• Introduction. Fact and Fiction: Literary and Scientific Cultures in Germany and Britain Thoughts on a Contentious Relationship Christine Lehleiter PART I Reading: Electricity, Medicine
• 1 Facts Are What One Makes of Them: Constructing the Faktum in the Enlightenment and Early German Romanticism Jocelyn Holland
• 2 The Competing Structures of Signification in Samuel Hahnemann's Homeopathy: Between 18th-century Semiosis and Romantic Hermeneutics Alice Kuzniar PART II Imagining: Botany, Chemistry, Thermodynamics
• 3 "She comes! - the GODDESS!": Narrating Nature in Erasmus Darwin's The Botanic Garden (1791) Ann Shteir
• 4 Elective Affinities / Wahlverwandtschaften: The Career of a Metaphor Christian Weber
• 5 Physics Disarmed: Probabilistic Knowledge in the Works of James Clerk Maxwell and George Eliot Tina Young Choi PART III Sensing: Anthropology, Psychology, Aesthetics
• 6 Herder's Unsettling of the Distinction between Fact and Fiction John K. Noyes
• 7 Fictional Feedback: Empirical Souls and Self-Deception in the Magazine for Empirical Psychology and Beyond Michael House
• 8 Fictional Feelings Psychological Aesthetics and the Paradox of Tragic Pleasure Tobias Wilke PART IV Relating: Biology
• 9 Coining a Discipline: Lessing, Reimarus, and a Science of Religion Stefani Engelstein
• 10 Kin Selection, Mendel's "Salutary Principle, " and the Fate of Characters in Forster's Longest Journey Daniel Aureliano Newman PART V Displaying: Scientific Collections
• 11 Anatomy Collections in and of the Mind: Science, the Body and Language in the Writings of Durs Grunbein and Thomas Hettche Peter M. McIsaac
• 12 Vivifying the Uncanny: Ethnographic Mannequins and Exotic Performers in Nineteenth-Century German Exhibition Culture Dana Weber.
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Fact and Fiction explores the intersection between literature and the sciences, focusing on German and British culture between the eighteenth century and today. Observing that it was in the eighteenth century that the divide between science and literature as disciplines first began to be defined, the contributors to this collection probe how authors from that time onwards have assessed and affected the relationship between literary and scientific cultures. Fact and Fiction's twelve essays cover a wide range of scientific disciplines, from physics and chemistry to medicine and anthropology, and a variety of literary texts, such as Erasmus Darwin's poem The Botanic Garden, George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, and Goethe's Elective Affinities. The collection will appeal to scholars of literature and of the history of science, and to those interested in the connections between the two.
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• Preface List of Bibliographical Abbreviations List of RISM Sigla
• 1. Introduction The Role of Music in the Daily Lives of the Habsburgs The Scope of the Book The Secondary Literature The Cantata Terminology Forerunners of the Cantata in Vienna Part I: The Cantata in Vienna, 1658-1700
• 2. The Political and Cultural Milieu Historical Background Leopold I as Patron and Composer Habsburg Music Chapels, 1658-1700 Occasions, Places of Performance, and Performers Librettists
• 3. The Composers Composers Who May Have Written Cantatas for Vienna During the Early Reign of Leopold I Antonio and Carlo Draghi Filippo Vismarri Carlo Cappellini Giovanni Battista Pederzuoli Antonio Maria and Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani German-Speaking Composers
• 4. Repertoire and Sources The Repertoire The Sources
• 5. Text and Music Antonio Maria Viviani Antonio Bertali Filippo Vismarri Carlo Cappellini Giovanni Battista Pederzuoli Antonio and Carlo Draghi Part II: The Cantata in Vienna, 1700-1711
• 6. The Political and Cultural Milieu Historical Background Joseph I as Patron and Composer Cultural Growth Habsburg Music Chapels, 1700-1711 Genre Designations Occasions, Places of Performance, and Performers Librettists and Librettos
• 7. The Composers Carlo Agostino Badia Giovanni Bononcini Marc'Antonio Ziani Attilio Ariosti Antonio Maria Bononcini Composers Who May Have Written Cantatas for Vienna
• 8. Repertoire and Sources New Interest in the Cantata The Repertoire of Cantatas by Habsburg Composers Sources
• 9. Style Overview The Style Transition Broad Structural Plans Selection of Voices Instrumentation Dynamics Recitative and Arioso Aria Keys Continuum (Tempo/Meter) The Use of Devisen Aria Designs
• 10. Aspects of Form The Conventional Da Capo Design Variants from the Conventional Design Articulation of.
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Lawrence Bennett provides a comprehensive study of the rich repertoire of accompanied vocal chamber music that entertained the imperial family in Vienna and their guests throughout the 17th and early 18th centuries. The cantata became a form of elite entertainment composed to amuse listeners during banquets or pay homage to members of the royal family during special occasions. Concentrating on Baroque cantatas composed in the Habsburg court, Bennett draws extensively on primary source material to explore the stylistic changes that occurred within the genre in the generations before Haydn and Mozart.
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• Introduction
• A translation of The rights of woman
• The dedication. Gouges's devotion to the king and defence of the queen ; Marie-Antoinette's reputation and the counter-revolution
• The declaration. Gouges's patriotism and aristocratic sentiments prior to 1791 ; Gouges's declaration and that of the national assembly
• The postamble. The social contract between the man and the woman ; The rights of persons of colour and of blacks
• The addenda and a conclusion. The Addenda ; A conclusion:Gourge's feminism in the context of 1791
• Appendix. Facsimile of Les droits de la femme.

