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University Press of Kansas America in the Seventies
Book SynopsisThe 70s witnessed economic decline in America, coupled with a series of foreign policy failures, events that created an air of unease and uncertainty. This volume examines the ways in which Americans responded to a changing world and sought to redefine themselves.
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Betty Ford
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University Press of Kansas Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth
Book SynopsisExplores the shifting reputation of America’s most controversial founding father. Stephen Knott surveys the Hamilton image in the minds of American statesmen, scholars, literary figures, and the media, explaining why Americans are content to live in a Hamiltonian nation but reluctant to embrace the man himself.Trade ReviewThere is no Founding Father whose reputation has waxed and waned so dramatically, who has aroused so much hatred and contempt. In his invaluable new book, Knott does a marvelous job of gathering all the different views of Hamilton and weaving them into a clear and interesting narrative." —David Brooks in The Weekly Standard"An important and lasting contribution to future debates about the Founding's meaning." — First Things"An important book." —Claremont Review of Books"Makes a compelling case for Hamilton's importance." - History; Reviews of New Books
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas The Presidency of John F. Kennedy
Book SynopsisA book on John F Kennedy's White House years. It shows Kennedy to be ""the most medicated, one of the most courageous, and perhaps the most self-absorbed of our presidents."" Featuring a bibliographical essay and twenty-two photos from the JFK library, it aims to be the definitive appraisal of Camelot's kingdom.
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Peace Pact
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA complex and remarkable book that may well make an important paradigm shift in early American history.... Deftly combining intellectual, constitutional, and diplomatic history, Hendrickson significantly reorients our understanding of the creation of the American republic." —American Historical Review"Hendrickson's masterly work immediately joins Peter S. Onuf and Nicholas G. Onuf's Federal Union, Modern World: The Law of Nations in an Age of Revolutions as one of the leading attempts to view the making of America in international perspective." —Journal of American History"An exemplary contribution to our understanding of the early republic." —William and Mary Quarterly"A remarkable book - engaging, learned, and well-written.... Highly recommended." —Choice"A splendid and important book." —International History Review"An extrordinary achievement." —Peter Onuf, author of Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood
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University Press of Kansas Drawing the Line at the Big Ditch The Panama
Book SynopsisConsidered one of America's engineering marvels, the Panama Canal sparked intense debates in the 1970s over the decision to turn it back over to Panama. This work argues, that the Panama Canal no longer divides Panama. But the fissures it opened 30 years ago have widened; they divide the United States.Trade ReviewA fascinating political whodunit about the place of the Panama Canal in the conservative campaign to sink the ship of congressional liberals. Tom Brokaw, author of The Greatest Generation ""Long acknowledged to be a top-flight journalist, Clymer turns out to be a thoughtful and probing historian as well. Above all, he is a gifted storyteller, whose colorful cast includes dictators and diplomats, politicians in search of an issue, and presidents in search of a legacy. Great history is all about perspective, and that's exactly what this book supplies."" Richard Norton Smith, Presidential historian ""A first-rate effort by a top-notch political reporter."" David A. Keene, Chairman, American Conservative Union
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Union Nation or Empire The American Debate Over International Relations 17891941
Book SynopsisA sequel to ""Peace Pact"", in which the author identified a 'unionist paradigm' that defined America's political understanding in 1787, this book examines how that paradigm was transformed under the impact of the great wars that followed. It challenges accepted interpretations of America's role in the world.Trade ReviewAmericans tend to see their history as a parade of events. Yet at the very core of that history has been a debate over ideas and ideology. Hendrickson's brilliant book recounts and reassesses that debate with originality and penetrating insight. Andrew J. Bacevich, author of American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy ""An original and important work, marked by graceful erudition and judiciousness.... A worthy sequel to Hendrickson's acclaimed Peace Pact: The Lost World of the American Founding."" David Mayers, author of Dissenting Voices in America's Rise to Power ""A terrific book and magnificent achievement."" Peter S. Onuf, author of Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Reopening the Frontier Homesteading in the
Book SynopsisShows that postwar homesteading continued to shape the modern West in important ways. This study describes how the Bureau of Reclamation used lotteries to make available free land that had previously been part of Indian reservations, used for Japanese internment, or abandoned by unsuccessful settlers.Trade ReviewCannon's insightful and sensitive treatment impressively captures the hopes, dreams, and struggles of these latter-day pioneers.... A fine addition to the history of the West, environmental history, and rural and agricultural history. David B. Danbom, author of Born in the Country: A History of Rural America ""An excellent and essential sequel to Paul W. Gates's magisterial History of Public Land Law Development and well worthy of serious consideration by various prize committees."" Allan G. Bogue, author of Frederick Jackson Turner: Strange Roads Going Down ""A unique and well-written work that should be read by historians and other students of the West, its land development, and the impact of the federal government."" Walter Nugent, author of Into the West: The Story of Its People
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Inside the Nixon Administration
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Four Hats in the Ring The 1912 Election and the
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas The Real Making of the President Kennedy Nixon
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas The Zapruder Film
Book SynopsisAnalysing Abraham Zapruder's iconic film frame-by-frame, David Wrone builds a convincing case against the official findings of the ""crime of the century"": the assassination of JFK. Tracing its 50-year history, he demonstrates how the film itself refutes the lone-gunman and single-bullet theory.
