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  • Lettering Young Readers in the Dutch Enlightenment

    Literacy, Agency and Progress in Eighteenth-Century Children’s Books

    by Feike Dietz ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood
    'This book presents a rigorous, hugely informative analysis of the early history of Dutch children’s literature, pedagogical developments and emerging family formations. Thoroughly researched, Dietz’s study will be essential for historians of eighteenth-century childhood, education and children’s books, both in the Dutch context and more widely.’— Matthew Grenby, Newcastle University, UK.‘A rich, ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Illustrated Religious Texts in the North of Europe, 1500-1800

    by Feike Dietz, Adam Morton, Lien Roggen ...
    In recent years many historians have argued that the Reformation did not - as previously thought - hamper the development of Northern European visual culture, but rather gave new impetus to the production, diffusion and reception of visual materials in both Catholic and Protestant milieus. This book investigates the crosscurrents of exchange in the realm of illustrated religious literature within ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Objects, Commodities and Material Cultures in the Dutch Republic

    Exploring Early Modern Materiality Across Disciplines

    Edited by Judith Noorman, Feike Dietz ...
    Series series Studies in Early Modernity in The Netherlands
    How did objects move between places and people, and how did they reshape the Republic's arts, cultures and sciences?, 'Objects' were vitally significant for the early modern Dutch Republic, which is known as an early consumer society, a place famous for its exhaustive production of books, visual arts and scientific instruments. What happens when we push these objects and their materiality to the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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    Object, Architecture, and Print in the Worlds of Hans Vredeman de Vries

    by Christopher Heuer ...
    Series series The Classical Tradition in Architecture
    The City Rehearsed offers an entirely new perspective on printed architecture in early modern Europe through the lens of Hans Vredeman de Vries. It probes the geographical encounters of dozens of engravings with contemporary texts on architecture, theatre, urbanism, art collecting, even ethnography.The Netherlandish polymath Hans Vredeman de Vries (1526-1609) devoted his entire career to the ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • The Art of Building

    International Ideas, Dutch Debate 1840-1900

    by Auke Van Der Woud ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2002: In the second half of the 18th century, philosophy provided the fundamental characteristics of architechture. The architects of the 19th century then introduced the empirical comparative study of buildings. This phenomenon has usually been regarded exclusively in terms of historicism, but this is to underestimate the fact that they were architects. The ... Read more

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  • Commercial Visions

    Science, Trade, and Visual Culture in the Dutch Golden Age

    by Dániel Margócsy ...
    Entrepreneurial science is not new; business interests have strongly influenced science since the Scientific Revolution. In Commercial Visions, Dániel Margócsy illustrates that product marketing, patent litigation, and even ghostwriting pervaded natural history and medicine—the "big sciences" of the early modern era—and argues that the growth of global trade during the Dutch Golden Age gave rise ... Read more

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  • Physical and Cultural Space in Pre-Industrial Europe

    Methodological Approaches to Spatiality

    Edited by Marko Lamberg, Marko Hakanen, Janne Haikari ...
    Written by 19 scholars of history, archaeology, and ethnology, this book takes a multidisciplinary approach to European spaces of the past and the human agents within them. Prior to the Industrial Era, the geography of Europe posed problems but also offered possibilities for its people. Distances created obstacles to communication and state formation, but at the same time, inhabitants and ... Read more

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  • Memory in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800

    by Judith Pollmann ...
    For early modern Europeans, the past was a measure of most things, good and bad. For that reason it was also hotly contested, manipulated, and far too important to be left to historians alone. Memory in Early Modern Europe offers a lively and accessible introduction to the many ways in which Europeans engaged with the past and 'practised' memory in the three centuries between 1500 and 1800. From ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Dutch

    Biography of a Language

    by Roland Willemyns ...
    More than 22 million people speak Dutch-primarily in the Netherlands, Belgium, Suriname, and the Antilles. Roland Willemyns here offers a well-researched and highly readable survey of the Dutch language in all its historical, geographic, and social aspects. Willemyns tells a story of language contact and conflict. From its earliest days, Dutch has been in intense contact with other languages both ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

  • Urban Society In Roman Italy

    Edited by Tim J. Cornell, Kathryn Lomas ...
    This collection of original essays focuses upon Roman Italy where, with over 400 cities, urbanization was at the very centre of Italian civilization. Informed by an awareness of the social and anthropological issues of recent research, these contributions explore not only questions of urban origins, interaction with the countryside and economic function, but also the social use of space within the ... Read more

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  • Histories of Experience in the World of Lived Religion

    Edited by Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, Raisa Maria Toivo ...
    Series series History (R0)
    'At a historic moment, when religion shows all its social and political strength in various post-modern societies around our globe, this fascinating collection of studies from the Middle Ages to twentieth-century Europe demonstrates all the richness and innovative force of investigating individual and shared experiences when questioning the cultural, political and social place of religion in ... Read more

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  • Blue

    The History of a Color

    by Michel Pastoureau ...
    Series series The History of a Color
    A beautifully illustrated visual and cultural history of the color blue throughout the agesBlue has had a long and topsy-turvy history in the Western world. The ancient Greeks scorned it as ugly and barbaric, but most Americans and Europeans now cite it as their favorite color. In this fascinating history, the renowned medievalist Michel Pastoureau traces the changing meanings of blue from its ... Read more

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