In Between the Queen and the Cabby, John Cole provides the first full translation of de Gouges's Rights of Woman and the first systematic commentary on its declaration, its attempt to envision a non-marital partnership agreement, and its support for persons of colour. Cole compares and contrasts de Gouges's two texts, explaining how the original text was both her model and her foil. By adding a proposed marriage contract to her pamphlet, she sought to turn the ideas of the French Revolution into a concrete way of life for women. Further examination of her work as a playwright suggests that she supported equality not only for women but for slaves as well. Cole highlights the historical context of de Gouges's writing, going beyond the inherent sexism and misogyny of the time in exploring why her work did not receive the reaction or achieve the influential status she had hoped for. Read in isolation in the gender-conscious twenty-first century, de Gouges's Rights of Woman may seem ordinary. However, none of her contemporaries, neither the Marquis de Condorcet nor Mary Wollstonecraft, published more widely on current affairs, so boldly attempted to extend democratic principles to women, or so clearly related the public and private spheres. Read in light of her eventual condemnation by the Revolutionary Tribunal, her words become tragically foresighted: "Woman has the right to mount the Scaffold; she must also have that of mounting the Rostrum.".
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• The Spanish empire and the elusive West. Peoples and terrain, difficulties and disappointments
• Exploiting indigenous geographic understanding
• South sea interlude. The alluring Pacific ocean
• The Pacific ocean and the war of the Spanish succession
• France and the elusive West after the treaty of Utrecht. Visions of Western Louisiana
• Imperial comparisons
• Communication and interpretation
• Restricted pathways
• British Pacific adventures and the early years of the seven years' war. British designs on the Spanish empire, 1713-1748
• French reactions to the British search for a northwest passage from Hudson Bay and the origins of the seven years' war
• Spanish reactions to British Pacific encroachments, 1750-1757
• French borderlands encroachments and Spanish neutrality
• The elusive West and the outcome of the seven years' war
• French geographic conceptions and the 1762 Western Louisiana cession
• Spain's acceptance of Trans-Mississippi Louisiana
• Old visions and new opportunities: Britain and the Spanish empire at the end of the seven years' war.