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Imperial Germany and War 18711918
Book SynopsisAn in-depth, finely detailed portrait of the German Army from its greatest victory in 1871 to its final collapse in 1918, this volume offers the most comprehensive account ever given of one of the critical pillars of the German Empire - and a chief architect of the military and political realities of late nineteenth-century Europe.Trade ReviewHughes and DiNardo provide a fine-grain portrait of the Imperial German Army from its greatest victory in 1871 to its final collapse in 1918. Written by two of the scholarly world's leading authorities, it offers in-depth research into the German sources, judicious verdicts on men and events, and a breadth of vision greater than any previous work. It is an indispensable book that will dominate the narrative on the German Army for decades.""- Robert M. Citino, author of The Wehrmacht's Last Stand: The German Campaigns of 1944-1945;""Few institutions were more important to European history between 1871 and 1918 than the German army. This study provides a detailed analysis of how it responded to the rapid societal and political changes around it. No student of this period of Germany will want to miss it.""- Michael S. Neiberg, author of Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I;""The Prussian/German army failed its ultimate test: preparing for and waging the Great War of 1914-1918. This major contribution to institutional military history convincingly establishes that failure as the consequence of a fundamental and enduring tension between efforts to adjust to the requirements of mass-industrial warfare and pressures seeking to limit the consequences of the French and Marxist revolutions. Essential for all students of the subject.""- Dennis Showalter, author of Instrument of War: The German Army 1914-1918;""A formal people, the Germans were disastrously informal about war. Clausewitz set the tone with his emphasis on friction, human error, and improvised genius. That strand connected Moltke the Elder's unorthodox invasions of Austria and France with the thrusting, decentralized combat of generals given a broad mission and the flexibility to accomplish it by Schlieffen and his successors. Ultimately this can-do attitude was the Prussian-German army's 'secret sauce.' It defeated bureaucracy and ensured rapid action yet- as Hughes and DiNardo reveal in this splendid, lucid work- it made German leaders dismissive of policy, grand strategy, and their iron constraints. A Germany dominated by the uniformed military came to view battle as the solution to every problem, ensuring Germany's defeat in 1918.""- Geoffrey Wawro, author of A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas 43 Inside the George W. Bush Presidency
Book SynopsisThe presidency of George W. Bush has been the subject of extensive commentary but limited scholarly analysis in the years since he left office. 43 draws extensively, but not solely, from the recently released interviews of the Miller Center’s Presidential Oral History Program at the University of Virginia.Table of Contents Preface Introduction: History and the Three Presidencies of George W. Bush, Russell L. Riley 1. George W. Bush’s Elections: 2000, 2004, 2006, and 2008, Michael Nelson 2. George W. Bush and Compassionate Conservatism: Rhetoric and Reality, Jesse H. Rhodes 3. Day of Fire: An Oral History of 9/11, Michael Nelson 4. “On My Own”: George W. Bush, the Unitary Executive, and Unilateral Action, Andrew Rudalevige 5. George W. Bush and Congress, John J. Pitney, Jr. 6. George W. Bush’s Supreme Court Nominations: From Oral History to Oral Argument, Barbara A. Perry 7. George W. Bush’s Vice President: A New Look at Dick Cheney, Joel K. Goldstein 8. The Iraq War: Democracy Promotion and the Struggle for Strategic Solvency, 2002–2008, Spencer D. Bakich 9. George W. Bush and the Financial Crisis of 2008, Robert F. Bruner 10. George W. Bush, Presidentialism, and the Fracturing of America, Sidney M. Milkis Appendix 1: Timeline of the George W. Bush Presidency Appendix 2: Interviewees for the George W. Bush Presidential History Project Appendix 3: Interviewers for the George W. Bush Presidential History Project List of Contributors Index
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas The Mormon Military Experience 1838 to the Cold
Book SynopsisThe first book to present a historical overview of the Mormon military experience. Sherman Fleek and Robert Freeman tell the unique story of how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has experienced war and military service and their teachings concerning participation in armed conflict.Trade Review"We overuse the terms unique and overdue, but this study of the Mormon military experience is truly both. Fleek and Freeman bring to the fore a fascinating and intricate history of the often-troubling and always-complicated involvement of Mormonism with the force of arms, from the LDS Church literally operating its own army for many decades in the nineteenth century to becoming an ardent advocate and supporter of the armed forces of the United States in the twentieth. Their work ranges effectively from the stories of individual Mormons in uniform to analyses of the institution’s interface with military affairs, events, and issues."—Gene A. Sessions, coauthor of Camp Floyd and the Mormons: The Utah War"The Mormon Military Experience is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the relationship between religion, the military, and war in the United States. Sherman Fleek and Robert Freeman tell a story, supported by extensive archival research and engaging narrative, of a quintessentially American religious group and its interaction with a quintessentially national institution as it moves from exceptional in the late nineteenth century to mainstream in the twentieth. Historians of the American military, American religion, and of LDS history will all find tremendous value in this volume."—Jacqueline E. Whitt, author of Bringing God to Men: American Military Chaplains and the Vietnam WarTable of Contents Series Editor’s Preface Preface: The Genesis of an Idea Introduction Book One: Nineteenth-Century Conflicts and Mormon Exceptionalism 1. The Mormon Way of War: Teachings and Practice 2. A Civil Conflict in Missouri 3. The Nauvoo Legion: Forging a Mormon Army 4. Mormon Defiance: The Mormon Territorial Militia and the Utah War 6. The American Civil War: LDS Service and Postwar Frustration 7. The Saints and Indians at War 8. Wars with Spain and the Philippines, 1898-1902: The End of Mormon Exceptionalism Book Two: Twentieth-Century Conflicts and the End of Mormon Exceptionalism 9. American Expedition 1946 and Saints in Mexico 10. World War I: Mormons Enter the Mainstream Ranks 11. World War II: Saints in the Global War 12. Early Cold War Conflicts: The Rise of the International Church 13. Southeast Asia: Defending Democracy and Expanding the Church 14. LDS Opposition to MX Missile Basing Epilogue: The Cold War and Beyond Appendix: Medal of Honor Citations World War I World War II Korean War Vietnam Medal of Honor Recipients Global War on Terrorism Chronology: The Mormon Military Experience, 1820-1896 Notes Bibliography Index Illustrations follow page 18
