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by Anthony Reid
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1999
In this volume, Anthony Reid positions Southeast Asia on the stage of world history. He argues that the region not only had a historical character of its own, but that it played a crucial role in shaping the modern world.
Southeast Asia’s interaction with the forces uniting and transforming...
by Peter Gurney
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE AWARD WINNER 2018
It is commonly accepted that the consumer is now centre stage in modern Britain, rather than the worker or producer. Consumer choice is widely regarded as the major source of self-definition and identity rather than productive activity. Politicians...
The Invention of Scotland (Routledge Revivals)
The Stuart Myth and the Scottish Identity, 1638 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
A dynasty of high ability and great charm, the Stuarts exerted a compelling fascination over their supporters and enemies alike. First published in 1991, this title assesses the influence of the Stuart mystique on the modern political and cultural identity of Scotland. Murray Pittock traces the Stuart...
A Linking of Heaven and Earth
Studies in Religious and Cultural History in Honor of Carlos M.N. Eire
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
The Reformation of the sixteenth century shattered the unity of medieval Christendom, and the resulting fissures spread to the corners of the earth. No scholar of the period has done more than Carlos M.N. Eire, however, to document how much these ruptures implicated otherworldly spheres as well. His...
by Susan Broomhall
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
States of emotion were vital as a foundation to society in the premodern period, employed as a force of order to structure diplomatic transactions, shape dynastic and familial relationships, and align religious beliefs, practices and communities. At the same time, societies understood that affective...
Negotiating Knowledge in Early Modern Empires
A Decentered View
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
This volume takes a decentered look at early modern empires and rejects the center/periphery divide. With an unconventional geographical set of cases, including the Holy Roman Empire, the Habsburg, Iberian, French and British empires, as well as China, contributors seize the spatial dynamics of the scientific enterprise.
From Oikonomia to Political Economy
Constructing Economic Knowledge from the Renaissance to the Scientific Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Renaissance Europe witnessed a surge of interest in new scientific ideas and theories. Whilst the study of this 'Scientific Revolution' has dramatically shifted our appreciation of many facets of the early-modern world, remarkably little attention has been paid to its influence upon one key area;...
Peasants and Lords in Modern Germany
Recent Studies in Agricultural History
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This collection of essays, first published in 1986, provides an exciting introduction to modern German agrarian history. The essays offer a revised account of the agricultural sector in an industrial Germany, and provide an extensive methodological, conceptual and thematic range. This collection challenges...
by Marc Jason Gilbert, Jon Davidann
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
One of the hallmarks of world history is the ever-increasing ability of humans to cross cultural boundaries. Taking an encounters approach that opens up history to different perspectives and experiences, Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History examines cultural contact between people from...
A History of Modern France
PowerPoint Presentation (Download Only)
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Organized chronologically, A History of Modern France presents a survey of the dramatic events that have punctuated French history, including the French Revolution, the upheavals of the 19th century, the world wars of the 20th century, and France's current role in the European Union. Written for today's...
by Brian Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Mining disasters attracted the attention of the public and the press during the twentieth century, just as they had done a few generations earlier. This interest was made even more immediate and certainly more graphic through the increasing use of photographic images and film; and the impact of broadcasting...
Body by Weimar
Athletes, Gender, and German Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
See the author featured in the "New Books in History" podcast: http://newbooksinhistory.com/2011/04/01/erik-jensen-body-by-weimar-athletes-gender-and-german-modernity-oxford-up-2010/ In Body by Weimar, Erik N. Jensen shows how German athletes reshaped gender roles in the turbulent decade after World...
The World of the Small Farmer
Tenure, Profit and Politics in the Early-Modern Somerset Levels
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
This detailed and original study of early-modern agrarian society in the Somerset Levels examines the small landholders in a group of sixteen contiguous parishes in the area known as Brent Marsh. These were farmers with lifehold tenures and a mixed agricultural production whose activities and outlook...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Recent research has demonstrated that early modern slavery was much more widespread than the traditional concentration on plantation slavery in the context of European colonial expansion would suggest. Slavery and slave trading, though little researched, were common across wide stretches of Eurasia,...