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Decadence, Radicalism, and the Early Modern French Nobility
The Enlightened and Depraved
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The image of the debauched French aristocrat of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is one that still has power over the international public imagination, from the unending fascination with the Marquis de Sade to the successes of the film Ridicule. Drawing on memoirs, letters, popular songs and...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Across Europe, the parish church has stood for centuries at the centre of local communities; it was the focal point of its religious life, the rituals performed there marked the stages of life from the cradle to the grave. Nonetheless the church itself artistically and architecturally stood apart...
An Urban History of The Plague
Socio-Economic, Political and Medical Impacts in a Scottish Community, 1500–1650
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
As a medical, economic, spiritual and demographic crisis, plague affected practically every aspect of an early modern community whether on a local, regional or national scale. Its study therefore affords opportunities for the reassessment of many aspects of the pre-modern world.
This book examines...
Rethinking the Age of Revolutions
France and the Birth of the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Much of the historiography on the age of democratic revolutions has seemed to come to a halt until recent years. Historians of this period have tried to develop new explanatory paradigms but there are few that have had a lasting impact. David A. Bell and Yair Mintzker seek to break through the narrow...
Modern China
Continuity and Change, 1644 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
Now in a fully updated edition, this accessible text provides a balanced history of modern China in a global context. Through years of living and research in China, Taiwan, Japan, and Russia, the authors are deeply qualified to understand China’s internal dynamics as well as its foreign relations...
Early Modern Catholics, Royalists, and Cosmopolitans
English Transnationalism and the Christian Commonwealth
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Early Modern Catholics, Royalists, and Cosmopolitans considers how the marginalized perspective of 16th-century English Catholic exiles and 17th-century English royalist exiles helped to generate a form of cosmopolitanism that was rooted in contemporary religious and national identities but also transcended...
Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Germany
Courts and Adjudicatory Practices in Frankfurt am Main, 1562–1696
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Frankfurt am Main, in common with other imperial German cities, enjoyed a large degree of legal autonomy during the early modern period, and produced a unique and rich body of criminal archives. In particular, Frankfurt’s Strafenbuch, which records all criminal sentences between 1562 and 1696, provides...
Negotiating Transcultural Relations in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Ottoman-Venetian Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Negotiating Transcultural Relations in the Early Modern Mediterranean is a study of transcultural relations between Ottoman Muslims, Christian subjects of the Venetian Republic, and other social groups in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Focusing principally on Ottoman Muslims who came to...
by Bernadette Andrea
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Bernadette Andrea’s groundbreaking study recovers and reinterprets the lives of women from the Islamic world who travelled, with varying degrees of volition, as slaves, captives, or trailing wives to Scotland and England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Andrea’s thorough...
The Origins of the Individualist Self
Autobiography and Self-Identity in England, 1591 - 1791
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
This book traces the emergence of the concept of self-identity in modern Western culture, as it was both reflected in and advanced by the development of autobiographical practice in early modern England. It offers a fresh and illuminating appraisal of the nature of autobiographical narrative in general...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
The essays in this book aim to answer the following questions: What was the place of prayer in the early modern world? What did it look and sound like? Of what aesthetic and political structures did it partake, and how did prayer affect art, literature and politics? How did the activities, expressions...
The Modern Spain Sourcebook
A Cultural History from 1600 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Incorporating a wide range of visual and translated written sources, The Modern Spain Sourcebookdocuments Spain's history from the Enlightenment to the present.
The book is thematically arranged and includes six key primary sources on ten significant areas of Spanish history, including the...
War and the State in Early Modern Europe
Spain, the Dutch Republic and Sweden as Fiscal-Military States
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw many ambitious European rulers develop permanent armies and navies. War and the State in Early Modern Europe examines this military change as a central part of the political, social and economic transformation of early modern Europe.
This important study...
Military Transition in Early Modern Asia, 1400-1750
Cavalry, Guns, Government and Ships
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
A substantial amount of work has been carried out to explore the military systems of Western Europe during the early modern era, but the military trajectories of the Asian states have received relatively little attention. This study provides the first comparative study of the major Asian empires'...