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Emergence Of A Hero - A Tale Of Romantic Love In Russia Around 1800

by Andrei Zorin

82,14€ + 10% CARD

 A history of Russian emotional culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, as told through the story of the life and death of Andrei Turgenev (1781-1803), the author of a confessional diary, a gifted poet, and an early Russian Romantic who failed to live up to the principles and models he cherished.
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Emergence Of A Hero - A Tale Of Romantic Love In Russia Around 1800

by Andrei Zorin

82,14€ + 10% CARD

 A history of Russian emotional culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, as told through the story of the life and death of Andrei Turgenev (1781-1803), the author of a confessional diary, a gifted poet, and an early Russian Romantic who failed to live up to the principles and models he cherished.
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Emotions In A Crusading Context, 1095-1291

by Stephen J. (Past And Present Fellow, Past And Present Fellow, Institute Of Historical Research, School Of Advanced Study, University Of London) Spencer

35,81€ + 10% CARD

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 Emotions in a Crusading Context is the first book-length study of the emotional rhetoric of crusading. It investigates the ways in which a number of emotions and affective displays - primarily fear, anger, and weeping - were understood, represented, and utilised in twelfth- and thirteenth-century western narratives of the crusades.
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The Emergence Of A Hero - A Tale Of Romantic Love In Russia Around 1800

by Andrei (Professor And Chair Of Russian, Professor And Chair Of Russian, University Of Oxford) Zorin

118,97€ + 10% CARD

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 A history of Russian emotional culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, as told through the story of the life and death of Andrei Turgenev (1781-1803), the author of a confessional diary, a gifted poet, and an early Russian Romantic who failed to live up to the principles and models he cherished.
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Thinking About Tears - Crying And Weeping In Long-Eighteenth-Century France

by Marco Menin

92,74€ + 10% CARD

 A crucial period for the birth of modernity, France's 'long eighteenth century' (c. 1650-1820) was an era marked by the formulation of a new aesthetic and ethical code revolving around the intensification of emotions and the hyperbolic use of weeping. IThinking About Tears reveals another side to a period often called 'the age of reason'.
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Thinking About Tears - Crying And Weeping In Long-Eighteenth-Century France

by Marco Menin

92,74€ + 10% CARD

 A crucial period for the birth of modernity, France's 'long eighteenth century' (c. 1650-1820) was an era marked by the formulation of a new aesthetic and ethical code revolving around the intensification of emotions and the hyperbolic use of weeping. IThinking About Tears reveals another side to a period often called 'the age of reason'.
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History Of Cancer And Emotions In Twentieth-Century Germany

by Bettina Hitzer

92,74€ + 10% CARD

 This study details the history of cancer and emotions in twentieth-century Germany and thus follows the cancer-associated transformations of emotional regimes, emotional politics, and emotional experiences through five different political systems.
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History Of Cancer And Emotions In Twentieth-Century Germany

by Bettina Hitzer

92,74€ + 10% CARD

 This study details the history of cancer and emotions in twentieth-century Germany and thus follows the cancer-associated transformations of emotional regimes, emotional politics, and emotional experiences through five different political systems.
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Suppose And Tell - The Semantics And Heuristics Of Conditionals

by Timothy (University Of Oxford) Williamson

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 What does 'if' mean? Timothy Williamson presents a controversial new approach to understanding conditional thinking, which is central to human cognitive life. He argues that in using 'if' we rely on psychological heuristics, fast and frugal methods which can lead us to trust faulty data and prematurely reject simple theories.
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The Game Of Love In Georgian England - Courtship, Emotions, And Material Culture

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 Courtship in Georgian England was a decisive moment in the life cycle, often imagined as a tactical game. Sally Holloway uses a rich selection of material and written sources to explore the emotional experience of courtship between Georgian men and women.
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Thinking About Tears - Crying And Weeping In Long-Eighteenth-Century France

138,57€ + 10% CARD

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 A crucial period for the birth of modernity, France's 'long eighteenth century' (c. 1650-1820) was an era marked by the formulation of a new aesthetic and ethical code revolving around the intensification of emotions and the hyperbolic use of weeping. IThinking About Tears reveals another side to a period often called 'the age of reason'.
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The History Of Cancer And Emotions In Twentieth-Century Germany

145,33€ + 10% CARD

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 This study details the history of cancer and emotions in twentieth-century Germany and thus follows the cancer-associated transformations of emotional regimes, emotional politics, and emotional experiences through five different political systems.
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German Angst - Fear And Democracy In The Federal Republic Of Germany

by Frank (Professor Of History, Professor Of History, University Of California, San Diego) Biess