A truly continental history in both its geographic and political scope, The Elusive West and the Contest for Empire, 1713-1763 investigates eighteenth-century diplomacy involving North America and links geographic ignorance about the American West to Europeans' grand geopolitical designs. Breaking from scholars' traditional focus on the Atlantic world, Paul W. Mapp demonstrates the centrality of hitherto understudied western regions to early American history and shows that a Pacific focus is crucial to understanding the causes, course, and consequences of the Seven Years' War.
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• List of Tables Orthography Introduction
• 1. The Rio Nunez Region: A Small Corner of West Africa's Rice Coast Region
• 2. The First-Comers and the Roots of Coastal Rice-growing Technology
• 3. The Newcomers and the Seeds of Tidal Rice-Growing Technology
• 4. Coastal Collaboration and Specialization: Flowering of Tidal Rice-Growing Technologies
• 5. The Strangers and the Branches of Coastal Rice-growing Technology, c.1500 to 1800
• 6. Feeding the Slave Trade: The Trade in Rice and Captives from West Africa's Rice Coast Conclusion
• Appendix I.1 Fieldwork Interviews
• Appendix I.2 Rice Terminology in Atlantic Languages Spoken in the Coastal Rio Nunez Region Notes Bibliography Index.
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Mangrove rice farming on West Africa's Rice Coast was the mirror image of tidewater rice plantations worked by enslaved Africans in 18th-century South Carolina and Georgia. This book reconstructs the development of rice-growing technology among the Baga and Nalu of coastal Guinea, beginning more than a millennium before the transatlantic slave trade. It reveals a picture of dynamic pre-colonial coastal societies, quite unlike the static, homogenous pre-modern Africa of previous scholarship. From its examination of inheritance, innovation, and borrowing, Deep Roots fashions a theory of cultural change that encompasses the diversity of communities, cultures, and forms of expression in Africa and the African diaspora.
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• Contents: General editor's preface-- Industrial change in England 1780-1820-- The Poor Law and the parish apprentice-- Factory apprenticeship: structure, process and legislation-- The supply and distribution of parish apprentices-- Textile enterprise and the parish apprentice-- The costs and benefits of parish apprenticeship-- Parish factory apprenticeship and the nature of work-- The making of a gendered labour force?-- The exploitation of little children-- The voices of the children-- The protection of parish apprentices-- The neglect of parish apprentices-- Conclusion-- Bibliography-- Appendix-- Index.
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The use of child workers was widespread in textile manufacturing by the late eighteenth century. A particularly vital supply of child workers was via the parish apprenticeship trade, whereby pauper children could move from the 'care' of poor law officialdom to the 'care' of early industrial textile entrepreneurs. This study is the first to examine in detail both the process and experience of parish factory apprenticeship, and to illuminate the role played by children in early industrial expansion. It challenges prevailing notions of exploitation which permeate historical discussion of the early labour force and questions both the readiness with which parishes 'offloaded' large numbers of their poor children to distant factories, and the harsh discipline assumed to have been universal among early factory masters. Finally the author explores the way in which parish apprentices were used to construct a gendered labour force. Dr Honeyman's book is a major contribution to studies in child labour and to the broader social, economic, and business history of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries.
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• Acknowledgements Terminology and Dates List of Illustrations
• Prologue: The Book Ahead
• Chapter 1: Opening Moves, 1749
• Chapter 2: Middle Game, 1750-1755
• Chapter 3: The Match Heightens, 1756-1757
• Chapter 4: Beginning of the End, Early 1758
• Chapter 5: This Time For Real, 1-7 June 1758
• Chapter 6: Attack and Defend, 8 June-27 July 1758
• Chapter 7: Winner Take All
• Appendices.
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The story of what happened at the colonial fortified town of Louisbourg between 1749 and 1758 is one of the great dramas of the history of Canada, indeed North America. The French stronghold on Cape Breton Island, strategically situated near the entrance to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, was from soon after its founding a major possession in the quest for empire. The dramatic military and social history of this short-lived and significant fortress, seaport, and community, and the citizens who made it their home, are woven together in A. J. B. Johnston's gripping biography of the colony's final decade, presented from both French and British perspectives. Endgame 1758 is a tale of two empires in collision on the shores of mid-eighteenth-century Atlantic Canada, where rival European visions of predominance clashed headlong with each other and with the region's Aboriginal peoples. The magnitude of the struggle and of its uncertain outcome colored the lives of Louisbourg's inhabitants and the nearly thirty thousand combatants arrayed against it. The entire history comes to life in a tale of what turned out to be the first major British victory in the Seven Years' War. How and why the French colony ended the way it did, not just in June and July 1758, but over the decade that preceded the siege, is a little-known and compelling story.
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• Prologue: charisma and rationalization
• pt.
• 1. Tradition, rationalization, charisma. On the dominion of the author and the legible
• The lecture catalog
• The lecture and the disputation
• The examination
• The research seminar
• The doctor of philosophy
• The appointment of a professor
• The library catalogue
• pt.
• 2. Narrative, conversation, reputation: on the ineluctability of the voice and the oral
• Academic babble and ministerial machinations
• Ministerial hearing and academic commodification
• Academic voices and the ghost in the machine
• Epilogue: the research university and beyond.