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas The Racial Integration of the American Armed For
Book SynopsisWhile past accounts of the integration of the armed forces have focused on the critical roles played by the burgeoning leadership of the civil rights movement and the Black population, Geoffrey Jensen is the first to emphasize the importance of presidential leadership and their staffs.Trade Review"Geoffrey Jensen makes a strong case for re-examining the integration of the US military through the lens of the Cold War, an important perspective that is generally absent from the scholarship on the topic. Jensen argues military integration was born out of the necessity of war—the Cold War—and contends the process of military reform waxed and waned according to the threats communist forces posed to US interests. His emphasis on the international concerns of presidential administrations corrects a tendency of scholars of military integration to limit their analysis to domestic concerns and the politics of civil rights."—Douglas Walter Bristol, Jr., coeditor, Integrating the US Military: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation since World War IIGeoffrey W. Jensen’s investigation of the intentions, processes, and outcomes of racial integration in the United States Armed Forces is as searing as it is engaging. For a topic as central to a military’s history—not to mention efficacy—racial integration has been sorely omitted by the historical record. In today’s current climate, Born out of the Necessity of War could not be more timely or more prescient."—Lorissa Rinehart, author of First to the Front, The Untold Story of Dickey ChapelleTable of Contents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments 1. A Faustian Bargain: White Presidents, Wartime Necessity, and the Black Pursuit of Civil Rights, 1770 to 1945 2. “It Was Good Trouble, It Was Necessary Trouble”: Truman and Reform 3. Born out of the Necessity of War: The Korean War and Reform 4. The Frustration of the Middle Way: Eisenhower and Reform 5. From Image to Action: Kennedy, Johnson, and Reform 6. The Decrescendo of Cold War Racial Reform: Vietnam, Johnson, and Nixon Conclusion Epilogue Notes Index
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Dawson Publishing The Victoria History of the County of Derby
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation French social history Games in the eighteenth century Happiness in Duclos and Rousseau
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation The Eighteenth Century Now Boundaries and
Book SynopsisThere has been path-breaking research, too, in areas which reflect our broadening conception of eighteenth-century studies, from literature of travel to post-colonial writing, translation to the press, popular literature to clandestine manuscripts.Trade Review''a lively testament to the healthy state of eighteenth-century studies [...] the volume offers a summa of the current state of those studies, with articles by a team of leading authorities not just covering well-established author, genres, themes and disciplines, but also their less familiar emerging offshoots.'Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsList of illustrationsAcknowledgementsJonathan Mallinson, The eighteenth century now: reading beyond the linesI. Defamiliarising a canonNicholas Cronk, Inventing VoltaireCatherine Volpilhac-Auger et Catherine Larrère, Montesquieu en mouvementMarian Hobson, Diderot and oblivion / Diderot in the future tenseJacques Berchtold, Du nouveau dans les études rousseauistes? A propos de l’approche thématiqueDavid Coward, Adventures of the novelSimon Davies, Poetry rebornPhilip Robinson, Eighteenth-century theatre: the triumph of parodyDaniel Brewer, Remembering the EncyclopédieII. Discovering new worldsMarie-Laure Girou Swiderski et Suzan van Dijk, La littérature au fémininShelly Charles, Traduire au dix-huitième siècleFrançois Moureau, Le voyageur français et les étranges étrangers: bilan d’études sur le siècle des LumièresAnthony Strugnell, Colonialism and its discoursesJean Sgard, L’univers des journauxLise Andries, Réflexions sur la notion de littérature populaireAntony McKenna, Les manuscrits philosophiques clandestinsMark Ledbury, Imagining the Salon: mapping art criticism in the eighteenth centuryIII. Crossing boundariesPhilip Stewart, L’illustration du roman au dix-huitième siècleMichael O’Dea, ‘Visions inintelligibles’ et ‘vérités apocalyptiques’: théorie et pratique de l’opéra françaisYannick Séité, Le livre des Lumières et son étudeJean-Paul Sermain, La rhétorique dans l’histoire culturelle, la pensée et les textes littéraires du dix-huitième siècleAnne Vila, Getting cultural: new perspectives in eighteenth-century science studiesCatherine Larrère, De la politique des Lumières à celle de la modernitéGiuseppi Ricuperati, Définir les Lumières: centres et périphéries du point de vue européen, cosmopolite et italienMichel Delon, Questions de périodisationSummariesIndex
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Voltaire Foundation in Association with Liverpool University Press Complete Works of Voltaire 144AB Corpus des notes marginales de Voltaire 9AB SpallanzaniZeno
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Voltaire Foundation Ouvres compltes de Voltaire Complete Works of N
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Diderot Natural Philosopher
