Modern category: 14410 books
Changes of State
Nature and the Limits of the City in Early Modern Natural Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
This is a book about the theory of the city or commonwealth, what would come to be called the state, in early modern natural law discourse. Annabel Brett takes a fresh approach by looking at this political entity from the perspective of its boundaries and those who crossed them. She begins with a...
Desertion in the Early Modern World
A Comparative History
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Early modern globalization was built on a highly labour intensive infrastructure. This book looks at the millions of workers who were needed to operate the ships, ports, store houses, forts and factories crucial to local and global exchange. These sailors, soldiers, craftsmen and slaves were crucial...
New Worlds Reflected
Travel and Utopia in the Early Modern Period
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Utopias have long interested scholars of the intellectual and literary history of the early modern period. From the time of Thomas More's Utopia (1516), fictional utopias were indebted to contemporary travel narratives, with which they shared interests in physical and metaphorical journeys, processes...
by Elizabeth Ketner, Allison Kavey
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Interpreting textual mediations of history in early modernity, this volume adds nuance to our understanding of the contributions fiction and fictionalizing make to the shape and texture of versions of and debates about history during that period. Geographically, the scope of the essays extends beyond...
by Claire Jowitt
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Richard Hakluyt and Travel Writing in Early Modern Europe is an interdisciplinary collection of 24 essays which brings together leading international scholarship on Hakluyt and his work. Best known as editor of The Principal Navigations (1589; expanded 1598-1600), Hakluyt was a key figure in promoting...
Modern Greece
From the War of Independence to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Modern Greece is an updated and enhanced edition of a classic survey of Greek history since the beginning of the 19th century. Giving equal weighting to social, political and diplomatic aspects, it offers detailed coverage of the formation of the Greek nation state, the global Greek diaspora, the...
by Jane P. Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
The dark side of early modern European culture could be deemed equal in historical significance to Christianity based on the hundreds of books that were printed about the topic between 1400 and 1700. Famous writers and artists like William Shakespeare and Albrecht Dürer depicted the dark side in...
The God Revolution
How Ideas About God Radically Changed During The Modern Era
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Our view of the universe has changed radically since the Renaissance. We no longer think, speak, live, or see the world as our forebears did. The Protestant Reformation, the replacing of feudal social hierarchies with liberal democracy, the separation of State and Church, the industrial revolution,...
Modern Conspiracy
The Importance of Being Paranoid
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
While conspiracy theory is often characterized in terms of the collapse of objectivity and Enlightenment reason, Modern Conspiracy traces the important role of conspiracy in the formation of the modern world: the scientific revolution, social contract theory, political sovereignty, religious paranoia...
by P. Zilsel
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Here, for the first time, is a single volume in English that contains all the important historical essays Edgar Zilsel (1891-1944) published during WWII on the emergence of modern science. It also contains one previously unpublished essay and an extended version of an essay published earlier. This...
The History of Modern Spain
Chronologies, Themes, Individuals
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
The History of Modern Spain is a comprehensive examination of Spain's history from the beginning of the 19th century to the present day. Bringing together an impressive group of leading figures and emerging scholars in the field from the UK, Canada, the United States, Spain and other European countries,...
by Stephen Cory
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Historians have long grappled with the question of how Islamic civilization - so clearly dominant during the medieval period - could fall completely under Western hegemony in the modern age? Many Western writers answer this question by referencing European ingenuity, initiative, and transformative...
by Grace E. Coolidge
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Contrary to early modern patriarchal assumptions, this study argues that rather trying to impose obedience or enclosure on women of their own rank and status, noblemen in early modern Spain depended on the active collaboration of noblewomen to maintain and expand their authority, wealth, and influence....
Two Early Modern Marriage Sermons
Henry Smith’s A Preparative to Marriage (1591) and William Whately’s A Bride-Bush (1623)
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This critical edition of two early modern marriage sermons provides an important resource for students and scholars of early modern literature and history, allowing them to experience firsthand the competing and historically layered ideas about marriage that circulated in the wake of the English Reformation....