Minerva's French Sisters: Women of Science in Enlightenment France 0300252560, 9780300252569

Minerva’s French Sisters: Women of Science in Enlightenment France 9780300258431

A fascinating collective biography of six female scientists in eighteenth-century France, whose stories were largely wri

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The Enlightenment in France 9780873380324

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Divining Nature: Aesthetics of Enchantment in Enlightenment France 9781503614178

The Enlightenment remains widely associated with the rise of scientific progress and the loss of religious faith, a dual

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Suffering Scholars: Pathologies of the Intellectual in Enlightenment France 9780812294804

Suffering Scholars focuses on the medical and literary dimensions of the cult of celebrity that developed around intelle

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Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France 9780674030190

Early in 1788, Franz Anton Mesmer arrived in Paris and began to promulgate an exotic theory of healing that almost immed

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Intellectual Origins of the French Enlightenment 9781400873012

With the same sense of historical responsibility and veracity he has exemplified in his studies on Voltaire, Ira O. Wade

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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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Women of the French revolution

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The Saigon Sisters: Privileged Women in the Resistance 9781501749759

Norland answers these questions and more in this powerful and personal approach to history.

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French Socialists before Marx: Workers, Women and the Social Question in France 9780773583856

How to put socialism into practice was as fundamental a concern for nineteenth-century socialists as it has been for the

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