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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Eighteenth-Century Europe"”.
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The continuing image of African victimage : Ali A. Mazrui's The Africans: A Triple Heritage.
… "brute" developed as a literary abstraction of eighteenth-century Europe. Travel accounts of explorers to the continent presented an image of the African as barbarian. This view was used to support pseudo-scientific racial theories of the period. Biblical interpretations for African inferiority …
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The Road to Virtue and the Road to Fortune: The Scottish Enlightenment and the Problem of Individualism in Commercial Society
… society began to emerge in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe, it was widely thought to be inherently individualistic--whether such individualism was viewed as a strength, in the Mandevillean view, or as a weakness, by the civic humanists. Five thinkers from the Scottish …
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Foreign Seamen and the British Navy, 1793-1815
… It is a transnational social history of eighteenth-century state power, warfare, and migration, examining the legal terms of ‘foreigners’’ naval employment, the political and diplomatic background, cultural and social integration, and the demographic characteristics of these men. The …
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Women and fashion in Australia's nineteenth century
… new light on the clothing culture of the first Europeans who engaged with the land now called Australia in New South Wales, at Botany Bay and the area around Sydney Cove. Many people assume that life for the ‘First Fleeters’ must have been crude and rough, devoid of any sartorial fashion …
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Centrepieces: Compositions for the adornment of the European formal table in the long eighteenth century
Throughout eighteenth-century Europe, elaborate indoor and outdoor food presentations and displays were staged at the residences of the royal houses, the nobility, and the emerging upper bourgeoisie. Alongside the orderly display of the service à-la-française and the highly artistic vessels laden …
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London Calling: The London Corresponding Society And The Ascension Of Popular Politics
… (LCS) in Britain in the last decade of the eighteenth century, from 1792-1799. The intent of such a focus should serve as a way to better understand the spread of political participation in Britain at the end of the eighteenth century and the key role that the London Corresponding Society …
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Italian frescoes in German baroque palaces: visual culture and princely power in the Holy Roman Empire
Beginning in Central Europe in the 1690s and spreading to the German principalities of the Holy Roman Empire by 1700, large-scale Italian ceiling paintings soared in popularity as nobles of all ranks competed with one another to produce ever more lavish decorative schemes that expressed their claim …