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Hume and the Enlightenment
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2011; US$ 99.00While Hume remains one of the most central figures in modern philosophy his place within Enlightenment thinking is much less clearly defined. Taking recent work on Hume as a starting point, this volume of original essays aims to re-examine and clarify Hume's influence on the thought and values of the Enlightenment. more...
Stays and Body Image in London
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2011; US$ 99.00This book fills a significant gap in the literature on eighteenth-century social and cultural history. Starting with their production and trade, Sorge-English looks at the intricacies of the staymakers craft, the role of gender in the design and manufacture of stays and the changing shape of stays over time. more...
Teaching Bibliography, Textual Criticism and Book History
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2006; US$ 99.00Teaching Bibliography, Textual Criticism, and Book History, an exciting and original new monograph, offers a variety of approaches to incorporating discussions of book history or print culture into graduate and undergraduate classrooms. Through twenty-five collected essays, it considers the book as a literary, historical, cultural, and aesthetic object. more...
Slave Agriculture and Financial Markets in Antebellum America
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2006; US$ 99.00Slave Agriculture and Financial Markets looks at financing slave agriculture from the perspective of credit intermediaries such as chartered banks and commercial partnerships. It explains in detail how the Bank of the United States supported the government?s and the nation?s credit abroad by providing seemingly limitless credit facilities to southern... more...
The Political Economy of Sentiment
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2006; US$ 99.00The Political Economy of Sentiment situates changes in the nature of money and the rise of sophisticated financial structures at the centre of the Enlightenment. It argues that paper credit instruments were causal ? critical to the larger epistemological and psychological changes associated with the Enlightenment?s reconstruction of value. more...
Joseph Banks and the British Museum
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2007; US$ 99.00Chambers examines the ways different eighteenth-century collections (including Banks?s own) were managed, and how the British Museum and collecting more generally grew and changed in this important period of travel, exploration and empire. more...
Between Empire and Revolution
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2007; US$ 99.00The first scholarly biography of Sidney Bunting. His life offers a unique perspective on the British Empire, illustrating the complex social networks and values that were carried across the world in the name of empire. more...
Adam Ferguson
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2007; US$ 99.00Included essays range across all of Ferguson?s works to investigate his engagement with contemporary events and his contributions to our understanding of history and human action. more...
Writing the Empire
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2007; US$ 99.00Bolton examines a broad range of Robert Southey?s writing to explore the relationship between Romantic literature and colonial politics during the expansion of Britain?s second empire. more...
Missionary Education and Empire in Late Colonial India, 18601920
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2007; US$ 99.00Focusing on late colonial India, Bellenoit analyses education in colonial society. Most scholars view missionary teachers as handmaidens of the empire, and their theology as intrinsically imperialistic. However, Bellenoit argues that their interaction with India led them away from imperial norms; a simplistic division of colonisers and colonised is... more...









