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Restoration Staging 1660-74

Restoration Staging 1660–74 cuts through prevalent ideas of Restoration theatre and drama to read early plays in their original theatrical contexts. Tim Keenan argues that Restoration play texts contain far more information about their own performance than previously imagined. Focusing on specific productions and physical staging at the three theatres operating in the first years of the Restoration – Vere Street Bridges Street and Lincoln’s Inn Fields – Keenan analyses stage directions scene headings and other performance clues embedded in the play-texts themselves. These close readings shed new light on staging practices of the period building a radical new model of early Restoration staging. Restoration Staging 1660–74 takes account of all extant new plays written for or premiered at three of London’s early theatres presenting a much-needed reassessment of early Restoration drama. | Restoration Staging 1660-74

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North Eurasian Trade in World History 1660–1860 The Economic and Political Importance of the Baltic Sea

This book offers the first long-term analysis of the protracted struggle between Britain France Prussia Russia and Sweden for economic power and political influence in the northern part of the Eurasian continent between 1660 and 1860. This book shows how their commercial diplomatic and military entanglements determined the course of Baltic trade from the late seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century provoking among other things the decline of the Dutch Republic and the partitions of Poland-Lithuania. The author conceptualizes the Baltic Sea as one of North Eurasia’s western border basins alongside the White Black and Caspian Seas and employs novel statistical series of Baltic trade as a proxy for the long-term development of North Eurasian trade in world history. Based on extensive quantitative evidence and sources for the history of international relations this book outlines how North Eurasian trade became an object of growing tensions between various larger and smaller powers with a stake in North Eurasia’s riches. The book addresses the long-term impact of mercantilist policies territorial greed and military conflicts in North Eurasia’s border basins and accentuates the significance of developments in the preindustrial transport and commercial infrastructure of the North Eurasian landmass. Employing the concept of North Eurasia and its different borderlands and border basins this book overcomes previous limitations in the historiography of globalization and sheds light on a large continental landmass which researchers tend to leave aside for the benefit of a predominant maritime perspective in historical studies of globalization. North Eurasian Trade in World History 1660–1860 will be invaluable reading for students and scholars interested in world history East European history and the history of international relations and trade. | North Eurasian Trade in World History 1660–1860 The Economic and Political Importance of the Baltic Sea

GBP 36.99

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Two Discourses of the Navy 1638 and 1659 by John Hollond

John Hollond had a chequered career as a naval administrator punctuated by his charges of corruption against his colleagues circulated in these two manuscripts and their counter-charges against him but his Discourses are uniquely informative. There is also printed Sir Robert Slyngesbie’s Discourse of the Navy written in 1660 when he had just become Controller for the information of Charles II and a number of other documents which amplify or explain Hollond’s narrative. | Two Discourses of the Navy 1638 and 1659 by John Hollond

GBP 31.99

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Playbooks and their Readers in Early Modern England

This book is the first comprehensive examination of commercial drama as a reading genre in early modern England. Taking as its focus pre-Restoration printed drama’s most common format the single-play quarto playbook it interrogates what the form and content of these playbooks can tell us about who their earliest readers were why they might have wanted to read contemporary commercial drama and how they responded to the printed versions of plays that had initially been performed in the playhouses of early modern London. Focusing on professional plays printed in quarto between 1584 and 1660 the book juxtaposes the implications of material and paratextual evidence with analysis of historical traces of playreading in extant playbooks and manuscript commonplace books. In doing so it presents more detailed and nuanced conclusions than have previously been enabled by studies focused on works by one author or on a single type of evidence. | Playbooks and their Readers in Early Modern England

GBP 42.99

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Reassessing the Radical Enlightenment

Reassessing the Radical Enlightenment comprises fifteen new essays written by a team of international scholars. The collection re-evaluates the characteristics meaning and impact of the Radical Enlightenment between 1660 and 1825 spanning England Ireland the Dutch Republic France Germany and the Americas. In addition to dealing with canonical authors and celebrated texts such as Spinoza and his Tractus theologico-politicus the authors discuss many less well-known figures and debates from the period. Divided into three parts this book: Considers the Radical Enlightenment movement as a whole including its defining features and characteristics and the history of the term itself. Traces the origins and events of the Radical Enlightenment including in-depth analyses of key figures including Spinoza Toland Meslier and d’Holbach. Examines the outcomes and consequences of the Radical Enlightenment in Europe and the Americas in the eighteenth century. Chapters in this section examine later figures whose ideas can be traced to the Radical Enlightenment and examine the role of the period in the emergence of egalitarianism. This collection of essays is the first stand-alone collection of studies in English on the Radical Enlightenment. It is a timely and comprehensive overview of current research in the field which also presents new studies and research on the Radical Enlightenment.

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Digital Enterprise Transformation A Business-Driven Approach to Leveraging Innovative IT

The integration of technological innovations such as In-Memory Analytics Cloud Computing Mobile Connectivity and Social Media with business practice can enable significant competitive advantage. In order to embrace recent challenges and changes in the governance of IT strategies SAP and its think tank - the Business Transformation Academy (BTA) - have jointly developed the Digital Capability Framework (DCF). Digital Enterprise Transformation: A Business-Driven Approach to Leveraging Innovative IT by Axel Uhl and Lars Alexander Gollenia outlines the DCF which comprises six specific capabilities: Innovation Management Transformation Management IT Excellence Customer Centricity Effective Knowledge Worker and Operational Excellence. In cooperation with the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) Queensland University of Technology (Australia) University of Liechtenstein (Principality of Liechtenstein) and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany) SAP and the BTA have been validating each capability and the corresponding maturity models based on analyzing several ’lighthouse’ case studies comprising: SAMSUNG IBM Finanz Informatik The Walt Disney Company Google Inc. HILTI AG. Digital Enterprise Transformation presents how these companies take advantage of innovative IT and how they develop their digital capabilities. On top the authors also develop and present a range of novel yet hands-on Digital Use Cases for a number of different industries which have emerged from innovative technological trends such as: Big Data Cloud Computing 3D Printing and Internet of Things. | Digital Enterprise Transformation A Business-Driven Approach to Leveraging Innovative IT

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