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Author : James Gibbs
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486142345
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gibbs' Book of Architecture written by James Gibbs and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gibbs's legendary 1728 folio includes perspectives and blueprints for such magnificent commissions as London's St. Martin in the Fields; the Senate House of the University of Cambridge; plus fine drawings of marble cisterns, iron gates, funeral monuments, and more.

Author : Elisabeth De Feudeau
Publisher : Flammarion
ISBN 13 : 9782080203120
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Marie-Antoinette's Garden written by Elisabeth De Feudeau and published by Flammarion. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A horticultural tour of Marie-Antoinette's domain, the lavishly constructed gardens at Versailles, accompanied by eighteenth-century archival illustrations. Plants, flowers, and trees were Marie-Antoinette's passion; she transformed the Petit Trianon's gardens into an enchanted escape from the oppressive shackles of Versailles. Based on archival documents, this book meanders through Marie-Antoinette's estate as the queen herself would have walked it: traversing hyacinths, buttercups, and anemones in the French Gardens, via winding paths in the Anglo-Chinese Gardens, through the conifers of the Belvedere Gardens--where fabulous nocturnal parties were hosted--past the entrancing aromas of the shrubs surrounding the Temple of Love, to the wildflowers of the Garden of Solitude.

Author : Thomas Southcliffe Ashton
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Eighteenth-century Industrialist written by Thomas Southcliffe Ashton and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1939 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John MacDonald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of an Eighteenth-century Footman, John Macdonald: Travels (1745-1779) written by John MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 1790 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Temma F. Berg
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754655992
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lives and Letters of an Eighteenth-century Circle of Acquaintance written by Temma F. Berg and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "While most of the letter writers are unknown, four achieved prominence - the author Charlotte Lennox, the Reverend Thomas Winstanley, the navigator Charles Clerke, and the bluestocking Susannah Dobson. This book presents new perspectives on Lennox's and Winstanley's domestic lives, Clerke's ambiguous encounters with indigenous peoples, and Dobson's mysterious sexuality." "This book will appeal to eighteenth-century scholars as well as to scholars in women's and cultural studies. It will also be of interest to postcolonial, queer, and other literary theorists."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : S. C. Roberts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521061008
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Eighteenth Century Gentlemen and Other Essays written by S. C. Roberts and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1930-01-02 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main focus of this concise 1930 volume is on Samuel Johnson, particularly in terms of his relationship with the surrounding cultural climate of the eighteenth century. Four essays on Johnson constitute the main part of the text, and this section is bookended by portraits of George Lyttelton and Thomas Macaulay.

Author : Thomas Stuart Willan
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719003790
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Eighteenth-century Shopkeeper: Abraham Dent of Kirkby Stephen written by Thomas Stuart Willan and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Abraham Dent (1729-1803), particularly his life as an 18th century shopkeeper in Kirkby-Stephen, Westmoreland County, England. He married three times, had five children by the first marriage, and corresponded extensively with the Waller family (for whom he administered property in Kirkby-Stephen).

Author : Stephen D. Behrendt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195376188
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Diary of Antera Duke, an Eighteenth-Century African Slave Trader written by Stephen D. Behrendt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-08 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the earliest documents written by an African residing in coastal West Africa predating the arrival of British missionaries and officials in the mid-19th century. Antera Duke was a leader and merchant in late eighteenth-century Old Calabar. His diary is a candid account of daily life in an African community during a period of great historical interest"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Nancy Locklin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000699757
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder, Justice, and Harmony in an Eighteenth-Century French Village written by Nancy Locklin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1718, a young woman named Moricette Nayl fought with her brother’s mother-in-law and accidentally killed her. Ruled a homicide, the incident set in motion an investigation, a trial, Moricette's flight from justice, an execution in effigy and, ultimately, the pardon of the killer and her reintegration into the community. Based on the detailed records of the court dossier, this microhistory reveals the social networks of a small town, the history of interpersonal violence, the complex criminal justice system at work, and the power of restoring harmony after a tragedy of this magnitude. An enduring mystery is the reluctance of those closest to the crime to participate in the legal process. An explanation for their silence sheds light on the turmoil of the criminal justice system in France in the decades leading up to the French Revolution. Neither independent feudal lords nor an elite tamed by an Absolutist king, the gentlemen overseeing justice in this place maintained a delicate balance between their personal power and the rule of law. The incident and its aftermath also reveal the bonds that make community possible, even in the face of senseless violence.

Author : Elisabetta Caminer Turra
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226817699
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Writings of an Eighteenth-Century Venetian Woman of Letters written by Elisabetta Caminer Turra and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elisabetta Caminer Turra (1751-96) was one of the most prominent women in eighteenth-century Italy and a central figure in the international "Republic of Letters." A journalist and publisher, Caminer participated in important debates on capital punishment, freedom of the press, and the abuse of clerical power. She also helped spread Enlightenment ideas into Italy by promoting and publishing Voltaire's latest works and translating new European plays-plays she herself directed, to great applause, on Venetian stages. Bringing together Caminer's letters, poems, and journalistic writings, nearly all published for the first time here, Selected Writings offers readers an intellectual biography of this remarkable figure as well as a glimpse into her intimate correspondence with the most prominent thinkers of her day. But more important, Selected Writings provides insight into the passion that animated Caminer's fervent reflections on the complex and shifting condition of women in her society-the same passion that pushed her to succeed in the male-dominated literary professions.