Book SynopsisTrade Review'This is an excellent study which Diderot scholars will not just want to read but to own. It provides a solid platform for further research into Diderot’s scientific world-view and will remain a valuable resource for years to come.'Modern Language Review'Since Ballstadt is also a scrupulous recorder of Diderot’s own words, many of the chapters offer useful potted summaries of Diderot’s writings. These summaries also situate Diderot’s texts alongside the relevant books, personages and intellectual debates that informed his work, and from this perspective too the book can be recommended as a largely accurate and well-researched introduction to Diderot’s scientific ideas.'British Journal of the History of Science, Volume 43/2'Divided into chapters on mathematics, experimental physics, chemistry, natural history and medicine, this book documents and analyzes Diderot’s scientific thought. By a happy coincidence this order reflects not only a progression from abstraction to particularity, but also the development of Diderot’s interest in science.'New Perspectives on the Eighteenth CenturyTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Mathematics2. Experimental physics3. Chemistry4. Natural history5. MedicineConclusionAppendix: chronological list of Diderot works referencedBibliographyIndex
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Edward Gibbon Essai Sur L233tude De La Litterat
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMankin’s superb edition of the Essai, one of the greatest products of a truly international Republic of Letters, allows a great work of criticism, a civilised and civilizing text, to come back into fructifying circulation.- Essays in CriticismL’ouvrage de Mankin propose une lecture très fouillée du texte de Gibbon avec de nombreuses incursions dans d’autres œuvres de l’auteur comme l’Histoire de la décadence et de la chute de l’Empire romain et les Mémoires. Il s’appuie sur des références multiples en soulignant notamment la modernité de la demarche historiographique de Gibbon dès les années 1760, bien avant la publication de l’Histoire de la décadence et de la chute de l’Empire Romain.- Les Lettres romanesMankin’s edition is a remarkable effort to try and elucidate the genesis and status of the Essai, in the light both of the contemporary history of ideas and publications, in France and in England, and of Gibbon’s own intellectual development [...] This volume has the scrupulous precision of the whole SVEC collection, and the Voltaire Foundation must again be praised for its continuous and rare support of erudite research on the Enlightenment period. With the profusion of Mankin’s references and sources, and the way he succeeds in making them resonate through Gibbon’s text, this critical edition proves a very rewarding read for all of those interested in the intellectual history of the eighteenth century.- CerclesTable of ContentsGuide to this editionAbbreviationsIntroductionCircumstances of writingCharacter of the text‘France’: a contextFrom Belles-Lettres to littératureThe rise of the authorReligions of the mindTextual apparatusEssai sur l’étude de la littérature To Edward Gibbon Avis au lecteur A l’auteur Essai sur l’étude de la littérature Textual commentaryBibliographyIndex
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Voltaire Foundation Commentaire Historique I
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Voltaire Foundation Correspondance de Pierre Bayle Volume 11 aout
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Voltaire Foundation Correspondance générale de La Beaumelle Volume 10
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Voltaire Foundation Correspondance Generale de La Beaumelle 17261773
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Liverpool University Press Rumor Diplomacy and War in Enlightenment Paris
Book SynopsisIn this book Tabetha Ewing analyses different forms of everyday talk over the course of the War of Austrian Succession to explore how they led to new understandings of political identity.Royal policing and clandestine media shaped what Parisians knew and how they conceptualized events in a period of war.Trade ReviewReviews‘Ewing effectively communicates how public talk about the war ebbed and flowed […] she manages to navigate the complex terrain between police and public without confusing the reader.’French History‘Tabetha Leigh Ewing […] analyse avec une érudition exemplaire une série de sources qui échappent souvent aux chercheurs [pour en tirer] un vaste tableau de l’évolution de l’opinion publique parisienne à cette époque charnière. [L’ouvrage], par sa riche documentation, nous permet de voir les racines historiques d’une opinion publique qui fera une irruption spectaculaire à la fin du XVIIIè siècle lors de la Révolution française.'Studi Francesi‘An informative study that examines a period slightly earlier than most works on public opinion’ […] Sketches of colorful individuals, such as a shopkeeper’s wife who amused French officials by sending them detailed, unsolicited advice on foreign policy, make for compelling reading [...] A model of how to integrate popular opinion into works on foreign policy.’American History ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Transcriptions: royal secrecy in the channels of ‘on-dits’2. Electing the emperor: problems of voiceAppendix 1Appendix 2Appendix 33. Purloined letters and the 1742 crisis of information4. Protesting the draft: popular opinion, chance, and royal justice5. Declaring love, declaring war6. A royal public: trumpeting the king’s triumph after Fontenoy7. Disloyal speech and war on other fronts8. Uncovering political public opinion and an abstract public9. Gender as a poetics of indirection: a shopkeeper’s wife negotiates for peace10. Inchoate citizenshipBibliographyIndex
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Interpreting the Ancien R233gime
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewReviews ‘Most brilliantly on display in Bien’s essays is the quality of his peculiar forte: namely that of seeing the problematical behind the apparently obvious and espying questions where people had earlier seen only answers’. Journal of modern history‘David Bien was without doubt one of the greatest historians of eighteenth-century France, and we are indebted to the editors for bringing some of his best work together in a single volume’. H-France ReviewTable of ContentsPreface, Keith Michael BakerIntroduction: David D. Bien and the paradoxical history of Old Regime France, Michael Christofferson1. The background of the Calas affair2. Catholic magistrates and protestant marriage in the French Enlightenment3. Aristocracy4. Manufacturing nobles: the chancelleries in France to 17895. Property in office under the ancien régime: the case of the stockbrokers6. Every shoemaker an officier: Terray as reformer7. Old Regime origins of democratic liberty8. The army in the French Enlightenment: reform, reaction and Revolution9. Military education in eighteenth-century France: technical and non-technical determinants10. The nobilities of Toulouse11. Interview with Norman CantorBibliographyIndex
