Download or read book Exquisite Mixture written by Wolfram Schmidgen and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The culture of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Britain is rarely credited with tolerance of diversity; this period saw a rising pride in national identity, the expansion of colonialism, and glorification of the Anglo-Saxon roots of the country. Yet at the same time, Wolfram Schmidgen observes, the concept of mixture became a critical element of Britons' belief in their own superiority. While the scientific, political, and religious establishment of the early 1600s could not imagine that anything truly formed, virtuous, or durable could be produced by mixing unlike kinds or merging absolute forms, intellectuals at the end of the century asserted that mixture could produce superior languages, new species, flawless ideas, and resilient civil societies. Exquisite Mixture examines the writing of Robert Boyle, John Locke, Daniel Defoe, and others who challenged the primacy of the one over the many, the whole over the parts, and form over matter. Schmidgen traces the emergence of the valuation of mixture to the political and scientific revolutions of the seventeenth century. The recurrent threat of absolutism in this period helped foster alliances within a broad range of writers and fields of inquiry, from geography, embryology, and chemistry to political science and philosophy. By retrieving early modern arguments for the civilizing effects of mixture, Schmidgen invites us to rethink the stories we tell about the development of modern society. Not merely the fruit of postmodernism, the theorization and valuation of hybridity have their roots in centuries past.
Download or read book The Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brazil written by Jane Ladle and published by Langenscheidt Publishing Group. This book was released on 1999 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insight Guides, the world's largest visual travel guide series, in association with Discovery Channel, the world's premier source of nonfiction entertainment, provides more insight than ever. From the most popular resort cities to the most exotic villages, Insight Guides capture the unique character of each culture with an insider's perspective. Inside every Insight Guide you'll find:.Evocative, full-colour photography on every page.Cross-referenced, full-colour maps throughout.A brief introduction including a historical timeline .Lively, essays by local writers on the culture, history, and people.Expert evaluations on the sights really worth seeing.Special features spotlighting particular topics of interest.A comprehensive Travel Tips section with listings of the best restaurants, hotels, and attractions, as well as practical information on getting around and advice for travel with children
Download or read book Lippincott s Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Melville written by Andrew Delbanco and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If Dickens was nineteenth-century London personified, Herman Melville was the quintessential American. With a historian’s perspective and a critic’s insight, award-winning author Andrew Delbanco marvelously demonstrates that Melville was very much a man of his era and that he recorded — in his books, letters, and marginalia; and in conversations with friends like Nathaniel Hawthorne and with his literary cronies in Manhattan — an incomparable chapter of American history. From the bawdy storytelling of Typee to the spiritual preoccupations building up to and beyond Moby Dick, Delbanco brilliantly illuminates Melville’s life and work, and his crucial role as a man of American letters.
Download or read book The English speaking World written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poetical works ed by R Bell written by James Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thomson s Poetical Works With life critical dissertation and explanatory notes by G Gilfillan written by James Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dictionary of Medicine and Surgery Designed for Popular Use Containing an Account of Diseases and Their Treatment Including Those Most Frequent in Warm Climates written by Alexander Macaulay (M.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lovecasts written by Judi Vitale and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-11-18 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catch a Gemini's eye—and hold it. Get a Pisces to commit. Start a family with an Aries. Sure, other guides might tell you how to attract your cosmic match, but only this book shows you how to find Mr. Right and how to maintain a heavenly relationship with him when the (star)glow starts to dim. You'll learn the astrological secrets to each sign's heart, including: How he'll behave as a date—and a mate What he needs between the sheets When he'll admit he's in love—and make a real commitment How successful he'll be in the work world What kind of husband and father he'll be How to overcome relationship issues and problems, given his sign And much more! Armed with this celestial insight, you will unlock the mysteries of the man you love—one sign at a time. No matter who you fall for and why, this book will help you love—and understand—him for a lifetime.
Download or read book The Indifference of Juliet written by Grace S. Richmond and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Indifference of Juliet" by Grace S. Richmond. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Travels in Northern Greece written by William Martin Leake and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Froissart and his times ed by S B written by Francis Barry B. St. Leger and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Watcher in the Shadows written by Geoffrey Household and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After an assassination attempt, an ex-spy must run for his life As far as the police are concerned, Charles Dennim is a zoologist, and there is no reason anyone would want to kill him. And yet, one afternoon when Dennim is working at his desk, death knocks at his door. It is the postman, and he has a package slightly too large to fit through the mail slot. He tries to force it—and triggers the bomb that lies within. When Dennim emerges from the smoking ruin of his doorway, he sees the innocent postman, ripped in half on his front stoop. The police are baffled, but Dennim is not—for he was once a spy. This mild-mannered scientist spent World War II embedded deep in Nazi Germany, feeding secrets back to Great Britain. He buried that side of himself long ago, but a nameless killer has decided to dig it back up. To survive, Dennim must remember what it means to be a spy.
Download or read book The Poetical Works written by Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Exemplary Ambivalence in Late Nineteenth Century Spanish America written by Elisabeth L. Austin and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exemplary Ambivalence in Late Nineteenth-Century Spanish America: Narrating Creole Subjectivity casts new light on the role of exemplary narrative in nineteenth-century Spanish America, highlighting the multiplicity of didactic writing and its dynamic relationship with readers as interpretive agents. Drawing on literary and historical models of creole heterogeneity, Austin’s study probes the unstable social and ethnic fictions of the creole elite as they portray themselves through the flawed canvas of exemplary discourse. Exemplary Ambivalence examines creole subjectivity through postcolonial and Latin American theoretical lenses to show that Spanish American creole subjects, always multiple, reveal their ideological ambivalence through exemplary narrative. This study examines a cross-section of canonical and lesser-known texts written toward the end of the nineteenth-century by authors across Spanish America, including Eugenio Cambaceres (Argentina), José Asunción Silva (Colombia), José Martí (Cuba), Clorinda Matto de Turner (Peru), and Juana Manuela Gorriti (Argentina). These texts range from realist and modernist novels to a cookbook of multiple authorship, and engage issues of nationalism, citizenship, gender, indigenous rights, and liberal ideologies within the historical context of Spanish America’s weakened democracies and modernizing economies at the end of the nineteenth-century. Austin’s research fills a critical gap within studies of the nineteenth-century in Spanish America as it explores the inconsistencies of exemplary texts and emphasizes the forms, sources, and implications of creole ideological and narrative multiplicity. By recognizing the inherent ambivalence of exemplary discourse, along with creole writing and reading subjectivities, Exemplary Ambivalence opens fresh perspectives on canonical texts while it also engages some of the non-canonical, hybrid, and fragmentary texts of nineteenth-century reading culture.
Download or read book Salt Rocks written by Virginia Marion and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2015-12-30 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Salt Cellarist Virginia Marion as she helps unravel the mysteries of cooking with artisan sea salts. Salt Rocks! showcases inventive new ways of using an ingredient that's been around for millennia. The easy-to-use cookbook features salt blends in simple recipes using only the finest ingredients. Whether you're cooking on a dormitory hot plate, manning the barbeque, or running a high-class kitchen, Salt Rocks! will crystallize you as a real rock star of your next meal....
