Margaret C Jacob: 11 books

Book cover of Strangers Nowhere in the World

Strangers Nowhere in the World

The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe

by Margaret C. Jacob
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016

The mingling of aristocrats and commoners in a southern French city, the jostling of foreigners in stock markets across northern and western Europe, the club gatherings in Paris and London of genteel naturalists busily distilling plants or making air pumps, the ritual fraternizing of "brothers"...
Book cover of The Origins of Freemasonry

The Origins of Freemasonry

Facts and Fictions

by Margaret C. Jacob
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016

Can the ancestry of freemasonry really be traced back to the Knights Templar? Is the image of the eye in a triangle on the back of the dollar bill one of its cryptic signs? Is there a conspiracy that stretches through centuries and generations to align this shadow organization and its secret rituals...
Book cover of The First Knowledge Economy

The First Knowledge Economy

Human Capital and the European Economy, 1750–1850

by Margaret C. Jacob
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014

Ever since the Industrial Revolution debate has raged about the sources of the new, sustained western prosperity. Margaret Jacob here argues persuasively for the critical importance of knowledge in Europe's economic transformation during the period from 1750 to 1850, first in Britain and then in selected...
Book cover of Living the Enlightenment

Living the Enlightenment

Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe

by Margaret C. Jacob
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 1991

Long recognized as more than the writings of a dozen or so philosophes, the Enlightenment created a new secular culture populated by the literate and the affluent. Enamoured of British institutions, Continental Europeans turned to the imported masonic lodges and found in them a new forum that was...
Book cover of Noirs et francs-maçons

Noirs et francs-maçons

Comment la ségrégation raciale s'est installée chez les frères américains

by Cécile Révauger, Jacob Margaret C.
Language: French
Release Date: May 11, 2016

La franc-maçonnerie se dit universelle mais les francs-maçons américains ont mis près de deux siècles à reconnaître les Grandes Loges noires, dites de Prince Hall (Affranchi en 1770, Prince Hall va connaitre un destin exceptionnel. Fondateur de la maçonnerie noire américaine, Prince Hall...
Book cover of Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)

Santa's Christmas Library: 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends (Illustrated Edition)

The Gift of the Magi, A Christmas Carol, Silent Night, The Three Kings, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Heavenly Christmas Tree, Little Women, The Tale of Peter Rabbit…

by O. Henry, Mark Twain, Beatrix Potter
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018

This holiday, we are offering to you our own Christmas box - filled up to the top with the best Christmas novels, classics to read during holidays, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift...
Book cover of Sci-Fi Ultimate Collection: 160+ Space Adventures, Lost Worlds, Dystopian Novels & Post-Apocalyptic Tales

Sci-Fi Ultimate Collection: 160+ Space Adventures, Lost Worlds, Dystopian Novels & Post-Apocalyptic Tales

The War of the Worlds, Anthem, Space Viking, The Conquest of America, A Traveler in Time, The Guardians…

by H. G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018

Musaicum Books presents to you this unique SF collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. E. M. Forster: The Machine Stops Richard Jefferies: After London Richard Stockham: Perchance to Dream Irving E. Cox: The Guardians Philip F....
Book cover of Ho! Ho! Ho! Santa Claus' Reading List: 250+ Vintage Christmas Stories, Carols, Novellas, Poems by 120+ Authors
by A.A. Milne, Santa Claus, Adelaide Anne Procter
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018

This holiday, we proudly present to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas stories. Over 250 of them are included by your favourite authors:Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Hans Christian Andersen, E.T.A. Hoffmann, O. Henry, Mark Twain and many more!
Book cover of The Greatest Christmas Stories: 120+ Authors, 250+ Magical Christmas Stories
by A.A. Milne, Santa Claus, Adelaide Anne Procter
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018

This holiday, we proudly present to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas stories. Over 250 of them are included by your favourite authors:Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Hans Christian Andersen, E.T.A. Hoffmann, O. Henry, Mark Twain and many more!
Book cover of Evergreen Christmas Readings
by A.A. Milne, Santa Claus, Adelaide Anne Procter
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018

This holiday, we proudly present to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas stories. Over 250 of them are included by your favourite authors:Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Hans Christian Andersen, E.T.A. Hoffmann, O. Henry, Mark Twain and many more!
Book cover of The Christmas Library: 250+ Essential Christmas Novels, Poems, Carols, Short Stories...by 100+ Authors
by A.A. Milne, Santa Claus, Adelaide Anne Procter
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2018

This holiday, we proudly present to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas stories. Over 250 of them are included by your favourite authors:Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Hans Christian Andersen, E.T.A. Hoffmann, O. Henry, Mark Twain and many more!
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