Description: Nevertheless, the case that developed around the killing of Visconti provides fascinating insights into the diplomatic, cultural, legal, social, and political history of the last third of the eighteenth century.
Brief description: 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).
Review Quotes: Lindemann has creatively used the real-life murder of Count Joseph Visconti . . . to examine 18th-century European life and politics.
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