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Penser lEurope Au XVIII Si232cle Commerce
Book SynopsisAprès avoir décrit la manière dont l’ordre européen a été conçu, les auteurs examinent la question de l’expansion commerciale et coloniale de l’Europe, ainsi que les théories de la civilisation, qui permettent d’interroger le statut de l’exceptionnalisme européen.Trade ReviewReviews ‘What then could be more timely, as the union arrives at its deepest crisis of identity, than historical and philosophical scrutiny of the idea of ‘Europe’ at the moment of its birth? [...] Taken together, these essays reveal the extent to which both the hopes and the doubts that attach to the “European project” today were there from the very beginning’.Journal of Modern History‘Scopo (ben conseguito) del volume è quello di fornire solide basi interpretative, al di là di falsi miti e pregiudizi, relative all’idea d’Europa nel XVIII secolo, dale quali possa partire una più matura riflessione del concetto stesso nell’età contemporanea’.Studi francesiTable of ContentsListe d’abréviationsAntoine Lilti et Céline Spector, Introduction: l’Europe des Lumières, généalogie d’un conceptI. Un nouvel ordre européenBruno Bernardi, L’idée d’équilibre européen dans le jus gentium des modernes: esquisse d’histoire conceptuelleStella Ghervas, La paix par le droit, ciment de la civilisation en Europe? La perspective du Siècle des LumièresJennifer Pitts, Empire colonial et universalisme juridique au XVIIIe siècleII. L’Europe du doux commerce? Céline Spector, Civilisation et empire: la dialectique négative de l’Europe au siècle des LumièresKenta Ohji, La fin de l’Ancien Régime en Europe selon l’Histoire des deux IndesIII. La civilisation et ses critiquesAntoine Lilti, La civilisation est-elle européenne? Ecrire l’histoire de l’Europe au XVIIIe siècleLarry Wolff, La géographie philosophique des Lumières: l’Europe de l’Est et les Tartares de Sibérie au regard de la civilisationDominic Eggel, Le projet des Lumières mis en cause de l’intérieur: les classiques de Weimar à l’avant-garde des critiques de la civilisation européenneSophia Rosenfeld, Postface : L’Europe des cosmopolites: quand le XVIIIe siècle rencontre le XXIeRésumésBibliographieIndex
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation The Spanish Enlightenment Revisited
Book Synopsisthe transmission and reception of an Enlightenment discourse in the Spanish Empire;Spain’s role in shaping a modern conception of the natural sciences.The portrait of a demarginalised, modernising and enlightened Spain emerges clearly from this book;Trade ReviewReviews ‘This book and the windows it opens into recent and stimulating research […] are an example of the critical engagement of some of the best Spanish scholarship and international historiographical debate on the Enlightenment’.CROMOHS‘Un recueil riche en informations et suggestions, et dont il est malaisé de rendre compte avec justesse en quelques lignes’.Dix-huitième siècle‘Esta reseña no consigue revelar con justicia el valor de esta obra colectiva en cada uno de los campos abordados por diversos expertos de la Ilustración española […] y su importancia a la hora de reivindicar un merecido lugar para España tanto en la historia intelectual del siglo de las luces’.Cuadernos de Ilustración y RomanticismoTable of ContentsJesús Astigarraga, Introduction: admirer, rougir, imiter – Spain and the European EnlightenmentMaría Victoria López-Cordón Cortezo, The merits of good gobierno: culture and politics in the Bourbon courtJoaquín Álvarez Barrientos, The Spanish Republic of Letters in its European context: images, economics, and the representation of the man of lettersJesús Astigarraga, Economic societies and the politicisation of the Spanish EnlightenmentJuan Pimentel, The Indians of Europe: the role of Spain’s Enlightenment in the making of a global scienceJavier Usoz, Political economy and the creation of the public sphere during the Spanish EnlightenmentIgnacio Fernández Sarasola, Constitution projects during the Spanish EnlightenmentGabriel Paquette, The reform of the Spanish empire in the age of EnlightenmentJesús Astigarraga, Niccolò Guasti and Juan Zabalza, The Spanish debate on public finance: a privileged laboratory for enlightened reformsJoaquín Varela Suanzes-Carpegna, The image of the British system of government in Spain (1759-1814) Javier Fernández Sebastián, From the ‘voice of the people’ to the freedom of the press: the birth of public opinionAlejandro Agüero and Marta Lorente, Penal Enlightenment in Spain: from Beccaria’s reception to the first criminal codeSummariesBibliographyIndex
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Liverpool University Press Raynals Histoire des Deux Indes colonialism
Book SynopsisAnalysis of Raynal's renowned 18th-century classic the 'Histoire des Deux Indes', focusing on its colonial aspects and global networks.Trade ReviewReviews ‘All of the essays are scrupulously researched, with extensive footnotes referencing primary and secondary sources, and the volume’s bibliography is a comprehensive guide to the booming field of Raynal studies. [It will form a] substantive contribution to the interdisciplinary study of the “global eighteenth century”.’Modern Language Review‘This volume of twenty essays constitutes a timely intervention into debates about global history, which, where studies of the eighteenth century are concerned, have been characterized by a certain scepticism’.French Studies‘Ce volume propose une moisson fort riche sur une œuvre considérable dans son étendue’.