Harlequin Empire


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Under the 1737 Licensing Act, Covent Garden, Dury Lane and regional Theatres Royal held a monopoly on the dramatic canon. This work explores the presentation of foreign cultures and ethnicities on the popular British stage from 1750 to 1840. It argues that this illegitimate stage was the site for a plebeian Enlightenment.










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Catalogue of Autographs, Etc


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Class


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This book describes the living-room artifacts, clothing styles, and intellectual proclivities of American classes from top to bottom.




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All that is Solid Melts Into Air


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The experience of modernization -- the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world -- and modernism in art, literature and architecture are brilliantly integrated in this account.