46,62€ + 10% CARD

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 While fear and anxiety have historically been associated with authoritarian regimes, Frank Biess demonstrates the ambivalent role of these emotions in the democratization of West Germany, where fears and anxieties about the country's catastrophic past and uncertain future both undermined democracy and stabilized the emerging Federal Republic.
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Caritas - Neighbourly Love And The Early Modern Self

by Katie Barclay

84,79€ + 10% CARD

 This book explores caritas, the idea of neighboury love, as a key ethic that shaped how early modern people lived, loved, and thought about the self.
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Caritas - Neighbourly Love And The Early Modern Self

by Katie Barclay

84,79€ + 10% CARD

 This book explores caritas, the idea of neighboury love, as a key ethic that shaped how early modern people lived, loved, and thought about the self.
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Emotional Economy Of Holidaymaking - Health, Pleasure, And Class In Britain, 1870-1918

by Yaara Benger Alaluf

84,79€ + 10% CARD

 The Emotional Economy of Holidaymaking explores the rise of popular holidaymaking in late-nineteenth-century Britain, generally considered to be the birthplace of mass tourism. It unravels the role emotions played in British spa and seaside holiday cultures.
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Emotional Economy Of Holidaymaking - Health, Pleasure, And Class In Britain, 1870-1918

by Yaara Benger Alaluf

84,79€ + 10% CARD

 The Emotional Economy of Holidaymaking explores the rise of popular holidaymaking in late-nineteenth-century Britain, generally considered to be the birthplace of mass tourism. It unravels the role emotions played in British spa and seaside holiday cultures.
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Enthusiasm - Emotional Practices Of Conviction In Modern Germany

by Monique Scheer

98,04€ + 10% CARD

 Enthusiasm is desirable, yet dangerous. More than just affective intensity, it entails belief. Combining historical and ethnographic methods, this book explores different styles of religious enthusiasm in Modern Germany, inflected by historical traditions and social milieus, in an effort to understand the modern ambivalence toward this feeling.
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Enthusiasm - Emotional Practices Of Conviction In Modern Germany

by Monique Scheer

98,04€ + 10% CARD

 Enthusiasm is desirable, yet dangerous. More than just affective intensity, it entails belief. Combining historical and ethnographic methods, this book explores different styles of religious enthusiasm in Modern Germany, inflected by historical traditions and social milieus, in an effort to understand the modern ambivalence toward this feeling.
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Emotions Of Internationalism - Feeling International Cooperation In The Alps In The Interwar Period

by Ilaria Scaglia

91,41€ + 10% CARD

 The Emotions of Internationalism follows a number of international people and institutions active in the Alps in the 1920s and 1930s, exploring how they understood emotions and how they tried to employ them to achieve their political and non-political goals.
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Emotions Of Internationalism - Feeling International Cooperation In The Alps In The Interwar Period

by Ilaria Scaglia

91,41€ + 10% CARD

 The Emotions of Internationalism follows a number of international people and institutions active in the Alps in the 1920s and 1930s, exploring how they understood emotions and how they tried to employ them to achieve their political and non-political goals.
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Emotions In A Crusading Context, 1095-1291

by Stephen J. Spencer

25,16€ + 10% CARD

 Emotions in a Crusading Context is the first book-length study of the emotional rhetoric of crusading. It investigates the ways in which a number of emotions and affective displays - primarily fear, anger, and weeping - were understood, represented, and utilised in twelfth- and thirteenth-century western narratives of the crusades.
ENGLISH

Emotions In A Crusading Context, 1095-1291

by Stephen J. Spencer

25,16€ + 10% CARD

 Emotions in a Crusading Context is the first book-length study of the emotional rhetoric of crusading. It investigates the ways in which a number of emotions and affective displays - primarily fear, anger, and weeping - were understood, represented, and utilised in twelfth- and thirteenth-century western narratives of the crusades.
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Feeling Revolution - Cinema, Genre, And The Politics Of Affect Under Stalin

by Anna Toropova

79,49€ + 10% CARD

 Feeling Revolution explores the important role played by film genres in cultivating the Stalin era's distinctive emotional values and norms -- ranging from happiness to hatred for enemies. Toropova's exploration of a wide variety of primary sources brings to light the Soviet film industry's battle to shape new forms of audience response.
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