Author: John Rylands LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Bulletin of the John Rylands Library
Author: John Rylands LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author: Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: James Silk BuckinghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
The Enlightenment in Practice
Author: Jeremy L. CaradonnaPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801464374
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
Public academic prize contests—the concours académique—played a significant role in the intellectual life of Enlightenment France, with aspirants formulating positions on such matters as slavery, poverty, the education of women, tax reform, and urban renewal and submitting the resulting essays for scrutiny by panels of judges. In The Enlightenment in Practice, Jeremy L. Caradonna draws on archives both in Paris and the provinces to show that thousands of individuals—ranging from elite men and women of letters artisans, and peasants—participated in these intellectual competitions, a far broader range of people than has been previously assumed. Caradonna contends that the Enlightenment in France can no longer be seen as a cultural movement restricted to a small coterie of philosophers or a limited number of printed texts. Moreover, Caradonna demonstrates that the French monarchy took academic competitions quite seriously, sponsoring numerous contests on such practical matters as deforestation, the quality of drinking water, and the nighttime illumination of cities. In some cases, the contests served as an early mechanism for technology transfer: the state used submissions to identify technical experts to whom it could turn for advice. Finally, the author shows how this unique intellectual exercise declined during the upheavals of the French Revolution, when voicing moderate public criticism became a rather dangerous act.
Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester
Author: John Rylands University Library of ManchesterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1752
Book Description
A Guide to Historical Literature
Author: George Matthew DutcherPublisher: New York : P. Smith
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1494
Book Description
Manual of Romance Sociolinguistics
Author: Wendy Ayres-BennettPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110365952
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
The Romance languages offer a particularly fertile ground for the exploration of the relationship between language and society in different social contexts and communities. Focusing on a wide range of Romance languages – from national languages to minoritised varieties – this volume explores questions concerning linguistic diversity and multilingualism, language contact, medium and genre, variation and change. It will interest researchers and policy-makers alike.
Catalog of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1746
Book Description
A Guide to Historical Literature
Author: Henry Robinson ShipmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1258
Book Description