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Results 1521 - 1540 of 1898

c 1700 to c 1800

Paperback. Self-styled adventurer, literary wit, and statesman of science, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis stood at the center of Enlightenment science and culture. This work offers a portrait of this man, revealing how his private life and public works made him a man of science in eighteenth-century Europe. Num Pages: 468 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; BGT; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 185 x 23. Weight in Grams: 546.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
468
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226793610
ISBN
9780226793610
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 37.06

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 50 black & white illustrations, 8 black & white plates. BIC Classification: 1DBKSC; 3JF; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 233 x 16. Weight in Grams: 322.
Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780750960199
ISBN
9780750960199
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.59

Paperback. In 1644, the Manchus, a relatively unknown people inhabiting China's northeastern frontier, overthrew the Ming, Asia's mightiest rulers, and established the Qing dynasty, This book supplies a radically new perspective on the formative period of the modern Chinese nation. Num Pages: 608 pages, 22 half-tones 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 33. Weight in Grams: 844.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804746847
ISBN
9780804746847
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.23

Hardback. 'The Manufactures of Literature' explores the effect of the development of the publishing industry upon print culture generally, and literature specifically, during the eighteenth century. The book is structured around case studies of important writers and publishers, including Addison and Steele, Pope, Johnson, Robert Dodsley, and Frances Burney. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JF; DSBD; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 0 x 0. Weight in Grams: 616.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874137507
ISBN
9780874137507
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.95

paperback. An 18th-century adventure - a true story of love, murder and survival.. Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JF; BGH; BTP; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 128 x 30. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Bantam
Condition
New
SKU
9780553815399
ISBN
9780553815399
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 11.64

Hardback. Exploring the relationship with painted portraits, conventions, settings, sitting, making and multiple production, this book argues that the new centrality and aesthetic ambition of the sculptural portrait were informed by Enlightenment notions of perception and selfhood. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 420 pages, 100 color + 300 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; ACQ; AFKB; AGHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 284 x 34. Weight in Grams: 2130.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300204346
ISBN
9780300204346
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.16
€ 50.00

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3H; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; HBJD; HBLC; HRCC7; HRJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Edition
3rd edition
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801485688
ISBN
9780801485688
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 35.20

Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 12 hts. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBWF; JPSH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199916863
ISBN
9780199916863
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.11

Hardback. Traces the controversial shift from metrical psalms to hymnody, and also takes into account legal issues and litigation that developed over the introduction of hymns into church life. Series: Drew University Studies in Liturgy. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JF; 3JH; AVGD; HRCC2; HRCC91; HRCL2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810834507
ISBN
9780810834507
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 137.42

Paperback. This work is a social and cultural history of the Maya peoples of the province of Yucatan in colonial Mexico, spanning the period from shortly after the Spanish conquest of the region to its incorporation as part of an independent Mexico. Num Pages: 476 pages, 1 figure 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 1KLS; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5893 x 3937 x 26. Weight in Grams: 645.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
476
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804736589
ISBN
9780804736589
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.36

Memoir of Lieutenant Dumont, 1715 1747: A Sojourner in the French Atlantic" Editor(s): Sayre, Gordon M.; Zecher, Carla. Translator(s): Sayre, Gordon M. Series: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. Num Pages: 455 pages, Illustrations (some col.), maps (some col.). BIC Classification: 3JF; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 38. Weight in Grams: 839.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
467
Condition
New
SKU
V9780807837221
ISBN
9780807837221
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 80.08

Paperback. Lady Hyegyong's memoirs, which recount the chilling murder of her husband by his father, is one of the best known and most popular classics of Korean literature. From 1795 until 1805 Lady Hyegyong composed this masterpiece, which depicts a court life whose drama and pathos is of Shakespearean proportions. Editor(s): Haboush, JaHyun Kim. Translator(s): Haboush, JaHyun Kim. Num Pages: 400 pages, Previous edition art. No new art. BIC Classification: 1FPK; 2GK; 3JF; BM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 554.
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
375
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520280489
ISBN
9780520280489
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.53

Paperback. Presents a narrative of the origins of American Methodism, one of the significant popular movements in American history. This work places methodism's rise in the ideological context of the American Revolution and the complex social setting of the greater Middle Atlantic where it was first introduced. Num Pages: 384 pages, 14 tables, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBTV; HRCC95; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 571.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691092980
ISBN
9780691092980
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.24
€ 42.11

Paperback. This book examines key moments in the emergence of London as a metropolis and considers different ways in which its image has been formulated and presented. Editor(s): Arnold, Dana. Series: Art History Special Issues. Num Pages: 184 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; AMA; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 173 x 353 x 15. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631216674
ISBN
9780631216674
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.46

Hardback. To be one of 'the middling sort' in urban England in the late seventeenth or eighteenth century was to live a life tied, one way or another, to the world of commerce. This study offers a view of middling society during the hundred years that separated the Glorious Revolution from the factory age. Num Pages: 358 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB; JFSC; JFSJ; JHBK; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 30. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
First edition.
Number of pages
358
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520202603
ISBN
9780520202603
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.71
€ 48.91

Hardback. Shows how the development of the militia in eighteenth century Ireland was closely bound with politics and the changing nature of the Protestant Ascendancy. Series: Irish Historical Monographs. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL; JWD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 165 x 22. Weight in Grams: 498. In Defence of the Protestant Interest. Series: Irish Historical Monographs. 208 pages. Shows how the development of the militia in eighteenth century Ireland was closely bound with politics and the changing nature of the Protestant Ascendancy. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL; JWD. Dimension: 240 x 165 x 22. Weight: 498.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843837244
ISBN
9781843837244
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.32

Paperback. Offers a collection of essays that seeks to historicize one of our nation's founding fathers. Challenging attempts to appropriate Jefferson to serve all manner of contemporary political agendas, this work argues that historians must look at Jefferson's language and life within the context of his own place and time. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 417.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813926117
ISBN
9780813926117
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.13

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 42. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 399.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801475795
ISBN
9780801475795
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.78

Paperback. Based on extensive archival research, this book explores the history of Frankism, a Jewish religious movement that began in Poland and spread into the Habsburg Empire and the German lands in the later eighteenth century. Series: Jewish Culture & Contexts. Num Pages: 376 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DVP; 3JF; 3JH; HRJ; HRLP1; JFSR1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 29. Weight in Grams: 560.
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812223439
ISBN
9780812223439
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.15

hardcover. A history of the Mixtec Indians of southern Mexico, this book focuses on several dozen Mixtec communities in the region of Oaxaca during the period from about 1540 to 1750. Num Pages: 528 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; HBJK; HBLH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1080.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
528
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804737562
ISBN
9780804737562
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 159.45

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