Sex, Law, and Diplomacy in the Age of Frederick the Great
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Köp båda 2 för 663 krLindemann has creatively used the real-life murder of Count Joseph Visconti... to examine 18th-century European life and politics. Library Journal 2006 Full of wonderfully illuminating insights. -- Richard J. Evans London Review of Books 2006 Lindemann has written a rich and rewarding work, one that demonstrates how well she has mastered her craft. -- Mary Lee Townsend American Historical Review 2007 Lindemann has produced an excellent work, one that scholars can ponder and undergraduates can enjoy. -- Jonathan Sperber Central European History 2007 A lively and notably readable study that is both a fascinating, if ultimately unsolvable, detective story and multilayered exploration of later eighteenth-century Europe. -- Hamish Scott Journal of Modern History 2008 Aside from the scholarly value of the work, readers will derive great pleasure from Lindemann's gifts as a raconteur. She visualizes every moment of her narrative in a way that makes Hamburg as attractive and mysterious a mental destination for us as Venice or Istanbul. -- Susan R. Boettcher Sixteenth Century Journal 2008 Microhistory is here at its best when spreading its investigative net to related, yet more remote, thematic layers. -- Karin Friedrich German Studies Review 2009
Mary Lindemann is a professor of history at the University of Miami. She is the author of Health and Healing in Eighteenth-Century Germany (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996).
Acknowledgments List of Maps and Illustrations A Note on Names Prologue Part I: Events and Entanglements 1. ''Voil le spectacle!'' 2. A Most Difficult Case 3. A Very Diplomatic Avair Part II: Dramatis personae Entr'acte 4. A Brave and Upright Cavalier? 5. A Woman of Pleasure 6. A Real Polish Prince, a Fake Italian Count, and an Authentic Spanish Hidalgo Retrospective List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index