Tracing the transformation of early modern academics into modern researchers from the Renaissance to Romanticism. "Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University" uses the history of the university and reframes the "Protestant Ethic" to reconsider the conditions of knowledge production in the modern world. William Clark argues that the research university - which originated in German Protestant lands and spread globally in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - developed in response to market forces and bureaucracy, producing a new kind of academic whose goal was to establish originality and achieve fame through publication. With an astonishing wealth of research, "Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University" investigates the origins and evolving fixtures of academic life: the lecture catalog, the library catalog, the grading system, the conduct of oral and written exams, the roles of conversation and the writing of research papers in seminars, the writing and oral defense of the doctoral dissertation, the ethos of "lecturing with applause" and "publish or perish, " and the role of reviews and rumor. This is a grand, ambitious book that should be required reading for every academic.
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• The nature of slavery : environmental disorder and slave agency in colonial South Carolina / S. Max Edelson
• "For want of a social set" : networks and social interaction in the lower Cape Fear region of North Carolina, 1725-1775 / Bradford J. Wood
• "Almost an Englishman" : eighteenth-century Anglo-African identities / Daniel C. Littlefield
• Conservation, class, and controversy in early America / Robert M. Weir
• Beyond declension : economic adaptation and the pursuit of export markets in the Massachusetts Bay region, 1630-1700 / James E. McWilliams
• Paternalism and profits : planters and overseers in Piedmont Virginia, 1750-1825 / James M. Baird
• "The fewnesse of handicraftsmen" : artisan adaptation and innovation in the colonial Chesapeake / Jean B. Russo
• The other "Susquahannah traders" : women and exchange on the Pennsylvania frontier / James H. Merrell
• A death in the morning : the murder of Daniel Parke / Natalie Zacek
• Enjoying and defending charter privileges : corporate status and political culture in eighteenth-century Rhode Island / Edward M. Cook, Jr.
• Native Americans, the plan of 1764, and a British empire that never was / Daniel K. Richter
• Between private and public spheres : liberty as cultural property in eighteenth-century British America / Michal Jan Rozbicki.

Never truly a "new world" entirely detached from the home countries of its immigrants, colonial America, over the generations, became a model of transatlantic culture. Colonial society was shaped by the conflict between colonists' need to adapt to the American environment and their desire to perpetuate old world traditions or to imitate the charismatic model of the British establishment. In the course of colonial history, these contrasting impulses produced a host of distinctive cultures and identities. In this impressive new collection, prominent scholars of early American history explore this complex dynamic of accommodation and replication to demonstrate how early American societies developed from the intersection of American and Atlantic influences. The volume, edited by Robert Olwell and Alan Tully, offers fresh perspectives on colonial history and on early American attitudes toward slavery and ethnicity, native Americans, and the environment, as well as colonial social, economic, and political development. It reveals the myriad ways in which American colonists were the inhabitants and subjects of a wider Atlantic world. Cultures and Identities in Colonial British America, one of a three-volume series under the editorship of Jack P. Greene, aims to give students of Atlantic history a "state of the field" survey by pursuing interesting lines of research and raising new questions. The entire series, "Anglo-America in the Transatlantic World, " engages the major organizing themes of the subject through a collection of high-level, debate-inspiring essays, inviting readers to think anew about the complex ways in which the Atlantic experience shaped both American societies and the Atlantic world itself.
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• Composing the Scottish Enlightenment
• Identity and diversity among Scottish authors
• The rewards of authorship
• Forging the London-Edinburgh publishing axis
• The heyday of Scottish Enlightenment publishing
• The achievement of William Creech
• The rise and fall of Irish reprinting
• Making Scottish books in America, 1770-1784
• A more extensive diffusion of useful knowledge : Philadelphia, 1784-1800.

