The Dutch Overseas Empire, 1600-1800, Paperback - Pieter C. Emmer

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...

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

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

A EuropeNow Editor's PickA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year"Pieter M. Judson's book informs and stimulates. If his account of Habsburg...

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...

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...

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...

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

Pieter Bruegel the Elder - Fall of the Rebel Angels is the first comprehensive book on one of the most cherished masterpieces of the Royal Museums ...

Reducere. For 2, 000 years, China's merchants and adventurers have fled tyrannical dynasties to make their fortunes in other countries. Seagrave reveals for ...

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

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

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...

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

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 ...

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

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. By the late 1810s, a global revolution in cotton had remade the U.S.-Mexico border, bringing wealth and waves of Americans to the Gulf Coast while ...

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

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

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

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

Provides a description of the British rocketry and space programme from the 1950s to 1970s, detailing the Medium Range Ballistic Missile Blue Strea...

Presents a series of case studies focusing on the identity and activities of individuals associated with crafts and industries in the Middle Age.

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...

The history of modern art has generally been understood as a grand leap away from tradition, religion, and conventional norms, yielding decidedly s...

Publisher: Lexington BooksNumber of pages: 370Collection: Comparative Urban StudiesPublication date: 2008Dimensions: 238 x 159 x 33Cover type: Hard...

Information for this book has been taken from Quaker records of southern Maryland prior to 1800, and in some cases to 1815, at the Maryland State A...

Reducere. In The American Frontier, historian William C. Davis masterfully chronicles the history of the territory beyond the Mississippi, with particular at...

The attacks of September 11, 2001, were accomplished through an amazing orchestration of logistics and personnel. Crossing the Rubicon discovers an...

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Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Leopoldine van Hogendorp ProsperettiIllustration(s): 68 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 160...

Skin-tones mattered in early modern England. Indexing health, social status, religious affiliation and national allegiance, they helped explain (aw...

There has been an explosion of research into the experiences of British Muslims, but what has been conspicuous by its absence is a proper historica...