Empires and Encounters. 1350-1750, Hardback - ***

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...

- A unique art reference, featuring 100 Dutch and Flemish masterpieces created between 1400 and 1750 - Selected by the experts from Codart, a netwo...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Explore the full richness and diversity of Islamic history with Meetings of Minds.

Georgia is the most Western-looking state in today's Near or Middle East. This book begins with the first intimations of the existence of Georgians...

In June 1887, a man known as General Husayn, a manumitted slave turned dignitary in the Ottoman province of Tunis, passed away in Florence after a ...

A concise and authoritative account of North Korea's post war historyIllustrations: 20 illustrations

First full archaeological study of the urban environment of Norwich when its power was at its height.

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

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

Publisher: Cambria PressIllustration(s): black & white illustrationsNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 232 x 157 x 34Cover type:...

Postcolonial Europe: Comparative Reflections after the Empires brings together scholars from across disciplines to rethink European colonialism in ...

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...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Miranda (Independent Scholar, UK) VickersIllustration(s): 3 MapsNumber of pages: 240Publication date...

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

1789 to 1914 was a time of momentous and often violent change religiously, socially, politically and economically in the western world. In this det...

A challenging, iconoclastic history of empire-building from the point of view of women.

For almost 1, 200 years, the Persians ruled a territory that stretched from the Black Sea into Central Asia, from India to Egypt and into the fring...

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 ...

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

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...

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 ...

This book examines the condition of religious organizations or teachings within a different culture where one or more indigenous religions are alre...

Reducere. The Mongol warriors are one of the great success stories of world military history. Under the leadership of Genghis Khan and his successors the Mon...

Focuses on issues of assimilation, translation and misunderstanding as art objects moved between cultures, either literally or imaginatively, and c...

In the 1880s Europeans grabbed vast swaths of the African continent, using documents, not guns, as their weapon of choice. Steven Press follows a p...

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