{"product_id":"liaisons-dangereuses-9780801883170","title":"Liaisons dangereuses","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNevertheless, the case that developed around the killing of Visconti provides fascinating insights into the diplomatic, cultural, legal, social, and political history of the last third of the eighteenth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLindemann has creatively used the real-life murder of Count Joseph Visconti... to examine 18th-century European life and politics. Library Journal 2006 Full of wonderfully illuminating insights. -- Richard J. Evans London Review of Books 2006 Lindemann has written a rich and rewarding work, one that demonstrates how well she has mastered her craft. -- Mary Lee Townsend American Historical Review 2007 Lindemann has produced an excellent work, one that scholars can ponder and undergraduates can enjoy. -- Jonathan Sperber Central European History 2007 A lively and notably readable study that is both a fascinating, if ultimately unsolvable, detective story and multilayered exploration of later eighteenth-century Europe. -- Hamish Scott Journal of Modern History 2008 Aside from the scholarly value of the work, readers will derive great pleasure from Lindemann's gifts as a raconteur. She visualizes every moment of her narrative in a way that makes Hamburg as attractive and mysterious a mental destination for us as Venice or Istanbul. -- Susan R. Boettcher Sixteenth Century Journal 2008 Microhistory is here at its best when spreading its investigative net to related, yet more remote, thematic layers. -- Karin Friedrich German Studies Review 2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eList of Maps and Illustrations\u003cbr\u003eA Note on Names\u003cbr\u003ePrologue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Events and Entanglements\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. ''Voilà—le spectacle!''\u003cbr\u003e2. A Most Difficult Case\u003cbr\u003e3. A Very Diplomatic Avair\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Dramatis personae Entr'acte\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. A Brave and Upright Cavalier?\u003cbr\u003e5. A Woman of Pleasure\u003cbr\u003e6. A Real Polish Prince, a Fake Italian Count, and an Authentic Spanish Hidalgo\u003cbr\u003eRetrospective\u003cbr\u003eList of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359180226903,"sku":"9780801883170","price":32.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801883170.jpg?v=1754123909","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/liaisons-dangereuses-9780801883170","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}