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The Conservative party remains the longest-established major political party in modern British history. This collection makes available 19th century documents illuminating aspects of Conservatism th……続きを見る

The Conservative party remains the longest-established major political party in modern British history. This collection makes available 19th century documents illuminating aspects of Conservatism th……続きを見る

Embracing a multiconfessional and transnational approach that stretches from central Europe, to Scotland and England, from Iberia to Africa and Asia, this volume explores the lives, work, and experi……続きを見る

Focusing on John Milton’s Paradise Lost , this book investigates the metaphorical identification of nature with a court of law – an old and persistent trope, haunted by ancient aporias, at the inter……続きを見る

Luxury, Fashion and the Early Modern Idea of Credit addresses how social and cultural ideas about credit and trust, in the context of fashion and trade, were affected by the growth and development o……続きを見る

The original works of foreign classics, including the most representative literary masters and the most influential representative works. 続きを見る

Wars create their own dynamics, especially with regard to images and language. The semiotic and semantic codes are redefined, according to the need to create an enemy image, or in reference to the r……続きを見る

Early Modern Knowledge Societies as Affective Economies researches the development of knowledge economies in Early Modern Europe. Starting with the Southern and Northern Netherlands as important ear……続きを見る

The "Confession of Faith Ratification Act 1690" serves as a pivotal document in the annals of Scottish religious and political history. Written in a period characterized by tumultuous shifts towards……続きを見る

Cities of Commerce develops a model of institutional change in European commerce based on urban rivalry. Cities continuously competed with each other by adapting commercial, legal, and financial ins……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

How an antisemitic legend gave voice to widespread fears surrounding the expansion of private credit in Western capitalism The Promise and Peril of Credit takes an incisive look at pivotal episodes ……続きを見る

In this comprehensive study, Kenneth Morgan provides an authoritative account of European exploration and discovery in Australia. The book presents a detailed chronological overview of European inte……続きを見る

A PIVOTAL MOMENT IN TIME: Discover surprising stories of the pioneering men and women who ushered the world toward modernity in this continent-spanning slice of world history. Features 140 full-colo……続きを見る

This volume sets out to examine the ways in which an equality between the sexes is constructed, conceptualised, imagined or realised in early modern France, a period and a country which produced som……続きを見る

Artistic and Political Patronage in Early Stuart England explores the remarkable life and career of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke. Pembroke was one of the most influential aristocrats duri……続きを見る

Early Modern Things supplies fresh and provocative insights into how objects – ordinary and extraordinary, secular and sacred, natural and man-made – came to define some of the key developments of t……続きを見る

Les Archives de l’Etat à Anvers possèdent de nombreux documents des plus précieux pour celui qui désirerait faire l’histoire de la Commanderie de Pitsembourg. Parmi ces documents, j’ai trouvé différ……続きを見る

One of our most distinguished military historians tells the story of six defining battles . . . Every battle is different. Each takes place in a different context - the war, the campaign, the weapon……続きを見る

Les voitures publiques sont une partie essentielle des domaines du Roi; elles doivent leur établissement à l’Université de Paris, & sont presque aussi anciennes qu’elle. Elles furent d’abord établie……続きを見る

This book is the first major academic study of the Ulster Plantation in over 25 years. The pivotal importance of the Plantation to the shared histories of Ireland and Britain would be difficult to o……続きを見る

Plagues, poisons and potions highlights one of the most fascinating aspects of the history of early modern plague. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries outbreaks of plague in and around the an……続きを見る

This volume takes a pan-Indian view of different professional groups and service providers mainly based in towns. While Persian texts provide limited information on the subject, European sources in ……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

In 1686 in Geneva, a single mother named Jeanne Catherine Thomasset is charged with poisoning two young children: her own illegitimate daughter and the son of a rural wet nurse. So begins a harrowin……続きを見る

The Politics of Tragicomedy: Shakespeare and After offers a series of sophisticated and powerful readings of tragicomedy from Shakespeare’s late plays to the drama of the Interregnum. Rejecting both……続きを見る

Was it the Titanic of its age? Christened by an optimistic King James I in December 1609, the Trades Increase was the greatest English merchant vessel of the Jacobean eraーa magnificent ship embodyi……続きを見る

When Samuel Pepys began writing his secret journal in 1660 he was just a young clerk living in London. Over the next nine years, he became eyewitness to some of the most significant events in sevent……続きを見る

Dall'impero di Luigi XIV all'imperialismo di Bismarck, dal dispotismo illuminato settecentesco alle rivoluzioni che hanno messo fine all'ancien régime e costruito il mondo moderno. Per fare chiarezz……続きを見る

La nascita degli Stati nazionali e le prime guerre europee, la scoperta del mondo e lo sfruttamento delle colonie, i contrasti religiosi e la dittatura di Oliver Cromwell. Questo manuale ti offre un……続きを見る