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Thinking about the Enlightenment
Modernity and its Ramifications
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Thinking about the Enlightenment looks beyond the current parameters of studying the Enlightenment, to the issues that can be understood by reflecting on the period in a broader context. Each of the thirteen original chapters, by an international and interdisciplinary team of contributors, illustrates...
The Power of Knowledge
How Information and Technology Made the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Information is power. For more than five hundred years the success or failure of nations has been determined by a country’s ability to acquire knowledge and technical skill and transform them into strength and prosperity. Leading historian Jeremy Black approaches global history from a distinctive...
1789
The Threshold of the Modern Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
The world in 1789 stood on the edge of a unique transformation. At the end of an unprecedented century of progress, the fates of three nations—France; the nascent United States; and their common enemy, Britain—lay interlocked. France, a nation bankrupted by its support for the American Revolution,...
The World in the Long Twentieth Century
An Interpretive History
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
What can be called the long twentieth century represents the most miraculous and creative era in human history. It was also the most destructive. Over the past 150 years, modern societies across the globe have passed through an extraordinary and completely unprecedented transformation rooted in the...
An Imperial World
Empires and Colonies Since 1750
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
This text helps students understand world history by focusing on an issue that has profoundly shaped the modern world order: the establishment and collapse of global empires since 1750.
An Imperial World uses a combination of primary documents and analytical essays, both tightly focused around...
by R.A. Houston
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
The new edition of this important, wide-ranging and extremely useful textbook has been extensively re-written and expanded. Rab Houston explores the importance of education, literacy and popular culture in Europe during the period of transition from mass illiteracy to mass literacy. He draws his examples...
Gated Communities?
Regulating Migration in Early Modern Cities
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Contrary to earlier views of preindustrial Europe as an essentially sedentary society, research over the past decades has amply demonstrated that migration was a pervasive characteristic of early modern Europe. In this volume, the theme of urban migration is explored through a series of historical...
A Social History of Women in Ireland, 1870–1970
An Exploration of the Changing Role and Status of Women in Irish Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2005
A Social History of Women in Ireland is an important and overdue book that explores the role and status of women in Ireland from 1870 until 1970, looking at politics, sociology, marriage patterns, religion, education and work among other topics. It provides a vital missing piece in the jigsaw of modern...
by Ann M. Blair
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Writing the Lives of People and Things, AD 500-1700
A Multi-disciplinary Future for Biography
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Historical biography has a mixed reputation: at its best it can reveal much not only about an individual, but the wider context of their life and society; at worst it can result in a narrowly focused work of hagiography or condemnation. Yet in spite of its sometimes inferior status amongst academics,...
The Development of Modern Europe Volume II
From the Fall of Metternich to the Eve of World War I
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
When, in 1792, the Austrian and Prussian armies had advanced toward Paris with the object of freeing Louis XVI from the restrictions placed upon him by the National Assembly, the French, roused to fury, had deposed and executed a ruler who was convicted of plotting with foreign powers to maintain...
The Creation of Modern China, 18942008
The Rise of a World Power
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
China preoccupies us; yet its recent past is still relatively unfamiliar. No country has undergone a greater period of sustained and turbulent change than China in the twentieth century, but it has emerged again as a leading global power. It is, therefore, more important than ever to understand the...
Liberty and Property
A Social History of Western Political Thought from the Renaissance to Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
The formation of the modern state, the rise of capitalism, the Renaissance and Reformation, the scientific revolution and the Age of Enlightenment have all been attributed to the “early modern” period. Nearly everything about its history remains controversial, but one thing is certain: it left...
Memoirs of a Grandmother
Scenes from the Cultural History of the Jews of Russia in the Nineteenth Century, Volume One
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
Pauline Wengeroff, the only nineteenth-century Russian Jewish woman to publish a memoir, sets out to illuminate the "cultural history of the Jews of Russia" in the period of Jewish "enlightenment," when traditional culture began to disintegrate and Jews became modern. Wengeroff,...