Transnational Cultures of Expertise: Circulating State-Related Knowledge in the 18th and 19th centuries 9783110553734, 9783110551808

Transnational Cultures of Expertise: Circulating State-Related Knowledge in the 18th and 19th centuries 9783110553734, 9783110551808

Building on the new critical historiography about the evolution of the European state, the book analyses how administrat

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Popular Justice in Europe (18th-19th Centuries) 9788815253156, 9788815336668, 8815253157

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Pictures of German Life in the 18th and 19th Centuries (Vol. 1-2)

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Criminality and the Common Law Imagination in the 18th and 19th Centuries 9781474450126

A new framework for examining the relationship between individual and cultural trauma, literary texts and common law Per

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Busks, Basques and Brush-Braid: British dressmaking in the 18th and 19th centuries 9781350060890, 9781350060920, 9781350060906

The dressmaking trade developed rapidly during the 18th and 19th centuries, changing the lives of thousands of British w

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The Bunraku Puppet Theatre of Japan: Honor, Vengeance, and Love in Four Plays of the 18th and 19th Centuries 9780824837259

The plays presented here were first performed between 1769 and 1832, a time when the Japanese puppet theatre known as Bu

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Christ Came Forth from India: Georgian Astrological Texts of the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries (Eurasian Studies Library) 3506705164, 9783506705167

In Christ Came Forth From India, Timothy Paul Grove offers a survey and contextualiztion of early modern Georgian writin

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Cultures of Transnational Adoption 9780822386926

During the 1990s, the number of children adopted from poorer countries to the more affluent West grew exponentially. Clo

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European Fans in the 17th and 18th Centuries: Images, Accessories, and Instruments of Gesture 9783110661736, 9783110596809

In 17th and 18th century Europe, folding fans were important, socially-coded fashion accessories. In the course of the 1

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Engineered Stability: The History of Composite Materials in the 19th and 20th Centuries 3658414073, 9783658414078

How long have composites been around? Where does the classical laminate theory come from? Who made the first modern fibe

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