The World in a Box: The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Picture Encyclopedia

The World in a Box

The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Picture Encyclopedia

By
Anke te Heesen
Anke te Heesen
2002 • 237 pages

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208 books

Nonfiction

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Teija
The Devil's Highway
Just Mercy
A Colony in a Nation
The Last Jew of Treblinka
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
My Own Words
Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

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160 books

History

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The Devil in the White City
Socialist Modern: East German Everyday Culture and Politics
Globalisation and the Nation in Imperial Germany
Revival and Reform in Islam: A Study of Islamic Fundamentalism
Sergei Witte and the Industrialization of Russia
Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad
Shattered Past: Reconstructing German Histories

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71 books

European History

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A Desert Named Peace: The Violence of France's Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902
Death in Berlin
Defiled Trades and Social Outcasts: Honor and Ritual Pollution in Early Modern Germany
Rites of Spring
Shattered Past: Reconstructing German Histories
Globalisation and the Nation in Imperial Germany
Socialist Modern: East German Everyday Culture and Politics

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11 books

Intellectual History

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Evolution: The History of an Idea
The Culture of Time and Space, 1880–1918
Intellectual Origins of Islamic Resurgence in the Modern Arab World
Orientalism
Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things