An important selection from the largely unknown writings of women philosophers of the early modern period. Each selection is prefaced by a headnote giving a biographical account of its author and setting the piece in historical context...
Eighteenth century
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Author:Summary: - Author:King, JamesSummary:
In this first genuinely new account of William Blake's life since 1927, the author focuses on the enormous contradictions and complexities of Blake's personality. He examines the poet-artist's deeply divided feelings about sexuality, as...
- Author:Curtis Higgs, LizSummary:
En automne 1788, au coeur des landes et des vallées des Lowlands écossais, deux frères s'affrontent pour obtenir la bénédiction de leur père, deux soeurs cherchent à conquérir le coeur d'un homme. Leana se glissa sous...
- Author:Stewart, David O.Summary:
Over the span of four hot summer months, delegates at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia hammered out what would be regarded as one of the most important documents in world history. But the drafting of the Constitution was...
- Author:Peacock, MollySummary:
Celebrated poet Molly Peacock explores the remarkable life of 18th-century British gentlewoman-turned-artist Mary Delany. In the 1770s, at the age of 72, the twice-widowed and nearly broke Delany turned her interest in botany into...
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Author:Nellis, Eric GuestSummary:Breaking from traditional historical interpretations of the period, Eric Nellis takes a long view of the origins and consequences of the Revolution and asserts that the Revolution was not, as others have argued, generated by a well-...
- Author:Robertson, RitchieSummary:
The Enlightenment is the fountainhead of modern secular Western values: religious tolerance, freedom of thought, speech, and the press, of rationality and evidence based argument. Yet why, over three hundred years later is the...
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Author:Summary:In the fall of 1739, as many as one hundred enslaved African and African Americans living within twenty miles of Charleston joined forces to strike down their white owners and march en masse toward Spanish Florida and freedom. More than...
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Author:Summary:In the fall of 1739, as many as one hundred enslaved African and African Americans living within twenty miles of Charleston joined forces to strike down their white owners and march en masse toward Spanish Florida and freedom. More than...
- Author:Johnson, Keith LeeSummary:
The fifth in the series picks up where the fourth book left off by continuing the diary of Josephine Baptiste. As more details about Josephine's past come to light, the African heritage of modern-day Johnnie Wise is further explained....
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Author:Williams, Helen MariaSummary:Helen Maria Williams was a poet, novelist, and radical thinker deeply immersed in the political struggles of the 1790s. Her Letters Written in France is the first and most important of eight volumes chronicling the French Revolution to...
- Author:Curtis Higgs, LizSummary:
Hanté par un passé honteux et luttant pour un avenir incertain, Jamie McKie jure de retourner au manoir ancestral de Glentrool pour revendiquer son héritage - une entreprise hardie, qui mettra à l'épreuve la valeur de son...
- Author:Pariseau, MoniqueSummary:
Le 1er février 1767, Jeanne Barret, sous le nom de Jean Barré, embarqua sur la flûte L'Étoile avec près de 120 hommes pour accomplir le premier tour du monde sous pavillon français. Elle le fit déguisée en homme puisqu'une ordonnance...
- Author:Merrett, Robert JamesSummary:
At war for sixty years, eighteenth-century Britain and France experienced demographic, social, and economic exchanges despite their imperial rivalry. Paradoxically, this rivalry spurred their participation in scientific and industrial...
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Author:Summary:German Philosophers contains studies of four of the most important German Kant, arguably the most influential modern philosopher; Hegel, whose philosophy inspired a vision of a communist society that for more than one hundred years...
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Author:René ForgetSummary:Cette palpitante fresque historique se déroulant aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles nous plonge dans l'univers passionnant des premiers Canadiens français, éprouvés par les épidémies et menacés par les militaires anglais....
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Author:René ForgetSummary:Cette palpitante fresque historique se déroulant aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles nous plonge dans l'univers passionnant des premiers Canadiens français, éprouvés par les épidémies et menacés par les militaires anglais....
- Author:Butler Hallett, MichelleSummary:
In Deluded Your Sailors, the culture industry is a weapon, a victim, and an opportunity, depending on the perspective of two main figures: the unsteady but perceptive Nichole Wright, whose discovery of crucial documents threatens a...
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Author:Kuhns, EleanorSummary:Will Rees is just starting to feel at home when a morning visitor brings news of an old friend's murder. Asked to look into the circumstances surrounding the death, Rees finds that everyone is hiding something. But are any of them...
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Author:Strowbridge, Nellie P.Summary:An exotic drama in which one man’s mysterious disappearance brings a dark end to three other people. What would it take to destroy an Irish girl who had survived famine and war in Ireland, and a hazardous journey across the Atlantic...
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