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Free Download Sophie Vasset, "Murky waters: British spas in eighteenth-century medicine and literature "
English | ISBN: 1526159716 | 2022 | 304 pages | PDF | 12 MB
Murky waters challenges the refined image of spa towns in eighteenth-century Britain by unveiling darker and more ambivalent contemporary representations. It reasserts the centrality of health in British spas by looking at disease, the representation of treatment and the social networks of care woven into spa towns. The book explores the great variety of medical and literary discourses on the numerous British spas in the long eighteenth century and offers a rare look at spas beyond Bath. Following the thread of ‘murkiness’, it explores the underwater culture of spas, from the gender fluidity of users to the local and national political dimensions, as well as the financial risks taken by gamblers and investors. It thus brings a fresh look at mineral waters and a pinch of salt to health-related discourses.

Free Download Jenny Davidson, "Breeding: A Partial History of the Eighteenth Century"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 0231138784 | PDF | pages: 313 | 4.0 mb
The Enlightenment commitment to reason naturally gave rise to a belief in the perfectibility of man. Influenced by John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, many eighteenth-century writers argued that the proper education and upbringing-breeding-could make any man a member of the cultural elite.

Free Download Karl Axelsson, "Beyond Autonomy in Eighteenth-Century British and German Aesthetics "
English | ISBN: 0367347962 | 2020 | 302 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
This volume re-examines traditional interpretations of the rise of modern aesthetics in eighteenth-century Britain and Germany. It provides a new account that connects aesthetic experience with morality, science, and political society. In doing so, it challenges long-standing teleological narratives that emphasize disinterestedness and the separation of aesthetics from moral, cognitive, and political interests.

Free Download Sam Willis, "Fighting at Sea in the Eighteenth Century: The Art of Sailing Warfare"
English | ISBN: 1843833670 | 2008 | 272 pages | PDF | 13 MB
Naval warfare is vividly brought to life, from first contact through how battles were won and lost to damage repair.

Free Download Chantel Lavoie, "Writing through Boyhood in the Long Eighteenth Century: Age, Gender, and Work"
English | ISBN: 1644533197 | 2023 | 240 pages | PDF | 47 MB
Writing through Boyhood in the Long Eighteenth Century explores how boyhood was constructed in different creative spaces that reflected the lived experience of young boys through the long eighteenth century-not simply in children’s literature but in novels, poetry, medical advice, criminal broadsides, and automaton exhibitions. The chapters encompass such rituals as breeching, learning to read and write, and going to school. They also consider the lives of boys such as chimney sweeps and convicted criminals, whose bodily labor was considered their only value and who often did not live beyond boyhood. Defined by a variety of tasks, expectations, and objectifications, boys-real, imagined, and sometimes both-were subject to the control of their elders and were used as tools in the cause of civil society, commerce, and empire. This book argues that boys in the long eighteenth century constituted a particular kind of currency, both valuable and expendable-valuable because of gender, expendable because of youth.

Free Download Tawny Paul, "The Poverty of Disaster: Debt and Insecurity in Eighteenth-Century Britain "
English | ISBN: 1108496946 | 2019 | 298 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Eighteenth-century Britain is often understood as a time of commercial success, economic growth, and improving living standards. Yet during this period, tens of thousands of men and women were imprisoned for failing to pay their debts. The Poverty of Disaster tells their stories, focusing on the experiences of the middle classes who enjoyed opportunities for success on one hand, but who also faced the prospect of downward social mobility. Tawny Paul examines the role that debt insecurity played within society and the fragility of the credit relations that underpinned commercial activity, livelihood, and social status. She demonstrates how, for the middle classes, insecurity took economic, social, and embodied forms. It shaped the work that people did, their social status, their sense of self, their bodily autonomy, and their relationships with others. In an era of growing debt and the squeeze of the middle class, The Poverty of Disaster offers a new history of capitalism and takes a long view of the financial insecurities that plague our own uncertain times.

Free Download Julia Jorati, "Slavery and Race: Philosophical Debates in the Eighteenth Century "
English | ISBN: 0197659233 | 2023 | 348 pages | EPUB, PDF | 946 KB + 3 MB
Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported to the Americas in the eighteenth century. Europeans-many of whom viewed themselves as enlightened-endorsed, funded, legislated, and executed the slave trade. This atrocity had a profound impact on philosophy, but historians of the discipline have so far neglected to address the topics of slavery and race. Many authors-including enslaved and formerly enslaved Black authors-used philosophical ideas to advocate for abolition, analyze racist attitudes, and critique racial bias. Other authors attempted to justify the transatlantic slave trade by advancing philosophical defenses of racial chattel slavery.

Free Download Dustin Frazier Wood, "Anglo-Saxonism and the Idea of Englishness in Eighteenth-Century Britain "
English | ISBN: 1783275014 | 2020 | 239 pages | PDF | 25 MB
The importance of the Anglo-Saxon past to England in the eighteenth century, politically and culturally, is here brought out.

Free Download Dan Doll, Jessica Munns, "Recording And Reordering: Essays on the Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Diary And Journal"
English | 2006 | pages: 248 | ISBN: 0838756301 | PDF | 12,5 mb