Modern category: 14410 books
History and the State in Nineteenth-Century Japan
The World, the Nation and the Search for a Modern Past
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
The nineteenth century saw the emergence both of history as an independent scientific discipline and of national history as a means to legitimize the nation state. In History and the State in Nineteenth-Century Japan Margaret Mehl examines how the new imperial government, which replaced the rule of...
Democracy in Modern Europe
A Conceptual History
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
As one of the most influential ideas in modern European history, democracy has fundamentally reshaped not only the landscape of governance, but also social and political thought throughout the world. Democracy in Modern Europe surveys the conceptual history of democracy in modern Europe, from the...
Attending to Early Modern Women
Conflict and Concord
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
This volume considers women's roles in the conflicts and negotiations of the early modern world. Essays explore the ways that gender shapes women's agency in times of war, religious strife, and economic change. How were conflict and concord gendered in histories, literature, music, and political,...
Conflict and Soldiers' Literature in Early Modern Europe
The Reality of War
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
In Conflict and Soldiers' Literature in Early Modern Europe, Paul Scannell analyses the late 16th-century and early 17th-century literature of warfare through the published works of English, Welsh and Scottish soldiers. The book explores the dramatic increase in printed material on many aspects of...
The Idea of Principles in Early Modern Thought
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
This collection presents the first sustained examination of the nature and status of the idea of principles in early modern thought. Principles are almost ubiquitous in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: the term appears in famous book titles, such as Newton’s Principia; the notion plays...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Science, technology, and medicine all contributed to the emerging modern Japanese empire and conditioned key elements of post-war development. As the only emerging non-Western country that was a colonial power in its own right, Japan utilized these fields not only to define itself as racially different...
A Taste for Luxury in Early Modern Europe
Display, Acquisition and Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Jon Stobart and Johanna Ilmakunnas bring together a range of scholars from across mainland Europe and the UK to examine luxury and taste in early modern Europe.
In the 18th century, debates raged about the economic, social and moral impacts of luxury, whilst taste was viewed as a refining influence...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Gender and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe investigates the gendered nature of political culture across early modern Europe by exploring the relationship between gender, power, and political authority and influence. This collection offers a rethinking of what constituted ‘politics’ and...
by Avner Shamir
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
This book discusses the early modern engagement with books that survived intentional or accidental fire in Lutheran Germany. From the 1620s until the middle of the eighteenth century, unburnt books became an attraction for princes, publishers, clergymen, and some laymen. To cope with an event that...
Literary Sociability in Early Modern England
The Epistolary Record
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
This study represents a significant reinterpretation of literary networks during what is often called the transition from manuscript to print during the early modern period. It is based on a survey of 28,000 letters and over 850 mainly English correspondents, ranging from consumers to authors, significant...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
This edited volume systematically addresses the connection between Wilfrid Sellars and the history of modern philosophy, exploring both the content and method of this relationship. It intends both to analyze Sellars’ position in relation to singular thinkers of the modern tradition, and to inquire...
Modern Art Invasion
Picasso, Duchamp, and the 1913 Armory Show That Scandalized America
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
The story of the most important art show in U.S. history. Held at Manhattan’s 69th Regiment Armory in 1913, the show brought modernism to America in an unprecedented display of 1300 works by artists including Picasso, Matisse, and Duchamp, A quarter of a million Americans visited the show; most...
A History of Modern Europe
From 1815 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
A History of Modern Europe surveys European history from the defeat of Napoleon to the twenty-first century, presenting major historical themes in an authoritative and compelling narrative.
Concise, readable single volume covering Europe from the early nineteenth century through the early twenty-first...
The Pursuit of Glory
The Five Revolutions that Made Modern Europe: 1648-1815
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2007
**"History writing at its glorious best."--The New York Times
"A triumphant success. [Blanning] brings knowledge, expertise, sound judgment and a colorful narrative style."--The Economist
The New York Times bestselling volume in the Penguin History of Europe series**
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