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  • 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

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Sacred Inception

    Reclaiming the Spirituality of Birth in the Modern World

    de Marianne Delaporte, Morag Martin, Pamela Hunt, Kristin Brig, Angela N. Castañeda, Claire de LaBrusse, Cara Delay, Andrea L. DeMaria0, Gökçen B. Dinç1, Anna M. Fedele2, Tracy Humphrey3, Sara MacLennan4, Sharifah Huseinah Madihid5, Dunen Kaneybia Muelas Izquierdo6, Tatiana Novikova7, Florence Pasche Guignard8, Anne Sylvie Ramelet9, Camila Rangel0, Angela Santamaria1, Amba J. Sepie2, Beth Sundstrom3, Ogechukwu Ezekwem Williams4 ...
    This edited volume explores the intersection of spirituality with childbirth from 1800 to the present day from a comparative perspective. It illustrates how over this time period in much of the world, traditional practices, home births, and midwives have been overshadowed and undermined by male dominated obstetrics, hospitalization, and ultimately the medicalization of the birthing process itself. ... Leer más

    $105.99 USD

  • Selling Beauty

    Cosmetics, Commerce, and French Society, 1750–1830

    de Morag Martin ...
    Series Libro 127 - The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
    Morag Martin’s history of the cosmetic industry in France examines the evolution of popular tastes and standards of beauty during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. 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 and ... Leer más

    $50.99 USD

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  • The Great Cat Massacre

    And Other Episodes in French Cultural History

    de Robert Darnton ...
    **The landmark history of France and French culture in the eighteenth century, a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.“Robert Darnton has the inquisitiveness of an investigative reporter, the thoroughness of a rigorous scholar, and the sensitivity of a novelist.” —New Republic**When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730s held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • Erotic Exchanges

    The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris

    de Nina Kushner ...
    Nina Kushner's Erotic Exchanges: The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris brings to life a vibrant but relatively unknown part of early modern urban life, the world of the demimonde, the quasi-respectable underworld, with its elite prostitutes, wealthy patrons, and juicy scandals.... Kushner reveals the complexity and influence of this corner of Parisian social and cultural life ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • The Smile Revolution

    In Eighteenth-Century Paris

    de Colin Jones CBE ...
    You could be forgiven for thinking that the smile has no history; it has always been the same. However, just as different cultures in our own day have different rules about smiling, so did different societies in the past. In fact, amazing as it might seem, it was only in late eighteenth century France that western civilization discovered the art of the smile. In the 'Old Regime of Teeth' which ... Leer más

    $14.29 USD

  • 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 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

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • 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

  • The Declaration of the Rights of Women

    The Originial Manifesto for Justice, Equality and Freedom

    de Olympe de Gouges ...
    Olympe de Gouges was the most important fighter for women's rights you've never heard of.An activist and writer in revolutionary Paris, she published 'The Declaration of the Rights of Women' in 1791, and was beheaded two years later, her articulate demands for equality proving too much for their time.Over one hundred and fifty years later, the key statements of her declaration were internationally ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • The Courtesan and the Gigolo

    The Murders in the Rue Montaigne and the Dark Side of Empire in Nineteenth-Century Paris

    de Aaron Freundschuh ...
    The intrigue began with a triple homicide in a luxury apartment building just steps from the Champs-Elyseés, in March 1887. A high-class prostitute and two others, one of them a child, had been stabbed to death—the latest in a string of unsolved murders targeting women of the Parisian demimonde. Newspapers eagerly reported the lurid details, and when the police arrested Enrico Pranzini, a ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • The Invention of Celebrity

    de Antoine Lilti ...
    Traducido por Lynn Jeffress ...
    Frequently perceived as a characteristic of modern culture, the phenomenon of celebrity has much older roots. In this book Antoine Lilti shows that the mechanisms of celebrity were developed in Europe during the Enlightenment, well before films, yellow journalism, and television, and then flourished during the Romantic period on both sides of the Atlantic. Figures from across the arts like ... Leer más

    $23.00 USD