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Catalogue of the Papers of James Boswell at Yale University
This three-volume work provides a detailed description of the complete papers of James Boswell, the famous eighteenth-century diarist and biographer of Samuel Johnson. The collection, held at Yale University, contains over 10...
Allan Ramsay
Painter, Essayist and Man of the Enlightenment
Allan Ramsay, court painter to King George III, was one of the major portrait painters of the eighteenth-century British school. Born in Edinburgh, he was also an important figure in the Scottish Enlightenment; his
Learn to Write Chinese Characters
Chinese characters are one of the most fascinating aspects of the language and occupy a prominent place in Chinese culture. Good handwriting is also very important in learning Chinese: the strokes that make up the characters...
The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1766-1769
Volume 1: 1766-1767
This book is the first in a two-volume edition of James Boswell's correspondence during a period that was one of the happiest and most productive of his life—from his return from the Grand Tour in February 1766 to his...
The Image of Antiquity
Ancient Britain and the Romantic Imagination
How was the remote past of Britain imagined in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? What part did the visual arts play in that process? In this book Sam Smiles argues that the ancient Britain of the romantic imagination...
The Age of the Baroque in Portugal
The eighteenth century was a true golden age for the visual arts in Portugal. The discovery of fabulous deposits of gold, diamonds, and emeralds in Brazil suddenly made Portugal’s court the wealthiest in all of Europe,...
Integrating Services for Children and Families
Understanding the Past to Shape the Future
As the state of America's children and families continues to degenerate, the human services system struggles to render the support it was designed to provide. Despite such efforts, American families have difficulty accessing...
The Tory View of Landscape
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, England seemed to be transformed by various kinds of "improvements" in gardening and the ornamentation of the landscape. Many people saw these changes as reflections of highly...
The Shaker Experience in America
A History of the United Society of Believers
The Shakers, once a radical religious sect whose members were despised and harassed by their fellow Americans, have in recent years become celebrated—and sentimentalized—for their communal way of life, the simplicity...
Japanese, The Spoken Language
Part 1, A Question and Answer Supplement
This supplement to Japanese: The Spoken Languages (JSL), Part I, has been prepared to guide the instructor and the student step-by-step through the explanations of structure that are found in the main textbook. The...