European History 2021-22 HIGHLIGHTS
BEYOND THE MOULIN ROUGE
BOTANICAL ENTANGLEMENTS
The Life and Legacy of La Goulue Will Visconti
Women, Natural Science, and the Arts in Eighteenth-Century England Anna K. Sagal
Nov 2021 304pp 9780813946818 Paperback US$35.00 9780813946801 Hardback US$115.00
Peculiar Bodies: Stories and Histories Best known by her stage name, La Goulue (the Glutton), Louise Weber was one of the biggest stars of fin de siècle Paris. This book is the first substantive English-language study of La Goulue's career and posthumous influence, and traces the life and impact of a woman whose cultural significance has been ignored in favour of the men around her.
AGAINST THE MAP The Politics of Geography in Eighteenth-Century Britain Adam Sills Sep 2021 312pp 9780813945996 Paperback US$45.00 9780813945989 Hardback US$115.00
Argues that our understanding of the production of national space during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries must account for sites of resistance and opposition to hegemonic forms of geographical representation, such as the map.
Dec 2021 272pp 9780813946962 Paperback US$45.00 9780813946955 Hardback US$115.00
To this day, women face barriers in entering scientific professions, and in earlier eras the challenges were greater still. But in this volume, Anna Sagal reveals how women's participation in scientific discourses of the eighteenth century was enabled by the manipulation of social conventions that have typically been understood as limiting factors.
LAME CAPTAINS & LEFT-HANDED ADMIRALS Amputee Officers in Nelson's Navy Teresa Michals Nov 2021 264pp 9780813946733 Paperback US$39.50 9780813946726 Hardback US$115.00
Peculiar Bodies: Stories and Histories
Focuses on the lives and careers of four particularly distinguished British naval officers who returned to sea and continued to fight and win battles after losing an arm or a leg: Lord Horatio Nelson, Sir Michael Seymour, Sir Watkin Owen Pell, and Sir James Alexander Gordon.
A GERMAN BARBER-SURGEON IN THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE The Seventeenth-Century Journal of Johann Peter Oettinger Johann Peter Oettinger Edited and translated by Craig Koslofsky & Roberto Zaugg 2020 222pp 9780813944456 Hardback US$55.00
Studies in Early Modern German History As he travelled across Germany and the Netherlands and sailed on Dutch and Brandenburg slave ships to the Caribbean and Africa from 1682 to 1696, the young German barber-surgeon Johann Peter Oettinger recorded his experiences in a detailed journal, translated here for the first time.
SIGHT CORRECTION Vision and Blindness in EighteenthCentury Britain Chris Mounsey Nov 2019 320pp 9780813943329 Paperback US$39.50 9780813943312 Hardback US$79.50
Peculiar Bodies: Stories and Histories
Provides an expansive analysis of blindness in eighteenth-century Britain. Beginning with a reconsideration of the place of sight correction as both idea and reality in philosophical debates, Chris Mounsey traces the development of eye surgery by pioneers who developed a new idea of medical specialism that has shaped contemporary practices.
SPECULATIVE ENTERPRISE
STUDIES IN EARLY MODERN GERMAN HISTORY
Mattie Burkert
Including works translated from German and original works in English, this series emphasises new and fresh approaches to German history during the early modern period: c. 1400-1800. Topics covered are not the conventional ones taught in schools but examples of the vitality and variety offered by historians of the Holy Roman Empire (the German language area).
May 2021 272pp 9780813945965 Paperback US$39.50 9780813945958 Hardback US$95.00
Identifies a discursive ‘theatre-finance nexus’ at work in plays by Colley Cibber, Richard Steele, and Susanna Centlivre as well as in the vibrant eighteenth-century media landscape. As Burkert demonstrates, the stock market and the entertainment industry were recognised as interconnected institutions that gave rise to new modes of resistance.
STAGING CIVILIZATION
A Transnational History of French Theater in Eighteenth-Century Europe Rahul Markovits Translated by Jane Marie Todd
THE DEVIL'S ART Divination and Discipline in Early Modern Germany Jason Philip Coy
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Tanya Kevorkian
2020 192pp 9780813944074 Hardback US$35.00
In early modern Germany, soothsayers known as wise women and men roamed the countryside. Fixtures of village life, they identified thieves and witches, read palms, and cast horoscopes. Jason Philip Coy brings their world to life by examining theological discourse alongside archival records of prosecution for popular divination in Thuringia.
FOUR FOOLS IN THE AGE OF REASON
Jul 2021 384pp 9780813945545 Hardback US$49.50
Eighteenth-century France is understood to have been the dominant cultural power in that era's international scene. Considering the emblematic case of the theatre, Rahul Markovits goes beyond the idea of ‘French Europe’ to offer a serious consideration of the intentions and goals of those involved in making this so.
MUSIC AND URBAN LIFE IN BAROQUE GERMANY
Laughter, Cruelty, and Power in Early Modern Germany Dorinda Outram 2019 184pp 9780813942018 Hardback US$35.00
Unveiling the nearly lost world of the court fools of eighteenth-century Germany, Dorinda Outram shows that laughter was an essential instrument of power. Outram's book is invaluable for giving us a vivid depiction of the court fool and especially for revealing how this figure can shed new light on the wielding of power in Enlightenment Europe.
Mar 2022 320pp 9780813947013 Hardback US$49.50
Offers a new narrative of Baroque music, accessible to non-music specialists, in which the author defines the era in terms of social dynamics rather than style and genre development. BESTSELLER
SHAMAN OF OBERSTDORF
Chonrad Stoeckhlin and the Phantoms of the Night Wolfgang Behringer Translated by H. C. Erik Midelfort 1998 224pp 9780813918532 Paperback US$27.50
Focuses on the life of a horse wrangler named Chonrad Stoeckhlin (1549-1587), whose extraordinary visions of the afterlife and enthusiastic practice of the occult eventually led to his death - and to the death of a number of village women - for crimes of witchcraft.
STRANGE BRETHREN
Refugees, Religious Bonds, and Reformation in Frankfurt, 1554-1608 Maximilian Miguel Scholz Nov 2021 248pp 9780813946757 Hardback US$45.00
In the sixteenth century, German cities and territories welcomed thousands of refugees fleeing the religious persecution sparked by the Reformation. As this work reveals, these Reformation refugees had a profound impact on the societies they entered.
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