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by Professor John Henry
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
This is a concise but wide-ranging account of all aspects of the Scientific Revolution from astronomy to zoology. The third edition has been thoroughly updated, and some sections revised and extended, to take into account the latest scholarship and research and new developments in historiography.
Crown under Law
Richard Hooker, John Locke, and the Ascent of Modern Constitutionalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
Crown under Law is an account of how and why the constitutional idea arose in early modern England. The book focuses on two figures_Richard Hooker and John Locke. Rosenthal represents Hooker as a transitional figure who follows in the medieval natural law tradition even while laying the groundwork...
Religion and the State
Europe and North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
The historiography of church-state relations in America and Europe remains a live cultural, religious, and political issue on both sides of the Atlantic. Even more, current political invocations of history illuminate the need for a thoroughly trans-Atlantic approach to the history of church-state...
The Inner Life of Empires
An Eighteenth-Century History
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
They were abolitionists, speculators, slave owners, government officials, and occasional politicians. They were observers of the anxieties and dramas of empire. And they were from one family. The Inner Life of Empires tells the intimate history of the Johnstones--four sisters and seven brothers who...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
The Routledge History of Nineteenth-Century America provides an important overview of the main themes within the study of the long nineteenth century. The book explores major currents of research over the past few decades to give an up-to-date synthesis of nineteenth-century history. It shows how...
by Peter Neville
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
This new edition of Peter Neville’s Mussolini traces and analyses the life of one of the most fascinating twentieth century European dictators, Benito Mussolini, while placing his life in its historic Italian context. Engaging and accessible, the Duce’s career is traced from his roots as a journalist...
Shaping Shakespeare for Performance
The Bear Stage
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Shaping Shakespeare for Performance: The Bear Stage collects significant work from the 2013 Blackfriars Conference. The conference, sponsored by the American Shakespeare Center, brings together scholars, actors, directors, dramaturges, and students to share important new work on the staging practices...
The Pendulum of War
The Fight for Upper Canada, January-August 1813
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
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In his second of six books in the series Upper Canada Preserved -- War of 1812, author Richard Feltoe continues a battlefield chronicle that combines the best of modern historical research with extensive quotes from original official documents and personal letters, bringing...
France's New Deal
From the Thirties to the Postwar Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2012
France's New Deal is an in-depth and important look at the remaking of the French state after World War II, a time when the nation was endowed with brand-new institutions for managing its economy and culture. Yet, as Philip Nord reveals, the significant process of state rebuilding did not begin at...
The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom
A Short Account of the Early Development of the Modern Kingdom of the Netherlands
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
First published in 1914, this vintage book contains a detailed historical account of the Dutch Kingdom between 1795 and 1813. Willem van Loon (1882 – 1944) was a Dutch-American journalist, historian, and successful author of children's books. Contents include: “William I Frontispiece”, “The...
The Victorian Reinvention of Race
New Racisms and the Problem of Grouping in the Human Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010
In mid-Victorian England there were new racial categories based upon skin colour. The 'races' familiar to those in the modern west were invented and elaborated after the decline of faith in Biblical monogenesis in the early nineteenth century, and before the maturity of modern genetics in the middle...
Fangs of the Lone Wolf
Chechen Tactics in the Russian-Chechen War 1994-2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013
Books on guerrilla war are seldom written from the tactical perspective and even less seldom from the guerrilla’s perspective. Fangs of the Lone Wolf: Chechen Tactics in the Russian-Chechen Wars 1994-2009 is an exception. These are the stories of low-level guerrilla combat as told by the survivors....
What Galileo Saw
Imagining the Scientific Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
The Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century has often been called a decisive turning point in human history. It represents, for good or ill, the birth of modern science and modern ways of viewing the world. In What Galileo Saw, Lawrence Lipking offers a new perspective on how to understand...
Noble Strategies
Marriage and Sexuality in the Zimmern Chronicle
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Through the colorful family histories and rich detail of the Zimmern Chronicle, historian Judith Hurwich examines marriage, family, and sexuality among the early modern German nobility. She uses the house chronicles of the Zimmern family and the families of the counts and barons with whom they intermarried...