In this magisterial history, Richard B. Sher breaks new ground for our understanding of the Enlightenment and the forgotten role of publishing during that period. "The Enlightenment and the Book" seeks to remedy the common misperception that such classics as "The Wealth of Nations" and "The Life of Samuel Johnson" were made by their authors alone. To the contrary, Sher shows how the process of bookmaking during the late eighteenth century involved complex partnerships between authors and their publishers. Similarly, Sher demonstrates that publishers were involved in the project of bookmaking for a variety of reasons, ranging from accumulating profits to advancing human knowledge.
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• The making of a gentleman
• The squire of Aylesbury
• Into Parliament
• The North Briton
• Number 45
• The Great George Street printing shop
• Trials and a trial of honor
• Exile
• The Middlesex election controversy
• Incapacitation
• The City of London
• My lord mayor
• Poverty, paternity, and parliamentary reform
• Chamberlain.

One of the most colourful figures in English political history, John Wilkes (1726 - 97) is remembered as the father of the British free press, defender of civil and political liberties and hero to American colonists, who attended closely to his outspoken endorsements of liberty. Wilkes's political career was rancorous, involving duels, imprisonments in the Tower of London and the Massacre of St. George's Fields, in which seven of his supporters were shot dead by government troops. And he was equally famous for his 'private' life - a confessed libertine, a member of the notorious Hellfire Club and the author of what has been called the dirtiest poem in the English language. This lively biography draws a full portrait of John Wilkes from his childhood days through his heyday as a journalist and agitator, his defiance of government prosecutions for libel and obscenity, his fight against exclusion from Parliament and his service as lord mayor of London on the eve of the American Revolution. Told here with the force and immediacy of a firsthand newspaper account, Wilkes's own remarkable story is inseparable from the larger story of modern liberties and how they came to fruition.
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• 1. England 1783-1846: An Overview--
• 2. Politics in the Time of Pitt and Fox 1783-1807--
• 3. Pitt and Plutocracy: The Social and Psychological Foundations--
• 4. Politics in the Time of Liverpool and Canning 1807-1827--
• 5. Ruling Ideologies--
• 6. The Crisis of the Old Order 1827-1832--
• 7. Contesting Mechanical Philosophy--
• 8. Politics in the Time of Melbourne and Peel 1833-1846--
• 9. The Condition and Reconditioning of England--
• 10. Afterwards: 'There are no barbarians any longer.'-- Bibliography-- Index.
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This was a transformative period in English history. In 1783 the country was at one of the lowest points in its fortunes, having just lost its American colonies in warfare. By 1846 it was once more a great imperial nation, as well as the world's strongest power and dominant economy, having benefited from what has sometimes (if misleadingly) been called the 'first industrial revolution'. In the meantime it survived a decade of invasion fears, and emerged victorious from more than twenty years of 'war to the death' against Napoleonic France. But if Britain's external fortunes were in the ascendant, the situation at home remained fraught with peril. The country's population was growing at a rate not experienced by any comparable former society, and its manufacturing towns especially were mushrooming into filthy, disease-ridden, gin-sodden hell-holes, in turn provoking the phantasmagoria of a mad, bad, and dangerous people. It is no wonder that these years should have experienced the most prolonged period of social unrest since the seventeenth century, or that the elite should have been in constant fear of a French-style revolution in England.The governing classes responded to these new challenges and by the mid-nineteenth century the seeds of a settled two-party system and of a more socially interventionist state were both in evidence, though it would have been far too soon to say at that stage whether those seeds would take permanent root. Another consequence of these tensions was the intellectual engagement with society, as for example in the Romantic Movement, a literary phenomenon that brought English culture to the forefront of European attention for the first time. At the same time the country experienced the great religious revival, loosely described under the heading 'evangelicalism'. Slowly but surely, the raffish and rakish style of eighteenth-century society, having reached a peak in the Regency, then succumbed to the new norms of respectability popularly known as 'Victorianism'.
