The Eighteenth Centuries : Global Networks of Enlightenment
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I Knowledge and the Lives of Books -- Introduction -- Enlightenment, Some Assembly Required -- An Inventory of the Estate of William Strahan in 1759 -- Understanding an Obscure Text -- II Human Economies -- Introduction -- How Long Does Blood L...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press,
2018
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| Schlagworte: | Enlightenment Globalization History, Modern Intellectual life Civilization, Modern Eighteenth century History 1700-1799 Globalization ; History ; 18th century Electronic books mehr... |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (316 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I Knowledge and the Lives of Books -- Introduction -- Enlightenment, Some Assembly Required -- An Inventory of the Estate of William Strahan in 1759 -- Understanding an Obscure Text -- II Human Economies -- Introduction -- How Long Does Blood Last? -- Thomas Jefferson -- The Jamaican Plantation -- III Artists' Geographies -- Introduction -- Emotional Geographies -- Painting New England in the Dutch West Indies -- IV Dramatic Politics -- Introduction -- Mozart and the American Revolution -- The Drama of Marriage in Eighteenth- Century Venice -- Performances of Suffering and the Stagecraft of Sympathy -- The Aesthetics of Excess -- About MapScholar -- Contributors -- Index. Knowledge and the lives of books : introduction / Sophia Rosenfeld -- Enlightenment, some assembly required / Brad Pasanek and Chad Wellmon -- An inventory of the estate of William Strahan in 1759 / Michael Pickard -- Understanding an obscure text : the fortunate foundlings and the limits of interdisciplinarity / Patricia Meyer Spacks -- Human economies : introduction / Andrew O'shaughnessy -- How long does blood last? Degeneration as Blanqueamiento in the Americas / Ruth Hill -- Thomas Jefferson : breeding and buying horses, connecting family, friends,and neighbors / Carrie B. Douglass -- The Jamaican plantation : industrial, global, contested / Louis P. Nelson -- Artists' geographies : introduction / Richard Will -- Emotional geographies : Watteau and the fate of women / Mary D. Sheriff -- Painting New England in the Dutch West Indies : John Greenwood's sea captains carousing in Surinam / Katelyn D. Crawford -- Dramatic politics : introduction / Bonnie Gordon -- Mozart and the American Revolution / Pierpaolo Polzonetti -- The drama of marriage in eighteenth-century Venice : Carlo Goldoni's la Locandiera / Adrienne Ward -- Performances of suffering and the stagecraft of sympathy / Jennifer Reed -- The aesthetics of excess : Rococo vestiges of tartuffe in Isla's Father Gerundio / Casey R. Eriksen -- About Mapscholar / James P. Ambuske and Carol Guarnieri |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (316 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780813940762 0813940761 9780813940755 0813940753 |