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  • Communicating the News in Early Modern Europe

    by Jenni Hyde, Massimo Rospocher, Joad Raymond, Yann Ryan, Hannu Salmi, Alexandra Schäfer-Griebel ...
    Series series Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
    This history of early modern news focuses on news itself rather than specific material forms. Centering on movement through different media, time, and place, it makes the case for a truly comparative, pan-European history of news. After the Introduction, the second section, News Moves, explores how we think about and research news culture and news communication, demonstrating movement is more ... Read more

    $15.59 USD

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  • The Romantic Revolution

    A History

    by Tim Blanning ...
    Series Book 34 - Modern Library Chronicles
    “A splendidly pithy and provocative introduction to the culture of Romanticism.”—The Sunday Times“[Tim Blanning is] in a particularly good position to speak of the arrival of Romanticism on the Euorpean scene, and he does so with a verve, a breadth, and an authority that exceed every expectation.”—National ReviewFrom the preeminent historian of Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ... Read more

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  • Eyewitnessing

    The Uses of Images as Historical Evidence

    by Peter Burke ...
    Eyewitnessing evaluates the place of images among other kinds of historical evidence. By reviewing the many varieties of images by region, period and medium, and looking at the pragmatic uses of images (e.g. the Bayeux Tapestry, an engraving of a printing press, a reconstruction of a building), Peter Burke sheds light on our assumption that these practical uses are ‘reflections’ of specific ... Read more

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  • Social History of Knowledge

    From Gutenberg to Diderot

    by Peter Burke ...
    In this book Peter Burke adopts a socio-cultural approach to examine the changes in the organization of knowledge in Europe from the invention of printing to the publication of the French Encyclopédie.The book opens with an assessment of different sociologies of knowledge from Mannheim to Foucault and beyond, and goes on to discuss intellectuals as a social group and the social institutions ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • The Agency of Things in Medieval and Early Modern Art

    Materials, Power and Manipulation

    Edited by Grażyna Jurkowlaniec, Ika Matyjaszkiewicz, Zuzanna Sarnecka ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Art History
    This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency of things has been studied in anthropology and archaeology, it is an innovative approach for art historical investigations. Each contributor takes as a point of departure active things: objects that were collected, exchanged, held in hand, carried on a body, assembled, cared for or ... Read more

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  • European Literary History

    An Introduction

    Edited by Maarten De Pourcq, Sophie Levie ...
    This clear and engaging book offers readers an introduction to European Literary History from antiquity through to the present day. Each chapter discusses a short extract from a literary text, whilst including a close reading and a longer essay examining other key texts of the period and their place within European Literature. Offering a view of Europe as an evolving cultural space and examining ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • 19th Century Europe

    A Cultural History

    by Hannu Salmi ...
    Nineteenth-Century Europe offers a much-needed concise and fresh look at European culture between the Great Revolution in France and the First World War. It encompasses all major themes of the period, from the rising nationalism of the early nineteenth century to the pessimistic views of fin de siècle. It is a lucid, fluent presentation that appeals to both students of history and culture and the ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • The Art of Conversation

    by Peter Burke ...
    The Art of Conversation is a major contribution to the social history of language - a relatively new field which has become the focus of lively interdisciplinary debate in recent years.Drawing on the work of sociolinguists and others, Burke uses their concept while reserving the right to qualify their theories where the historical record makes this seem appropriate. Like the sociolinguists, Burke ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Context Collapse

    A Poem Containing a History of Poetry

    by Ryan Ruby ...
    **Literary critic Ryan Ruby uncovers the secret history of poetry in a mock-academic verse essay filled with wit and wisdom.One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2024**Prophet. Entertainer. Courtier. Criminal. Revolutionary. Critic. Scholar. Nobody. Epic in sweep, Context Collapse is the secret history of the poet—from Bronze Age Greece and Renaissance Italy to the cafés of Grub Street and the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • 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

    $35.99 USD

  • The Meaning of the Library

    A Cultural History

    Edited by Alice Crawford ...
    The importance of the library, from ancient times to the digital eraFrom Greek and Roman times to the digital era, the library has remained central to knowledge, scholarship, and the imagination. The Meaning of the Library is a generously illustrated examination of this key institution of Western culture. Tracing what the library has meant since its beginning, examining how its significance has ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • The Books that Shaped Art History: From Gombrich and Greenberg to Alpers and Krauss

    by Richard Shone, John-Paul Stonard ...
    An exemplary survey that reassesses the impact of the most important books to have shaped art history through the twentieth centuryWritten by some of today’s leading art historians and curators, this new collection provides an invaluable road map of the field by comparing and reexamining canonical works of art history. From Émile Mâle’s magisterial study of thirteenth-century French art, first ... Read more

    $21.99 USD