Good Fisheries vs. Bad Fisheries: Ideological and Scientific Base for the Governmental Projects of Modernization of Russian System of Marine Harvesting in the Eighteenth Century
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-41139-2_4
Abstract: In the eighteenth century, Peter the Great and his successors invested a lot of energy and funding to make Russia a European country. This process included the transformation of political, economic and cultural life –… read more here.
Keywords: marine harvesting; eighteenth century; century; base ... See more keywords
Theoretical virtues in eighteenth-century debates on animal cognition
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DOI: 10.1007/s40656-020-00332-z
Abstract: Within eighteenth-century debates on animal cognition we can distinguish at least three main theoretical positions: (i) Buffon’s mechanism, (ii) Reimarus’ theory of instincts, and (iii) the sensationalism of Condillac and Leroy. In this paper, I… read more here.
Keywords: animal cognition; eighteenth century; century debates; theoretical virtues ... See more keywords
Zachary Valentine Wright. Realizing Islam: The Tijaniyya in North Africa and the Eighteenth-Century Muslim World. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. 326 pp. Map. Bibliography. Index. $29.95. Paper. ISBN: 978-1-4696-6082-0.
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DOI: 10.1017/asr.2021.46
Abstract: In Europhone scholarship, the long eighteenth century (variously referred to as the “Age of Reason,” “The Enlightenment,” and the “Age of Revolutions”) is often regarded as the foundation of the analytical category of “modernity.” As… read more here.
Keywords: university; eighteenth century; century; north carolina ... See more keywords
Amy J. Rodgers. A Monster with a Thousand Hands: The Discursive Spectator in Early Modern England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Pp. 231. $69.95 (cloth).
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DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2019.159
Abstract: key characteristics of the “Indian” were assimilated into the British sense of self, so, too, were these objects. Although “Indian” weapons increasingly signified indigenous violence, and thus their Britishness had to be disavowed, these objects… read more here.
Keywords: rodgers monster; work; eighteenth century; british representations ... See more keywords
One British Thing: A Manuscript Recipe Book, ca. 1690–1730
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DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2019.283
Abstract: Abstract A single eighteenth-century British manuscript recipe book, bound in parchment decorated with gold tooling, can tell us an enormous amount about Britain's gastronomic and imperial ambitions. That is because this book, now known by… read more here.
Keywords: recipe book; recipe; book; eighteenth century ... See more keywords
The Maubara fort, a relic of eighteenth-century local autonomy and Dutch–Portuguese rivalry on Timor
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DOI: 10.1017/s0022463419000225
Abstract: The European rivals for colonial domination on the island of Timor in the eighteenth century relied on alliances with the many Timorese principalities for influence outside their own small settlements; the Dutch at Kupang and… read more here.
Keywords: timor; fort; dutch; maubara ... See more keywords
An urban–rural continuum? A spatial comparison in mid-eighteenth-century northern Germany
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DOI: 10.1017/s096392682000022x
Abstract: Abstract The spatial growth of German cities in the years of upheaval in the nineteenth century has been, and remains, the subject of intense historical research. However, the origins of the socio-economic processes underlying these… read more here.
Keywords: comparison; mid eighteenth; rural continuum; urban rural ... See more keywords
David Hume, the Académie des inscriptions and the Nature of Historical Evidence in the Early Eighteenth Century
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DOI: 10.1017/s1479244319000404
Abstract: Philosophical history became the Enlightenment genre of historical writing par excellence supposedly by “defeating” established humanist erudite history and antiquarianism. This article argues that, contrary to established perceptions, philosophical history developed out of a concern… read more here.
Keywords: hume; eighteenth century; historical evidence; history ... See more keywords
On the economic importance of the slave plantation complex to the British economy during the eighteenth century: a value-added approach
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DOI: 10.1017/s1740022818000177
Abstract: Abstract There has been a long-standing debate on the global importance of the African external slave trades. While many scholars believe these to have been detrimental to African development, they were clearly a determining factor… read more here.
Keywords: plantation; value added; british economy; eighteenth century ... See more keywords
Sex in the City that Peter Built: The Demimonde and Sociability in Mid-Eighteenth Century St. Petersburg
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DOI: 10.1017/slr.2017.270
Abstract: This article uses the materials of the Drezdensha affair, a large-scale investigation of “indecency” in St. Petersburg in 1750, to explore unofficial sociability among the Imperial elite, and to map out the institutional, social, and… read more here.
Keywords: sociability; petersburg; peter; eighteenth century ... See more keywords
Newtonianism and information control in Rome at the wake of the eighteenth century
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DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2020.1714291
Abstract: ABSTRACT This paper offers an opportunity to ponder the way the Catholic Church and its methods of information control reshaped, and paradoxically even enabled, the dissemination and practice of science in early modern Italy. Focusing… read more here.
Keywords: church; eighteenth century; information control;