Colonialism and Science: Saint Domingue and the Old Regime 9780226514680

Tocqueville and Old Regime 9781400879311

Professor Herr's brief and attractively presented Tocqueville and the Old Regime is to be commended to all who are

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Science and Polity in France: The End of the Old Regime [Course Book ed.] 9781400824618

By the end of the eighteenth century, the French dominated the world of science. And although science and politics had l

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The Colonial Machine English; French: French Science and Overseas Expansion in the Old Regime 9782503532608, 2503532608

The rise of modern science and European colonial and imperial expansion are indisputably two defining elements of modern

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The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica 9780812293012

Jamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously successful eighteenth-century slave societies and im

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Artisanal Enlightenment: Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France 9780300231625

A groundbreaking work that places the mechanical arts and the world of making at the heart of the Enlightenment What w

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Russia under Old Regime

“For anyone who wants an insight into the nature of Russian society before the revolution, there is no doubt that Profes

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Opera and the Political Imaginary in Old Regime France 9780226522890

From its origins in the 1670s through the French Revolution, serious opera in France was associated with the power of th

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Cul de Sac: Patrimony, Capitalism, and Slavery in French Saint-Domingue 9780226411774

In the eighteenth century, the Cul de Sac plain in Saint-Domingue, now Haiti, was a vast open-air workhouse of sugar pla

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Russia Under Old Regime 0684148269

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The Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution From Below [1st (6th printing) ed.]

Carolyn E. Fick argues that the repressed and uneducated slaves of Saint Domingue were the principal architects both of

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