Colonialism and Science: Saint Domingue and the Old Regime 9780226514680

Tocqueville and Old Regime 9781400879311

Professor Herr's brief and attractively presented Tocqueville and the Old Regime is to be commended to all who are

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The Colonial Machine English; French: French Science and Overseas Expansion in the Old Regime 9782503532608, 2503532608

The rise of modern science and European colonial and imperial expansion are indisputably two defining elements of modern

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The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica 9780812293012

Jamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously successful eighteenth-century slave societies and im

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Artisanal Enlightenment: Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France 9780300231625

A groundbreaking work that places the mechanical arts and the world of making at the heart of the Enlightenment What w

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Public Theatre and the Enslaved People of Colonial Saint-Domingue 3031226909, 9783031226908

The French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) was home to one of the richest public theatre traditions of the colonial

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Opera and the Political Imaginary in Old Regime France 9780226522890

From its origins in the 1670s through the French Revolution, serious opera in France was associated with the power of th

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Montesquieu and the Old Regime [Reprint 2020 ed.] 9780520335554

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Russia Under Old Regime 0684148269

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Before Haiti: Race and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue 1403971404, 9781403971401, 9781403984432

Winner of the Society for French Historical Studies 2007 Gilbert Chinard Prize! In 1804 French Saint-Domingue became the

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Old Age in the Old Regime: Image and Experience in Eighteenth-Century France 9781501746369

This book explores a dramatic change in French attitudes toward aging and the aged in the eighteenth century from one ex

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