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UNINA9910136606103321 |
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Zwierlein Cornel |
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Imperial unknowns : the French and British in the Mediterranean, 1650-1750 / / Cornel Zwierlein [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2016 |
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1-316-73307-6 |
1-316-73114-6 |
1-316-74465-5 |
1-316-61750-5 |
1-316-71104-8 |
1-316-74658-5 |
1-316-75430-8 |
1-316-74851-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiii, 416 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Mediterranean Region Commerce History 17th century |
Mediterranean Region Commerce History 18th century |
Mediterranean Region Relations Great Britain |
Mediterranean Region Relations France |
Great Britain Relations Mediterranean Region |
France Relations Mediterranean Region |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Oct 2016). |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover ; Half-title page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Note on Conventions; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; History of Empires, History of Ignorance; Actors, Institutions, Places, Period; Terminology and the Questions a History of Ignorance Asks; Disclaimers: The Author's Ignorances; 1 Politics and Economy: Nationalizing Economics; The Constructive Power of Non-Knowledge; Norms as Specifiers of National Non-Knowledge; Baldus versus Grotius: Conceiving the Empires and Their Unknowns; Conclusion: Operative National Non-Knowledge |
2 Religion: Empires Ignoring, Learning, Forgetting ReligionsEntangling |
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Powers of Non-Knowledge between West and East (Greek Church, Samaritans, Phoenicians); English Chaplains versus French State Catholicism: Conditions and Functions of Non-Knowledge Communication; Comparison and Conclusion; 3 History: How to Cope with Unconscious Ignorance; The Forgotten Arabic Middle Ages; Growing Awareness; Structure Replaces Content; Standardization and Spatialization; Conclusion; 4 Science: Mediterranean Empires and Scientific Unknowns; From Avicenna to the Queries of the Royal Society (1692) |
Enlightened FalsificationsFrom Natural History to Nation's History; Conclusion: Scientific Unknowns and the Mediterranean; Conclusion; Historicizing Ignorance, Synchronizing Empires; Bibliography; Index |
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In this major new study, the history of the French and British trading empires in the early modern Mediterranean is used as a setting to test a new approach to the history of ignorance: how can we understand the very act of ignoring - in political, economic, religious, cultural and scientific communication - as a fundamental trigger that sets knowledge in motion? Zwierlein explores whether the Scientific Revolution between 1650 and 1750 can be understood as just one of what were in fact many simultaneous epistemic movements and considers the role of the European empires in this phenomenon. Deconstructing central categories like the mercantilist 'national', the exchange of 'confessions' between Western and Eastern Christians and the bridging of cultural gaps between European and Ottoman subjects, Zwierlein argues that understanding what was not known by historical agents can be just as important as the history of knowledge itself. |
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UNINA9910780251303321 |
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Autore |
Brück M. T (Mary T.) |
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Agnes Mary Clerke and the rise of astrophysics / / M.T. Brück [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002 |
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1-107-12478-6 |
0-511-01999-8 |
1-280-43371-X |
9786610433711 |
0-511-17645-7 |
0-511-15727-4 |
0-511-32957-1 |
0-511-53652-6 |
0-511-04467-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 275 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Astronomers - Ireland |
Astronomy - History - 19th century |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-270) and index. |
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Family background in County Cork -- Ireland and Italy -- London, the literary scene -- The History of astronomy -- A circle of astronomers -- A visit to South Africa -- The System of the stars -- Social life in scientific circles -- Homer, the Herschels and a revised History -- The opinion moulder -- Popularisation, cryogenics and evolution -- Problems in astrophysics -- Women in astronomy in Britain in Agnes Clerke's time -- Revised System of the stars -- Cosmogonies, cosmology and nature's spiritual clues -- Last days and retrospect. |
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Born in Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century, Agnes Mary Clerke achieved fame as the author of A History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century. Through her quarter-century career, she became the leading commentator on astronomy and astrophysics in the English-speaking world. The biography of Agnes Clerke describes the |
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life and work of this extraordinary woman. It also chronicles the development of astronomy in the last decades of pre-Einstein science, and introduces many of the great figures in astronomy of that age including Huggins, Lockyer, Holden and Pickering; their achievements and their rivalries. The story follows her friendship with William and Margaret Huggins, and her prolific correspondence with eminent astronomers of the time. This biography will fascinate scientists, and anyone who admires intellectual achievement brought about through love of learning and sheer hard work. |
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UNINA9910383859003321 |
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Autore |
Smith Marian Elizabeth |
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Titolo |
Ballet and Opera in the Age of Giselle / / Marian Smith |
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Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2010] |
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0-691-04994-7 |
1-4008-3247-0 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Princeton Studies in Opera ; ; 21 |
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Ballet - France - Paris - History - 19th century |
Opera - France - Paris - 19th century |
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Includes libretto for Giselle in French with English translation. |
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Includes bibliographical references, and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note to the Reader: A Few Terms -- Chapter One. Introduction: Music and the Story -- Chapter Two. A Family Resemblance -- Chapter Three. The Lighter Tone of Ballet-Pantomime -- Chapter Four. Ballet-Pantomime and Silent Language -- Chapter Five. Hybrid Works at the Opéra -- Chapter Six. Giselle -- Appendix One. Ballet-Pantomimes and Operas Produced at the Paris Opera, 1825 -1850 -- Appendix Two. The Giselle Libretto -- Appendix Three. Sources for Musical Examples -- Notes -- Index |
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Marian Smith recaptures a rich period in French musical theater when |
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ballet and opera were intimately connected. Focusing on the age of Giselle at the Paris Opéra (from the 1830's through the 1840's), Smith offers an unprecedented look at the structural and thematic relationship between the two genres. She argues that a deeper understanding of both ballet and opera--and of nineteenth-century theater-going culture in general--may be gained by examining them within the same framework instead of following the usual practice of telling their histories separately. This handsomely illustrated book ultimately provides a new portrait of the Opéra during a period long celebrated for its box-office successes in both genres. Smith begins by showing how gestures were encoded in the musical language that composers used in ballet and in opera. She moves on to a wide range of topics, including the relationship between the gestures of the singers and the movements of the dancers, and the distinction between dance that represents dancing (entertainment staged within the story of the opera) and dance that represents action. Smith maintains that ballet-pantomime and opera continued to rely on each other well into the nineteenth century, even as they thrived independently. The "divorce" between the two arts occurred little by little, and may be traced through unlikely sources: controversies in the press about the changing nature of ballet-pantomime music, shifting ideas about originality, complaints about the ridiculousness of pantomime, and a little-known rehearsal score for Giselle. ? |
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