The Arms-Bearing Woman and British Theatre in the Age of Revolution, 1789-1815 9783031154744, 9783031154737, 3031154746

The Arms-Bearing Woman and British Theatre in the Age of Revolution, 1789-1815 3031154738, 9783031154737

This book explores shifting representations and receptions of the arms-bearing woman on the British stage during a perio

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Titan: The Art of British Power in the Age of Revolution and Napoleon 9780806155333, 0806155337

When the leaders of the French Revolution executed Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette in 1793, they sent a chilling message

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Sentiments of a British-American Woman: Esther DeBerdt Reed and the American Revolution 9780271080635

At the time of her death in 1780, British-born Esther DeBerdt Reed—a name few know today—was one of the most politically

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Eliza Lucas Pinckney : an Independent Woman in the Age of Revolution 9780300255942, 2019953009, 9780300236118, 0300255942

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Eliza Lucas Pinckney: An Independent Woman in the Age of Revolution 9780300255942

The enthralling story of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, an innovative, highly regarded, and successful woman plantation owner dur

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Jamaica in the Age of Revolution 9780812296952

Examining such events as Tackey's Rebellion of 1760, the Somerset decision of 1772, and the murder case of the Zong

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Freedom’s Debtors: British Antislavery in Sierra Leone in the Age of Revolution 9780300217445

A history of the abolition of the British slave trade in Sierra Leone and how the British used its success to justify co

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Freedom’s Debtors: British Antislavery in Sierra Leone in the Age of Revolution 9780300231526

A history of the abolition of the British slave trade in Sierra Leone and how the British used its success to justify co

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The Persistence of Empire : British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution [1 ed.] 9781469603490, 9780807825297

The American Revolution was the longest colonial war in modern British history and Britain's most humiliating defea

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Nationalism in the Age of the French Revolution 9781472599995, 9780907628972

It has been almost a truism of European history that the French Revolution gave a great stimulus to the growth of modern

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