Author: EMMA ROTHSCHILD
Title: The Inner Life of Empires. An Eighteenth-Century History
Description: Princeton University Press, 2011. Paperback. Pp: 483. They were abolitionists, speculators, slave owners, government officials, and occasional politicians. They were observers of the anxieties and dramas of empire. And they were from one family. The Inner Life of Empires tells the intimate history of the Johnstones-four sisters and seven brothers who lived in Scotland and around the globe in the fast-changing eighteenth century. Piecing together their voyages, marriages, debts, and lawsuits, and examining their ideas, sentiments, and values, renowned historian Emma Rothschild illuminates a tumultuous period that created the modern economy, the British Empire, and the philosophical Enlightenment. ISBN: 9780691156125. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
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Title: The Inner Life of Empires. An Eighteenth-Century History
Description: Princeton University Press, 2011. Paperback. Pp: 483. They were abolitionists, speculators, slave owners, government officials, and occasional politicians. They were observers of the anxieties and dramas of empire. And they were from one family. The Inner Life of Empires tells the intimate history of the Johnstones-four sisters and seven brothers who lived in Scotland and around the globe in the fast-changing eighteenth century. Piecing together their voyages, marriages, debts, and lawsuits, and examining their ideas, sentiments, and values, renowned historian Emma Rothschild illuminates a tumultuous period that created the modern economy, the British Empire, and the philosophical Enlightenment. ISBN: 9780691156125. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780691156125
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- Book number: 1965666
- Book number: 1965666
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