Global Calvinism. Conversion and Commerce in the Dutch Empire, 1600-1800, Hardback - Charles H. Parker

A comprehensive study of the connection between Calvinist missions and Dutch imperial expansion during the early modern periodPublisher: Yale Unive...

How did the Dutch Empire compare with other imperial enterprises? And how was it experienced by the indigenous peoples who became part of this colo...

Art, Commerce and Colonialism 1600-1800 examines European art, architecture and design of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the light of ...

In Black Bodies, White Gold Anna Arabindan-Kesson uses cotton, a commodity central to the slave trade and colonialism, as a focus for new interpret...

Reducere. In Black Bodies, White Gold Anna Arabindan-Kesson uses cotton, a commodity central to the slave trade and colonialism, as a focus for new interpret...

The only published listing of career histories for Dutch warships of this period. A 'must have' reference work for anyone interested in this field,...

Surveys 'mobile readers' in the age of the British Empire to explore what books meant to shipboard readers, Scottish emigrants, convicts en route t...

Mark Knights offers the first overview of Britain's history of corruption in office in the pre-modern era, 1600-1850. Drawing on extensive archival...

Reducere. In Commerce before Capitalism in Europe, 1300-1600, Martha C. Howell challenges dominant interpretations of the relationship between the so-called ...

This book is a ground-breaking study of women in Britain and British America through two centuries of pivotal changes in the law, economy and empir...

An archive of never-before-published illustrations of insects and plants painted by a pioneering naturalist During his lifetime (1751-ca. 1840), En...

This book explores the reception of the 1001 Nights in eighteenth-century Dutch literature and scholarship, and the bibliographic history of its Fr...

DescriptionIn The Captive Sea, Daniel Hershenzon explores the entangled histories of Muslim and Christian captives--and, by extension, of the Spani...

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

DescriptionThis book offers an innovative, comparative approach to the study of women's legal rights during a formative period of AngloAmerican his...

Reducere. Winner of the 2014 Christian Gauss Award for excellence in literary scholarship from the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Having excavated the world's earli...

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

Publisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s): Peter D. ShapinskyNumber of pages: 344Collection: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studi...

Winner of the 2014 Christian Gauss Award for excellence in literary scholarship from the Phi Beta Kappa SocietyHaving excavated the world's earlies...

In 1770, tavernkeeper Abigail Stoneman called in her debts by flourishing a handful of playing cards before the Rhode Island Court of Common Pleas....

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...

DescriptionFor centuries the Western view of the Iroquois was clouded by the myth that they were the supermen of the frontier--"the Romans of this ...

The follow-up to Moore's acclaimed first volume on the history of the novel, this picks up where the story left off - beginning with Cervante's }Do...

The American Revolution is universally seen as a colossal defeat of the powerful British Empire by colonial rebels. Yet the British emerged from th...

London celebrates the British capital, from its famous landmarks to atmospheric alleyways, from the top of the Shard to London Underground's lost g...

An innovative volume tracing the long history of protection across empires in Asia, Africa, Australasia, Europe and the Americas. A group of leadin...

Showcasing texts by Portuguese and Luso-Brazilian authors, this volume demonstrates the wealth of the political thought of early modern Portugal an...

In the sixth century BC, Anaximander of Miletus, an associate of Thales, initiated Western philosophy and science with a theory of how the world or...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Michael A. VerneyIllustration(s): 16 halftonesNumber of pages: 312Collection: American Beginni...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 20 bw illusNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 165 x 241 x 23Cover type: Har...

DescriptionIf we believe in God's sovereign predestination, how can we offer Christ to sinners indiscriminately? How could someone who knew that no...

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 ...

Institutional Choice and Global Commerce - Joseph Jupille, Walter Mattli, Duncan Snidal

While the birth of global economic governance is conventionally dated to the end of World War II, Jamie Martin shows how its roots lie in World War...

Publisher: DamianiIllustration(s): 208 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 176 x 182 x 26Cover type: Ha...

Global Governance in Question. Empire, Class and the New Common Sense in Managing North-South Relations - Susanne Soederberg

Explores behavioural and physiological health issues in a simple and inclusive way. In this title, each issue is examined through the perspective o...

DescriptionEmerging at the turn of the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic rose to become a powerhouse of economic growth, artistic creativity,...

Reducere. John Parker, after a career of teaching mathematics, retired to Cornwall and returned to his first love, the Latin language. He set about compiling...

Publisher: Indiana University PressAuthor(s): Mikaela H. Rogozen-SoltarIllustration(s): 1 Tables, black and whiteNumber of pages: 282Publication da...

Reducere. Why do we work each day? Is it only to pay the bills? Are we like the miserable mythological Sisyphus, who was forced to endlessly push a massive r...

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Placing female criminality within its everyday context, this authoritative volume brings together the most current research on the relationship bet...

DescriptionThis revealing portrait of the Dutch Empire repositions our understanding of modern empires from the terrestrial to the oceanic. It high...

Uncover some of the most chilling practices of the Aztecs. This book explores all the gruesome details, from rituals and rites to battles and siege...

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 ...