books about: eighteenth

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Eighteenth

White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India

William Dalrymple

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2004

Once Upon a Time in Hyderabad ...
This book is a complex many-faceted marvel! It is carefully researched history transformed into the story of an ultimately tragic romance. With its portrayal of Europeans astride two cultures, it offers a wonderful, and probably unintentional, counterpoint to the Clash ...

Love Letters of Great Men and Women From The Eighteenth Century To The Present Day

Megalodon Entertainment LLC., 2008

Wonderful Love Letters in a Beautiful Book
Wonderful collection of love letters. The book itself is beautiful with the old fashioned quill and rose on the front cover. The interior is just as pretty. The names appear to be calligraphy, but it's regular print. I was especially excited to see the letters are ...

The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (Eighteenth Edition)

Harvard Law Review Association, 2005

A truly evocative and powerful effort
Let's be honest. A lot of people felt that Bluebook had fallen off. After that award show confrontation with ALWD and the concealed weapons charges, Bluebook looked like they were on the ropes. That only makes this 18th edition more triumphant for the Bluebook. A ...

Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs: Official Companion Book to the Exhibition sponsored by ...

Zahi Hawass

National Geographic, 2005

Very good book
I bought the book before seeing the tour in Philly. The book is very well done, and very good representation of the tour. Beautiful photographs, plus good rich text around the history of the 18th dynasty. Other reviews talk about the tour, which isn't really what ...

English Society in the Eighteenth Century, Second Edition (The Penguin Social History of Britain)

Roy Porter

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1990

A Pure Delight
I come late to Porter, and I certainly wish I hadn't. It's almost enough to make me surrender my credentials as a dyed-in-the-wool lover of English History. The deceased physician-cum-historian was a prolific writer, turning out works on subjects as diverse as ...

Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)

Neal Stephenson

William Morrow, 2003

Just what I was looking for...
Quicksilver was exactly what I was looking for this summer, it was in fact more than I'd hoped for.

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 1: The Middle Ages through the Restoration and the ...

W. W. Norton, 2005

Ahh! Get a cup of tea, find a cozy spot, and settle in...
If you're a book lover, how can you not love a book like this? It was my required reading for a literature class, and I was all too happy to have an excuse to buy it. Satisfyingly fat at 3000 pages, it exudes that delicious book smell when you flip through it, and its ...

New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan

Jill Lepore

Vintage, 2006

Search for Scapegoats
Jill Lepore's "New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan" is a valuable and admirable examination of one of the darkest episodes in New York's history: the so-called slave rebellion of 1741 and the brutal vengeance that was ...

Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the Eighteenth Century (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Harold Koda, Andrew Bolton, ...

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006

Delightful dressing
This is a fabulous insight into 18th Century French society. As a costume designer, I found the inclusion of paintings from that period, intermixed with the museum settings to be of particular interest. The close-up photographs of details were also wonderful. The ...

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Eighth Edition, Volumes A-C: The Middle Ages Through the ...

W. W. Norton, 2005

Excellent Resource
I ordered this book for my literature studies and it is an excellent resource or English poetry, prose and literature. Not only was it more economical to order from Amazon, but it came sooner than expected. If you want one of the best companions for lit, this it the ...

European Art of the Eighteenth Century (Art Through the Centuries)
Daniela Tarabra

Getty Publications, 2008

This latest volume in the Art Through the Centuries series presents the most important artists and artistic concepts of the eighteenth century. While the Baroque style, with its emphasis on emotionalism and naturalistic forms, had dominated the seventeenth century, a new sensibility, the Rococo, emerged in the early years of the next century. The ...

Eighteenth-Century French Fashions in Full Color

Dover Publications, 1982

A helpful visual overview of late 18th century fashion
Stella Blum has selected plates of 18th century fashion from the Metropolitan Museum's collection and reproduced them here in full colour. You certinally don't get all the plates produced in the 18th century but what you get is a helpful and representitive selection. ...

Elements of Sonata Theory: Norms, Types, and Deformations in the Late-Eighteenth-Century Sonata

James Hepokoski, Warren Darcy

Oxford University Press, USA, 2006

The Last Word on "Sonata-Form"
As a pianist and music-lover, I have long been fascinated by the movement structure called "sonata-form." "Sonata-form" is the structure of the first movements (and many other movements) of almost every major piece of classical music from the Classical Era. Now a clear ...

Quicksilver: The Baroque Cycle #1 (The Baroque Cycle)

Neal Stephenson

HarperTorch, 2006

This is a paperback of the first 3rd of Volume 1: Quicksilver
Here's the complete list to help people avoid buying something they already have: Quicksilver, Vol. I of the Baroque Cycle Book 1 - Quicksilver Book 2 - The King of the Vagabonds Book 3 - Odalisque The Confusion, Vol. II of the Baroque Cycle Book 4 - ...

Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico

Ilona Katzew

Yale University Press, 2005

the best casta painting book in english
I had been waiting for years for someone to put together a comprehensive book on the casta painting genre. The book contains many, many beautiful reproductions and there are even ones that I had not seen before. And Katzew's thesis on the subject puts together every ...