著者:Peter McPhee
出版社: Yale University Press
発売日: 2012年01月16日
For some historians and biographers, Maximilien Robespierre (1758–94) was a great revolutionary martyr who succeeded in leading the French Republic to safety in the face of overwhelming military odd……続きを見る
Whitehorse Farmhouse, Morton-on-the-Hill, located just outside Norwich, served as an Inn from the late C17 through to 1912. References to this hostelry can be found in Parson James Woodforde's count……続きを見る
著者:C.P. Thunberg
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2012年11月12日
This edition makes available once again Thunberg’s extraordinary writings on Japan, complete with illustrations, a full introduction and annotations. Carl Peter Thunberg, pupil and successor of Linn……続きを見る
著者:Helen Paul
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2010年09月13日
The book is an economic history of the South Sea Bubble. It combines economic theory and quantitative analysis with historical evidence in order to provide a rounded account. It brings together scho……続きを見る
著者:David Nicholls
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2003年08月29日
In this companion volume to Deity and Domination, David Nicholls broadens his examination of the relationship between religion and politics. Focusing on the images and concepts of God and the state ……続きを見る
This is the story of a city that shouldn’t exist. In the seventeenth century, what is now America’s most beguiling metropolis was nothing more than a swamp: prone to flooding, infested with snakes, ……続きを見る
著者:Anthony Pagden
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2013年04月23日
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS
One of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for……続きを見る
著者:Stephen J. Lee
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年06月17日
Peter the Great, whose reign saw the explosion of Russia onto the European scene, has become a legendary figure in history, as well as the subject of abiding controversy over the past two decades. D……続きを見る
This is a review of some of the odd fashions of the 17-19th centuries. This short illustrated piece covers both clothing and hair styles of the day. Richly illustrated.続きを見る
It was 1733 when the poet and philosopher Voltaire met Emilie du Châtelet, a beguilingーand marriedーaristocrat who would one day popularize Newton’s arcane ideas and pave the way for Einstein’s the……続きを見る
著者:Gordon S. Wood
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2006年05月18日
**A New York Times bestseller!
"Of those writing about the founding fathers, [Gordon Wood] is quite simply the best." ーThe Philadelphia Inquirer**
In this brilliantly illuminating group portrait of……続きを見る
Published in memory of Ivy L. McClelland, a pioneer-scholar of Spain’s eighteenth century, this volume of original essays contains, besides an Introduction to her career and internationally influent……続きを見る
著者:Bridget Hill
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年04月02日
When it was first published in 1984, this book filled an acknowledged gap in the social history of the period and made available hitherto inaccessible sources. The work draws on newspapers and journ……続きを見る
The Art of Conversation is a major contribution to the social history of language - a relatively new field which has become the focus of lively interdisciplinary debate in recent years.
Drawing on t……続きを見る
著者:Charles Royster
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2010年12月08日
From historian Charles Royster--winner of the Francis Parkman, Bancroft, and Lincoln prizes--comes the history of one of eighteenth-century America's most fantastic land speculation deals: William B……続きを見る
著者:A. Roger Ekirch
出版社: W. W. Norton & Company
発売日: 2011年06月27日
The astonishing story that inspired Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel Kidnapped.
In 1728, in the wake of his father’s death, the twelve-year-old heir to five aristocratic titles and the scion o……続きを見る
著者:Stephen S. Webb
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2012年09月12日
In LORD CHURCHILL’S COUP, Stephen Saunders Webb further advances his revisionist interpretation of the British Empire in the seventeenth century. Having earlier demonstrates that the Anglo=American ……続きを見る
A collection of poems and history about the Rochfort family of Gaulstown, Rochfortbridge, Westmeath, Ireland. The story of how Robert Rochfort, the 1st earl of Belvedere, incarcerated his wife for o……続きを見る
This book traces the emergence of the concept of self-identity in modern Western culture, as it was both reflected in and advanced by the development of autobiographical practice in early modern Eng……続きを見る
Roberts Liardon recaptures God's glory with these compelling spiritual biographies of some of the most powerful preachers ever to ignite the fires of revival.
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This collection of essays brings together an international roster of contributors to provide historical insight into women’s agency and activism in education throughout from the seventeenth to the t……続きを見る
著者:John Macdonald
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2004年08月02日
First published in 1927. John Macdonald (1741-96) was born, and died, a Scottish Highlander. First published at the time of the French Revolution, these memoirs of his days in service provide a rich……続きを見る
著者:Jeremy Black
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2002年11月01日
This is a history of warfare, wars and the armed forces of Europe from the military revolution of the mid-17th century to the Napoleonic wars.; This book is intended for broad-based undergrad course……続きを見る
Enormously rich and wide-ranging, The Routledge Companion to Britain in the Eighteenth Century brings together, in one handy reference, a wide range of essential information on the major aspects of ……続きを見る
著者:J. H. Shennan
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年09月13日
This fully revised second edition takes account of historical work produced during the last decade. Covering the period between Louis XIV's death in 1715 and the outbreak of the French Revolution in……続きを見る
*Includes pictures of Machiavelli and some of the rulers he discusses throughout the book. *Explains the historical background of Machiavelli's life and the political context within which he wrote T……続きを見る
著者:Paul Hazard
出版社: New York Review Books
発売日: 2013年04月09日
Paul Hazard’s magisterial, widely influential, and beloved intellectual history offers an unforgettable account of the birth of the modern European mind in all its dynamic, inquiring, and uncertain ……続きを見る
著者:Gwynne Lewis
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2002年11月01日
First Published in 2004. Historical Connections is a new series of short books on important historical topics and debates, written primarily for those studying and teaching history. The books will o……続きを見る