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  • Eating the Enlightenment

    Food and the Sciences in Paris, 1670–1760

    de E.C. Spary ...
    Eating the Enlightenment offers a new perspective on the history of food, looking at writings about cuisine, diet, and food chemistry as a key to larger debates over the state of the nation in Old Regime France. Embracing a wide range of authors and scientific or medical practitioners—from physicians and poets to philosophes and playwrights—E. C. Spary demonstrates how public discussions of eating ... Leer más

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  • Exoticizing Consumption

    European Drug Cultures, 1670-1740

    Edición de E. C. Spary, Justin Rivest ...
    Exotic drugs and spices, from tea to opium, were among the first fruits of European commercial expansion in the sixteenth century. By the eighteenth, many had become profitable products of the European empires that had spread across the globe. Often, they were objects of appropriation—substances whose curative virtues were known to Indigenous peoples and assimilated into European knowledge and ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Osiris, Volume 35: Food Matters

    Critical Histories of Food and the Sciences

    Edición de Anya Zilberstein, E. C. Spary ...
    Series Libro 35 - Osiris
    Since the early modern period, science has played an ever-growing role in healthcare, agriculture, the regulation of food and drink trades, and the standardization of nutrition guidelines. Yet until now, few studies had explored the historical processes through which scientific claims of knowledge gained the power to shape food supply chains and consumer choices. This volume of Osiris reveals how ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe

    Between Market and Laboratory

    Edición de Ursula Klein, E. C. Spary ...
    It is often assumed that natural philosophy was the forerunner of early modern natural sciences. But where did these sciences’ systematic observation and experimentation get their starts? In Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe, the laboratories, workshops, and marketplaces emerge as arenas where hands-on experience united with higher learning. In an age when chemistry, mineralogy, ... Leer más

    $52.99 USD

  • Feeding France

    New Sciences of Food, 1760–1815

    de E. C. Spary ...
    Series Libro 21 - Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories
    Feeding France is the first comprehensive study of the French food industry in the decades surrounding the French Revolution of 1789. Though the history of gastronomy and the restaurant have been explored by scholars, few are aware that France was also one of the first nations to produce industrial foods. In this time of political and social upheaval, chemists managed to succeed both as public ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

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  • Sentimental Savants

    Philosophical Families in Enlightenment France

    de Meghan K. Roberts ...
    An illuminating study of the marriages and family lives of Diderot, Lavoisier, and other geniuses of the Age of Reason.We may imagine the lone scientific or philosophical genius generating insights in isolation—but in reality, the families of scientists and philosophers during the Enlightenment played a substantial role, not only making space for inquiry within the home but also assisting in ... Leer más

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  • The Metamorphoses of Fat

    A History of Obesity

    Traducido por C. Jon Delogu ...
    de Georges Vigarello ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    Georges Vigarello maps the evolution of Western ideas about fat and fat people from the Middle Ages to the present, paying particular attention to the role of science, fashion, fitness crazes, and public health campaigns in shaping these views. While hefty bodies were once a sign of power, today those who struggle to lose weight are considered poor in character and weak in mind. Vigarello traces ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Selling Beauty

    Cosmetics, Commerce, and French Society, 1750–1830

    de Morag Martin ...
    Series series The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
    An "enjoyable" history of the French cosmetic industry and the evolution of beauty standards and commercial culture during a revolutionary era ( European History Quarterly).As the French citizenry rebelled against the excesses of the aristocracy, there was a parallel shift in consumer beauty practices. Powdered wigs, alabaster white skin, and rouged cheeks disappeared in favor of a more natural ... Leer más

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  • The Sensational Past

    How the Enlightenment Changed the Way We Use Our Senses

    de Carolyn Purnell ...
    Sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch—as they were celebrated during the Enlightenment and as they are perceived today.Blindfolding children from birth? Playing a piano made of live cats? Using tobacco to cure drowning? Wearing “flea”-colored clothes? These actions may seem odd to us, but in the eighteenth century, they made perfect sense.As often as we use our senses, we rarely stop to think ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

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  • Women and the Limits of Citizenship in the French Revolution

    de Olwen Hufton ...
    Series series Heritage
    The French masses overwhelmingly supported the Revolution in 1789. Economic hardship, hunger, and debt combined to put them solidly behind the leaders. But between the people's expectations and the politicians' interpretation of what was needed to construct a new state lay a vast chasm. Olwen H. Hufton explores the responses of two groups of working women – those in rural areas and those in Paris ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • The Writing Public

    Participatory Knowledge Production in Enlightenment and Revolutionary France

    de Elizabeth Andrews Bond ...
    Inspired by the reading and writing habits of citizens leading up to the French Revolution, The Writing Publicis a compelling addition to the long-running debate about the link between the Enlightenment and the political struggle that followed. Elizabeth Andrews Bond scoured France's local newspapers spanning the two decades prior to the Revolution as well as its first three years, shining a light ... Leer más

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  • Rococo Fiction in France, 1600–1715

    Seditious Frivolity

    de Allison Stedman ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    Rococo Fiction in France reconfigures the history of the “long eighteenth century” by revealing the rococo as a literary phenomenon that characterized a range of experimental texts from the end of the French Renaissance to the eve of the French Revolution. Tracing the literary rococo’s evolution from the late 1500s to the early 1700s, and exploring its radicalization during the 1670s, '80s, and ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD