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  • The First World Empire

    Portugal, War and Military Revolution

    Series series Warfare and History
    This book offers a comprehensive overview of the early modern military history of Portugal and its possessions in Africa, the Americas, and Asia from the perspective of the military revolution historiographical debate. The existence of a military revolution in the early modern period has been much debated in international historiography, and this volume fills a significant gap in its relation to ... Leer más

    $51.99 USD

  • Spain and the Irish Mission, 1609-1707

    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge
    Spain and the Irish Mission, 1609-1707 examines Spanish confessional policy in 17th-century Ireland. Cristina Bravo Lozano provides an innovative perspective on Spanish-Irish relations during a crucial period for Early Modern European history. Key historical actors and events are brought to the fore in her account of the missionary networks created around the Irish Catholic exile in the Iberian ... Leer más

    $61.99 USD

  • On the Trail of Mary, Queen of Scots

    A visitor’s guide to the castles, palaces and houses associated with the life of Mary, Queen of Scots

    de Roy Calley ...
    Mary, Queen of Scots is one of the great tragic figures of British history. Born in Scotland one December morning in 1542, she was to become Queen of Scots just six days later. Growing up mostly in France and marrying the sickly French king Francis II in 1559, she returned to Scotland on his death, a widow at the age of eighteen. Four years later she married Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, but their ... Leer más

    $14.19 USD

  • Francis Bacon’s Natural Philosophy and the Laws of Nature

    de Silvia Manzo ...
    Series series Global Perspectives on the History of Natural Philosophy
    This book offers a uniquely comprehensive and authoritative account of the natural philosophy and of the conception of the laws of nature by Francis Bacon, one of the leading English reformers of natural science and an inspirer of the Scientific Revolution. The first part of the book focuses on the concepts central to his natural philosophy which are keys to understanding his account of the laws ... Leer más

    $61.99 USD

  • Conflicting Claims to East India Company Wealth, 1600-1650

    Reading Debates over Risk and Reward

    de Julia Schleck ...
    Series series Entanglements, Interactions, and Economies in the Early Modern World
    Centered on moral critiques of wealth and the unequal distribution of risks and rewards in the lengthy voyages required by the East Indies trade, this book examines the debates surrounding England’s earliest global trading ventures. Arguments over the staggering loss of lives and national resources and struggles over control of the new trade in luxuries reveal the forging of rationales justifying ... Leer más

    $61.99 USD

  • Corruption in Urban Politics and Society, Britain 1780–1950

    de John Smith ...
    Series series Historical Urban Studies Series
    Despite much recent interest in the area of urban governance, little work has been done on the changing ethical standards of urban leaderships, 'governing' institutions or the policing of public life. Yet the issue of ethical standards in public life has become a central concern in contemporary public discourse; with issues of public probity, moral order and personal standards re-emerging as ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'

    Perspectives from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century

    de Tony Kushner ...
    Series series Studies in European Cultural Transition
    Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' both honours and carries on the work of The Rev. Dr. James Parkes (1896-1981), a pioneer in the many different fields involving the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. The collection is designed to examine both the specific and broader themes of Parkes' life work in relation to tolerance and intolerance. From antiquity to today, Jews have often been ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Women Religious Leaders in Japan's Christian Century, 1549-1650

    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    Meticulously researched and drawing on original source materials written in eight different languages, this study fills a lacuna in the historiography of Christianity in Japan, which up to now has paid little or no attention to the experience of women. Focusing on the century between the introduction of Christianity in Japan by Portuguese Jesuit missionaries in 1549 and the Japanese government's ... Leer más

    $61.99 USD

  • Civic Performance

    Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London

    Edición de J. Caitlin Finlayson, Amrita Sen ...
    Series series Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
    Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London brings together a group of essays from across multiple fields of study that examine the socio-cultural, political, economic, and aesthetic dimensions of pageantry in sixteenth and seventeenth-century London.This collection engages with modern interest in the spectacle and historical performances of pageantry and entertainments, ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

  • German Reformation: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Nurture and Neglect: Childhood in Sixteenth-Century Northern England

    de Loretta Dolan ...
    Nurture and Neglect: Childhood in Sixteenth-Century Northern England addresses a number of anomalies in the existing historiography surrounding the experience of children in urban and rural communities in sixteenth-century northern England. In contrast to much recent scholarship that has focused on affective parent-child relationships, this study directly engages with the question of what ... Leer más

    $61.99 USD

  • Portuguese and Amsterdam Sephardic Merchants in the Tobacco Trade

    Tierra Firme and Hispaniola in the Early Seventeenth Century

    de Yda Schreuder ...
    The book surveys the role of Portuguese and Sephardic merchants in the contraband tobacco trade in the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Atlantic world. It offers a historical-geographic perspective linking Amsterdam as an emerging staple market to a network of merchants of the “Portuguese Nation,” examining the illicit trade in the context of rivalry between Spain and the Dutch ... Leer más

