Death Control in the West 1500-1800. Sex Ratios at Baptism in Italy, France and England, Paperback - Gregory (Dalhousie University) Hanlon

Employing a rigorous methodological approach and analysing a vast body of sources from towns and regions in Italy, France and England over 300 year...

A brand new look at the extraordinary accomplishments of early modern Italian women artistsPublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Oliver Tostma...

Presents an account of the changing attitudes in people towards nature and the environment between 1500-1800.

Publisher: State House PressAuthor(s): John A. PearceNumber of pages: 300Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 152 x 227 x 30Cover type: Paperback / so...

How did popular and elite beliefs about the next world, and about supernatural forces in this world, change and develop as a result of the Reformat...

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Attitudes toward homosexuality in the premodern Arab-Islamic world are commonly depicted as schizophrenic. This title argues that this apparent par...

Reissue, previously titled }Art And Society In Italy 1350 - 1500{.

Reducere. DescriptionIn this book, Timothy Silver traces the effects of English settlement on South Atlantic ecology, showing how all three cultures--Indian,...

Conserving Health brings together scholarship from across the disciplinary spectrum to illustrate the role of preventive culture in early modern En...

This book offers a historical survey of attitudes towards same-sex love during the centuries that gave us the Plantagenet court of Henry II and Ele...

This book uses original oral history material and secretive Vatican papers to explore the sexual and religious experiences of Catholic women in pos...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Jonathan (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) SpanglerIllustration(s): 2 Line drawings, black and whi...

DescriptionIn early modern Europe, international law emerged as a means of governing relations between rapidly consolidating sovereign states, purp...

Publisher: Distributed Art PublishersNumber of pages: 392Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 238 x 289 x 39Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Ilona Katze...

Reducere. This book explores the exchange of music, musicians and musical practice between Britain and the Continent in the period c.1500-1800. Inspired by P...

Reducere. This vivid and compelling study of Socrates's moral philosophy and, more generally, of his moral outlook and his attitude toward religion and socie...

Part of the acclaimed "Special Campaign" series of works intended for serious professional students of military history, each volume is intersperse...

This volume elucidates the craft practices, cultural conventions and literary attitudes of scribes of late medieval English manuscripts to students...

Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Leopoldine van Hogendorp ProsperettiIllustration(s): 68 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 160...

Reducere. "A thought-provoking piece of scholarship that sheds light on the complex history of slave breeding in America. Smithers's book will be hotly debat...

In colorful detail, Calvin Lane explores the dynamic intersection between reform movements and everyday Christian practice from ca. 1000 to ca. 180...

Publisher: Scribe PublicationsAuthor(s): Alberto PrunettiTranslator: Elena PalaNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 136 x 215 x 16...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Julie (John E. Green Professor of History, John E. Green Professor of History, University of Texas...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Stephen MennellNumber of pages: 408Publication date: 1995Dimensions: 228 x 154 x 26Cover type: Pa...

Explores the expectations and experiences of women in the crucial period between the Reformation and the Industrial Revolution.

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor William N. WestNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 228 x 24C...

Islam in France is often regarded as a political 'issue' and much of the scholarly and public debates about Islam in contemporary France over the l...

Reducere. Most water control projects in the American West depend on huge gravity dams, whose stability lies in massive quantities of concrete and earth or r...

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An exploration of the influence of gender on the workings of memory in the Middle Ages, focussing on the non-elite.Illustrations: No

Reducere. When Buffalo Bill's Wild West show traveled to Paris in 1889, the New York Times reported that the exhibition would be "managed to suit French idea...

The Black Death was the worst pandemic in recorded history. This book presents a major reevaluation of its immediate impact and longer-term consequ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Donna A. (Salem State University, USA) SegerIllustration(s): 10 bw illusNumber of pages: 248Publicat...

Through a comparative analysis of medical texts produced in England and France, Lori Jones reveals changing perceptions across four centuries. Usin...

A powerful account of how the complex mercantile and military relationships between the British, Dutch, and American territories made the Industria...

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Reducere. Thunder on the Mountain: Death at Massey and the Dirty Secrets Behind Big Coal, Paperback

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor William N. WestNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 158 x 237 x 25C...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Roy WilliamsNumber of pages: 344Collection: Contemporary DramatistsPublication date: 2022Dimensions:...

This book demonstrates how Britain's black soldiers helped shape attitudes towards race throughout the nineteenth century. Using military-medical l...

Publisher: ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian SchonAuthor(s): Christian SeemannNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 293...

Provocative, funny and brilliantly reported, join Jenny Kleeman as she meets the strange people who are creating our future and changing what it me...

Most times left solely within the confine of plantation narratives, slavery was far from a land-based phenomenon. This book reveals for the first t...

The power of the court to overturn a law or decree--called judicial review--is a critical feature of modern democracies. Contemporary American judg...