The European empires as they existed from the Age of Discovery until after the First World War shaped the modern world. So great has been their political, economic and cultural influence that to ful……続きを見る
著者:Steven M. Baule
出版社: Ohio University Press
発売日: 2014年01月15日
Protecting the Empire’s Frontier tells stories of the roughly eighty officers who served in the 18th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot, which served British interests in America during the crucial peri……続きを見る
Extrait : "La première réunion dont nous occuperons est celle qui avait lieu toutes les semaines chez Valentin Conrart, rue Saint-Martin, au cœur de Paris. Elle se composait de Godeau, Gombauld, Cha……続きを見る
Extrait : "Le dix-huitième siècle a compté, comme le dix-septième, un grand nombre de cercles littéraires, offrant la même diversité d'origine, les mêmes contrastes de ton. Nous rencontrerons, au co……続きを見る
George I was not the most charismatic of the Hanoverian monarchs to have reigned in England but he was probably the most important. He was certainly the luckiest.
Born the youngest son of a landless……続きを見る
Extrait : "Dans un ouvrage dont l'éloge n'est plus à faire, M. Camille Rousset a réduit à leur juste valeur les assertions de certains écrivains sur les événements militaires de 1792[...]. Désireux ……続きを見る
This is the first book to survey the experience of servants in rural Europe from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. Live-in servants were a distinctive element of early modern society. They we……続きを見る
This is the first book to survey the experience of servants in rural Europe from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.
This is the first book to survey the experience of servants in rural Europe ……続きを見る
Rigorously inventive and revelatory in its adventurousness, 1650–1850 opens a forum for the discussion, investigation, and analysis of the full range of long-eighteenth-century writing, thinking, an……続きを見る
This translation of the classic history of the Prussians and Russians in the Seven Years War details operational history of these forces. It includes color and black and white images.
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Both King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, Augustus is one of the great what-ifs of the 18th century. He could have turned the accident of ruling two major realms into the basis for a powerful Europ……続きを見る
This book deals with an ordinary man from the 21st century (Michael), through a fault in the Essentia’s admin database, being time exchanged with the soul of a dead naval lieutenant from another cen……続きを見る
„Wolność niejedno ma imię” to powieść historyczna młodego, debiutującego pisarza Grzegorza Szymborskiego. Książka jest literackim majstersztykiem, ukazującym losy bohaterów w niezwykle interesujący ……続きを見る
Un ebook unico nel suo genere, un’opera che desidera raccogliere le parole più significative lasciateci nel tempo dai più illustri intellettuali, politici, capi di Stato e Papi. Si parte da Menenio ……続きを見る
著者:William Burns
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2018年07月06日
Knowledge and Power presents and explores science not as something specifically for scientists, but as an integral part of human civilization, and traces the development of science through different……続きを見る
Shoes reveal the hopes, dreams, and disappointments of the early Americans who wore them.
Honorable Mention of the Historic New England Book Prize by Historic New England
In Treasures Afoot, Kimberl……続きを見る
著者:Tim Blanning
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年05月31日
**"History writing at its glorious best."--The New York Times
"A triumphant success. [Blanning] brings knowledge, expertise, sound judgment and a colorful narrative style."--The Economist
The New Yo……続きを見る
A lively examination of the life and work of one of the great Enlightenment intellectuals
Philosopher, translator, novelist, art critic, and editor of the Encyclopédie, Denis Diderot was one of the ……続きを見る
In the eighteenth century, it would not have been impossible to encounter an elephant or a kangaroo making its way down the Strand, heading towards the menagerie of Mr. Pidcock at the Exeter Change.……続きを見る
DISCOVER THE INDIGNITIES AND REALITIES OF SLAVERY FROM A CAPTIVATING FIRST-HAND NARRATIVE
Olaudah Equiano’s interesting narrative is an astonishing first-hand account of kidnapping, enslavement and ……続きを見る
Louis XV fut entouré de nombreuses femmes. Tout d'abord, la sienne, la reine, Marie Leczinska, qui lui donna 10 enfants dont 6 filles atteindront l'âge adulte. Mais comme elle est rapide et glissant……続きを見る
著者:Wim Blockmans
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2024年01月31日
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