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This study recognizes the broad impact of opera in early-modern French culture.

The essays in Antoine Watteau: Perspectives on the Artist and the Culture of His Time offer a richly textured portrait of the artist's life, work, and reputatio

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Sporting Cultures, 1650-1850 is a collection of essays that charts important developments in the study of sport in the eighteenth century.