Renaissance category: 1000 books
Making Publics in Early Modern Europe
People, Things, Forms of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011
The book looks at how people, things, and new forms of knowledge created "publics" in early modern Europe, and how publics changed the shape of early modern society. The focus is on what the authors call "making publics" — the active creation of new forms of association that...
The Unbound Prometheus
Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2003
For over thirty years David S. Landes's The Unbound Prometheus has offered an unrivalled history of industrial revolution and economic development in Europe. Now, in this updated edition, the author reframes and reasserts his original arguments in the light of debates about globalisation and comparative...
Britain's Oceanic Empire
Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds, c.1550–1850
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
This pioneering comparative study of British imperialism in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds draws on the perspectives of British newcomers overseas and their native hosts, metropolitan officials and corporate enterprises, migrants and settlers. Leading scholars examine the divergences and commonalities...
Exceptionalism and Industrialisation
Britain and its European Rivals, 1688–1815
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2004
This 2004 book explores the question of British exceptionalism in the period from the Glorious Revolution to the Congress of Vienna. Leading historians examine why Great Britain emerged from years of sustained competition with its European rivals in a discernible position of hegemony in the domains...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
The era from 1400 to 1800 saw intense biological, commercial, and cultural exchanges, and the creation of global connections on an unprecedented scale. Divided into two books, Volume 6 of the Cambridge World History series considers these critical transformations. The first book examines the material...
Seventeenth-Century Europe
State, Conflict and Social Order in Europe 1598-1700
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
This thematically organised text provides a compelling introduction and guide to the key problems and issues of this highly controversial century. Offering a genuinely comparative history, Thomas Munck adeptly balances Eastern and Southern Europe, Scandinavia, and the Ottoman Empire against the better-known...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
This is the second of two volumes on the Sung Dynasty, which together provide a comprehensive history of China from the fall of the T'ang Dynasty in 907 to the Mongol conquest of the Southern Sung in 1279. With contributions from leading historians in the field, Volume 5, Part Two paints a complex...
by Professor Justin Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
This book examines the daily details of slave work routines and plantation agriculture in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic, focusing on case studies of large plantations in Barbados, Jamaica and Virginia. Work was the most important factor in the slaves' experience of the institution. Slaves'...
Only One Thing in Life Is Constant-Change. Or, Rise, Fall, and Disappearance of Empires and Powerful Countries. :
SHORT STORY #20. Nonfiction series #1 - # 60.
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2016
Everything is changing constantly. Only one thing in life is constant—change. What was true and applicable just recently is could be absolute today.
The history has witnessed the rise, fall, and disappearance of many civilizations. Recent examples: suddenly, without any warnings or predictions,...
Global Trade and the Transformation of Consumer Cultures
The Material World Remade, c.1500–1820
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
The oceanic explorations of the 1490s led to countless material innovations worldwide and caused profound ruptures. Beverly Lemire explores the rise of key commodities across the globe, and charts how cosmopolitan consumption emerged as the most distinctive feature of material life after 1500 as people...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The wars of the medieval period were brutal affairs fought over dynastic or religious issues. The era began with battles fought at close range with impact weapons and the crossbow, but ended with gunpowder weapons reshaping the nature of the battlefield. The Medieval Wars 500-1500CE the second volume...
by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
The second edition of this best-selling textbook is thoroughly updated to include expanded coverage of the late eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, and incorporates recent advances in gender history, global connections and cultural analysis. It features summaries, timelines, maps, illustrations...
by Elizabeth A. Sutton
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
In Capitalism and Cartography in the Dutch Golden Age, Elizabeth A. Sutton explores the fascinating but previously neglected history of corporate cartography during the Dutch Golden Age, from ca. 1600 to 1650. She examines how maps were used as propaganda tools for the Dutch West India Company in...
A Tale of Two Cities: Study Guide
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens, Study Review Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Don't want to read the actual book? Tired of reading super long reviews? This new study guide is perfect for you!! This study guide provides a short and concise review guide of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. The guide includes: · A short summary...