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Lynn Hunt

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Lynn Avery Hunt

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Telling the Truth about History

Jack Richard Censer

Jack R. Mason

Book includes selected images and documents from the accompanying CD-ROM, prepared by the authors with the support of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University and the American Social History Project at City University of New York. Features of the CD-ROM include primary documents (carefully chosen, translated, and placed in their proper historical contexts by a team of historians), songs, maps, and more than 300 images (caricatures, portraits, sculptures, and photographs of artifacts of material culture)--many previously available only to specialists in the field. These hard-to-find images, gathered from repositories in France and the United States, comprise an unparalleled and powerful visual record of the Revolution.

Exploring the French Revolution

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution

W. W. Mijnhardt

In an era of intense religious conflict in Europe and ongoing exploration of the lands beyond Europe, Cï¿½rï¿½monies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (1723-37) set a new agenda for thinking about faith and provided a lasting visual template for representing the world's religions. In the work's seven massive volumes, Jean Frederic Bernard and the renowned engraver Bernard Picart invited readers to view religions and their institutions as cultural practices. Bernard Picart and the First Global Vision of Religion approaches this much-cited but little-studied work from a variety of angles. Its fifteen scholarly essays examine Bernard and Picart's authorial and artistic strategies, the handling of religious difference in Cï¿½rï¿½monies et coutumes religieuses, and the cultural context that fostered the creation of one of the most influential works of comparative religion ever published.

Bernard Picart and the First Global Vision of Religion

Lynn Avery Hunt

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