Mary Wollstonecraft’s visionary treatise, originally published in 1792, was the first book to present women’s rights as an issue of universal human rights. Ideal for ...
Continue Reading → English writer, philosopher and pioneering advocate of women’s rights, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution and ...
Continue Reading → This volume contains a reprint of the English translation (1843) by Sir George Webbe Dasent of Rask’s Anvising till Isländskan eller Nordiska Fornspråket (1818). ...
Continue Reading →This volume contains a reprint of the English translation (1843) by Sir George Webbe Dasent of Rask’s Anvising till Isländskan eller Nordiska Fornspråket (1818). This ...
Continue Reading → Rasmus Kristian Rask (born Rasmus Christian Nielsen Rasch, 1787–1832) was a Danish linguist and philologist. He wrote several grammars and worked on comparative phonology ...
Continue Reading → The Tableau économique or Economic Table is an economic model first described by French economist François Quesnay in 1758, which laid the foundation of ...
Continue Reading → The Bird,” was first published in 1856. It has since been followed by “L’Insecte” and “La Mer;” the three works forming a trilogy which ...
Continue Reading →Michelet deliberately threw his intimate self into his narrative, convinced that this was the way to achieve the historian’s ultimate aim: the resurrection (or re-creation) ...
Continue Reading →Michelet deliberately threw his intimate self into his narrative, convinced that this was the way to achieve the historian’s ultimate aim: the resurrection (or re-creation) ...
Continue Reading → One of the greatest Romantic historians and immensely popular during his lifetime, Jules Michelet (1798-1874) fell into disfavour among the positivist historians who came ...
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