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India and the Early Modern World provides an authoritative and wide-ranging survey of the Indian subcontinent over the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, set within a global context. This book explo……続きを見る

In 1661 Portugal ceded Tangier to Charles II as part of Catherine of Braganza’s dowry settlement. Thus started the adventure known as ‘English Tangier’ whereby the Stuart monarch spent a king’s rans……続きを見る

Sail Beyond Myths and into the Heart of Piracy's True Tales Dive into the swashbuckling depths of history with "X Marks the Spot: Debunking Pirate Myths," your treasure map to unraveling the enigmas……続きを見る

East Anglia, 1645. Martha, stumme Hebamme und Dienerin, lebt seit mehr als vierzig Jahren in dem kleinen Dorf Cleftwater, als der entschlossene Hexenjäger Silas Makepeace in den Ort kommt. Sofort we……続きを見る

In autumn 1621, at a fortified camp near Khotyn (Chocim), in the Principality of Moldavia, allied Polish, Lithuanian and Cossack armies faced a large Ottoman army led by Sultan Osman II. It was the ……続きを見る

On the night of March 18, 1655, two Spanish friars broke into a church to steal the bones of the founder of their religious institution, the Order of the Most Holy Trinity. This bookinvestigates thi……続きを見る

Explores the use of music as therapy and shows how it operated in the hospital's institutional, social and historical contexts, undergoing change in response to broader cultural and religious moveme……続きを見る

An explorer recounts historic events surrounding the sinking of a seventeenth-century, eighteen-ship French fleet, along with modern-day efforts to find it. On January 2, 1678, a fleet of French shi……続きを見る

Ein rettender Lichtschein in düsteren Zeiten: Der dramatische historische Roman »Bernsteinerbe« von Heidi Rehn jetzt als eBook bei dotbooks. Die stolze Handelsstadt Königsberg im Jahre 1662: Nach ei……続きを見る

Explore the epic conflict and contrasting leadership styles of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and Albrecht von Wallenstein, Duke of Friedland, two titanic figures in the Thirty Years War whose str……続きを見る

In the early modern period, hundreds of thousands of Europeans, both male and female, were abducted by pirates, sold on the slave market, and enslaved in North Africa. Between the sixteenth and the ……続きを見る

In 1623, a Japanese mercenary called Shichizō was arrested for asking suspicious questions about the defenses of a Dutch East India Company fort on Amboina, a remote set of islands in what is now ea……続きを見る

China’s last imperial dynasty governed a vast and culturally diverse territory, encompassing a wide range of local political systems and regional elites. But the Qing empire was built and held toget……続きを見る

In the early eighteenth century, the noblewoman Ōgimachi Machiko composed a memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, the powerful samurai for whom she had served as a concubine for twenty years. Machiko assi……続きを見る

Founded in 1676 during a cosmopolitan early modern period, Mindröling monastery became a key site for Buddhist education and a Tibetan civilizational center. Its founders sought to systematize and i……続きを見る

A pioneering exploration of how differences in material textual forms conveyed and altered ideas in diverse but connected parts of the world in a period of exceptional social, political and intellec……続きを見る

Cities and urban societies have many faces. In this study, the pre-modern cities of Holland are presented as arenas where power relations between social classes are expressed in a more or less perma……続きを見る

A rich analysis of the mindset of Puritans and of their theology which justified military action and acts of killing. This book recounts Puritan struggles for military dominance and for an authorita……続きを見る

Carl Schmitt propuso el concepto de lo político para referirse a la instancia soberana, definida como aquella "que decide en el estado de excepción". Lo político remitiría entonces a un plano previo……続きを見る

The English Civil War (1642–1651) was a series of conflicts and political struggles between Parliamentarians ("Roundheads") and Royalists ("Cavaliers") in England, with wider ramifications across Sc……続きを見る

Mae John Jones, Gellilyfdy, sir y Fflint (c.1580–1658) yn enwog fel ysgrifydd medrus a dibynadwy a gopïodd nifer helaeth o destunau canoloesol, mewn llaw galigraffig hardd. Mae ei gopïau o farddonia……続きを見る

'New France' consisted of the area colonized and ruled by France in North America. This title takes a look at the lengthy chain of forts built by the French to guard the frontier in the American nor……続きを見る

The techniques of European warfare were transformed during the 15th and 16th centuries by the use of gunpowder and by substantial progress in the effectiveness and destructive power of artillery. Th……続きを見る

Throughout the 16th Century, the Spanish had an aura of invincibility. They controlled a vast colonial empire that stretched across the Americas and the Pacific, and held considerable territories in……続きを見る

This title explores and illustrates the armies of France, and six countries allied against Louis XIV, in a wide-ranging Continental conflict that ushered in more than a century of European warfare. ……続きを見る

Salem Village, Massachusetts, winter 1692. Two young girls, Betty Parris and Abigail Williams, use magic to foretell who they will marry. Within days, both girls display the telltale signs of witchc……続きを見る

"The Discovery of Witches" by Matthew Hopkins. Published by e-artnow. e-artnow publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fict……続きを見る

OPEN ACCESS To read the PDF of Gentility in Early Modern Wales: The Salesbury Family, 1450–1720 for free, follow the link below Gentility in Early Modern Wales: The Salesbury Family, 1450–1720 (uwp.……続きを見る

Over the last two centuries, Europe has developed various forms of political representation from which democratic parliamentary systems gradually emerged. This book unravels the conditions, scale an……続きを見る

This volume is a general survey of the history of Jordan from ancient times to the present. The author covers the major events that took place in this region since ancient times. Starting with the h……続きを見る