-Dix-huitième siècleTable of ContentsCecil Courtney and Jenny Mander, IntroductionI. The theme of global exchange in the Histoire des deux IndesStéphane Pujol, La logique des échanges dans l’Histoire des deux IndesPeter Jimack, Coconuts, spice and sugar: indolence, energy and social interaction in the Histoire des deux IndesChristian Donath, Apostles of the state: legitimate colonisation tactics in the Histoire des deux IndesAntonella Alimento, Entre rivalité d’émulation et liberté commerciale: la présence de l’école de Gournay dans l’Histoire des deux IndesSylvana Tomaselli, On labelling Raynal’s Histoire: reflections on its genre and subjectDaniel Droixhe, Y a-t-il vraiment une ethnologie chez Raynal? L’enfance de l’art américain dans les ‘Deux Indes’ Daniel Gordon, Uncivilised civilisation: Raynal and the global public sphereII. Mediating networks: the making and marketing of the Histoire des deux IndesKenta Ohji, Raynal auto-compilateur: le projet d’une histoire politique de l’Europe moderne – des Mémoires historiquesà l’Histoire des deux IndesGilles Bancarel, Ecriture et information: aux sources du réseau de RaynalGianluigi Goggi, La seconde édition de l’Histoire des deux Indes: relations entre libraires et stratégie de lancement dans les annonces des gazettesIda Federica Pugliese, From antagonism to a common fate: Guillaume-Thomas Raynal and William RobertsonSusanne Greilich, ‘Et moi suis-je sur des roses?’: l’Histoire des deux Indes entre l’historiographie espagnole, leyenda negra et discours anticolonialUrsula Haskins Gonthier, The ‘Supplément au journal de Bougainville’: representations of Native Canadians in the Histoire des deux IndesIII. The Histoire des deux Indes and its network of readersFredrik Thomasson, Raynal and Sweden: royal propaganda and colonial aspirationsReinier Salverda, Raynal and Holland: Raynal’s Histoire des deux Indes and Dutch colonialism in the age of EnlightenmentHans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Controverses transatlantiques: contenus, enjeux et impact international de la Letter to the abbé Raynal (1782) de Thomas PaineJennifer Tsien, Louisiana as a figment of the imagination: Raynal’s reflections on the French American colonyMuriel Collart, L’Histoire des deux Indes et le Dictionnaire universel des sciences de Jean-Baptiste RobinetPhilippe Barthelet, Raynal sous le feu de ses adversaires: l’exemple de Joseph de MaistreGeorges Dulac, Un protestant languedocien admirateur de Raynal: l’Histoire des deux Indes dans le fonds Louis Médard de Lunel
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Liverpool University Press Enlightenment Spain and the Encyclop233die
Book SynopsisA critical edition of two 18th-century encyclopedia articles on Spain (one French, one Spanish) that caused much controversy at a time when Spain was asserting its role in the Enlightenment.Trade ReviewReviews ‘ce travail veut être une contribution à l’étude d’une ‘géographie des Lumières’' et du regard des nations éclairées sur les autres nations, aussi bien que des réponses de celles-ci à ces regards.’ Dix-huitième siècle‘[…] it offers both scholars and students emblematic sources of a crucial period of Spanish history, culture and commerce, as well as a more profound understanding of cultural and knowledge transfer in Enlightened Europe.’ Modern Language Review‘Pour la première fois […] grâce à cette compilation minutieuse de dix ans de travail, une vision réelle des écrits dans une relation triangulaire de la langue, des disciplines et des divisions entre l’Europe du Nord, l’Europe du Sud et la peninsula ibérique.’ Recherches sur Diderot et sur l’Encyclopédie‘Thanks to [the editors’] efforts and their excellent translations, we now have access, in the same volume, to one of eighteenth-century Spain’s most fervent polemics. This work is a most welcome addition to eighteenth-century scholarship.’ DieciochoTable of ContentsList of illustrationsAcknowledgmentsNote to the translations1. Clorinda Donato, Introduction. ‘Espagne’ or ‘España’? Answering Enlightenment in the Encyclopedia metódica, the Spanish translation of the Encyclopédie méthodique2. ‘Espagne’, by Nicolas Masson de Morvilliers‘Spain’, by Nicolas Masson de Morvilliers. Translated by Clorinda Donato and Ricardo López3. ‘España’, by Julián de Velasco‘Spain’, by Julián de Velasco. Translated by Clorinda Donato and Ricardo López 4. Biographical notes5. Brittany Anderson-Cain, Locating encyclopedic knowledge in the global eighteenth century: a bibliographical essayBibliographyIndex
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Ruins Past Modernity in Italy 17441836
Book SynopsisFocusing on the representation of ruins by Italian writers, scientists, and artists between the mid-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Sabrina Ferri explores the culture of the period and traces Italy’s complex relationship with its past.Table of ContentsList of illustrationsAcknowledgments Introduction1. ‘The great fragments of antiquity’: ruins and recovery of the past in Giambattista Vico’s New science2. ‘The ruined cities lie desolate’: natural catastrophe and historical change in eighteenth-century Italy3. Time of nature, time of man: ruins and the materiality of the historical imagination4. Melancholies of the modern: nature and history in the late eighteenth-century Picturesque5. The ghostly ruins of Neoclassicism: Alessandro Verri’s Roman nights and the posthumous life of the ancient6. The shipwrecks of time: Giacomo Leopardi’s poetics of ruinsEpilogue: a glance backBibliographyIndex
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Voltaire Foundation Complete Works of Voltaire 60B Oeuvres de
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Voltaire Foundation Complete Works of Voltaire 65C Oeuvres de 1768 I
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Voltaire Foundation Complete Works of Voltaire 60D Collection des
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Voltaire Foundation Complete Works of Voltaire 78C Commentaire
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Money and the Middle Ages
