Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America 1492-1830, Paperback - J. H. Elliott

This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus's arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish c...

DescriptionThis fascinating comparative history explores the many factors that have fueled nationalist and separatist movements in Scotland and Cat...

When Columbus landed in 1492, the New World was far from being a vast expanse of empty wilderness: it was home to some seventy-five million people....

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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 ...

Reducere. From the late-fifteenth to the mid-eighteenth century, Spain was the most extensive empire the world had seen, stretching from Naples and the Nethe...

For African Americans, enslaved and free, the potential for one-sided violence was always present and deeply traumatic. This groundbreaking study r...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Jeffrey A. EngelEditor: Mark Atwood LawrenceEditor: Andrew PrestonHow should America wield its enormous power beyond its bo...

A groundbreaking book that explains how the world's history of empires still shapes our lives and politics today

A riveting and richly detailed chronicle of what was, by 1614, the largest act of ethnic cleansing in European history.

A stunning collection of reportage from an acclaimed journalist and novelist hailed by the New York Times as 'the best essayist of his generation'....

A groundbreaking book that explains how the world's history of empires still shapes our lives and politics todayIllustrations: Integrated maps

Reducere. The revolution of Catalonia in 1640 was a signal event in seventeenth-century Europe. Its causes and antecedents - essential for an understanding o...

National Jewish Book AwardHebrew culture experienced a renewal in medieval Spain that produced what is arguably the most powerful body of Jewish po...

A groundbreaking book that explains how the world's history of empires still shapes our lives and politics today

Reducere. How the rise of the West was a temporary exception to the predominant world order What accounts for the rise of the state, the creation of the firs...

This is an original study of British diplomacy in the age of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. It examines the social, cultural and inte...

Reducere. This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. It focuses especially on the cau...

Reducere. This unique anthology is the first to provide a multicultural perspective on witchcraft from the 15th to 18th century. Featuring primary documents ...

Solving The Race Issue In America is a historical overview of the black American experience from the Civil War to the present. It is a spiritual an...

Reducere. Reflecting the growing scholarly interest in transnational and comparative approaches to studying the past, British Atlantic, American Frontier off...

Reducere. Between 1730 and 1750, Domingos Alvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time--from Africa to South America to Europe...

Reducere. This work of comparative history explores the array of ceremonies that the English, the Spanish, the French, the Portuguese and the Dutch performed...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Michael J. JarvisIn an exploration of the oceanic connections of the Atlantic world, Michael J. Jarvis recovers a mariner's...

Reducere. A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250-1820 explores the idea that strong linkages exist in the histories of Africa, Europe, and North and ...

Publisher: Lit VerlagAuthor(s): Jose M. FaraldoNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 161 x 235 x 23Cover type: Paperback / softback...

Poverty in Rural America: The Story of Yates County Home and Farm from 1830 to 1950 describes the development of poorhouses in New York State, prov...

Now in paperback, Fire and Steam tells the dramatic story of the people and events that shaped the world's first railway network, one of the most i...

Reducere. As the Quincentennial Celebration of Christopher Columbus's discovery of America approaches, interest in the voyage, and in the questions surroundi...

The tumultuous story of the Romanovs and Britain's enigmatic relationship is brought to life in Stephan Roman's Isle and Empires, as he explores th...

Places Flannery O'Connor's work in constructive and collaborative dialogue with Spanish literature and literary aesthetics. Contributors explore th...

The first collective, critical historical study of women artists in Britain and France during the Revolutionary eraPublisher: Paul Mellon Centre fo...

Reducere. Tom Hughes examines America's future in light of the ancient Hebrew prophets. With a gift for making complex ideas clear, he takes a Biblical view ...

Reducere. A dazzling new history of the world through ten major empires.

Reducere. From the arrival of the first Europeans in the region until the 1930s, plantations -- building their fortunes on sugar, and to a lesser extent on c...

In Parenting Empires, Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas focuses on the parenting practices of Latin American urban elites to analyze how everyday experiences of w...