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• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Men With Breasts, Women Without1. Breasts on a Platter and the Bosom of Jesus: The Parameters of Fantasy2. Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, and the Breast3. Ut in pene: The Medical and Moral Discourses of the Breast4. Wieland's Busted Tropes5. Sophie von La Roche and the Communities of the Breast6. Revealing the Phallus, Concealing the Breast: The Revolutionary Fictions of Wilhelm Heinse and Therese Huber7. The Breast in Ruins: Heinrich von Kleist and the Language of the Breast8. Being the Breast, Being Without: Philip Roth, Matuschka, and Deena MetzgerNotesBibliographyIndex.
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The cult of the female breast in contemporary American and European society is as pervasive as it is notorious. Our current fascination merely updates a long-standing obsession with the breast, which over the past twenty years has also become a subject of scholarly attention. Most historians and cultural theorists have focused on England and France, with virtually all research starting from the simple assumption that the breast is a signifier of the feminine and the female. With Missing the Breast, Simon Richter uses the texts of Enlightenment-era Germany to challenge that assumption, engaging instead the complexity of culturally constructed notions of the breast. Using the tools of medicine, literary theory, psychology, psychoanalysis, and etymology, Richter probes the breast-related fantasies underlying German culture and literature in the second half of the eighteenth century. His study reveals that, whereas in England and France and in the public imagination generally, the breast has been associated with the feminine and with abundance, the inherent "logic of the breast" in German culture unexpectedly pushes the breast toward masculinity and lack. Richter's tour de force of textual and cultural analysis brings together the work of important German poets, writers, and dramatists, as well as major psychoanalysts and their critics, and writers and artists of the English-speaking world, to explore the tension between the plenitude of the breast and the implications of its absence. His engaging study draws the reader ineluctably toward a revolutionary possibility: the breast as an "unruly and uncontainable signifier, " the equal and more of what Lacan called the phallus. Missing the Breast will be an indispensable addition to the libraries of those interested in German textual studies, the history of sexuality, and theories of psychoanalysis. Its groundbreaking perspective will make a significant contribution to the fields of literary studies, gender studies, and women's studies.
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• Values and practice in conflict. Antislavery without abolitionism
• The conflict realized. The politics of slavery in the years of crisis. Granville Sharp and the obligations of empire
• The search for solutions. British concepts of emancipation in the age of the American Revolution. Africa, Africans, and the idea of abolition
• The conflict resolved. British evangelicals and Caribbean slavery after the American war. The society of friends and the antislavery identity.

"Revisiting the origins of the British antislavery movement of the late eighteenth century, Christopher Leslie Brown challenges prevailing scholarly arguments that locate the roots of abolitionism in economic determinism or bourgeois humanitarianism. Brown instead connects the shift from sentiment to action to changing views of empire and nation in Britain, particularly the anxieties and dislocations spurred by the American Revolution"--Page 4 of cover.

