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Daniel Orrellsexamines the ways in which the ancient world was visualized for Enlightenment readers, and reveals how antiquarian scholarship emerged as the principal technology for envisioning ancie……続きを見る

Alexis de Tocqueville's 'The State of Society in France Before the Revolution of 1789' offers a detailed analysis of the social, political, and economic landscape of France leading up to the tumultu……続きを見る

In his book 'Pirates,' Charles Johnson delves into the dangerous and thrilling world of piracy in the early 18th century. With a captivating narrative style that blends historical accounts with fict……続きを見る

Heinrich von Kleist's 'Michael Kohlhaas' is a gripping tale of injustice and revenge set in 16th-century Germany. The novella follows the eponymous protagonist as he seeks justice after being wronge……続きを見る

Daniel Defoe's 'An Answer to a Question that Nobody thinks of, viz., But what if the Queen should Die?' is a fascinating political pamphlet that delves into the potential outcomes and implications o……続きを見る

Voltaire's 'The Sincere Huron' is a satirical novella that critiques the social and political norms of 18th-century France. Through the story of a young Huron man who travels to Europe and encounter……続きを見る

Daniel Defoe's 'A Journal of the Plague Year' is a hauntingly vivid account of the Great Plague that struck London in 1665. Written in a documentary style, the book blurs the lines between fiction a……続きを見る

FINALIST FOR THE GEORGE WASHINGTON BOOK PRIZE A new, brash, and unexpected view of the president we thought we knew, from the bestselling author of Astoria Two decades before he led America to indep……続きを見る

“Popular history in its most vital and accessible form. Standiford has recovered the mentality of America’s first group of young radicals, the Sons of Liberty, and tells their story with flair and g……続きを見る

Agents of European overseas empires involves contributors who specialise on often overlooked aspects of imperial endeavour: ‘private’ European interests, companies, merchants or courtiers, who condu……続きを見る

“Well-documented, entertaining. . . . This excellent popular history should attract a wide audience with its fresh perspective.” ーPublishers Weekly Drawing on hundreds of specialist sources, contem……続きを見る

This book explores the process by which the French Basque country acquired a folkloric regional identity in the long nineteenth century. It argues that, despite its origins in pre-modern customs, th……続きを見る

Long before coal-fuelled ships and machine-tooled firearms, in the age of sail and black powder, the Portuguese were engaged all around the coasts of Africa in capturing trading towns, seizing slave……続きを見る

This book discusses Griffith Jones’s High Church ministry and theology, which developed into mass evangelism in Wales. It considers Jones’s background, his life as a parson, preaching in Welsh and e……続きを見る

This book explores the fascinating ways that learning shapes us from childhood to adulthood and beyond. Through diverse stories and perspectives, it traces how education provides the foundation for ……続きを見る

Dit boek verkent de fascinerende manieren waarop leren ons vormt van onze kindertijd tot onze volwassenheid en daarna. Aan de hand van verschillende verhalen en perspectieven laat het zien hoe onder……続きを見る

In 1770 H.M. Bark Endeavour arrived in New Holland, Australia, the 'Continent of Smoke'. On board were Lieutenant James Cook, gentleman naturalist Joseph Banks, natural history artist Sydney Parkins……続きを見る

Dutiful daughter, frustrated wife, passionate lover, domineering mother, doting grandmother, devoted friend, tireless legislator, generous patron of artists and philosophersーthe Empress Catherine I……続きを見る

Through the lens of identification procedures, this book examines how the processes of state-building affected European societies during the Napoleonic period. By focusing on the Kingdom of Italy, t……続きを見る

The story of the Jacobite Rebellions really began in 1534, when King Henry VIII changed the official religion of England from Catholic to Protestant. The narrative then continued through turbulent t……続きを見る

Em um diálogo crítico com a historiografia mais recente, Laura de Mello e Souza repensa o papel da centralização monárquica na administração da América portuguesa. A autora defende a idéia de que a ……続きを見る

A new perspective on the Battle of Monmouth from the first-person accounts of those who took part in the battle. After spending a difficult winter at Valley Forge, George Washington led the Continen……続きを見る

Britain’s War for the Mediterranean provides a definitive study on British warmaking in the Mediterranean during the War of the First Coalition. It traces the origins of foreign and naval policies f……続きを見る

Police in Paris arrested thousands of men for sodomy or similar acts in the eighteenth century. In the mid-1780s, they recorded depositions in which prisoners recounted their own sexual histories. T……続きを見る

Located at the confluence of the north and west branches of the Susquehanna River, Shamokin was a significant historical settlement in the region that became Pennsylvania. By the time the Moravians ……続きを見る

Conscience as a Historical Force is the first true analysis of the life and thought of the radically democratic eighteenth-century backcountry figure of Herman Husband (1724–1795) and his heavily me……続きを見る

Goethe und die Juden – das heikle Thema wurde allzu lange gemieden. Dabei war Goethes Verhältnis zu den Juden seiner Zeit mehr als zwiespältig. Neben einer gewissen Faszination standen Vorurteile un……続きを見る

Maria Antonietta e Maria Carolina, figlie di Maria Teresa d’Austria, furono le ultime nate di una generazione di eredi che la “suocera” d’Europa giocò come pedine sullo scacchiere del continente. La……続きを見る

Cultural Histories of Law, Media and Emotion: Public Justice explores how the legal history of long-eighteenth-century Britain has been transformed by the cultural turn, and especially the associate……続きを見る

This book is devoted to the inhabitants of the Spanish–Portuguese borderlands during the early modern period. It seeks to challenge a predominant historiography focused on the study of borderlands s……続きを見る