Book Synopsis* This is the first accessible discussion of the role of money in the life and economy of the Middle Ages. * The author pays particular attention to the way in which the Church viewed money, and how it taught Christians what attitudes they should adopt towards it and towards the uses to which it could be put.Trade Review"Le Goff is magisterial in his treatment of medieval documentary sources, and of modern historical debate." Ashmolean Museum "Money and the Middle Ages provides those insights into the period which we associate with this master of historical writing." Times Literary Supplement "Le Goff has produced a masterpiece: a work which brings together all the complex issues surrounding money and the ways it was conceived and utilized. At the same time he has succeeded in telling a story about individual people and their hopes and fears." Michael Clanchy, University of London "In this sweeping essay, at once concise and inventive, Jacques Le Goff returns to a theme on which he has been writing for over fifty years: history, culture, and money. The argument is brisk, the examples wonderful, and his engagement with the material and religious contexts as vigorous as ever. This is still the Le Goff whose history-writing has proved so influential for two generations now." John Van Engen, University of Notre Dame "A very clear and authoritative analysis of the perception and use of money across three very turbulent centuries of western European history" MAKE Literary MagazineTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. The heritage of the Roman Empire and Christianization 2. From Charlemagne to feudalism 3. The rise of coin and money at the turn of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries 4. The wonderful thirteenth century of money 5. Trade, money and coin in the commercial revolution of the thirteenth century 6. Money and the nascent states 7. Lending, debt and usury 8. A new wealth and a new poverty 9. From the thirteenth to the fourteenth century: money in crisis 10. The perfecting of the financial system at the end of the Middle Ages 11. Towns, states and money at the end of the Middle Ages 12. Prices, wages and coin in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries Appendix: Was there a land market in the Middle Ages? 13. The mendicant orders and money 14. Humanism, patronage and money 15. Capitalism or caritas? Conclusion Bibliography Index
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John Wiley & Sons Carving a Niche The Medical Profession in Mexico 18001870
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive analysis of the professionalization of medicine in postcolonial Mexico.Trade Review"Hernández Sáenz knows her subject extremely well and has assembled a rich and thorough analysis of the different dimensions of medical professionalization in Mexico." Adam Warren, University of Washington and author of Medicine and Politics in Colonial Peru: Population Growth and the Bourbon Reforms"This welcome contribution to the history of medicine offers a detailed examination of the trajectories of licensed medical practitioners and their efforts to acquire professional, social, and scientific recognition between the 1800s and the 1870s. Hernández Sáenz challenges the traditional and linear interpretations that have characterized the history of medical professionalization in Mexico and offers a novel understanding of both medical and Mexican history during an era that had seldom been the focus of a coherent and encompassing investigation." Journal of the History of Medicine"Hernández Sáenz's story is not merely a Mexican history of medicine. It is a medical history of Mexico, a story about how medicine -- in carefully building its nest -- helped create moden Mexico itself." Social History of Medicine
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McGill-Queen's University Press Not Quite Us
Book SynopsisHow anti-Catholicism reflected and constructed English Canadian identity in the twentieth century and why it remains important today.Trade Review"Not Quite Us is an important and original book that adds a crucial dimension to our understanding of inequality and exclusion in twentieth-century Canada." Lynne Marks, University of Victoria
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MB - Cornell University Press Witchcraft in the Middle Ages
Book SynopsisBuilding on a foundation of newly discovered primary sources and recent secondary interpretations, Jeffrey Burton Russell first establishes the facts and then explains the phenomenon of witchcraft in terms of its social and religious environment, particularly in relation to medieval heresies.Trade ReviewA magnificent history.... Russell's survey of modern literature on the subject is in itself almost a major contribution, and his careful period-by-period and phase-by-phase description of the development of witchcraft through the fifteenth century is indispensable to any further serious treatment of the phenomenon in Europe. * Georgia Review *Russell fills a real gap in the literature. He does so with the scholarly probity and sound good sense that arc the absolute prerequisites for any serious work on the subject, and he has composed his book for the general reader as well as the specialist.... In the course of his narrative Russell successfully lays to rest any number of erroneous 'well-known facts,' and he demonstrates that classical witchcraft was largely a creature of Christianity and that heresy was the strongest influence on its development as an idea. * History *Russell's contribution will undoubtedly become a standard reference work on witchcraft. It is a clear, straightforward account resting on meticulous textual analysis and comprehensive documentation. * The Review of Books and Religion *The study of witchcraft is of more than fleeting interest. To understand this phenomenon is to acquire a more profound understanding of man, society, and self. Thus Russell's book is of singular importance.... With insight the author demonstrates how political, social, economic, religious, and intellectual developments either fostered or militated against the growth of witchcraft. * Church History *Table of Contents1. The Meaning of Witchcraft2. Witchcraft in History3. The Transformation of Paganism, 300–7004. Popular Witchcraft and Heresy, 700–11405. Demonology, Catharism, and Witchcraft, 1140–12306. Antinomianism, Scholasticism, and the Inquisition, 1230–13007. Witchcraft and Rebellion in Medieval Society, 1300–13608. The Beginning of the Witch Craze, 1360–14279. The Classical Formulation of the Witch Phenomenon, 1427–148610. Witchcraft and the Medieval MindAppendix: The Canon Episcopi and Its VariationsNotes Abbreviations Bibliography Theorists of Witchcraft, 1430–1486 Books and Articles Index
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MB - Cornell University Press The Humiliation of Sinners Public Penance in ThirteenthCentury France