• Acknowledgments vii 1 Divergence, Convergence, and the French Path to Industrial Development after 1750 1 (16) 2 A Brave New World of Work: The Reform of the Corporations and the Lettres-Patentes of May 1779 17 (34) 3 Foreign Policy as Industrial Policy: The Anglo-French Commercial Treaty of 1786 51 (38) 4 The Other "Great Fear": Labor Relations, Industrialization, and Revolution 89 (38) 5 La patrie en danger. Industrial Policy in the Year II 127 (42) 6 From Allard to Chaptal: The Search for an Institutional Formula for French Industrialization, 1791-1804 169 (42) 7 Facing Up to English Industrial Dominance: Industrial Policy from the Empire to the July Revolution, 1805-1830 211 (38) 8 Coalitions and Competition: Entrepreneurs and Workers React to the New Industrial Environment 249 (40) 9 Chaptal's Legacy in a Niche Industry 289 (6) Notes 295 (52) Bibliography 347 (26) Maps 373 (6) Index 379.

In The Path Not Taken, Jeff Horn argues that-contrary to standard, Anglocentric accounts-French industrialization was not a failed imitation of the laissez-faire British model but the product of a distinctive industrial policy that led, over the long term, to prosperity comparable to Britain's. Despite the upheavals of the Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, France developed and maintained its own industrial strengths. France was then able to take full advantage of the new technologies and industries that emerged in the "second industrial revolution, " and by the end of the nineteenth century some of France's industries were outperforming Britain's handily. The Path Not Taken shows that the foundations of this success were laid during the first industrial revolution. Horn posits that the French state's early attempt to emulate Britain's style of industrial development foundered because of revolutionary politics. The "threat from below" made it impossible for the state or entrepreneurs to control and exploit laborers in the British manner. The French used different means to manage labor unruliness and encourage innovation and entrepreneurialism. Technology is at the heart of Horn's analysis, and he shows that France, unlike England, often preferred still-profitable older methods of production in order to maintain employment and forestall revolution. Horn examines the institutional framework established by Napoleon's most important Minister of the Interior, Jean-Antoine Chaptal. He focuses on textiles, chemicals, and steel, looks at how these new institutions created a new industrial environment. Horn's illuminating comparison of French and British industrialization should stir debate among historians, economists, and political scientists.
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• Display and dynasty
• The colonial trade in monuments
• Heroic imagery? The monument to Wolfe in Westminster Abbey
• Precedents and parallels: the Grenville Commission
• Magnanimity? The bust of George III in Montreal
• Reassurances of liberty: public monuments in the American colonies
• Reassurances of loyalty: public commissions in the West Indies
• India: building as a moral imperative.

Lavishly illustrated, Persuasion and Propaganda is the first study of these works of art within the framework of colonial politics and political culture.
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• Acknowledgments
• List of illustrations
• Archival abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1. Consent and coercion : the continuum of sexual relations
• 2. The means of sexual coercion : identity, power, and social consent
• 3. After coerced sex : the progression of knowledge
• 4. The crime of rape : transatlantic standards, American racialization, and local judgment
• 5. Constructing rape and race at Early American courts
• 6. New worlds of rape: masculinity, myth, and revolution
• Conclusion
• Appendix A : Tabulation of known sexual coercion incidents
• Appendix B : Legal records consulted
• Index.

Block analyzes the legal, social, and cultural implictions of more than nine hundred documented incidents of sexual coercion and hundres more extralegal commentaries found in almanacs, newspapers, broadsides, and other print and manuscript sources. Highlighting the gap between reports of coerced sex and incidents that were publicly classfied as rape, Block demonstrates that public definitions of rape were based less on what actually happened than on who was involved. She challenges conventional narratives that claim sexual relations between white women and black men became racially charded only in the late nineteenth century. Her analysis extends racial toes to rape back into the colonial period and beyond the boundaries of the southern slave-born system. Early Americans' treatment of rape, Block argues, both enacted and helped to sustain the social, racial, gender, and political hierarchies of a New World and a new nation.

• The Tây Son era and the long eighteenth century in Đại Việt
• The leaders : laying claim to power
• The peasants: life under Tây Sơn authority
• The social margins : Christians, pirates, and others.

