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Cultural Histories: A Cultural...The Enlightenment as concept and time period was haunted by ambiguities about ... The Enlightenment as concept and time period was haunted by ambiguities about the relationships between mind and body humans and the natural world and reason and imagination. The 18th century was inherently contradictory particularly when it came to... more
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Cultural Histories: A Cultural...A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1650... A Cultural History of Color in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1650 to 1800. From the Baroque to the Neo-classical color transformed art architecture ceramics jewelry and glass. Newton using a prism demonstrated the seven separate hues which... more
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Cultural Histories: A Cultural...A Cultural History of Sport in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1650... A Cultural History of Sport in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1650 to 1800 a period often seen as a time of decline in sporting practice and literature. In fact a rich sporting culture existed and sports were practised by both men and women... more
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Cultural Histories: A Cultural...The period of the Enlightenment was marked by innovation in political cultural... The period of the Enlightenment was marked by innovation in political cultural religious and educational ideas with the aim of improving the experience of human beings in society. Key to intellectual debates and day-to-day life were ideas about the... more
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Cultural Histories: A Cultural...This volume surveys the burst of political imagination that created multiple E... This volume surveys the burst of political imagination that created multiple Enlightenment cultures in an era widely understood as an age of democratic revolutions. Enlightenment as precursor to liberal democratic modernity was once secular catechism... more
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Cultural Histories: A Cultural...This volume highlights the variety of forms comedy took in England with refere... This volume highlights the variety of forms comedy took in England with reference to developments in Europe particularly France during the European Enlightenment. It argues that comedy in this period is characterized by wit satire and humor provoking... more
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Cultural Histories: A Cultural...A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 16... A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1600 to 1760 a time marked by the movement of people ideas and goods. The objects explored in this volume -from scientific instrumentation and Baroque paintings to slave ships... more
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Cultural Histories: A Cultural...The period of the Enlightenment was marked by innovation in political cultural... The period of the Enlightenment was marked by innovation in political cultural religious and educational ideas with the aim of improving the experience of human beings in society. Key to intellectual debates and day-to-day life were ideas about the... more
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Cultural Histories: A Cultural...Could an institution as sacred and traditional as marriage undergo a revolutio... Could an institution as sacred and traditional as marriage undergo a revolution? Some people living during the so-called Age of Enlightenment thought so. By marrying for that selfish personal emotion of love rather than to serve religious or family... more
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Cultural Histories: A Cultural...The Enlightenment was a time of monetary turmoil and transformation in Europe.... The Enlightenment was a time of monetary turmoil and transformation in Europe. Change began with a riot of experimentation including novel ideas about human agency and capacity to promote economic progress efforts to reframe divinity in terms (like the... more
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Cultural Histories: A Cultural...Patient disease and physician were the three corners of the medical triangle a... Patient disease and physician were the three corners of the medical triangle according to one of the texts attributed to Hippocrates a famous ancient Greek doctor. This volume covering a period from roughly 800 BCE to 800 CE examines and deconstructs... more
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Cultural Histories: A Cultural...Since the cultural turn of the 1980s the history of Renaissance medicine has b... Since the cultural turn of the 1980s the history of Renaissance medicine has been radically transformed with older narratives stood on their head as concepts and categories for research have been re-thought. At the core of this change - for the period... more
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Cultural Histories: A Cultural...For the first time during the Early Modern period ships regularly traveled bet... For the first time during the Early Modern period ships regularly traveled between and among all of basins that comprise the World Ocean. During this period European mariners ventured into new waters where they encountered new trading partners new... more
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Cultural Histories: A Cultural...Opened up by the revival of Classical thought but riven by the violence of the... Opened up by the revival of Classical thought but riven by the violence of the Reformation and Counter Reformation the terrain of Early Modern law was constantly shifting. The age of expansion saw unparalleled degrees of internal and external... more
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Cultural Histories: A Cultural...A Cultural History of Memory presents an authoritative survey from ancient tim... A Cultural History of Memory presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history charting the evolving nature and role of memory throughout history. This volume A Cultural History... more
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