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The eighteenth centuries : global networks of enlightenment /

Today, when "globalization" is a buzzword invoked in nearly every realm, we turn back to the eighteenth century and witness the inherent globalization of its desires and, at times, its accomplishments. During the chronological eighteenth century, learning and knowledge were intimately conn...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gies, David Thatcher (Editor ), Wall, Cynthia, 1959- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.