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  • This book traces this German idea of freedom from the late Enlightenment throu... This book traces this German idea of freedom from the late Enlightenment through the early twentieth century. McGrath shows how German intellectual and artists invoked the ancient Greeks in order to inspire Germans to cultural renewal and to enrich... more
  • This book traces this German idea of freedom from the late Enlightenment throu... This book traces this German idea of freedom from the late Enlightenment through the early twentieth century. McGrath shows how German intellectual and artists invoked the ancient Greeks in order to inspire Germans to cultural renewal and to enrich... more
  • This book traces this German idea of freedom from the late Enlightenment throu... This book traces this German idea of freedom from the late Enlightenment through the early twentieth century. McGrath shows how German intellectual and artists invoked the ancient Greeks in order to inspire Germans to cultural renewal and to enrich... more
  • Music has been neglected by imperial historians but this book shows that music... Music has been neglected by imperial historians but this book shows that music is an essential aspect of identity formation and cross-cultural exchange. It explores the ways in which rational moral and aesthetic motives underlying the... more
  • Szefel investigates the use of poetry in addressing political reform at the tu... Szefel investigates the use of poetry in addressing political reform at the turn of the twentieth century. It charts the work of poets and editors - many of whom were women and minorities - who created a network of organizations to nurture writers... more
  • This book explores the French Enlightenment s use of cross-cultural comparison... This book explores the French Enlightenment s use of cross-cultural comparisons - particularly the figures of the Chinese mandarin and American and Polynesian savage - to praise of critique aspects of European society and to draw general conclusions... more
  • Berkeley s Sermons on Passive Obedience in the Irish Context Science and Socia... Berkeley s Sermons on Passive Obedience in the Irish Context Science and Sociability: Berkeley s Bond of Society Piety Perception and the Free-Thinkers Luxury Moderation and the South Sea Bubble Planting Religion in the New World 1722-1732 Improving... more
  • This book advances a new interpretation of the timing and character of French ... This book advances a new interpretation of the timing and character of French (and more broadly European) liberalism and contributes to the ongoing debate concerning the place of morality sociability and conceptions of the \ self\ in modern liberal... more
  • Through his writings the leading East India Company servant Sir John Malcolm h... Through his writings the leading East India Company servant Sir John Malcolm helped to shape the historical thought of British empire-building in India. This book uses his works to examine the intellectual history of British expansion in South Asia... more
  • A collection that focuses on the role of European law in colonial contexts and... A collection that focuses on the role of European law in colonial contexts and engages with recent treatments of this theme in known works written largely from within the framework of postcolonial studies which implicitly discuss colonial... more
  • The essays in this volume take up colonial knowledge as an analytical category... The essays in this volume take up colonial knowledge as an analytical category in South Asian history. They contribute to long-standing debates around agency and power as well as newer issues-like the coherence of knowledge systems architecture and... more
  • This book examines British scientific and antiquarian travels in the North cir... This book examines British scientific and antiquarian travels in the North circa 1790-1830. British perceptions representations and imaginings of the North are considered part of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century processes of British... more
  • Religious Transactions in Colonial South India locates the making of Protestan... Religious Transactions in Colonial South India locates the making of Protestant identities in South India within several contesting discourses. It examines evolving attitudes to translation and translation practices in the Tamil literary and sacred... more
  • Today a widening range of historical phenomena are being examined through the ... Today a widening range of historical phenomena are being examined through the psychoanalytic lens while the psychoanalytic tradition itself is coming in for unprecedented historical scrutiny. This collection of essays showcases the innovative and... more
  • The book explores the hotly disputed process by which the census was created a... The book explores the hotly disputed process by which the census was created and developed and examines how a wide cast of characters including statisticians novelists national and local officials political and social reformers and journalists... more
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