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by Bert De Munck, Dries Lyna
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
In contemporary society it would seem self-evident that people allow the market to determine the values of products and services. For everything from a loaf of bread to a work of art to a simple haircut, value is expressed in monetary terms and seen as determined primarily by the 'objective' interplay...
If I Lose Mine Honour, I Lose Myself
Honour among the Early Modern English Elite
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Moving beyond the preoccupation of honour and its associations with violence and sexual reputation, Courtney Thomas offers an intriguing investigation of honour’s social meanings amongst early modern elites in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England.
If I Lose Mine Honour I Lose Myself...
by M.S. Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
This study examines the early years of the post-medieval European states and the growth of a recognisably 'modern' system for handling their international relations. M S Anderson gives much of his space to France, Spain and England and to the state of the relations between them, as their various power...
by Bjørn Okholm Skaarup
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Taking the Vesalian anatomical revolution as its point of departure, this volume charts the apparent rise and fall of anatomy studies within universities in sixteenth-century Spain, focussing particularly on primary sources from 1550 to 1600. In doing so, it both clarifies the Spanish contribution...
by Charles Lipp
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
In recent years scholars have increasingly challenged and reassessed the once established concept of the 'crisis of the nobility' in early-modern Europe. Offering a range of case studies from countries across Europe this collection further expands our understanding of just how the nobility adapted...
States of Obligation
Taxes and Citizenship in the Russian Empire and Early Soviet Republic
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Beginning in the 1860s, the Russian Empire replaced a poll tax system that originated with Peter the Great with a modern system of income and excise taxes. Russia began a transformation of state fiscal power that was also underway across Western Europe and North America. States of Obligation is the...
Remaking the Modern World 1900 - 2015
Global Connections and Comparisons
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
The sequel and companion volume to C.A. Bayly's ground-breaking The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914, this wide-ranging and sophisticated study explores global history since the First World War, offering a coherent, comparative overview of developments in politics, economics, and society at large.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
What were the effects of the Age of Exploration on today's ethnic groups and social structure? How did the development of moveable type pave the way for Facebook and Twitter? Why is the Reformation so critical for understanding today's religious controversies? This set will help readers answer these...
Illusive Identity
The Blurring of Working Class Consciousness in Modern Western Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2002
Illusive Identity is a transnational exploration of the evolution of working-class consciousness within modern Western culture. The work traces how the rise of popular culture blurred the definition and dulled the influence of class identity in Europe and the United States in the nineteenth and early...
Irish Voices from the Spanish Inquisition
Migrants, Converts and Brokers in Early Modern Iberia
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
This book explores the activities of early modern Irish migrants in Spain, particularly their rather surprising association with the Spanish Inquisition. Pushed from home by political, economic and religious instability, and attracted to Spain by the wealth and opportunities of its burgeoning economy...
The Limits of Empire: European Imperial Formations in Early Modern World History
Essays in Honor of Geoffrey Parker
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
This volume, published in honor of historian Geoffrey Parker, explores the working of European empires in a global perspective, focusing on one of the most important themes of Parker’s work: the limits of empire, which is to say, the centrifugal forces - sacral, dynastic, military, diplomatic, geographical,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Authorities often fear societal change as it implies finding a new balance to live together within society. Whether it is defined by economic, political, social or cultural factors, the transformation of life in society is considered by authorities as a 'risk' that needs to be framed and controlled....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Ireland’s Great Famine of 1845–52 was among the most devastating food crises in modern history. A country of some eight-and-a-half-million people lost one million to hunger and disease and another million to emigration. According to land activist Michael Davitt, the starving made little or no...
Governing Masculinities in the Early Modern Period
Regulating Selves and Others
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Documenting lived experiences of men in charge of others, this collection creates a social and cultural history of early modern governing masculinities. It examines the tensions between normative discourses and lived experiences and their manifestations in a range of different sources; and explores...