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El mundo de Galdós: teoría, tradición y evolución creativa del pensamiento socio-literario galdosiano
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ISBN: 8430096795 9788430096794 Year: 1983 Volume: 3 Publisher: Santander: Sociedad Menendez Pelayo,


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The Peculiar Life of Sundays
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ISBN: 0674041038 9780674041035 9780674031685 0674031687 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge, MA

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From Augustine to Caesarius, through the Reformation and the Puritan flight from England, down through the ages to contemporary debates about Sunday worship, Miller explores the fascinating history of the Sabbath.


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The word made visible in the painted image : perspective, proportion, witness and threshold in Italian renaissance painting
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ISBN: 9781443885423 1443885428 1443886750 9781443886758 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambridge Scholars


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The Book of Angels
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ISBN: 1527535436 1527534340 9781527535435 9781527534346 Year: 2019 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne

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Angels --- Biblical teaching.


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Feudalism, venality, and revolution
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ISBN: 1526158353 1526148374 1526148366 9781526148377 1526148382 9781526148360 9781526148384 Year: 2020 Publisher: Manchester

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This resource is about the most sweeping reform in the history of the French monarchy: the creation of assemblies at all levels of administration. The resistance of lords and office holders exposed their hereditary power over commoners, who sought to throw off their subordination when the crisis of the monarchy offered the opportunity in 1789.


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Del realismo/naturalismo al modernismo: Galdós, Zola, Revilla y Clarín (1870-1901)
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ISBN: 8481030082 9788481030082 Year: 1993 Publisher: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: Cabildo insular de Gran Canaria,

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Conversation : a history of a declining art
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ISBN: 0300110308 030013018X 1281722375 9786611722371 Year: 2006 Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press,

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Essayist Stephen Miller pursues a lifelong interest in conversation by taking an historical and philosophical view of the subject. He chronicles the art of conversation in Western civilization from its beginnings in ancient Greece to its apex in eighteenth-century Britain to its current endangered state in America. As Harry G. Frankfurt brought wide attention to the art of bullshit in his recent bestselling On Bullshit, so Miller now brings the art of conversation into the light, revealing why good conversation matters and why it is in decline.Miller explores the conversation about conversation among such great writers as Cicero, Montaigne, Swift, Defoe, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and Virginia Woolf. He focuses on the world of British coffeehouses and clubs in "The Age of Conversation" and examines how this era ended. Turning his attention to the United States, the author traces a prolonged decline in the theory and practice of conversation from Benjamin Franklin through Hemingway to Dick Cheney. He cites our technology (iPods, cell phones, and video games) and our insistence on unguarded forthrightness as well as our fear of being judgmental as powerful forces that are likely to diminish the art of conversation.


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State and society in eighteenth-century France
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ISBN: 0813218438 9780813218434 9780813215174 081321517X Year: 2008 Publisher: Washington, D.C. Catholic University of America Press

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Carfin Grotto : national Marian shrine for Scotland : place of pilgrimage and prayer
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State and Society in Eighteenth-Century France : A Study in Political Power and Popular Revolution in Languedoc. Revised and Updated Edition
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ISBN: 9789004526112 9789004526105 Year: 2022 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill

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Taking the province of Languedoc as a microcosm for France as a whole, this comprehensively researched riveting narrative demonstrates the way in which the class relations enforced by the absolutist state brought about the revolutionary upheaval of 1789. In contrast to the traditional Marxist interpretation of emerging capitalism and a revolutionary bourgeoisie, this book shows that commodified labor, fundamental to the existence of a capitalist bourgeoisie, did not take shape in eighteenth-century France. The mass of the population consisted of peasants and artisans in possession of land and workshops, and embedded in autonomous communities. The old regime bourgeoisie and nobility thus developed within the absolutist state in order to have the political means to impose feudal forms of exploitation on the people. These class relations explain the crisis of 1789 and the revolutionary conflicts of the 1790s.

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