Download or read book Sketches of Vesuvius with Short Accounts of Its Principal Eruptions from the Commencement of the Christian Era to the Present Time written by John Auldjo and published by Naples : G. Glass. This book was released on 1832 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Freemasonry written by John Hamill and published by Salamander Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Utopia s Garden written by E. C. Spary and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The royal Parisian botanical garden, the Jardin du Roi, was a jewel in the crown of the French Old Regime, praised by both rulers and scientific practitioners. Yet unlike many such institutions, the Jardin not only survived the French Revolution but by 1800 had become the world's leading public establishment of natural history: the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. E. C. Spary traces the scientific, administrative, and political strategies that enabled the foundation of the Muséum, arguing that agriculture and animal breeding rank alongside classification and collections in explaining why natural history was important for French rulers. But the Muséum's success was also a consequence of its employees' Revolutionary rhetoric: by displaying the natural order, they suggested, the institution could assist in fashioning a self-educating, self-policing Republican people. Natural history was presented as an indispensable source of national prosperity and individual virtue. Spary's fascinating account opens a new chapter in the history of France, science, and the Enlightenment.

Download or read book Communities in Early Modern England written by Alexandra Shepard and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How were cultural, political, and social identities formed in the early modern period? How were they maintained? What happened when they were contested? What meanings did “community” have? This path-breaking book looks at how individuals were bound into communities by religious, professional, and social networks; the importance of place--ranging from the Parish to communities of crime; and the value of rhetoric in generating community--from the King’s English to the use of “public” as a rhetorical community. The essays offer an original, comparative, and thematic approach to the many ways in which people utilized communication, space, and symbols to constitute communities in early modern England.

Download or read book Gardening in Britain written by Miles Hadfield and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Shaftesbury and the Culture of Politeness written by Lawrence E. Klein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-02-25 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third Earl of Shaftesbury was a pivotal figure in eighteenth-century thought and culture. Professor Klein's study is the first to examine the extensive Shaftesbury manuscripts and offer an interpretation of his diverse writings as an attempt to comprehend contemporary society and politics and, in particular, to offer a legitimation for the new Whig political order established after 1688. As the focus of Shaftesbury's thinking was the idea of politeness, this study involves the first serious examination of the importance of the idea of politeness in the eighteenth century for thinking about society and culture and organising cultural practices. Through politeness, Shaftesbury conceptualised a new kind of public and critical culture for Britain and Europe, and greatly influenced the philosophical and cultural models associated with the European Enlightenment.

Download or read book The History of the Modern Taste in Gardening written by Horace Walpole and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walpole captured the attention of his 18th-century audience with his memorable turns of phrase and, more importantly, for his claim that England had invented a modern and "natural" style of laying out gardens - a style that was, indeed, the culmination of garden design.

Download or read book The Origin Of Plants written by Maggie Campbell-Culver and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-05-03 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating history of Britain's plant biodiversity and a unique account of how our garden landscape has been transformed over 1000 years, from 200 species of plant in the year 1000 to the astonishing variety of plants we can all see today. Thousands of plants have been introduced into Britain since 1066 by travellers, warriors, explorers and plant hunters - plants that we now take for granted such as rhododendron from the Far East, gladiolus from Africa and exotic plants like the monkey puzzle tree from Chile. Both a plant history and a useful reference book, Maggie Campbell-Culver has researched the provenance and often strange histories of many of the thousands of plants, exploring the quirky and sometimes rude nature of the plants, giving them a personality all of their own and setting them in their social context. The text is supported by beautiful contemporary paintings and modern photographs in 2 x 8 pp colour sections.

Download or read book Rethinking Leviathan written by John Brewer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering an approach to the history of the modern state, this text concentrates on the 18th century and on two cases, those of Britain and Germany.

Download or read book Textures of Renaissance Knowledge written by Philippa Berry and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Download or read book The Early Horticulturists written by Ronald Webber and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Romantic Sociability written by Gillian Russell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-20 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2002 volume explores the often overlooked social networks of Romantic figures.

Download or read book Curiosity written by Barbara M. Benedict and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this striking social history, Barbara M. Benedict draws on the texts of the early modern period to discover the era's attitudes toward curiosity, a trait we learn was often depicted as an unsavory form of transgression or cultural ambition.

Download or read book The Flowering of the Landscape Garden written by Mark Laird and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1999-03-23 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Laird offers a wealth of visual and literary materials to revolutionize our understanding of the English landscape garden as a powerful cultural expression.

Download or read book The Neat House Gardens written by Malcolm Thick and published by Prospect Books (UK). This book was released on 1998 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book thus extends far beyond an obscure corner of seventeenth-century London to demand the attention of the historian.

Download or read book Exploring the Conversible World written by Elena Russo and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a famous essay, David Hume located the Republic of Letters in the domain of the "conversible," that is, in the space of sociability, conversation, and the observation of common life. The present volume explores the discourse and the practice of sociability in preRevolutionary France from an interdisciplinary standpoint, at the intersection of cultural history, philosophy, and literary criticism. The essays cover issues as diverse as the interaction between the ethical domain of manners and the esthetic domain of literature in the ancien regime; the role of civility in the construction of national identity; sociability's influence in the redefinition of genres and of gender; aristocratic selfrepresentation and the emancipation of the esthetic. Contents Elena Russo Editor's Preface: Text and Sociability from the Classical Age to the Enlightenment Alain Viala Les Signes Galantes: A Historical Reevaluation of Galanterie Lawrence Klein The Figure of France: The Politics of Sociability in England, 16601715 Pierre Force SelfLove, Identification, and the Origin of Political Economy Daniel Gordon The City and the Plague in the Age of Enlightenment Anne Vila Beyond Sympathy: Vapors, Melancholia, and the Pathologies of Sensibility in Tissot and Rousseau Françoise Jaouën Civility and the Novel: De Pure's La Prétieuse ou le mystère des ruelles Elena Russo The Self, Real and Imaginary: Social Sentiment in Marivaux and Hume Suzanne Rodin Pucci The Spectator Surfaces: Tableau and Tabloid in Marivaux's Spectateur français MarieHélène Huet Social Entropy Elizabeth MacArthur Between the Republic of Virtue and the Republic of Letters: MarieJeanne Roland Practices Rousseau

Download or read book The Lowther Family written by Hugh Owen and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A genealogy of the Lowther family in England who are descendants of Sir Hugh de Lowther I born about 1250 in England the son of Geoffrey de Lowther (living in 1246). Hugh married Inetta or Jenet in about 1285.