Описание: An Economist Book of the Year, 2001. In the 18th century, a debate ensued over the French naturalist Buffon`s contention that the New World was in fact geologically new. Historians, naturalists, and philosophers clashed over Buffon`s view. This book maintains that the "dispute" was also a debate over historical authority: upon whose sources and facts should naturalists and historians reconstruct the history of the New World and its people. In addressing this question, the author offers a strikingly novel interpretation of the Enlightenment.
Автор: Musson, Jeremy Название: Romantics and Classics ISBN: 0847869857 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780847869855 Издательство: Rizzoli Рейтинг: Цена: 7425.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Living today in the houses of the English countryside, owners blend contemporary style with the old, good bones of manor houses and country seats, redefining the notion of English country and creating interiors that are both chic and intimate.
Автор: Paul, Tawny (university Of California, Los Angeles Название: Poverty of disaster ISBN: 1108739253 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108739252 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Eighteenth-century Britain saw significant numbers of the middle classes imprisoned for debt, with many motivated by a fear of financial failure rather than a desire for upward social mobility. This study examines the role that debt insecurity played within society, and the fragility of the credit relations that underpinned it.
Автор: Jost, Jacob Sider Название: Interest and connection in the eighteenth century ISBN: 0813945054 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813945057 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4013.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Can a single word explain the world? In the British eighteenth century, interest comes close: it lies at the foundation of the period's thinking about finance, economics, politics, psychology, and aesthetics. Interest and Connection in the Eighteenth Century provides the first comprehensive account of interest in an era when a growing national debt created a new class of rentiers who lived off of interest, the emerging discipline of economics made self-interest an axiom of human behavior, and booksellers began for the first time to market books by calling them "interesting". Sider Jost reveals how the multiple meanings of interest allowed writers to make connections - from witty puns to deep structural analogies - among different spheres of eighteenth-century life.Challenging a long and influential tradition that reads the eighteenth century in terms of individualism, atomization, abstraction, and the hegemony of market-based thinking, this innovative study emphasizes the importance of interest as an idiom for thinking about concrete social ties, at court and in families, universities, theatres, boroughs, churches, and beyond. To "be in the interest of" or "have an interest with" another was a crucial relationship, one that supplied metaphors and habits of thought across the culture. Interest and Connection in the Eighteenth Century recovers the small, densely networked world of Hanoverian Britain and its self-consciously inventive language for talking about human connection.
Автор: Ellis Название: Eighteenth-Century Coffee-House Culture, vol 4 ISBN: 1138660620 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138660625 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7654.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Helps scholars and students form an understanding of the contribution made by the coffee-house to British and even American history and culture
Описание: According to Voltaire, Admiral John Byng was executed to "encourage the others." Of course, the story is more complicated. This microhistorical account upon a macro event presents an updated, revisionist, and detailed account of a dark chapter in British naval, social, and cultural history.
Автор: K. Stapelbroek; J. Marjanen Название: The Rise of Economic Societies in the Eighteenth Century ISBN: 1349346306 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349346301 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12577.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This collection of essays explores the emergence of economic societies in the British Isles and their development into a European, American and global reform movement in the eighteenth century. Its fourteen contributions demonstrate the intellectual horizons and international networks of this widespread and influential phenomenon.
Автор: J. Smail Название: Merchants, Markets and Manufacture ISBN: 0333720776 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333720776 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 20962.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This work explores the causes and nature of the industrial revolution through a comparative study of the wool textile manufacturing regions of England. It examines how the interplay between merchants, markets and producers shaped the pace and character of economic growth during the 18th century.
Автор: J. Smail Название: Merchants, Markets and Manufacture ISBN: 0312221622 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780312221621 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 20962.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Examines the crucial influence of merchants and markets on the economic growth and industrialization of the English wool textile industry in the eighteenth century.
Автор: Antonella Alimento; Koen Stapelbroek Название: The Politics of Commercial Treaties in the Eighteenth Century ISBN: 3319535730 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319535739 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 15372.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Analysing bilateral commercial treaties as instruments of peace and trade comparatively and over time, this book focuses on treaties as an index of the challenges of 18th-century European politics, shaping a new understanding of these challenges and of how they were confronted at the time in theory and diplomatic practice.
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