18Th Century category: 835 books
Routledge Revivals: The Contentious Tithe (1976)
The Tithe Problem and English Agriculture 1750-1850
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
First published in 1976, this book studies the impact of a uniquely unpopular tax on English rural communities. It examines the tithe system during a period when it was subject to mounting attack from political economists, agricultural improvers and radicals alike. Professor Evans has made extensive...
Sciences, techniques, pouvoirs et sociétés du XVe siècle au XVIIIe siècle
Concours d'enseignement CAPES Agrégation 2016
Language: French
Release Date: November 24, 2016
L'époque moderne a vu naître la pensée scientifique moderne, d'abord dans le champ des mathématiques et de l'astronomie. En même temps, la diffusion des techniques nées du développement des sciences mais aussi basées sur un savoir-faire perfectionné au cours des siècles connaît aussi une...
The Brightness of Darkness Of An African
Knowing the Past, Living the Present, and Hoping for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
The Brightness of Darkness of an African is a continuous story of the Unknown of the Known in Africa. Chungu unveils the roots and stems of racism in our societies. He does a research in both the Republic of South Africa and in the United States of America. He compare the two countries and their treatments...
Literary Sociability in Early Modern England
The Epistolary Record
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
This study represents a significant reinterpretation of literary networks during what is often called the transition from manuscript to print during the early modern period. It is based on a survey of 28,000 letters and over 850 mainly English correspondents, ranging from consumers to authors, significant...
by Marco Materassi
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Il neofita Libero Muratore ha bisogno di entrare da subito in contatto con la pratica del lavoro massonico, nelle sue profonde implicazioni iniziatiche, come in quelle più elementari, ma non meno necessarie, degli aspetti correnti e organizzativi dell’istituzione cui ora appartiene. Queste pagine...
Travel and the British country house
Cultures, critiques and consumption in the long eighteenth century
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Provides readers with fresh insights into the country house and the ways it was shaped by domestic and foreign travel. It brings famous and less familiar houses to life through the aspirations and acquisitions of owners; the admiring or caustic comments of visitors, and the constant flows of goods, people and ideas.
by Xosé M. Núñez Seixas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 24, 2019
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 24, 2019
Se reúnen en este volumen ocho ensayos cuyo común denominador es el análisis, desde la óptica de la historia transnacional, de la compleja relación entre nacionalismo y transnacionalismo, entre reivindicaciones de la nación particular y su imbricación con dinámicas globales, tanto europeas...
Jeux et joueurs d'autrefois
Essai historique
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Extrait : "On a toujours joué, on jouera toujours. Il faudrait maints in-octavo pour raconter l'histoire du jeu à travers les siècles. Depuis les soldats de Pilate qui tiraient aux dés les vêtements de Jésus-Christ, depuis Duguesclin qui perdait en prison la totalité de son bien, depuis Bassompierre...
by Víctor Morales Lezcano
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 18, 2016
La obra del autor ha gravitado en torno al Mediterráneo occidental durante los siglos XIX y XX, sobre el Magreb y sus relaciones exteriores (Francia, España, Italia) en particular, pero desde hace ya unos cuantos años inició lecturas y reflexiones centradas en los orígenes contemporáneos del...
Le vie della seta a Rimini
Artefici e luoghi produttivi (XVI-XX sec.)
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 30, 2015
La seta, una vocazione del territorio riminese fino ad ora assolutamente inedita. Eppure c'è un antico indizio dell'allevamento del baco, della produzione, lavorazione e commercializzazione del filo: il trattato dal titolo Il vermicello dalla seta, pubblicato a Rimini nel 1581 da Corsucci di Sassocorvaro,...
by Donald Quataert
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 29, 2015
La posizione geopolitica – al crocevia tra Asia, Europa e Africa – destinò lo Stato ottomano a un ruolo di primissimo piano nella storia mondiale. Fino al XVIII secolo era il “terrore del mondo”; dopo la pesante sconfitta subita a Vienna nel 1683, quando bruscamente e inesorabilmente si avviò...
by Luigi Russo
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 9, 2019
La presente pubblicazione raccoglie diversi contributi alla storia di Casagiove che il sottoscritto ha scritto negli ultimi anni su Casanova e Coccagna dai primi documenti scritti fino agli inizi del XIX secolo. Il primo capitolo riguarda i cenni storici di Casanova e Coccagna a partire dal 969 d.C....
by Luigi Russo
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 4, 2019
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 4, 2019
Questa pubblicazione raccoglie studi e ricerche realizzate negli ultimi anni sulla storia di personaggi e famiglie di Capua fra XVII e XIX secolo. Si tratta di sette contributi eterogenei pubblicati per la maggior parte su riviste o su monografie sulla storia di Capua, riguardanti personaggi e famiglie di Capua fra XVII e XIX secolo.
The Great Debate
Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
An acclaimed portrait of Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the origins of modern conservatism and liberalism
In The Great Debate, Yuval Levin explores the roots of the left/right political divide in America by examining the views of the men who best represented each side at its origin: Edmund...