Early Modern Things. Objects and their Histories, 1500-1800, Paperback - ***

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

Reducere. The most comprehensive, practical, and beautiful directory of type, organized by type category -- Serif, San Serif, Display, and Script -- and cove...

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

This core textbook gathers an international team of historians to present a comprehensive account of the central themes in the histories of Britain...

This book showcases the wide variety of commercial cosmopolitan practices that arose from the global economic entanglements of the early modern per...

DescriptionMost of us are aware that the words for some of our most important concepts stem from ancient Greek roots--words such as geometry, democ...

Reducere. Histories of Virginia have traditionally traced the same significant but narrow lines, overlooking whole swathes of human experience crucial to an ...

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

DescriptionWhat did it mean to be a spectator during the lifetime of Shakespeare or of Aphra Behn? In Early Modern Spectatorship contributors use t...

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

Examines sixty-eight women artists in early modern Bologna, revealing how they obtained public commissions and expanded beyond the portrait subject...

Beginning in the 16th century, the golden age of European navigation brought about the flowering of an abundant textile trade, spurred by Western t...

This book explores the histories of urban communities in the three cities of Ajmer, Nagaur and Pushkar in Rajasthan, between the sixteenth and eigh...

Reducere. Now in paperback This outstanding and original book, presented here with a new preface, examines the history of material culture in early modern Ch...

This interdisciplinary edited collection draws early modern art and material culture into the discussion of the "oceanic turn" in cultural studies,...

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

In History and Its Objects, Peter N. Miller uncovers the forgotten origins of our fascination with exploring the past through its artifacts by high...

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...

DescriptionThe "Ethiope, " the "tawny Tartar, " the "woman blackamoore, " and "knotty Africanisms"--allusions to blackness abound in Renaissance te...

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

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

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

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

DescriptionThis book explores the changing perspective of astrology from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era. It introduces a framework for und...

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

Reducere. Long before the first airplane took flight, when nothing but birds should have been in the skies, the early residents of the United States witnesse...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 30 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 432Collection: Leicester Readers in Museum StudiesPub...

Before becoming the prime ministers who led Australia in moments of extraordinary crisis and transformation, John Curtin and James Scullin were two...

DescriptionA comprehensive resource to understanding the hand-press printing of early books Studying Early Printed Books, 1450 - 1800 offers a guid...

Step into the world of domestic service and discover what life was really like for these unsung heroines (and heroes) of society. Between 1800 and ...