Book SynopsisThis compelling book, first published in 1995, changed historians' understanding of the history of public penance...Trade ReviewMansfield argues that public penance continued to flourish throughout the thirteenth century.... She examines a rich variety of sources drawn primarily from northern France. The surviving narratives report a surprising number of cases of public penance involving notorious figures. * Law and History Review *Mansfield's book challenges long-held assumptions about the disappearance of public penance after the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215.... The Humiliation of Sinners shows that Mansfield was a young woman of extraordinary promise in the field of medieval studies. * Choice *The Humiliation of Sinners is the work of a formidable scholar whose intensive research... produced a bold reinterpretation of the history of medieval penance. * Catholic Historical Review *This book is a major achievement. Its masterly synthesis is extensively documented, based on very close reading of a wide range of manuscript and printed material. Coherent in itself, it contains much of value beyond its own immediate concerns. * French History *This book will command the attention of anyone interested in the religious transformations of the High Middle Ages, and more broadly, in issues of private conscience and public justice. * Church History *
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Cornell University Press Realms of Ritual Burgundian Ceremony and Civic
Book SynopsisWhile earlier historians have seen the elaborate public rituals of the Burgundian dukes as stagnant forms held over from the chivalric world of the High Middle Ages, Peter Arnade argues that they were a vital theater of power through which the ducal...Trade ReviewPeter Arnade's superb new book offers a much-needed introduction to Ghent's heritage.... Arnade's book offers a fascinating tale of civic pride, of forced accommodation, and, ultimately, of subjugation.... Arnade skillfully uses ritual and its many manifestations to weave a compelling tale about civic identity. * Speculum *
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Cornell University Press Angers Past
Book SynopsisThis book considers the role of anger in the social lives and conceptual universes of a varied and significant cross-section of medieval people: monks, saints, kings, lords, and peasants.Trade ReviewOverall, this work fills a large lacuna because... the history of anger has not yet been written.... This work will be a welcome addition to research and graduate libraries. * History *The collection of articles assembled in this book is yet another proof for the vibrancy and progressiveness of medieval studies at large... The authors demonstrate the excellent results of interdisciplinary research employing both traditional philological research skills as well as insights from anthropology, sociology, and Mentalités-geschite.... This excellent volume demonstrates that medieval society was neither primitive nor ideal, as it experienced many forms of anger, but often knew very well how to deal with it, as anger assumed an important ritual function for the aristocracy. -- Albrecht Classen, Arthuriana * Arthuriana *
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Cornell University Press Monks and Nuns Saints and Outcasts
Book SynopsisA new generation of historians today is borrowing from cultural anthropology, post-modern critical theory, and gender studies to understand the social meanings of medieval religious movements, practices, figures, and cults. In this volume Sharon...Trade ReviewA common feature of these studies is the full and helpful citation of primary sources combined with an extensive acquaintance with relevant scholarly work. They merit the careful attention of those interested in their subjects, and they inspire confidence in the judicious use of the approach that they adopt. -- H.E.J. Cowdrey * Oxford. English Historical Review *Its introduction and ten essays are well written and engage with wide-ranging and serious issues.... Their authors succeed in asking innovative questions and suggesting new approaches with a clear sense of the demands and limitations posed by the documentary remains that sustain their inquiries. -- Miri Rubin, University of London * Speculum *The volume's essays are important, original contributions. -- Robert C. Figueira, Lander University * History *
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Cornell University Press Imaginary Cartographies
Book SynopsisHow, in the years before the advent of urban maps, did city residents conceptualize and navigate their communities? In his strikingly original book, Daniel Lord Smail develops a new method and a new vocabulary for understanding how urban men and women...Trade ReviewThis book makes a lively and original contribution to current debates on state development. -- Karl Appuhn, Columbia University * Sixteenth Century Journal *In this interesting and thought-provoking work, Daniel Smail concludes that the emergence of the street as the normal cartographic marker led first to the development of urban maps, and finally to the process of attaching street addresses to citizens.... Smail's work is scholarly and is highly recommended. -- A.G. Traver * History: Reviews of New Books *This book is elegantly written, and it is a pleasure to follow its argument through learned forays into topics ranging from cognitive psychology to cartography.... This is an ambitious book, filled with ideas that will stimulate researchers to look much more closely at records that they may have taken for granted. -- John Drendel, Universite du Quebec * Speculum *Imaginary Cartographies is a masterful case study of the relationship between spatial representation and the emergence of identity in late medieval and early modern Marseille. Through exhaustive archival and theoretical research, Smail explores the ways in which notorial records refer to an individual's relationship to the territory, thereby revealing the emergence of the notion of personal and national identity.... The author's convincing argument allows his readers to rethink not only how identity was articulated in the late medieval and early modern period, but also how both visual and linguistic spatial representations intersect in an emergent national imagination. The scope of Smail's work will appeal across lines of discipline as this book... lays out a solid methodological approach, navigating smoothly between the theoretical and the archival. -- Elisabeth Hodges * Mapline *This is an important work, establishing a methodology and analytical framework that I hope will inspire studies of these questions of language, perception, and statecraft elsewhere, including the other towns of Provence and cities in the north that were little affectd by the culture of the public notaries. -- David Nicholas, Clemson University * American Historical Review *
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