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In fact, there are plenty of other elements about real-life pirates that are simply fiction. But what about the real history of piratesーis it worth exploring, and why? The history of the golden age……続きを見る

Violence was a constant on all colonial frontiers, from the British expansion into the Australian and African continents, to the expansion of the United States and the Napoleonic Empire's many incur……続きを見る

Nancy Armstrong argues that the history of the novel and the history of the modern individual are, quite literally, one and the same. She suggests that certain works of fiction created a subject, on……続きを見る

Bringing together archival research and literary analysis, this microhistorical study explores the decline of the Mughal empire through the life of a petty Mughal official Abdul Jalil Bilgrami as he……続きを見る

Music and Urban Life in Baroque Germany offers a new narrative of Baroque music, accessible to non-music specialists, in which Tanya Kevorkian defines the era in terms of social dynamics rather than……続きを見る

Les protagonistes de la Révolution française ont voulu constituer un nouveau système des beaux-arts, destinés non plus à la glorification des princes et à la satisfaction matérielle des élites de la……続きを見る

In "An Account of the Destruction of the Jesuits in France," Jean Le Rond d'Alembert meticulously examines the controversial dissolution of the Jesuit order in the 18th century, enveloping the disco……続きを見る

Op 27 oktober 2025 is het 750 jaar geleden dat Amsterdam voor het eerst in een document is genoemd. Die gebeurtenis staat centraal in Amsterdam, het water en de mensen. Gabri van Tussenbroek en Ranj……続きを見る

Toussaint Louverture is a Haitian hero-considered a founding father of the nation. He was of royal blood, the first-born son of a West African prince. Toussaint was nearly 50 years old at the start ……続きを見る

This book analyses aspects of the material culture of early modern Greece from an object-based perspective, using surviving artefacts from that period as primary sources. A printed book, a wine jug,……続きを見る

Exploratory, investigative, and energetically analytical, 1650–1850 covers the full expanse of long-eighteenth-century thought, writing, and art while delivering abundant revelatory detail. Essays o……続きを見る

In the years between 1776 and 1815, grand square-rigged sailing ships dominated warfare on the high seas. Fighting Sail is a tabletop wargame of fleet battles in this age of canvas, cannon, and timb……続きを見る

This study of Lebanese historical thought and its role in national identity formation in the eighteenth century focuses on a sample of historians, mainly Christians, who lived and wrote during the S……続きを見る

La série en sept tomes, Les-Bourbons.Club, vous présente son quatrième opus sur les rois Bourbons qui ont marqué l'Histoire Orphelin à l’âge de 2 ans, Louis XV succède à son arrière-grand-père à la ……続きを見る

La série en sept tomes, Les-Bourbons.Club, vous présente son cinquième opus sur les rois Bourbons qui ont marqué l'Histoire Louis XVI est le dernier roi de France de la période dite de l’Ancien Régi……続きを見る

A rip-roaring account of the dramatic four-year siege of Britain’s Mediterranean garrison by Spain and Franceーan overlooked key to the British loss in the American Revolution For more than three an……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Napoléon Bonaparte en moins d’une heure ! Qui mieux que Napoléon Bonaparte incarne le pouvoir de la volonté ? Issu d’un milieu modeste, son ascension es……続きを見る

Social clubs as they existed in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Scotland were varied: they could be convivial, sporting, or scholarly, or they could be a significant and dynamic social forc……続きを見る

In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the p……続きを見る

For over three and a half years, from 1779 to 1783, the tiny territory of Gibraltar was besieged and blockaded, on land and at sea, by the overwhelming forces of Spain and France. It became the long……続きを見る

Découvrez une nouvelle étude sur le XVIIIe siècle, qui s'intéresse à la place des femmes dans les échanges polémiques censés garantir leur foi et faire taire les propos des philosophes des Lumières.……続きを見る

Exile was a potent form of punishment and a catalyst for change in colonial Asia between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries. Vast networks of forced migration supplied laborers to emergin……続きを見る

When Italian forces landed on the shores of Libya in 1911, many in Italy hailed it as an opportunity to embrace a Catholic national identity through imperial expansion. After decades of acrimony bet……続きを見る

Xinjiang, named in 1759 by Emperor Qianlong (乾隆 1711-1799) of the Manchu-led Qing dynasty of China, was ruled by the Qing from the final phase of the Dzungar-Qing Wars when the Dzungar Khanate was……続きを見る

Seeks to explore the nature of the relationship between Britain and India at the height of imperial expansion. This collection is of interest among academic communities exploring British and Indian ……続きを見る

This volumeuses the extreme case of misers to examine interlocking categories that undergirded the emergence of modern British society, including new perspectives on charity, morality, and marriage;……続きを見る

As one of the most prolific historians of his generation, Allan I. Macinnes, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Strathclyde, has been foremost in promoting an international rather th……続きを見る

In The Art of Being In-between Yanna Yannakakis rethinks processes of cultural change and indigenous resistance and accommodation to colonial rule through a focus on the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca, a ru……続きを見る

'Drama, betrayal, religion and sex, it's all here ... Fascinating' GUARDIAN 'Beautifully paced, impeccably written ... Don't miss it' INDEPENDENT 'Fraser is at her best here, lucid, authoritative an……続きを見る

Featuring updates and revisions that reflect recent historiography, this new edition of The Portuguese Empire in Asia 1500-1700 presents a comprehensive overview of Portuguese imperial history that ……続きを見る