The World of the Salons: Sociability and Worldliness in Eighteenth-Century Paris 0199772347, 9780199772346

The World of the Salons: Sociability and Worldliness in Eighteenth-Century Paris 0197533604, 9780197533604

The world of the eighteenth-century salon has long been lauded as a meritocratic setting where writers, philosophers, an

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French Salons: High Society and Political Sociability from the Old Regime to the Revolution of 1848 0801883865, 9780801883866

Challenging many of the conclusions of recent historiography, including the depiction of salonnières as influential powe

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The Spiritual Rococo: Decor and Divinity from the Salons of Paris to the Missions of Patagonia (Visual Culture in Early Modernity) [1 ed.] 1409400638, 9781409400639

A groundbreaking approach to Rococo religious décor and spirituality in Europe and South America, The Spiritual Rococo a

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Women and Musical Salons in the Enlightenment: 9780226817927

A study of musical salons in Europe and North America between 1760 and 1800 and the salon hostesses who shaped their mus

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The Salons of the Republic: Spaces for Debate 9783868599879, 9783868597097

The political climate of our time is being shaped by a dwindling ability to engage in public dialogue, putting democrati

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Taking Hold of the Real : Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Profound Worldliness of Christianity 9781498273565, 9781625648440

Dietrich Bonhoeffer writes in one of his last prison letters that he had "come to know and understand more and more

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Goering's Man in Paris: The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World 9780300251920, 0300251920

A charged biography of a notorious Nazi art plunderer and his career in the postwar art world "A well-rounded portr

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Goering's Man in Paris: The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World 9780300256215

A charged biography of a notorious Nazi art plunderer and his career in the postwar art world

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Threshold of a New World: Intellectuals and the Exile Experience in Paris, 1830-1848 9781501745973

Threshold of a New World examines two broad themes in modern European intellectual history: the importance of exile as a

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Those Paris Days: With The World At The Crossroads 9781782893554

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