Renaissance category: 1000 books
by Antonio Rubial
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 21, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 21, 2012
La vida cotidiana en la época de Sor Juana.
Alrededor de 1664 llegó a laciudad de México Juana Ramírez de Asbaje; sus ojos de adolescente se asombraron ante el bullicio y la animación de la ciudad más importante del continente americano.
Hacia esa época, la urbe novohispana se...
by J. H. Elliott
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 11, 2017
John H. Elliott nos ofrece aquí el análisis comparado de esas dos grandes figuras de la Europa moderna que fueron Olivares y Richelieu, y nos demuestra que fueron más semejantes -y más equilibrados en méritos- de lo que acostumbramos a suponer. Su análisis, sin embargo, va más allá de los...
Forgers and Critics, New Edition
Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
The close links between forgery and criticism throughout history
In Forgers and Critics, Anthony Grafton provides a wide-ranging exploration of the links between forgery and scholarship. Labeling forgery the “criminal sibling” of criticism, Grafton describes a panorama of remarkable individuals—forgers...
Brouage et Marie Mancini
Essai historique
Language: French
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Visite d'un lieu emblématique de l'histoire française
Autour de l’amante royale qui ne fut pas une maîtresse et ne pouvait être une fiancée, à l’heure triste qui suit les adieux, j’aime à voir cette forteresse marine déjà désertée par le flot infidèle, déjà mourante sous...
A Book of Falsehoods
Between Three Plagues Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2019
The third part in an epic historical trilogy - The Estonian answer to Wolf Hall - by the nation's greatest modern writer
A ship from Rostock arrives in Tallinn loaded with printed copies of Balthasar Russow's Chronicle - the culmination of our hero's life's work. But though it is an instant success,...
The Cultural Politics of Obeah
Religion, Colonialism and Modernity in the Caribbean World
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
An innovative history of the politics and practice of the Caribbean spiritual healing techniques known as obeah and their place in everyday life in the region. Spanning two centuries, the book results from extensive research on the development and implementation of anti-obeah legislation. It includes...
News and rumour in Jacobean England
Information, court politics and diplomacy, 1618–25
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Examines how political news was concealed, manipulated and distorted during the tumultuous later years of James I’s reign
by William Smith Murray
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
This is a contemporary 20th century history of the Balkans, and the volatile political situation that helped spark World War I.
La Réforme en France et en Italie
Contacts, comparaisons et contrastes
Language: French
Release Date: May 27, 2013
Le déroulement de la Réforme en France et en Italie présente en même temps des similitudes frappantes et des différences évidentes. Première rencontre consacrée aux comparaisons, aux contrastes et aux contacts entre ces deux mouvements de renouveau religieux, puissants, mais qui finalement...
Warfare, Loyalty, and Rebellion
The Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Great Northern War, 1709–1717
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
This book examines the politics of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania during the crucial period between the Russian tsar Peter the Great’s victory over Sweden at the battle of Poltava and the 1717 Silent Sejm, the Polish-Lithuanian parliament’s session which is traditionally seen as responsible for...
by Peter J. Aschenbrenner
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Upon declaring independence from Britain in July 1776, the United States Congress urgently needed to establish its credentials as a legitimate government that could credibly challenge the claims of the British Crown. In large measure this legitimacy rested upon setting in place the procedural and...
The Emergence of Humanitarian Intervention
Ideas and Practice from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
How should the international community react when a government transgresses humanitarian norms and violates the human rights of its own nationals? And where does the responsibility lie to protect people from such acts of violation? In a profound new study, Fabian Klose unites a team of leading scholars...
La rebelión de los catalanes (2.ª Edición)
Un estudio de la decadencia de España (1598-1640)
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 2, 2013
La rebelión catalana de 1640 fue un acontecimiento capital en la Europa del siglo XVII. Sus antecedentes y sus causas -uno de los ejes de este magistral y clásico estudio- iluminan extraordinariamente la cuestión, largamente debatida, de la decadencia de España. John H. Elliott perfila con trazo...
Imperios del mundo atlántico
España y Gran Bretaña en América (1492-1830)
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 31, 2017
El relato definitivo de la épica colonización europea de las Américas.
Durante siglos, españoles y británicos levantaron sus respectivos imperios coloniales en América sobre las ruinas de las civilizaciones que encontraron y destruyeron al llegar allí. En más de una ocasión los historiadores...