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“cynthia wall”

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  • Grammars of Approach

    Landscape, Narrative, and the Linguistic Picturesque

    by Cynthia Wall ...
    In Grammars of Approach, Cynthia Wall offers a close look at changes in perspective in spatial design, language, and narrative across the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that involve, literally and psychologically, the concept of "approach." In architecture, the term "approach" changed in that period from a verb to a noun, coming to denote the drive from the lodge at the entrance of ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Milieus of Minutiae

    Contextualizing the Small in Literature, Philosophy, and Science

    by Roger Maioli, Mareike Schildmann, Elena Fabietti, Carmen Schmechel, Dan Liu, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Andreas Mahler, Cynthia Wall, Christopher Johnson, Malte Rauch, Margareta Ingrid Christian, Marianne Schuller ...
    The long history of tiny matter(s) in the sciences, thought, and cultureWinner of the Modern Language Association Prize for an Edited CollectionFrom catastrophic weather and steady warming caused by the accumulation of carbon particles in the Earth’s atmosphere to societies brought to a standstill by microscopic viruses, the new millennium has reminded us of how the minutest of phenomena can have ... Read more

    $35.59 USD

  • The Eighteenth Centuries

    Global Networks of Enlightenment

    by Dr. James Ambuske, Katelyn Crawford, Professor Carrie Douglass, PhD, Casey Robert Eriksen ...
    Today, when "globalization" is a buzzword invoked in nearly every realm, we turn back to the eighteenth century and witness the inherent globalization of its desires and, at times, its accomplishments. During the chronological eighteenth century, learning and knowledge were intimately connected across disciplinary and geographical boundaries, yet the connections themselves are largely unstudied. ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

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  • American Enlightenments

    Pursuing Happiness in the Age of Reason

    by Caroline Winterer ...
    Series series The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
    A provocative reassessment of the concept of an American golden age of European-born reason and intellectual curiosity in the years following the Revolutionary War The accepted myth of the “American Enlightenment” suggests that the rejection of monarchy and establishment of a new republic in the United States in the eighteenth century was the realization of utopian philosophies born in the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Varieties of Cultural History

    by Peter Burke ...
    The aim of this book is both to illustrate and to discuss some of the main varieties of cultural history which have emerged since the questioning of what might be called its "classic" form, exemplified in the work of Jacob Burckhardt and Johan Huizinga. Among the themes of individual chapters are the history of popular culture, the history of Carnival, the history of mentalities, the history of ... Read more

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  • Slave and Citizen

    by Frank Tannenbaum ...
    Slave & Citizen deals with one of the most intriguing problems presented by the development of the New World: the contrast between the legal and social positions of the Negro in the United States and in Latin America. It is well-known that in Brazil and in the Caribbean area, Negroes do not suffer legal or even major social disabilities on account of color, and that a long history of acceptance ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Race-ing Art History

    Critical Readings in Race and Art History

    Edited by Kymberly N. Pinder ...
    Race-ing Art History is the first comprehensive anthology to place issues of racial representation squarely on the canvas. Art produced by non-Europeans has naturally been compared to Western art and its study, which refers to a binary way of viewing both. Each essay in this collection is a response to this vision, to the distant mirror of looking at the other. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human

    New Worlds, Maps and Monsters

    by Surekha Davies ...
    Series Book 24 - Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories
    Giants, cannibals and other monsters were a regular feature of Renaissance illustrated maps, inhabiting the Americas alongside other indigenous peoples. In a new approach to views of distant peoples, Surekha Davies analyzes this archive alongside prints, costume books and geographical writing. Using sources from Iberia, France, the German lands, the Low Countries, Italy and England, Davies argues ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Cultural Contact and the Making of European Art since the Age of Exploration

    Edited by Mary D. Sheriff ...
    Series series Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History
    Art historians have long been accustomed to thinking about art and artists in terms of national traditions. This volume takes a different approach, suggesting instead that a history of art based on national divisions often obscures the processes of cultural appropriation and global exchange that shaped the visual arts of Europe in fundamental ways between 1492 and the early twentieth century ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Humboldt and Jefferson

    A Transatlantic Friendship of the Enlightenment

    by Sandra Rebok ...
    Humboldt and Jefferson explores the relationship between two fascinating personalities: the Prussian explorer, scientist, and geographer Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) and the American statesman, architect, and naturalist Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826). In the wake of his famous expedition through the Spanish colonies in the spring of 1804, Humboldt visited the United States, where he met ... Read more

    $31.09 USD

  • Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760–1850

    Edited by Christopher John Murray ...
    In 850 analytical articles, this two-volume set explores the developments that influenced the profound changes in thought and sensibility during the second half of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century. The Encyclopedia provides readers with a clear, detailed, and accurate reference source on the literature, thought, music, and art of the period, demonstrating the ... Read more

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