving as pivot points in the relationship between the state and its subjects. Later Stuart England has been known among legal historians for a series of key cases in which juries asserted their independence from judges. In political history, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Microbes and the Mind

    The Impact of the Microbiome on Mental Health

    by Brian E. Leonard, Caitlin Cowan ...
    Series series
    Interest in the mind-body connection has grown in recent years, with accumulating evidence showing that the gut microbiome can alter behavioral, neural, and psychological outcomes. This publication brings together a group of international experts who are investigating the microbiome and its potential to contribute to the causes and treatment of mental illness. The contributions are not aimed ... Read more

    $104.39 USD

  • Vagrancy in English Culture and Society, 1650-1750

    by Dr David Hitchcock, Beat Kümin, Professor Brian Cowan ...
    Series series Cultures of Early Modern Europe
    CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2017The first social and cultural history of vagrancy between 1650 and 1750, this book combines sources from across England and the Atlantic world to describe the shifting and desperate experiences of the very poorest and most marginalized of people in early modernity; the outcasts, the wandering destitute, the disabled veteran, the aged labourer, the solitary ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • The Birth of the English Kitchen, 1600-1850

    by Sara Pennell, Beat Kümin, Professor Brian Cowan ...
    Series series Cultures of Early Modern Europe
    Tracing the emergence of the domestic kitchen from the 17th to the middle of the 19th century, Sara Pennell explores how the English kitchen became a space of specialised activity, sociability and strife. Drawing upon texts, images, surviving structures and objects, The Birth of the English Kitchen, 1600-1850 opens up the early modern English kitchen as an important historical site in the ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Food and Identity in England, 1540-1640

    Eating to Impress

    by Dr Paul S. Lloyd, Beat Kümin, Professor Brian Cowan ...
    Series series Cultures of Early Modern Europe
    Food and Identity in England, 1540-1640 considers early modern food consumption in an important new way, connecting English consumption practices between the reigns of Henry VIII and Charles I with ideas of 'self' and 'otherness' in wider contexts of society and the class system.Examining the diets of various social groups, ranging from manual labourers to the aristocracy, special foods and their ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Angelica's Book and the World of Reading in Late Renaissance Italy

    by Professor Brendan Dooley, Professor Brian Cowan, Beat Kümin ...
    Series series Cultures of Early Modern Europe
    Through the lens of a history of material culture mediated by an object, Angelica's Book and the World of Reading in Late Renaissance Italy investigates aspects of women's lives, culture, ideas and the history of the book in early modern Italy.Inside a badly damaged copy of Straparola's 16th-century work, Piacevoli Notti, acquired in a Florentine antique shop in 2010, an inscription is found, ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Food, Religion and Communities in Early Modern Europe

    by Beat Kümin, Dr Christopher Kissane, Professor Brian Cowan ...
    Series series Cultures of Early Modern Europe
    Using a three-part structure focused on the major historical subjects of the Inquisition, the Reformation and witchcraft, Christopher Kissane examines the relationship between food and religion in early modern Europe.Food, Religion and Communities in Early Modern Europe employs three key case studies in Castile, Zurich and Shetland to explore what food can reveal about the wider social and ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Religion and Society at the Dawn of Modern Europe

    Christianity Transformed, 1750-1850

    by Beat Kümin, Professor Dr Rudolf Schlögl, Professor Brian Cowan ...
    Translated by Dr Helen Imhoff ...
    Series series Cultures of Early Modern Europe
    This book reveals how, in confrontation with secularity, various new forms of Christianity evolved during the time of Europe's crisis of modernisation.Rudolf Schlögl provides a comprehensive overview of the development of religious institutions and piety in Protestant and Catholic Europe between 1750 and 1850; at the same time, he offers a detailed exposition of contemporary philosophical, ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Gender, Culture and Politics in England, 1560-1640

    Turning the World Upside Down

    by Beat Kümin, Professor Susan D. Amussen, Late Professor David E. Underdown, Professor Brian Cowan ...
    Series series Cultures of Early Modern Europe
    Gender, Culture and Politics in England, 1560-1640integrates social history, politics and literary culture as part of a ground-breaking study that provides revealing insights into early modern English society.Susan D. Amussen and David E. Underdown examine political scandals and familiar characters-including scolds, cuckolds and witches-to show how their behaviour turned the ordered world around ... Read more

    $39.69 USD