Knowledge and the Early Modern City: A History of Entanglements, Paperback - Bert De Munck

Knowledge and the Early Modern City uses case studies from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries to examine the relationships between knowledge...

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

A vivid recreation of how the governors and governed of early seventeenth-century Florence confronted, suffered, and survived a major epidemic of p...

Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from family and friends, experts...

DescriptionBetween the early seventeenth and the mid-nineteenth century, the field of natural history in Japan separated itself from the discipline...

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Medicine, Magic and Art in Early Modern Norway is essential for those looking to advance their studies in magical beliefs and practices in early mo...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 48 bw illusNumber of pages: 280Collection: The Cultural Histories SeriesPublication date: 2022...

Reducere. Mineral wealth from the Americas underwrote and undergirded European colonization of the New World; American gold and silver enriched Spain, funded...

Reducere. Opening a window on a dynamic realm far beyond imperial courts, anatomical theaters, and learned societies, Pablo F. Gomez examines the strategies ...

How did the fact become modernity's most favored unit of knowledge? How did description come to seem separable from theory in the precursors of eco...

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DescriptionBert Weedon's Play in a Day remains one of the world's most successful guitar methods. It is as much of a legend as the stars who have l...

Illustrates how Oxford scholar Robert Burton used the resources available to a seventeenth century academic: genres and languages, as well as acade...

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Praise for the first edition: "To give a sense of immediacy and vividness to the long period in such a short space is a major achievement." --Histo...

"A rich cultural history of smells that sheds new light on an under-appreciated sense"--

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Scientific Revolution, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one book: The Scie...

'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' Steven PinkerIn very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the...

'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' Steven PinkerIn very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the...

Reducere. Many visitors to Mexico City's 1886 Electricity Exposition were amazed by their experience of the event, which included magnetic devices, electroni...

Luxury, Fashion and the Early Modern Idea of Credit addresses how social and cultural ideas about credit and trust were affected by the growth and ...

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Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Europe, then keep reading...Five captivating manuscripts in one book: European History: A Captiv...

The seventeenth-century Chinese Christian convert Zhu Zongyuan likely never left his home province, yet led a remarkably global life through schola...

Since Edward Said's foundational work, Orientalism has been singled out for critique as the quintessential example of Western intellectuals' collab...

Reducere. DescriptionNow in its third edition, The Rise of Early Modern Science argues that to understand why modern science arose in the West it is essentia...

Reducere. In the mid-nineteenth century, the Paris we know today was born, the vision of two extraordinary men: the endlessly ambitious Emperor Napol on III ...

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From the late fifteenth century onwards, scholars across Europe began to write books about how to read and evaluate histories. These pioneering wor...

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

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 20 bw illusNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 139 x 216 x 22Cover type: Pap...

This Element analyzes how concepts and practices associated with the 'modern city' were received, transformed, and contested in Asia over the past ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Casey J. (University of California Davis, USA) SullivanIllustration(s): 65 bw illusNumber of page...

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Examines Catholic engagement in the Holy Land, a place of immense spiritual significance for Christians, Muslims and Jews. It explores its spiritua...

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