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Minorcan Voices brings to light one of America's most overlooked chapters: the story of the 1,403 Mediterranean men, women and children who came to British East Florida in 1768 with hopes of land an……続きを見る

La presente edición reúne ensayos, artículos y fragmentos inéditos que Simone Weil (1909-1943) dedicó a la reflexión sobre la cuestión colonial desde 1936 hasta el final de su vida. Voz pionera del ……続きを見る

Ar drothwy trichanmlwyddiant ei enedigaeth, mae'r gyfrol hon yn cyflwyno’r astudiaeth lawn gyntaf o Thomas Pennant, y naturiaethwr a'r teithiwr o Sir y Fflint, ar gyfer cynulleidfa Gymraeg ei hiaith……続きを見る

With the stroke of a pen, Britain acquired approximately 34 million acres of land in 1763ーterritory that had been Spain’s La Florida since 1565. Trade was the economic engine of the time, and the c……続きを見る

Real Lives in the Eighteenth Century presents a global history using four sets of biographies to illustrate corresponding situations in different geographical regions. Loosely based on Plutarch’s Pa……続きを見る

Looking at America through the Irish prism and employing a comparative approach, leading and emerging scholars of early American and Atlantic history interrogate anew the relationship between imperi……続きを見る

Sheds new light on European and regional book markets, the development of a public sphere and the impact of new media on intellectual, social, religious and political change. How do you become a cit……続きを見る

The Enlightenment was a laboratory of modernity that changed the history of the Western world, helping to bring about globalisation and the rise of a powerful intellectual class. It gave the scienti……続きを見る

A compelling reevaluation of the Enlightenment from one of its leading historians In this concise and powerful book, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment provides a bracing and……続きを見る

Il saggio, attraverso testimonianze e documenti, ripercorre la storia delle reducciones fondate dai gesuiti nel Nuovo Mondo. La vicenda è tra le più scottanti della storia dei gesuiti: la Chiesa sec……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

A autora parte de um tema específico, a circulação da prata em Veracruz durante a era do "Livre Comércio", e aventura-se numa viagem pelas complexas mudanças estruturais que o sistema colonial espan……続きを見る

- A vital contribution to the re-evaluation of the legacy of the American Civil War - Comes at a time of widespread reassessment about the roles and status of people of African descent and their pla……続きを見る

Portoghese di nascita e napoletana di adozione, Eleonora Pimentel, da acclamata poetessa e bibliotecaria della corte borbonica, erede del riformismo culturale del Genovesi e del Filangieri, aderì al……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

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

Tracing the origins of modern political thought through three sets of arguments over history, morality, and freedom In this wide-ranging work, Michael Sonenscher traces the origins of modern politic……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 interdisciplinary study examines how age norms shaped the experiences of Europeans, Native Americans, and African Americans in colonial North America, exploring how diverse population groups co……続きを見る

This is the first historical monograph to demonstrate settler colonialism’s significance for Early America. Based on a nuanced reading of the archive and using a comparative approach, the book treat……続きを見る

When István Hont died in 2013, the world lost a giant of intellectual history. A leader of the Cambridge School of Political Thought, Hont argued passionately for a global-historical approach to pol……続きを見る

This is a bold new history of the sans-culottes and the part they played in the French Revolution. It tells for the first time the real story of the name now usually associated with urban violence a……続きを見る

The first comprehensive, archive-based history of Russia’s original annexation of Crimea and its predominantly Muslim population more than two hundred years ago Russia’s long-standing claims to Cri……続きを見る

Now in its fourth edition, P.M. Jones’ The French Revolution has been extensively revised and incorporates the most recent research on race, religion, gender and citizens’ rights. It also covers, in……続きを見る

A bronze inscription in the public library of Bridgend calls Richard Price "Philosopher. Preacher. Actuary. Cfaill Dynolryw" [Friend of Humanity]. He was all these and something more. Son of a Welsh……続きを見る

Edmund Burke in recent years has assumed extraordinary stature in American political thinking as the father of neoconservatism. In this book, the first of a two-volume biography of this eighteenth-c……続きを見る

In this second of two volumes, Carl B. Cone demonstrates once again that only through a study of Edmund Burke's active political life can one understand his thought. To Burke's important practical c……続きを見る

Baroness Orczy's classic tale of adventure during the French Revolution. Also available as an unabridged audiobook, read by Julian Rhind-Tutt. Paris, 1792. The Terror has begun. Every day, scores of……続きを見る

There can be few more mesmerising historical narratives than the story of how the dazzlingly confident and secure monarchy Louis XIV, 'the Sun King', left to his successors in 1715 became the discre……続きを見る

A collection of poems and history about the Rochfort family of Gaulstown, Rochfortbridge, Westmeath, Ireland. The story of how Robert Rochfort, the 1st earl of Belvedere, incarcerated his wife for o……続きを見る