This richly illustrated volume, the first devoted to maritime art and galley slavery in early modern France, shows how royal propagandists used the image and labor of enslaved Muslims to glorify Louis XIV. Mediterranean maritime art and the forced labor on which it depended were fundamental to the politics and propaganda of France’s King Louis XIV (r. 1643–1715). Yet most stud...(展开全部)

This richly illustrated volume, the first devoted to maritime art and galley slavery in early modern France, shows how royal propagandists used the image and labor of enslaved Muslims to glorify Louis XIV. Mediterranean maritime art and the forced labor on which it depended were fundamental to the politics and propaganda of France’s King Louis XIV (r. 1643–1715). Yet most stud...(展开全部)

The Courtiers' Anatomists is about dead bodies and live animals in Louis XIV's Paris--and the surprising links between them. Examining the practice of seventeenth-century anatomy, Anita Guerrini reveals how anatomy and natural history were connected through animal dissection and vivisection. Driven by an insatiable curiosity, Parisian scientists, with the support of the king, d...(展开全部)

The past twenty-five years have brought a dramatic expansion of scholarship in maritime history, including new research on piracy, long-distance trade, and seafaring cultures. Yet maritime history still inhabits an isolated corner of world history, according to editors Lauren Benton and Nathan Perl-Rosenthal. Benton and Perl-Rosenthal urge historians to place the relationship b...(展开全部)

The past twenty-five years have brought a dramatic expansion of scholarship in maritime history, including new research on piracy, long-distance trade, and seafaring cultures. Yet maritime history still inhabits an isolated corner of world history, according to editors Lauren Benton and Nathan Perl-Rosenthal. Benton and Perl-Rosenthal urge historians to place the relationship b...(展开全部)

《最小说》最受读者喜爱的新生代作家 文字技巧与情节铺设并驾齐驱 最世文化一线实力派代表王小立 在处女作《任凭这空虚沸腾》创造出超过三十万的惊人销售记录之后，她却沉寂至今。时至今日，她终于带来了这本滚烫的冷书——《又冷又明亮》：一个在【赢不了】，却又【不想输】之间，苦苦挣扎的【励志】而又【虐心】的故事——这酸涩的剧情，像极了【恋爱】本身。

《最小说》最受读者喜爱的新生代作家 文字技巧与情节铺设并驾齐驱 最世文化一线实力派代表王小立 在处女作《任凭这空虚沸腾》创造出超过三十万的惊人销售记录之后，她却沉寂至今。时至今日，她终于带来了这本滚烫的冷书——《又冷又明亮》：一个在【赢不了】，却又【不想输】之间，苦苦挣扎的【励志】而又【虐心】的故事——这酸涩的剧情，像极了【恋爱】本身。

Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011. Staring at the Sun charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginning as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020. We follow her bruising experience in marriage, her probing of male truths, her adventures in motherhood and in China and we learn cannot fail to be mov...(展开全部)

Staring at the Sun charts the life of Jean Serjeant, from her beginning as a naive, carefree country girl before the war through to her wry and trenchant old age in the year 2020. We follow her bruising experience in marriage, her probing of male truths, her adventures in motherhood and in China and we cannot fail to be moved by the questions she asks of life and the often unsa...(展开全部)