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History/Military The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle against Filth and Germs

David S. Barnes "The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle against Filth and Germs"The Johns Hopkins University Press | 2006-05-17 | ISBN: 0801883490 | 328 pages | PDF | 2,3 MBLate in the summer of 1880, a wave of odors e ...

Arts & Design Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Paris

Miranda Gill "Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Paris"Oxford University Press | English | 2009-03-15 | ISBN: 0199543283 | 320 pages | PDF | 2,3 MBWhat did it mean to call someone 'eccentric' in nineteenth-centu ...

Science/Engineering Altered Sensations: Rudolph Koenig's Acoustical Workshop in Nineteenth-Century Paris (Archimedes)

David Pantalony, "Altered Sensations: Rudolph Koenig's Acoustical Workshop in Nineteenth-Century Paris (Archimedes)" Springer | 2009 | ISBN: 9048128153 | 372 pages | PDF | 8,5 MB Rudolph Koenig was one of the more prolific and colourful i ...

History/Military Popular Bohemia: Modernism and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris

Popular Bohemia: Modernism and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris By Mary GluckPublisher: Harvard University Press 2005 | 238 Pages | ISBN: 0674015304 | PDF | 1 MBGluck's book is a wonderfully conceived contribution to the over ...

Technical Recreating Newton: Newtonian Biography and the Making of Nineteenth-Century History of Science (Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century)

ISBN: 1851969063 Publisher: Pickering & Chatto Publishers Author: Rebekah HiggittDescription:Higgitt examines Isaac Newton's changing legacy during the nineteenth century. She focuses on 1820-70, a period that saw the creation of the specia ...

Technical Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Contagion (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature)

Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Contagion (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature)Publisher: Routledge | ISBN: 041536048X | edition 2005 | PDF | 350 pages | 1,2 mbAlways a scourge of the human condition, epidemics of contagious ...