"George Dutton has written the first detailed Western-language study of the Tây So'n movement, which permanently altered Vietnam's political trajectory. But in so doing, he also provides a sensitive social and cultural analysis of the pre-1800 Vietnamese-speaking world as a whole, and indeed one of the most detailed descriptions of any late 18th-century society in Southeast Asia."--Victor Lieberman, University of Michigan"It is difficult to overstate the significance of George Dutton's terrific new book. The Tây So'n Uprising represents the first serious western-language account of the intricate sequence of political developments that define the Tây So'n era and that arguably mark the onset of modernity in Vietnam. In addition to providing a vividly evocative narrative of the complex political history of the period, Dutton offers lucid and judicious interpretations of the origins, evolution and downfall of the uprising and of its consequences for a wide range of social groups, political forces and ethnic communities. The level of research and historical craftsmanship is superb, and Dutton's frequent reflections on relevant theoretical and historiographical issues make for fascinating reading. In short, this is a stunning accomplishment and a major contribution to the study of Vietnamese history and historiography."--Peter Zinoman, University of California, BerkeleyThe Tây So'n uprising (1771-1802) was a cataclysmic event that profoundly altered the eighteenth-century Vietnamese political and social landscape. This groundbreaking book offers a new look at an important and controversial era. George Dutton follows three brothers from the hamlet of Tây So'n as they led a heterogeneous military force that ousted ruling families in both halves of the divided Vietnamese territories and eventually toppled the 350-year-old Lè dynasty. Supplementing Vietnamese primary sources with extensive use of archival European missionary accounts, he explores the dynamics of an event that affected every region of the country and every level of society. Tracing the manner in which the Tây So'n leaders transformed an inchoate uprising into a new political regime, Dutton challenges common depictions of the Tây So'n brothers as visionaries or revolutionaries. Instead, he reveals them as political opportunists whose worldview remained constrained by their provincial origins and the exigencies of ongoing warfare and political struggles.

• 1. The return of stoic imagination
• 2. Self-cultivation and religious meditation
• 3. Picturing ourselves in the world : Pascal's Pensées
• 4. The imagination of loss
• 5. From imagination to significance : the novel from Scudéry to Lafayette
• 6. How the ancients modernized imagination.

Before imagination became the transcendent and creative faculty promoted by the Romantics, it was for something quite different. Not reserved to a privileged few, imagination was instead considered a universal ability that each person could direct in practical ways. To imagine something meant to form in the mind a replica of a thing-its taste, its sound, and other physical attributes. At the end of the Renaissance, there was a movement to encourage individuals to develop their ability to imagine vividly. Within their private mental space, a space of embodied, sensual thought, they could meditate, pray, or philosophize. Gradually, confidence in the self-directed imagination fell out of favor and was replaced by the belief that the few-an elite of writers and teachers-should control the imagination of the many. This book seeks to understand what imagination meant in early modern Europe, particularly in early modern France, before the Romantic era gave the term its modern meaning. The author explores the themes surrounding early modern notions of imagination (including hostility to imagination) through the writings of such figures as Descartes, Montaigne, Francois de Sales, Pascal, the Marquise de Sevigne, Madame de Lafayette, and Fenelon.
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• Giuseppa Eleonora Barbapiccola
• The Academy of the Ricovrati
• Aretafila Savini de' Rossi
• Maria Gaetana Agnesi
• Diamante Medaglia Faini.

At a time when women were generally excluded from scholarly discourse in the intellectual centers of Europe, four extraordinary female "letterate" proved their parity as they lectured in prominent scientific and literary academies and published in respected journals. During the Italian Enlightenment, Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Giuseppa Eleonora Barbapiccola, Diamante Medaglia Faini, and Aretafila Savini de' Rossi were afforded unprecedented deference in academic debates and epitomized the increasing ability of women to influence public discourse. "The Contest for Knowledge" reveals how these four women used the methods and themes of their male counterparts to add their voices to the vigorous and prolific debate over the education of women during the eighteenth century. In the texts gathered here, the women discuss the issues they themselves thought most urgent for the equality of women in Italian society specifically and in European culture more broadly. Their thoughts on this important subject reveal how crucial the eighteenth century was in the long history of debates about women in the academy.
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