Renaissance category: 1000 books

¿Qué hizo que los europeos se atrevieran a viajar al Nuevo Mundo que Colón descubrió? ¿Y qué pasó cuando llegaron allí? Este pequeño libro, escrito especialmente por un historiador de renombre para los jóvenes de todas las edades, sigue los pasos de los muchos españoles...

Cristóbal Colón es la figura histórica más controvertida de todos los tiempos. Lee sus propias palabras como las tenemos hoy en una edición conveniente y bien editada y decide tú cuál ha sido su impacto en la cultura del mundo. La edición contiene los textos completos del Diario de a bordo del...

This book is in the original Spanish with a complete, culturally significant translation into English. Este libro es en el español original con modernización de la ortografía geográfica, y también una traducción al inglés del siglo XVII. Esta edición incluye: El texto con sus grafías...

Whether forced by governmental decree, driven by persecution and economic distress, or seeking financial opportunity, the Jews of early modern Europe were extraordinarily mobile, experiencing both displacement and integration into new cultural, legal, and political settings. This, in turn, led to...

This is a revised and updated edition of a highly acclaimed history of the early modern Habsburg monarchy. Charles W. Ingrao challenges the conventional notion of Habsburg state and society as peculiarly backward by tracing its emergence as a military and cultural power of enormous influence. The...

Paper Memory tells of one man’s mission to preserve for posterity the memory of everyday life in sixteenth-century Germany. Lundin takes us inside the mind of an undistinguished German burgher, Hermann Weinsberg, whose early-modern writings sought to make sense of changes that were unsettling the foundations of his world.

The Dynamics of Military Revolution aims to bridge a major gap in the emerging literature on revolutions in military affairs, suggesting that there have been two very different phenomena at work over the past centuries: 'military revolutions', which are driven by vast social and political changes;...

The New Model Army was one of the best-known and most effective armies ever raised in England. Oliver Cromwell was both its greatest battlefield commander and the political leader whose position depended on its support. In this meticulously researched and accessible new study, Keith Roberts describes...

A fresh approach to the English civil war, War in England 1642-1649 focuses on answering a misleadingly simple question: what kind of war was it to live through? Eschewing descriptions of specific battles or analyses of political and religious developments, Barbara Donagan examines the 'texture' of...

The Tudors are one of history's most infamous families and the era over which they reigned still captures the public's interest without rival. 'Tudor England' in itself has become a well known phrase that covers many aspects of the era, particularly architecture, arts and the lifestyle. What is often...

Fort Lupton, Colorado, is a beautiful and friendly little farming community of approximately seven thousand five hundred people situated on US Highway 85, about twenty-nine miles north of Denver. It is situated in an area not quite designated as in the foothills, yet not far enough east to say its...

The financial revolution marked the end of medieval England, and through the major institutions such as Lloyds and the Bank of England, laid the foundations on which England's emergence as a world power was based. The subsequent changes radically altered English politics, and this book aims to provide...

Nacido, criado y educado en Flandes, Carlos V se convertiría a los quince años de edad en el primer rey de Castilla, Aragón y Navarra. He ahí una de las muchas contradicciones que envuelven a la figura de uno de los monarcas más relevantes de la historia de España y Europa. Hijo de Juana I de...

From Commedia dell’Arte came archetypal characters that are still with us today, such as Harlequin and Pantalone, and the rediscovered craft of writing comic dramas and masked theatre. From it came the forces that helped create and influence Opera, Ballet, Pantomime, Shakespeare, Moliere, Lopes...