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Magic flutes & enchanted forests
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David Joseph Buch |
Drawing on hundreds of operas, singspiels, ballets and plays with supernatural themes, this book argues that the tension between fantasy and Enlightenment-era rationality shaped some of the most impo… |
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Historical essays
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Thomas Carlyle |
"Thomas Carlyle, renowned nineteenth-century essayist and social critic, came to be thought of as a secular prophet by many of his readers and as the "undoubted head of English letters" by Ralph Wald… |
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The remedy
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Thomas Goetz |
"The riveting history of tuberculosis, the world's most lethal disease, the two men whose lives it tragically intertwined, and the birth of medical science. In 1875, tuberculosis was the deadliest di… |
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Casanova
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Laurence Bergreen |
"The remarkable story of Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798), an impoverished abandoned boy who became the notorious libertine, famous writer, and correspondent with figures such as Voltaire, Louis XV, and … |
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The old European order, 1660-1800
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Doyle, William |
An account of the economic, social, intellectual, and governmental structure and development of Europe in the period which witnessed the beginnings of the contemporary world. |
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Founder
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Amos Elon |
Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812), patriarch of the Rothschild clan, fathered five illustrious sons who made the family name a by-word for banking, fabulous wealth, and Jewish philanthropy. Israel… |
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EUROPE
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Olwen H. Hufton |
"In the eighteenth century the claims of monarchs and even privileged aristocracies to unquestioned obedience and of the Church to a monopoly of truth were challenged by an increasingly secular and l… |
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The wheels of commerce
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Fernand Braudel |
TABLE OF CONTENTS: The instruments of exchange. Europe: the wheels of trade at the lowest level -- Europe: the wheels of trade at the highest level -- The world outside Europe -- Concluding hypothese… |
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A Poisoned Chalice
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Jeffrey Freedman |
"A Poisoned Chalice tells the story of a long-forgotten criminal case: the poisoning of the communion wine in Zurich's main cathedral in 1776. The story is riveting and mysterious, full of bizarre tw… |
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Rule of Sympathy
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Amit S. Rai |
"Rule of Sympathy is a social and historical critique of sympathy in British discourse in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Although initially associated with feminized or effeminate … |
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