Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World - Jack A Goldstone

"Florence in the Early Modern World offers new perspectives on this important city by exploring the broader global context of the fifteenth and six...

A wide-ranging collection of essays on plants as market forces.

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

Metals, Culture and Capitalism: An Essay on the Origins of the Modern World - Jack Goody

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

Reducere. The religious refugee first emerged as a mass phenomenon in the late fifteenth century. Over the following two and a half centuries, millions of Je...

DescriptionFor many years, Ottomanist historians have been accustomed to study the Ottoman Empire and/or its constituent regions as entities insula...

Full of misadventure and mystery, Men Without Country is a sweeping history of exploration and rebellion in the South Seas - told by a direct desce...

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

DescriptionA lively, expansive history of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the momentous changes they set in motion This fast-paced sur...

Reducere. About the AuthorDavid A. Corbin served as a Senate staffer for twenty-six years--six years on the leadership staff of Senate majority leader Byrd a...

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

Reducere. We think of blue and white porcelain as the ultimate global commodity: throughout East and Southeast Asia, the Indian Ocean including the African c...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Max GluckmanNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 138 x 217 x 25Cover type: Paperback / s...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Scientific Revolution, then keep reading...Ancient cultures have been looking up at the star...

This interdisciplinary collection takes a deep dive into early modern Hispanic health and demonstrates the multiples ways medical practices and exp...

Reducere. This is a major new approach to the military revolution and the relationship between warfare and the power of the state in early modern Europe. Whe...

This provocative new history of early modern Europe explores the 'information revolution' over the period 1450-1700, when changes in the generation...

Reducere. In 1979 Elizabeth Eisenstein provided the first full-scale treatment of the fifteenth-century printing revolution in the West in her monumental two...

Reducere. Explains to outsiders the conflicts between the financial interests of the coal and land companies, and the moral rights of the vulnerable mountain...

Intelligence and Metadrama in the Early Modern Theatre offers insight into why the early modern stage abounds with informer and intelligencer figures.

This book explores the phenomenon of firsting in primary and secondary sources about the early modern Atlantic world, while proposing ways through ...

This book explores the relationship between Shakespeare's most famous tragedies and the genre of 'domestic tragedy': plays about murder and adulter...

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

This volume explores the theme of religious and political practices in early modern Britain. -- .Publisher: Manchester University PressIllustration...

Seafaring activity for trade and travel was dominant throughout the Spanish Empire, and in the worldview and imagination of its inhabitants, the sp...

Reducere. European exploration and conquest expanded exponentially in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and as the horizons of imperial experience ...

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 ...

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 ...

DescriptionIn October 1911 the governor of Oaxaca, Mexico, ordered a detachment of approximately 250 soldiers to take control of the town of Juchit...

Reducere. Technically speaking, slavery was not legal in the English-speaking world before the mid-seventeenth century. But long before race-based slavery wa...

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 ...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Bedross Der MatossianNumber of pages: 360Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 230 x 151 x 25Cover type:...

By the eighteenth century, personal networks bound together the widening British world. In The Opened Letter, Lindsay O'Neill argues that the Briti...

Publisher: Academic Studies PressAuthor(s): Alessandro GuettaNumber of pages: 300Collection: Perspectives in Jewish Intellectual LifePublication da...

Reducere. Captives and Corsairs uncovers the forgotten story of Muslim corsair raids on French ships and shores and the resulting captivity of tens of thousa...

Reducere. Uses the history of Curacao to develop the first book-length analysis of the relationship between illicit interimperial trade and processes of soci...

John W. O'Malley works out a remarkable guide to the intellectual and historical developments behind the concepts of Catholic reform, the Counter R...

Published in association with the London Science Museum, an insight into the minds of inventors who shaped the world.

This book collects, for the first time, primary documents associated with the Jack Cade Rebellion that have been translated into Present-Day Englis...

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

DescriptionAs early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small Portuguese and Spanish trading vessels were plying ...

Reducere. In Detestable and Wicked Arts, Paul B. Moyer places early New England's battle against black magic in a transatlantic perspective. Moyer provides a...

Explores the ambivalent legacy of indigenous peoples' natural rights articulated by Europeans in Spanish and English colonial contexts. It will app...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Nell McShane WulfhartNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 166 x 243 x 37Cover type: Hard...

Publisher: St Martin's PressAuthor(s): Chris DeRoseIllustration(s): Plus one 16-page black-and-white photograph insertNumber of pages: 352Publicati...

Reducere. DescriptionMore than a decade after the publication of his dazzling book on the cultural, technological, and manufacturing aspects of measuring tim...

As early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small Portuguese and Spanish trading vessels were plying the coast o...

Winner of the RNA Book Award, Nautilus Award, and Wilbur Award.This special paperback edition includes a 40-day devotional that pairs passages from...