British Slaves and Barbary Corsairs, 1580-1750, Hardback - ***

The first comprehensive study of the thousands of Britons captured and enslaved in North Africa in the early modern period, charting the course of ...

John Walter Hill's highly anticipated text presents a broad survey of the music of Western Europe from 1580 to 1750.

This book examines the many different ways in which women achieved public standing and exercised political power in England from the middle of the ...

This book argues the modern mass transit of ordinary people derives from common conditions in modernising societies and that they were first manife...

This book provides a new cultural history of the travel souvenir. It uncovers how eighteenth-century British women enlisted the objects they collec...

Drawing on the popular press, unpublished personal correspondence, and archival documents, Catherine Ingrassia provides a rich cultural description...

The first book-length study of household servants and slaves, exploring a visual history over 400 years and four continentsPublisher: Yale Universi...

This book focuses on how Enlightenment ideas shaped plantation management and slave work routines. It shows how work dictated slaves' experiences a...

This is a revisionist account of the origins of the British Empire in Asia in the early modern period. David Veevers shows that it was the integrat...

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Alan C. CareyIllustration(s): 200 colour & b/w photosNumber of pages: 216Publication date: 2014Dimensi...

Between 1350 and 1750 the world reached a tipping point of global connectedness. In this volume of the acclaimed series A History of the World, not...

Breaks new ground in the history of psychiatry by focusing on the role of work in mental-health institutions. -- .

Godly Reading: Print, Manuscript and Puritanism in England, 1580–1720 - Andrew Cambers

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): Anton de KomTranslator: David McKayNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 144 x 223 x 24Cover type...

Reducere. This is an Introduction, History, and Photocopy of the Slave Bible. There was an uneasy tension as the slave owners sought to maintain control and ...

Reducere. This is an Introduction, History, and Photocopy of the Slave Bible. - There was an uneasy tension as the slave owners sought to maintain control an...

Reducere. "William Dietrich is a born stylist, moving characters around on an historical chessboard with the assured hand of a master novelist firing on all ...

Contributors: Ann Blair, Simona Boscani Leoni, John Hedley Brooke, Nicolas Brucker, Katherine Calloway, Kathleen Crowther, Brendan Dooley, Peter Ha...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr. Freya (University of Bristol, UK) GowrleyIllustration(s): 8 color and 27 bw illusNumber of pages...

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This pioneering study tells the story of the emergence of rural workers' gardens during a period of unprecedented economic and social change in the...

In this engaging work, 2002 Bolton-Jonhson Prize Winner Eric Van Young captures the crucial hundred years of Mexico's remarkable transition from a ...

A Christian engagement with and response to how AI technology is impacting individuals and society

This book revisits six notorious incidents that occasioned vigorous debate in London's courtrooms, streets and presses. Each case adjudicated the p...

Publisher: Four Courts Press LtdNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 165 x 242 x 28Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farmecul lectur...

Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580–1865 - Christopher Tomlins

This original interpretation of the lives and social interactions of Quaker women in the British Atlantic between 1650 and 1750 highlights the uniq...

Demonstrating Ireland's central role in European debates about empire and commerce in the global age of revolutions, this pathbreaking book offers ...

Reducere. Captives and Corsairs uncovers the forgotten story of Muslim corsair raids on French ships and shores and the resulting captivity of tens of thousa...

Necromanticism is a study of literary pilgrimage: readers' compulsion to visit literary homes, landscapes, and (especially) graves during the long ...

Reducere. 1. King Of Dreams 2. The Cut Runs Deep 3. Fire In The Basement 4. Truth Hurts 5. Breakfast In Bed 6. Love Conquers All 7. Fortuneteller 8. Too Much...

Reducere. DescriptionIt is said that a man is grown by his past, and so it was with William Brewer. Before he took command of HMS Defiant in a hurricane and ...

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Reducere. DescriptionWritten by one of America's most famous slavery abolitionist activists of the mid-nineteenth century, this astonishing book provides a f...

This is a fascinating collection of stories exploring the less well-trodden byways of Britain's historic conflicts. "The British at War" uncovers t...

Reducere. Let SHP successfully steer you through the new specification with an exciting, enquiry-based series that invigorates teaching and learning; combini...

Friends, Neighbours, Sinners shows the crucial role of religious difference in shaping English culture and society after 1689. By throwing into rel...

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Islanders and Empire is a pioneering and comprehensive examination of the role smuggling played in the economic and socio-political transformation ...

As well as holding some of the world's most prized cultural treasures, the British Library is the repository of the nation's collective memory. In ...

Not Made by Slaves describes the efforts of early-nineteenth-century businesses to end plantation slavery by promoting commerce in "legitimate" goo...

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Bringing together the world's leading scholars on the subject, Military Education and the British Empire explores distinct national narratives with...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Elaheh KheirandishNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 162 x 240 x 24Cover type: Ha...

Reducere. In the late sixteenth century, a prominent Albanian named Antonio Bruni composed a revealing document about his home country. Historian Sir Noel Ma...

Following the themes of the Haynes Great War British Tommy and German Infantryman Manuals this book looks in detail at the weapons, uniform, accout...

The first substantial study of family correspondence and settler colonialism, Nothing to Write Home About elucidates the significance of trans-impe...

This edited collection provides a uniquely expansive history of how corruption has undermined and exercised public life in modern Britain, from the...

From historian and columnist in Leatherneck and Armor magazines, this is the exciting, personal account of a Marine fighter squadron in the South P...

In the early modern period, hundreds of thousands of Europeans, both men and women, were abducted by pirates, sold on the slave market, and enslave...