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The Early Modern World*, 1450-1750: Seeds of Modernity* takes a distinctive approach to global history and enables a holistic view of the world during this period,without prioritizing any one nation……続きを見る

Are human beings purely material creatures, or is there something else to them, an immaterial part that does some (or all) of the thinking, and might even be able to outlive the death of the body? T……続きを見る

De amplo escopo, o livro que o leitor tem em mãos não é somente uma biografia de Richelieu; é também, e principalmente, uma fotografia dos primeiros trinta anos do multifacetado e intenso século XVI……続きを見る

Marie-Anne Mancini, quatrième et dernière des nièces du cardinal Mazarin, est contrainte par son oncle d'épouser à 13 ans Frédéric-Maurice de la Tour d'Auvergne, duc de Bouillon, qui exerce la haute……続きを見る

Extrait : " Richelieu venait de mourir, et Louis XIII, le premier vassal de son ministre, n'avait pas tardé à le suivre dans le tombeau : la France, encore émue des souvenirs peu glorieux de la rége……続きを見る

Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Samuel de Champlain, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo. En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá: • Conoc……続きを見る

Extrait : "A quelle époque faut-il faire remonter la construction du château que Louis XIII fit élever à Versailles ? Comme les divers écrivains qui ont traité ce point historique ne sont point d'ac……続きを見る

The book studies the two largest Quaker communities in the early modern British Atlantic World, London and Philadelphia. It looks at the origins of the Society of Friends in mid seventeenth century ……続きを見る

London's News Press shows that seventeenth-century England was very much part of a European-wide news community. The book presents a new print history that looks across Europe and the interconnectin……続きを見る

State trials provided some of the leading media events of later Stuart England. The more important of these trials attracted substantial public attention, serving as pivot points in the relationship……続きを見る

Christianity is a hugely diverse and quarrelsome family of faiths, but most Christians have nevertheless set great store by orthodoxy - literally, 'right opinion' - even if they cannot agree what th……続きを見る

In Royalism, Religion and Revolution: Wales, 1640-1688, Sarah Ward Clavier provides a ground-breaking analysis of the role of long-term continuities in the political and religious culture of Wales f……続きを見る

The English 'Old Poor Law' was the first national system of tax-funded social welfare in the world. It provided a safety net for hundreds of thousands of paupers at a time of very limited national w……続きを見る

This book offers an analysis of Jacobean duelling and gentry honour culture through the close examination and contextualisation of the most fully documented duel of the early modern era. This was th……続きを見る

Almshouses providing accommodation for poor people are a common feature of the towns and villages of England, visible representations of historic attitudes towards the poor. The period after the Ref……続きを見る

'An exceptionally significant monograph, and without doubt one of the most important to appear in the field of Restoration history in the last twenty years. Mark Goldie has done more than anyone els……続きを見る

Much criticised as weed-infested, badly cultivated and disfigured by the dung heap before the cottage door, eighteenth-century cottage gardens produced only the most basic food crops. But the parado……続きを見る

Early modern England was fascinated by the figure of the rogue. The rogue, who could be a beggar or vagrant but also a cutpurse, conman, card sharp, and all-round 'trickster' or even a highwayman, a……続きを見る

This book discusses the impact of cameralism on the practices of governance, early modern state-building and economy in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. It argues that the cameralist conc……続きを見る

Slavery Hinterland explores a neglected aspect of transatlantic slavery: the implication of a continental European hinterland. It focuses on historical actors in territories that were not directly i……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 book provides a history of the alehouse between the years 1550 and 1700, the period during which it first assumed its long celebrated role as the key site for public recreation in the villages ……続きを見る

A tribute to the work of Keith Wrightson, Remaking English Society re-examines the relationship between enduring structures and social change in early modern England. Collectively, the essays in the……続きを見る

Disease and Society in Premodern England examines the impact of infectious disease in England from the everyday to pandemics in the period c. 500–c. 1600, with the major focus from the eleventh cent……続きを見る

Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Enlightenment argues for the centrality of magical practices and ideas throughout the long eighteenth century. Although the hunt for witches in Europe declined p……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

This book is a study of shame in English society in the two centuries between c.1550 and c.1750, demonstrating the ubiquity and powerful hold it had on contemporaries over the entire era. Using insi……続きを見る

In "The History of the Devils of Loudun, Volumes I-III," Des Niau meticulously chronicles the infamous possession of a convent in Loudun, France, during the 17th century. The work stands out for its……続きを見る

In "History of the United Netherlands, 1595-96," John Lothrop Motley meticulously chronicles the crucial events during the late 16th century when the Dutch struggle for independence from Spanish rul……続きを見る

In "The Colonies, 1492-1750," Reuben Gold Thwaites meticulously examines the formative years of colonial America, weaving a narrative that blends keen historical analysis with engaging prose. Struct……続きを見る