Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This volume brings together some of the most exciting renaissance scholars to suggest new ways of thinking about the period and to set a new series of agendas for Renaissance scholarship.Overturns the...
Author: Cullen, L. M. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book offers a distinctive overview of the internal and external pressures responsible for the making of modern Japan. L. M. Cullen argues that Japanese policies and fears have often been caricatu...
Description: By 1514, the reclusive cleric Nicolaus Copernicus had written and hand-copied an initial outline of his heliocentric theory-in which he defied common sense and received wisdom to place the sun, not th...
Author: Leonard, Carol S. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book examines the history of reforms and major state interventions affecting Russian agriculture: the abolition of serfdom in 1861, the Stolypin reforms, the NEP, the Collectivization, Khrushchev...
Author: Gungwu, Wang Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Chinese encounters with the British were more than merely those between two great powers. There was the larger canvas of the Empire and Commonwealth where the two peoples traded and interacted. In Chi...
Author: Rice, Louise Publisher: Italica Press, Inc. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Originally published in Renaissance Society and Culture: Essays in Honor of Eugene F. Rice, Jr., edited by John Monfasani and Ronald G. Musto (New York: Italica Press, 1991).
Author: Cassis,Youssef Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: International financial centres have come to represent a major economic stake. Yet no historical study has been devoted to them. Professor Cassis, a leading financial historian, attempts to fill this ...
Author: Edelstein, Marilyn Manera Publisher: Italica Press, Inc. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Originally published in Renaissance Society and Culture: Essays in Honor of Eugene F. Rice, Jr., edited by John Monfasani and Ronald G. Musto (New York: Italica Press, 1991).
Author: Bisaha, Nancy Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Bisaha provides the most comprehensive and nuanced account now available of the attitudes of Western intellectuals to the Turks, the Byzantines, and crusading in Renaissance Italy, an important time ...
Author: Rainey, Ronald Publisher: Italica Press, Inc. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Originally published in Renaissance Society and Culture: Essays in Honor of Eugene F. Rice, Jr., edited by John Monfasani and Ronald G. Musto (New York: Italica Press, 1991).
Author: Low, D. A. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: During the 1890s, the Scramble for Africa created the new country of Uganda. This inland territory carved out by British agents first encompassed some 20-30 African kingdoms. In his magisterial new st...
Author: Agrippa, Camillo Publisher: Italica Press, Inc. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Camillo Agrippa's widely influential "Treatise on the Science of Arms" was a turning point in the history of fencing. The author - an engineer by trade and not a professional master of arms - was able...
Author: Siraisi, Nancy G. Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A major, path-breaking work, History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning is Nancy G. Siraisi's examination into the intersections of medically trained authors and history in the peri...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The dilemma of how best to protect human rights is one of the most persistent problems facing the international community today. This unique and wide-ranging history of humanitarian intervention exami...
Author: N/A Publisher: Italica Press, Inc. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Originally published in Renaissance Society and Culture: Essays in Honor of Eugene F. Rice, Jr., edited by John Monfasani and Ronald G. Musto (New York: Italica Press, 1991).
Author: Green,Nile Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A ground-breaking study of the cultural world of the Muslim soldiers of colonial India. Set in Hyderabad in the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the book focuses on the soldiers' relation...
Description: Locus Amoenus provides a pioneering collection of new perspectives on Renaissance garden history, and the impact of its development. Experts in the field illustrate the extent of our knowledge of how ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Locus Amoenus provides a pioneering collection of new perspectives on Renaissance garden history, and the impact of its development. Experts in the field illustrate the extent of our knowledge of how ...
Author: McNeill, J. R. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean - the landscapes lying between Surinam and the Chesapeake - in the seventeenth t...
Author: Ramusack, Barbara N. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Although the princes of India have been caricatured as oriental despots and British stooges, Barbara Ramusack's study argues that the British did not create the princes. On the contrary, many were con...
Author: Firenzuola, Agnolo Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: First published in 1548, On the Beauty of Women purports to record two conversations shared by a young gentleman, Celso, and four ladies of the upper bourgeoisie in the vicinity of Florence. One after...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Inspired by research undertaken for the new Medieval & Renaissance Galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Re-thinking Renaissance Objects explores and often challenges some of the key issues...
Description: Inspired by research undertaken for the new Medieval & Renaissance Galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Re-thinking Renaissance Objects explores and often challenges some of the key issues...
Author: Clossey,Luke Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is the first truly global study of the Society of Jesus's early missions. Up to now historians have treated the early-modern Catholic missionary project as a disjointed collection of regional mis...
Author: Newman, Barbara Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Barbara Newman reintroduces English-speaking readers to an extraordinary and gifted figure of the twelfth-century renaissance. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was mystic and writer, musician and preac...
Author: Smith, S. D. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: From the mid-seventeenth century to the 1830s, successful gentry capitalists created an extensive business empire centered on slavery in the West Indies, but inter-linked with North America, Africa, a...
Author: Carrión, Gabriela Publisher: Bucknell University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Staging Marriage in Early Modern Spain examines selected dramatic works where the vicissitudes of matrimony play center stage. Various aspects of conjugal relations including courtship, divorce, and w...
Author: Gosselin, Edward A. Publisher: Italica Press, Inc. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Originally published in Renaissance Society and Culture: Essays in Honor of Eugene F. Rice, Jr., edited by John Monfasani and Ronald G. Musto (New York: Italica Press, 1991).
Author: Freund,Bill Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This unique book is comprehensive both in terms of time coverage, from before the Pharaohs to the present moment and in that it tries to consider cities from the entire continent, not just Sub-Saharan...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Volume Two treats the 'long twentieth century' from the onset of modern economic growth to the present. It analyzes the principal dimensions of Latin America's first era of sustained economic growth f...
Author: Taylor, G. R. S. Publisher: IHS Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The medieval guild is deconstructed into political theory and social commentary in this contemporary look at one of the most important social institutions of the Middle Ages. Essential principles and ...
Author: Hankins, James Publisher: Italica Press, Inc. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Originally published in Renaissance Society and Culture: Essays in Honor of Eugene F. Rice, Jr., edited by John Monfasani and Ronald G. Musto (New York: Italica Press, 1991).
Author: Vries,Jan de Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In the long eighteenth century, new consumer aspirations combined with a new industrious behavior to fundamentally alter the material cultures of northwest Europe and North America. This 'industrious ...
Author: Parthasarathi, Prasannan Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not provides a striking new answer to the classic question of why Europe industrialised from the late eighteenth century and Asia did not. Drawing significantly from ...
Author: Go, Julian Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Patterns of Empire comprehensively examines the two most powerful empires in modern history: the United States and Britain. Challenging the popular theory that the American empire is unique, Patterns ...
Author: Newman, Barbara Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Barbara Newman reintroduces English-speaking readers to an extraordinary and gifted figure of the twelfth-century renaissance. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was mystic and writer, musician and preac...
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