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On Hysteria The Invention of a Medical Category between 1670 and 1820
ISBN: HB: 9780226275543, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones
These days, hysteria is known as a discredited diagnosis that was used to group and pathologize a wide range of conditions and behaviors in women. But for a long time, it was seen as a legitimate category of medical problem – and one that, originally...
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Czechs and Germans 1848-2004 The Sudeten Question and the Transformation of Central Europe
ISBN: PB: 9788024621449, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, August 2015
450 pp., 24.1x17.5 cm, 15 halftones, 3 maps
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In "Czechs and Germans 1848-2004", Vaclav Houzvicka describes the development of the Czech-German national controversies from the mid-nineteenth century through the establishing of the Cze...
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Vital Minimum Need, Science, and Politics in Modern France
ISBN: HB: 9780226251561, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 4 tables
What constitutes a need? Who gets to decide what people do or do not need? In modern France, scientists, both amateur and professional, were engaged in defining and measuring human needs. These scientists did not trust in a providential economy to di...
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Irish Franciscans in Prague 1629-1786
ISBN: PB: 9788024626765, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, July 2015
200 pp., 24.1x17 cm, 30 halftones
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! At the end of the sixteenth century, Queen Elizabeth I forced the Irish Franciscans into exile. Of the four continental provinces to which the Irish Franciscans fled, the Prague Franciscan...
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£22,50
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Androids in the Enlightenment Mechanics, Artisans, and Cultures of the Self
ISBN: PB: 9780226034164, ISBN: HB: 9780226034027, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones, 4 line illus.
The eighteenth century saw the creation of a number of remarkable mechanical androids: at least ten prominent automata were built between 1735 and 1810 by clockmakers, court mechanics, and other artisans from France, Switzerland, Austria, and the Ger...
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Invisible Hands Self-Organization in the Eighteenth Century
ISBN: HB: 9780226752051, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones
Why is the world orderly, and how does this order come to be? Human beings inhabit a multitude of apparently ordered systems – natural, social, political, economic, cognitive, and others – whose origins and purposes are often obscure. In the eighteen...
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£34,00
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Paris Summit, 1377-78 Emperor Charles IV and King Charles V of France
ISBN: HB: 9788024625225, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2015
680 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 150 colour plates
Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The Czech king and Roman Emperor Charles IV met with the French king Charles V in Paris in 1378. Reconstructing the journey to this meeting with deft narrative talent, Frantisek Smahel tra...
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Icon Curtain The Cold War's Quiet Border
ISBN: HB: 9780226154190, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 halftones
The Iron Curtain did not exist – at least not as we usually imagine it. Rather than a stark, unbroken line dividing East and West in Cold War Europe, the Iron Curtain was instead made up of distinct landscapes, many in the grip of divergent historica...
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Europeans Engaging the Atlantic Knowledge and Trade, 1500-1800
ISBN: PB: 9783593501703, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2015
185 pp., 21x13.9 cm
"Europeans Engaging the Atlantic" offers innovative perspectives on historical European knowledge concerning the "New World" and on trade and commerce therewith. In so doing, it enhances our understanding of how, when, and why early modern Europeans...
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Dreamland of Humanists Warburg, Cassirer, Panofsky, and the Hamburg School
ISBN: PB: 9780226272467, ISBN: HB: 9780226061689, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones
Deemed by Heinrich Heine a city of merchants where poets go to die, Hamburg was an improbable setting for a major intellectual movement. Yet it was there, at the end of World War I, at a new university in this commercial center, that a trio of twenti...
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