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Les Français en Russie au siècle des Lumières
Notice biographique relative à Frédéric-César de La Harpe - p. 453-4.
The Catholic Bible for Children
From the creation of the world to the infancy of the Church, the important stories from both the Old and New Testament are vividly retold and illustrated for young people. Also included are chapters on the prophets and the psalms. In the back is a glossary of important people, places and objects, providing added information.
Eine Reise durch die Aufklärung
Die Geschichte eines ungewöhnlichen Automaten und seines Erfinders. 1738 stellte Jacques Vaucanson seine berühmte mechanische Ente erstmals in Paris vor. Die bedeutendsten Gelehrten seiner Zeit interessierten sich für das technische Meisterwerk. Nach dem Tod des Konstrukteurs erlebte die Ente eine Odyssee durch ganz Europa. Das Buch folgt der Spur des Automaten durch die gelehrten Salons und auf dieser Fährte gelangt der Leser ins Zentrum der Aufklärung.
Status, Power, and Identity in Early Modern France
In Status, Power, and Identity in Early Modern France, Jonathan Dewald explores European aristocratic society by looking closely at one of its most prominent families. The Rohan were rich, powerful, and respected, but Dewald shows that there were also weaknesses in their apparently secure position near the top of French society. Family finances were unstable, and competing interests among family members generated conflicts and scandals; political ambitions led to other troubles, partly because aristocrats like the Rohan intensely valued individual achievement, even if it came at the expense of the family’s needs. Dewald argues that aristocratic power in the Old Regime reflected ongoing processes of negotiation and refashioning, in which both men and women played important roles. So did figures from outside the family—government officials, middle-class intellectuals and businesspeople, and many others. Dewald describes how the Old Regime’s ruling class maintained its power and the obstacles it encountered in doing so.
Gender, Space and Illicit Economies in Eighteenth-Century Europe
This book seeks to contribute a multi-dimensional, multi-layered and gendered approach to the illicit economy in the historiography of early modern Europe. Using original source material from several countries, this volume concentrates on a border and transnational area—approximately the Lyon-Geneva-Turin triangle—located at the heart of European trade. It focuses on three products—salt, cotton and silk—all of which fuelled the black market between the last decades of the seventeenth century and the French Revolution. This volume offers an original contribution to wider studies of smuggling, illicit markets and women’s economic roles by taking into account the economic life of remo...
