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Medicine, Trade and Empire
Garcia de Orta's Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563) in Context
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Garcia de Orta’s Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563) was one of the first books to take advantage of the close relationship between medicine, trade and empire in the early modern period. The book was printed in Goa, the capital of the Portuguese empire in the East, and the city where...
Queenship in the Mediterranean
Negotiating the Role of the Queen in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
This groundbreaking collection explores the key roles that Mediterranean queens played as wives, as mothers, and above all as political actors. Ranging from Byzantine empresses to regnants and consorts in the Italian peninsula, they offer a bracing new perspective on queenship in the medieval and Early Modern eras.
Renaissance Truths
Humanism, Scholasticism and the Search for the Perfect Language
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Though they have long been portrayed as arch rivals, Alan Perreiah here argues that humanists and scholastics were in fact working in complementary ways toward some of the same goals. After locating the two traditions within the early modern search for the perfect language, this study re-defines the...
Genealogy of the Tragic
Greek Tragedy and German Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2014
Why did Greek tragedy and "the tragic" come to be seen as essential to conceptions of modernity? And how has this belief affected modern understandings of Greek drama? In Genealogy of the Tragic, Joshua Billings answers these and related questions by tracing the emergence of the modern theory of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) is one of the most important philosophers of the last two hundred years, whose writings, both published and unpublished, have had a formative influence on virtually all aspects of modern culture. This volume offers introductory essays on all of Nietzsche's completed...
Bushmen Soldiers
The History of 31, 201 & 203 Battalions During the Border War 1974-90
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2014
The Bushman soldiers were the most outstanding all-round fighters of the Border War. As the first of the indigenous population to take up arms on South Africa's behalf, they were among the last to lay them down. The border's oldest and most bush-wise people, they became feared as relentless trackers...
by Steve Pincus
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
The Age of Beloveds
Love and the Beloved in Early-Modern Ottoman and European Culture and Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2005
The Age of Beloveds offers a rich introduction to early modern Ottoman culture through a study of its beautiful lyric love poetry. At the same time, it suggests provocative cross-cultural parallels in the sociology and spirituality of love in Europe—from Istanbul to London—during the long sixteenth...
Upper Canada Preserved — War of 1812 6-Book Bundle
The Ashes of War / A Crucible of Fire / and four more...
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
Presenting all six installments of Richard Feltoe’s series on the War of 1812, gathered together in an ebook bundle. Each book in this battlefield-based chronicle combines the best of modern historical research with extensive quotations from original official documents and personal letters to bring...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
The histories of modern war and childhood were the result of competing urgencies. According to ideals of childhood widely accepted throughout the world by 1900, children should have been protected, even hidden, from conflict and danger. Yet at a time when modern ways of childhood became increasingly...
by Sarah Hutton
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Sarah Hutton presents a rich historical study of one of the most fertile periods in modern philosophy. It was in the seventeenth century that Britain's first philosophers of international stature and lasting influence emerged. Its most famous names, Hobbes and Locke, rank alongside the greatest names...
Doctor of Society
Tom Beddoes and the Sick Trade in Late-Enlightenment England
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
First published in 1992, this book explores how we come to hold our present attitudes towards health, sickness and the medical profession. Roy Porter argues that the outlook of the age of Enlightenment was crucially important in the creation of modern thinking about disease, doctors and society. To...
Trade in Strangers
The Beginnings of Mass Migration to North America
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 1999
American historians have long been fascinated by the "peopling" of North America in the seventeenth century. Who were the immigrants, and how and why did they make their way across the ocean? Most of the attention, however, has been devoted to British immigrants who came as free people or...
City Folk
English Country Dance and the Politics of the Folk in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
This is the story of English Country Dance, from its 18th century roots in the English cities and countryside, to its transatlantic leap to the U.S. in the 20th century, told by not only a renowned historian but also a folk dancer, who has both immersed himself in the rich history of the folk tradition...