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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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  • 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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  • 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

  • The Blind in French Society from the Middle Ages to the Century of Louis Braille

    de Zina Weygand ...
    Traducido por Emily-Jane Cohen ...
    The integration of the blind into society has always meant taking on prejudices and inaccurate representations. Weygand's highly accessible anthropological and cultural history introduces us to both real and imaginary figures from the past, uncovering French attitudes towards the blind from the Middle Ages through the first half of the nineteenth century. Much of the book, however, centers on the ... Leer más

    $71.99 USD

  • Artisanal Enlightenment

    Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France

    de Paola Bertucci ...
    A groundbreaking work that places the mechanical arts and the world of making at the heart of the Enlightenment What would the Enlightenment look like from the perspective of artistes, the learned artisans with esprit, who presented themselves in contrast to philosophers, savants, and routine-bound craftsmen? Making a radical change of historical protagonists, Paola Bertucci places the mechanical ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Minerva’s French Sisters

    Women of Science in Enlightenment France

    de Nina Rattner Gelbart ...
    A fascinating collective biography of six female scientists in eighteenth-century France, whose stories were largely written out of historyThis book presents the stories of six intrepid Frenchwomen of science in the Enlightenment whose accomplishments—though celebrated in their lifetimes--have been generally omitted from subsequent studies of their period: mathematician and philosopher Elisabeth ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • The Expert Cook in Enlightenment France

    de Sean Takats ...
    Series Libro 129 - The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
    In the eighteenth-century French household, the servant cook held a special place of importance, providing daily meals and managing the kitchen and its finances. In this scrupulously researched and witty history, Sean Takats examines the lives of these cooks as they sought to improve their position in society and reinvent themselves as expert, skilled professionals.Much has been written about the ... Leer más

    $54.99 USD