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  • Studies in the Eighteenth Century II

    Papers presented at the Second David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, Canberra 1970

    Edición de R.F. Brissenden ...
    Series series Heritage
    This volume presents an array of studies on many aspects of the eighteenth century: on the novel, history, the history of ideas, drama, poetry and sentimentality. The essays are as diverse as ‘Pope’s Essays on Man and the French Enlightenment’ and ‘Of Silk-worms and Farthingales and the Will of God.’ One group is concerned with the works and ideas of Bayle, Alexander Gerard, Diderot, Fuseli, ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Studies in the Eighteenth Century III

    Papers presented at the Third David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, Canberra 1973

    Edición de R.F. Brissenden, J.C. Eade ...
    Series series Heritage
    This volume of essays, from the Third David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, continues the valuable and lively tradition established in the two earlier seminars and volumes.The essays, by distinguished international scholars, range over many of the topics that make the eighteenth century a rich area of study: the burgeoning of ideas about man and his place in the world, social history, philosophy ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • Studies in the Eighteenth Century

    Papers presented at the David Nichol Smith Memorial Seminar, Canberra 1966

    Edición de R.F. Brissenden ...
    Series series Heritage
    The papers brought together in this volume bear witness to the growing vigour and diversity of eighteenth-century studies. The seminar at which they were presented was held to honour the memory of a literary scholar, David Nichol Smith. It is therefore understandable and fitting that the majority of the contributions should be concerned primarily with literature. History, art, and philosophy, ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

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  • The New Science of Giambattista Vico

    Unabridged Translation of the Third Edition (1744) with the addition of "Practic of the New Science"

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  • Memory and History

    Understanding Memory as Source and Subject

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    Series series Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources
    How does the historian approach memory and how do historians use different sources to analyze how history and memory interact and impact on each other?Memory and History explores the different aspects of the study of this field. Taking examples from Europe, Australia, the USA and Japan and treating periods beyond living memory as well as the recent past, the volume highlights the contours of the ... Leer más

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  • Braudel Revisited

    The Mediterranean World 1600-1800

    Series series UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
    Fernand Braudel (1912-1985), was a leading French historian and author of, among other books, the groundbreaking The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (1949). One of the founders of the Annales School in France, Braudel insisted on treating the Mediterranean region as a whole, irrespective of religious and national divides. Braudel's new historiography rejected ... Leer más

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    Improvising New Orleans

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  • British Redcoat 1740–93

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  • Theatres of Memory

    Past and Present in Contemporary Culture

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  • The Materialist Conception of History

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