    $31.49 USD

  • Latin Scientific Literature, 1450-1850

    Series series Oxford-Warburg Studies
    During the early modern period, the emergence of what ultimately became modern science took place mainly in Latin, the international language of educated discourse of the era. Hundreds of thousands of scientific texts were published in Latin from the invention of print around 1450 to the demise of Latin as a language of science around 1850. Despite its importance, our knowledge of this literature ... Leer más

    $132.29 USD

  • The Culture of Piracy, 1580–1630

    English Literature and Seaborne Crime

    de Claire Jowitt ...
    Series series Transculturalisms, 1400-1700
    Listening to what she terms 'unruly pirate voices' in early modern English literature, in this study Claire Jowitt offers an original and compelling analysis of the cultural meanings of 'piracy'. By examining the often marginal figure of the pirate (and also the sometimes hard-to-distinguish privateer) Jowitt shows how flexibly these figures served to comment on English nationalism, international ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Tudor and Stuart England

    de Audrey Eccles ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: History of Medicine
    Originally published in 1982 Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Tudor and Stuart England traces the development of obstetrics and gynaecology over the past two centuries. Between the 16th and 18th century midwifery passed from a female mystery, employing traditional medicines and superstitions, to a scientifically-based clinical skill, with both gains and losses to the patient. The case-mortality was ... Leer más

    $48.99 USD

  • Fransk klassik. Corneille og hans Samtid

    "Det er i dramaet, vi bedst kan studere fransk klassik. Corneilles og Racines tragedier og Molières komedier udtrykker fuldest og renest den åndsform og kunstform, som i over et århundrede beherskede Europa, som for stedse har sat sit præg på fransk åndsliv, og som er og bliver en væsentlig form for menneskelig kultur."I det 17. og 18. århundrede var hele europæisk kultur domineret af de franske ... Leer más

    $10.69 USD

  • Secrets and Mysteries of Hadrian's Mausoleum

    A vivid historical journey through the tumultuous and bewitching history of Hadrian's Mausoleum - its multifaceted transformations, from a monument of commemoration to impregnable military fort, from luxurious papal residence to infamous prison and museum at last. A captivating travel through its illustrious artistic heritage and advanced architectural technology, that provides an exceptional ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Homesickness around the Mediterranean, 1492–1923

    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    This volume analyzes how people of diverse cultural and religious backgrounds living around the “Middle Sea” perceived, felt, and described homesickness, using a multidisciplinary approach which brings new perspectives to known phenomena and their evolving meanings.The sixteen chapters in this book span the fields of history, literary and cultural studies, and musicology to explore and revisit old ... Leer más

    $61.99 USD

  • Restoring Christ's Church

    John a Lasco and the Forma ac ratio

    This book examines the struggle for Protestant consensus and unity through the work of John a Lasco (1499-1560). It is only in recent years that scholars have begun to recognize the importance of Lasco as one of the leading figures of the European Reformation, and a pivotal figure between Lutheran and Reformed theologians. The Polish reformer was among the most dynamic church organizers of the ... Leer más

    $61.99 USD

  • The Copernican Question

    Prognostication, Skepticism, and Celestial Order

    In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus publicly defended his hypothesis that the earth is a planet and the sun a body resting near the center of a finite universe. But why did Copernicus make this bold proposal? And why did it matter? The Copernican Question reframes this pivotal moment in the history of science, centering the story on a conflict over the credibility of astrology that erupted in Italy just ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Richard III: Arden Performance Edition

    Series series Arden Performance Editions
    Richard III is one of Shakespeare's enduring villains as the troubled and troubling figure at the heart of this popular succession drama. Traversing the familiar terrain of scheming plots, proposals, betrayals and kingly power, this edition is presented in an easy to read format with notes for performance and rehearsal by directors and actors. It is edited by academic and director, Abigail Rokison ... Leer más

    $12.79 USD

  • Vægteren

    de Hendrik Stein ...
    I flere hundrede år spillede vægterne en uundværlig rolle i de danske byer, skønt det langt fra var alle, der lagde mærke til dem, når de ved skumringstid kom frem for at tænde byens tranlamper. Hendrik Stein fortæller om vægternes historie, der strækker sig helt tilbage til 1200-tallet og først slutter, da vægterinstitutionen i 1863 afskaffedes, fordi der ikke længere var brug for den. Hendrik ... Leer más

    $6.98 USD

  • Dressing Renaissance Florence

    Families, Fortunes, and Fine Clothing

    Series Libro 120 - The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
    As portraits, private diaries, and estate inventories make clear, elite families of the Italian Renaissance were obsessed with fashion, investing as much as forty percent of their fortunes on clothing. In fact, the most elaborate outfits of the period could cost more than a good-sized farm out in the Mugello. Yet despite its prominence in both daily life and the economy, clothing has been largely ... Leer más

    $27.09 USD

  • English Radicalism (1935-1961)

    Volume 5

    de S. Maccoby ...
    This is volume 5 of the set ^English Radicalism (1935-1961). Reissuing the epic undertaking of Dr S. Maccoby, these volumes cover the story of English Radicalism from its origins right through to its questionable end. By Combining new sources with the old and often long forgotten, the volumes provide an impressive history of radicalism and shed light on the course of English political development. ... Leer más

    $67.99 USD