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by Dr Evdoxios Doxiadis
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
By looking at the very specific case of the Greek-speaking Romaniote and the Ladino-speaking Sephardic communities in Southern Greece, Epirus and Macedonia, this book explores the attitudes and policies of the Greek state with regards to the Jewish communities both within its borders and in the areas...
Early Modern Habsburg Women
Transnational Contexts, Cultural Conflicts, Dynastic Continuities
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
As the first comprehensive volume devoted entirely to women of both the Spanish and Austrian Habsburg royal dynasties spanning the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries, this interdisciplinary collection illuminates their complex and often contradictory political functions and their interrelations...
Art, Literature and Religion in Early Modern Sussex
Culture and Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Art, Literature and Religion in Early Modern Sussex is an interdisciplinary study of a county at the forefront of religious, political and artistic developments in early-modern England. Ranging from the schism of Reformation to the outbreak of Civil War, the volume brings together scholars from the...
The Cult of the Modern
Trans-Mediterranean France and the Construction of French Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The Cult of the Modern focuses on nineteenth-century France and Algeria and examines the role that ideas of modernity and modernization played in both national and colonial programs during the years of the Second Empire and the early Third Republic. Gavin Murray-Miller rethinks the subject by examining...
The Sacralization of Space and Behavior in the Early Modern World
Studies and Sources
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
In the Early Modern period - as both reformed and Catholic churches strove to articulate orthodox belief and conduct through texts, sermons, rituals, and images - communities grappled frequently with the connection between sacred space and behavior. The Sacralization of Space and Behavior in the Early...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
The Sciences of Homosexuality in Early Modern Europe investigates early modern scientific accounts of same-sex desires and the shapes they assumed in everyday life. It explores the significance of those representations and interpretations from around 1450 to 1750, long before the term homosexuality...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
The Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese History is a concise overview of modern Japanese history from the middle of the nineteenth century until the end of the twentieth century. Written by a group of international historians, each an authority in his or her field, the book covers modern Japanese...
The New Age in the Modern West
Counterculture, Utopia and Prophecy from the Late Eighteenth Century to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
New Age culture is generally regarded as a modern manifestation of Western millenarianism - a concept built around the expectation of an imminent historical crisis followed by the inauguration of a golden age which occupies a key place in the history of Western ideas. The New Age in the Modern West...
Going to Market
Women, Trade and Social Relations in Early Modern English Towns, c. 1550-1650
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Going to Market rethinks women’s contributions to the early modern commercial economy. A number of previous studies have focused on whether or not the early modern period closed occupational opportunities for women. By attending to women’s everyday business practices, and not merely to their position...
by Darren Oldridge
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
The Supernatural in Tudor and Stuart England reflects upon the boundaries between the natural and the otherworldly in early modern England as they were understood by the people of the time. The book places supernatural beliefs and events in the context of the English Reformation to show how early...
1938: Modern Britain
Social Change and Visions of the Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
In 1938: Modern Britain, Michael John Law demonstrates that our understanding of life in Britain just before the Second World War has been overshadowed by its dramatic political events. 1938 was the last year of normality, and Law shows through a series of case studies that in many ways life in that...
by James Vernon
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
This wide-ranging introduction to the history of modern Britain extends from the eighteenth century to the present day. James Vernon's distinctive history is weaved around an account of the rise, fall and reinvention of liberal ideas of how markets, governments and empires should work. The history...
by Grace E. Coolidge
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Drawing on history, literature, and art to explore childhood in early modern Spain, the contributors to this collection argue that early modern Spaniards conceptualized childhood as a distinct and discrete stage in life which necessitated special care and concern. The volume contrasts the didactic...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
This book explores how far some leading philosophers, from Montaigne to Hume, used Academic Scepticism to build their own brand of scepticism or took it as its main sceptical target. The book offers a detailed view of the main modern key figures, including Sanches, Charron, La Mothe Le Vayer, Bacon,...