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Joyce Irene Whalley Cobwebs to catch flies
illustrated books for the nursery and schoolroom, 1700-1900
Engels | 163 pagina's | Elek, London | 1974
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Patrick Griffin The age of Atlantic Revolution
the fall and rise of a connected world
"The Age of Atlantic Revolution was a defining moment in western history. Our understanding of rights, of what makes the individual an individual, of how to define a citizen versus a subject, of what states should or should not do, of how labor, politics, and trade would be organized, of the relationship between the church and the state, and of our attachment to the nation all derive from this period (c. 1750-1850). Historian Patrick Griffin shows that the Age of Atlantic Revolution was rooted in...
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Engels | 376 pagina's | Yale University Press, New Haven | 2023
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Janet Polasky Asylum between nations
refugees in a revolutionary era
"Driven from their homelands, refugees from ancient times to the present have sought asylum in worlds turned upside down. Theirs is an age-old story. So too are the solutions to their plight. In the wake of the American and French Revolutions, thousands of men and women took to the roads and waterways on both sides of the Atlantic--refugees in search of their inalienable rights. Although larger nations fortified their borders and circumscribed citizenship, two port cities, German Hamburg and Danish...
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Engels | 312 pagina's | Yale University Press, New Haven | 2023
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Ashli White Revolutionary things
material culture and politics in the late eighteenth-century Atlantic world
"Historian Ashli White explores the circulation of material culture during the American, French, and Haitian revolutions, arguing that in the late eighteenth century, radical ideals were contested through objects as well as in texts. She considers how revolutionary things, as they moved throughout the Atlantic, brought people into contact with these transformative political movements in visceral, multiple, and provocative ways. Focusing on a range of objects--ceramics and furniture, garments and...
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Engels | 382 pagina's | Yale University Press, New Haven | 2023
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Ulla Tillander-Godenhielm Jewels from imperial St. Petersburg
Geillustreerd overzicht van juwelen en kunstvoorwerpen die afkomstig zijn van Sint-Petersburg uit de periode van het Keizerrijk Rusland vanaf de 18e eeuw tot en met 1917, afgewisseld met historische beschrijvingen van monarchie en personen.
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Engels | 295 pagina's | Liki Rossii, St. Petersburg | 2012
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Hilary Evans | Mary Evans Sources of illustration, 1500-1900
Engels | 162 pagina's | Adams and Dart, Bath | 1971
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Patricia Demers Heaven upon earth
the form of moral and religious children's literature, to 1850
Engels | 179 pagina's | University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville | 1993
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Janet J. Ewald Soldiers, traders, and slaves
State formation and economic transformation in the Greater Nile Valley, 1700-1885
Engels | 270 pagina's | University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wis. [etc.] | 1990
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